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[FREEMASONS]. Knights Templar certificate of Mr. Samuel Johnson. Belfast, 1822. One page on vellum executed in print and manuscript as engraved by “J. Quin” with images of two angels on either side of the Knights Templar seal with black, yellow, and royal purple ribbons woven through cut lines on left side. 419 x 368 mm. Foxing, creases. The modern incarnation of the Knights Templar is a fraternal order closely affiliated with Freemasonry. It founded its first Grand Conclave in England in 1791, and though it grew steadily over the next four years it entered a short period of decline thereafter which was reversed only when Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, became Grand Master in 1805.