Appendix I See para. 13

For example Stephen Knight’s book — The Brotherkood. the Secret World of the Freemasons (1984) — is vulnerable to the criticism that it was ill researched and included unconfirmed data. The United Grand Lodge, in its evidence, referred to the following ‘factual inaccuracies’ in the book:

(a) James Page, discredited Commissioner of the City of London Police, could not have owed his various promotions to his having been a Freemason as he did not join the Craft until after he became Commissioner;

(b) Knight’s claim that the Lord Chancellor’s patronage office was staffed by Freemasons was publicly denied by Lord Hailsham in letters to The Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian;

(c) At the time the book was published, none of the permanent Officers of the goveminent of the City of London were Freemasons. Many of the persons Knight categorically states to have been present at the meeting of Guildhall Lodge which he describes were absent from the meeting;

(d) Knight’s claim that the Registers of English Lodges in the Far East were kept tightly secret for the period during which Sir Roger Hollis was in residence is nonsense. Sir Roger was in any case not a Mason.