Alincourt, Francois D’

Alincourt, Francois D’. Captain George Smith, in Use and Abuse of Freemasonry, states: ”In the year 1776, Major Francois d’ Alincourt, a French gentleman, and Don Oyres de Ornellas Pracao, a Portugese nobleman, were sent to prison by the governor of Maderia for being free-masons. They were afterwards sent prisoners to Lisbon, and confined in a common gaol for fourteen months, where they would absolutely have perished, had not the brethren of Lisbon generously supported them, by whose intercession with Don Martinio de Mello, they were at last released.”

Macoy Collector's Note: A stark historical reminder of the active persecution Freemasons faced in 18th-century Europe.