A Masonic writer reads a ruffian's name as a "corruption of Cromwell" (US, 1866, quoting The Freemason's Treasury)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet provenCode: a stated code
Year: 1866
SUMMARYA Masonic writer reads a ruffian's name as a "corruption of Cromwell" (US, 1866, quoting The Freemason's Treasury) [Connections: Word coding & Masonic method, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDThe three ruffians of the Hiram legend are "Jubela, Jubelo, and Jubelum" (Duncan p. 139). Duncan's note 115:1, citing The Freemason's Treasury pp. 305–6, reads: "Their real names (if there be any thing real in the whole transaction, which is more than doubtful), as preserved in a subsidiary degree, were GRAVELOT, QUIBO, and AKIROP." It adds that in one form of the Elect of Fifteen degree they appear as "JUBELA-KURMAVIL (another corruption of Cromwell), JUBELO-GRAVELOT, and JUBELUM-AKIROP."
CODEThis is a Masonic-side writer saying a ritual name is a sound-corruption of a historical person's name
PATTERNSound-corruption reading is used inside the Masonic literature itself. The same note doubts whether the whole legend is real ("more than doubtful")
LENS (WW9)The method of reading a name as a disguised name is documented in their own literature. It also shows that a single writer's "corruption of X" claim is still only a reading
OPENFind the original Freemason's Treasury page and its author. Find the degree where "Kurmavil" appears
SOURCEDuncan, Master Mason (mirror), p. 139 and note 115:1.