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The Free Mason examin’d, or, the World brought out of Darkness Into Light. (Slade, Alexander) 1754

Author:- Slade, Alexander

Date:- 1754 -

UGLE Classification:- A 795 SLA - Anti-Masonry & Vindications: So-called `Exposures'

WMLMT Classification:- Ritual

Order:- Craft (& Freemasonry General)

Details

Being an authentick Account of all the Secrets of the Antient Society of Freemasons, which have been handed down by Oral Tradition only, from the institution to the present time, in which is particularly described the whole Ceremony used at making l\4asons, as it has been hitherto practised in all the Lodges round the globe; by which any person who was never made may introduce himself into a Lodge, With Notes, Explanatory, Historical, and Critical. To which are added the Author’s Reasons for the publication hereof, and some Remarks on the conduct of the Author of a Pamphlet call’d Masonry dissected, with a new and correct list of all the Regular Lodges under the English Constitution according to their late Removals and Additions. By ALEXANDER SLAPS, lateMaster of Three Regular Constituted Lodges in the City of Norwich.

Quite a different class to the works issued with like pretentious titles from 1760. The list of Lodges is of importance, as so few of the engraved series are preserved for that decade.

London: Printed for R. Griffiths, in St. Paul’s Churchyard, 1754. (Price Sixpence.)

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pp. viii. 32. 7½”x4½”. 1754.