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The New Book of Constitutions of the most Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, 1757

Date:- 1751 -

UGLE Classification:- BR 94 IRE - Government and Organisation of the Craft: Constitutions and Laws, Texts

WMLMT Classification:- Constitutions,Regulations

Country of Origin:- Ireland -

Order:- Craft (& Freemasonry General)

Details

Containing their History, Charges, Regulations, &c. Also Some Rules necessary to be observed by the Committee of Charity, not Published before, Together with a choice collection of Masons’ Songs, Poems, Prologues, and Epilogues. Published by the Order, and with the sanction of the Grand Lodge. Collected from the Book of Constitutions published in England in the year 1738, by our worthy Brother James Anderson, D.D. For the use of Lodges in Ireland. By EDWARD SPRATT, See. And the Light shineth in darkness,and the darkness comprehendeth it not.—St. John, chap. 1., ver.,5. Dublin: Printed by J. Butler, on Cork Hill, for the Editor, and sold at his House in Nicholas-street. M.DCC.LI. The first “Book of Constitutions” circulated in Ireland, by authority, was that of 1730. All of last century are rarely offered for sale, or even to be found in any library, whether in Ireland or elsewhere, The above, of 1751, is the most interesting of the series, and being by the Grand Secretary is authoritative withal. It is the only volume thus pnblislied which treats of the Origin and History of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, and was utilised by Dermott, as also the 1738 edition of England, by that Brother for his “Ahiman Rezon.”

Properties

pp. 772, with 4 pp. of Subscribers’ names between pp. 8 and 9, and A Collection of Songs (pp. 40) at end. 7¼”x4¾”. 1757.