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The History and Constitutions of the most Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons. 1746

Date:- 1746 -

UGLE Classification:- BE 94 ANT - Government and Organisation of the Craft: Constitutions and Laws, Texts

WMLMT Classification:- Constitutions,Regulations

Country of Origin:- England -

Order:- Craft (& Freemasonry General)

Details

Containing an Account of Masonry 1.—From the creation, throughout the known earth, till true architecture was demolished by the Goths, and at last ruined in Italy. 11.—From Julius Caesar to the first arrival of the Saxons in Britain. 111.—From the Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland in the Person of King James the First to the present time. To which are added— 1.—A list of Grand Masters or Patrons of the Free Masons in England—from the coming in of the Anglo-Saxons to these times—who are mentioned in this work.11.—The Old Charges of the Masons collected from their earliest records at the command of his Grace the Duke of Montague.111.—The manner of constituting a Lodge. IV.—The general regulations of the free and accepted Masons, both ancient and modern, in distinct columns.V.—The Constitutions of the Committee of their Charity.VI.—A list of the Lodges in and about London and Westminster with the deputations of several Grand Masters, for the forming of Lodges in Wales, the remote parts of England, and in foreign realms.VII—TheSongs sung at the Lodges. VI1I.—A defence of Masonry, occasioned by a pamphlet called Masonry dissented; with Brother Euclid’s Letter to the Author against unjust Cavils.

This is not, strictly speaking, a new edition, but simply the one of 1738, with a new title page for 1746. It is still rarer than the first issue, and was published in two sizes, this being the smaller. Having the frontispiece, which the few copies knownso rarely have, adds much to the value of this volume.

Properties

pp. x. 230. 7½”x5½”. 1746.