The French Connection: The Knights of Malta, the Scottish Rite & the Rise of the Mafia Brotherhoods Part II

“In Seville [located in Spain] there is said to be a brotherhood of thieves with a chief magistrate and captains who sell services; it has a depository for stolen goods and a chest with three keys in which the loot is kept; from this chest they take what they need to defray expenses and to bribe tho..