Explain the traditional history part 1

The first part of the Traditional History relates how fifteen Fellow Crafts of a superior class conspired to extort the secrets of a Master Mason from Hiram Abiff, though twelve ultimately recanted, leaving three who persisted in their design and brought about his death, as an article on the Grand Lodge of India's website records.

In a broader literary treatment of Craft history, Newton outlines the first part of Masonic development as the early hints, traditions, mythology, and symbolism of humanity that laid the foundations of the Order 1.