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AC 
 
 AMERICAN PUBLISHER'S PREFACE. 
 
 The year lt23 forms an important epoch in the 
 history of the Order, and among the Masonic writers 
 of that period there are few more deserving of notice 
 than the author of the " Constitutions of Freemasonry." 
 The Masonic world have already dignified him with the 
 reputation of a classic, and enrolled his name among 
 that select number whose works belong alike to every 
 nation, and are destined to float down the stream of 
 time, untouched by the flood of oblivion, which soon 
 overtakes the mass of authors, as it does the mass of 
 other men. 
 
 ^^ Iihcredihili indiistrice — diligentia singulari," said 
 the ancients in their descriptions of individuals emi- 
 nent for merit; and, indeed, it must be owned that, in 
 his laborious compilations, " extracted from the ancient 
 records of lodges beyond sea" — a work characterized 
 by industry and the love of truth — no writer is more 
 eminently entitled to the encomium than James Ander- 
 son. His varied acquirements, deep research, wonderful 
 industry, great experience and boundless resources of 
 knowledge, both practical and theoretical, have done 
 much to advance the cause of Masonry. 
 
 IVI5IO949 
 
Vlll AMERICAN PUBLISHER'S PREFACE. 
 
 Dr. Anderson's work made its appearance at a most 
 seasonable time ; for he himself says, " It is highly- 
 probable that many valuable documents relative to the 
 Society were destroyed, at the revival of the Order 
 in It It." No pains were spared — no labor lost — in 
 examining the old records for Masonic information- 
 Six years afterwards the work which has done so much 
 honor to its author, appeared as a vehicle of valuable 
 intelligence to the craft, and without which no Masonic 
 library is now complete- 
 In presenting an American edition of " Anderson's 
 Constitutions " to the Masonic Fraternity, the Publisher 
 feels confident that there are but few readers in the 
 Order who have not dwelt with interest and delight on 
 the pages of this most popular work — popular at least 
 with Masons, and esteemed by them as the written 
 Landmarks of Masonry. 
 
 "The orthography of the original London edition of 
 lt23, of which this work is a reprint, is scrupulously 
 followed and retained. The typographical execution 
 of the present edition will render it, no doubt, an orna- 
 ment to the library, so that by this means the Publisher 
 is able to include in a neat, economical and substantial 
 form, a large amount of instruction on the most import- 
 ant principles of the Order, 
 
DEDICATION 
 
 TO 
 
 HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF MONTAGU. 
 
 MY LORD, 
 
 Y Order of his Grace the Duke of 
 Wharton, the present Right Wor- 
 shipful Grand Master of the Free- 
 Masons ; and, as his Deputy, I humbly 
 dedicate this Book of the Constitutions of 
 our ancient Fraternity to your Grace, in 
 testimony of your honourable, prudent, and 
 vigilant discharge of the office of our Grand- 
 Ma -ter last year. 
 
 I need not tell your Grace what pains our learned 
 Author has taken in compiling and digesting this book 
 from the Old Records, and how accurately he has com- 
 pared and made every thing agreeable to History and 
 Chronology, so as to render these New Constitutions a 
 just and exact account of Masonry from the beginning 
 of the World to your Grace's Mastership, still preserv- 
 1* 
 
X DEDICATION. 
 
 ing all that was truly ancient and authentick in the 
 old ones : For every Brother will be pleased with the 
 performance, that knows it had your Grace's perusal 
 and approbation, and that it is now printed for the use 
 of the Lodges, after it was approved by the Grand- 
 Lodge, when your Grace was Grand Master. All the 
 Brotherhood will ever remember the honour your Grace 
 has done them, and your care for their Peace, Harmony, 
 and lasting Friendship : Which none is more duly 
 sensible of than, 
 
 My LORD, 
 Your Grace's 
 Most oblig'd, and 
 Most obedient Servant, 
 
 And Faithful Brother, 
 
 J. T. Desaguliers, 
 Deputy Grand-Ma.ster. 
 
THE 
 
 CONSTITUTION, 
 
 HISTOKY, LAWS, CHAKGES, ORDERS, REGULATIONS, 
 AND USAGES, 
 
 OF THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL FRATERNITY OF 
 
 ACCEPTED FREE MASONS; 
 
 COLLECTED 
 
 iFrom tiieCr General aaecorlrs, anlr tje faitj^tul 
 STratiittons of mans ^ges. 
 
 TO BE READ 
 
 At the Admission of a New Brother, when the Master 
 or Warden shall begin, or order some other Brother 
 to read as follows : 
 
 DAM, our first parent, created after 
 the image of God, the great Archi- 
 tect of the Universe, must have had 
 the Liberal Sciences, particularly 
 Geometry, written on his heart ; for, even 
 since the fall we find the principles of it in 
 the hearts of his offspring, and which, hi 
 process of time, have been drawn forth into 
 a convenient method of propositions, by observing 
 the Laws of Proportion, taken from Mechanism ; 
 so that, as the Mechanical Arts gave occasion to the 
 learned to reduce the elements of Geometry into 
 method, this noble science, thus reduced, is the 
 foundation of all those arts, (particularly of Ma- 
 
12 HISTORY OF 
 
 SONRY and Architecture) and the rule by which 
 they are conducted and performed. 
 
 No doubt Adam taught his sons Geometry, and 
 the use of it, in the several arts and crafts conveni- 
 ent, at least, for those early times ; for Cain, we 
 find, built a city, which he called Consecrated, or 
 Dedicated, after the name of his eldest son Enoch ; 
 and becoming the Prince of the one half of man- 
 kind, his posterity would imitate his royal example 
 in improving both the noble science and the useful 
 art.* 
 
 Nor can we suppose that Seth was less instructed, 
 who, being the Prince of the other half of mankind, 
 and also the prime cultivator of Astronomy, would 
 take equal care to teach Geometry and Masonry to 
 his offspring, who had also the mighty advantage 
 of Adam's living among them.t 
 
 But without regarding uncertain accounts, we 
 may safely conclude the Old World, that lasted 
 
 * As other Arts were also improved by them, viz : working in 
 metal by Tubal Cain, music by Jubal, pasturage and tent- 
 making by Jabal, which last is good architecture. 
 
 f For by some vestiges of antiquity we find one of 'em, godly 
 Enoch, (who dy'd not, but was translated alive to Heaven) proph- 
 ecying of the final conflagration at the Day of Judgment (as St. 
 JuDE tells us) and likewise of the general Deluge for the punish- 
 ment of the world : Upon which he erected his two large pillars, 
 (tho' some ascribe them to Seth) the one of stone, and the other 
 of brick, whereon were engraven the Liberal Sciences, &c. And 
 that the stone pillar remain' d in Syria until the days of Vespa 
 sian the Emperor. 
 
FREEMASONRY. IB 
 
 1,656 years, could not be ignorant of Masonry; 
 and that both the families of Seth and Cain erected 
 many curious works, until at length Noah, the ninth 
 from Seth, was commanded and directed of God to 
 build the great Ark, which, though of wood, was 
 certainly fabricated by Geometry, and according to 
 the rules of Masonry. 
 
 Noah, and his three sons, Japhet, Shem, and 
 Ham, all Masons true, brought with them over the 
 flood the traditions and arts of the antedeluvians, 
 and amply communicated them to their growing off- 
 spring ; for about 101 years after the flood, we find 
 a vast number of them, if not the whole race of 
 Noah, in the vale of Shinar, employed in building a 
 city and large tower, in order to make to themselves 
 a name, and to prevent their dispersion. And 
 though they carried on the work to a monstrous 
 height, and by their vanity provoked God to con- 
 found their devices, by confounding their speech, 
 which occasioned their dispersion, yet their skill in 
 Masonry is not the less to be celebrated, having 
 spent above 53 years in that prodigious work, and 
 upon their dispersion carried the mighty knowledge 
 with them into distant parts, where they found the 
 good use of it in the settlement of their kingdoms, 
 commonwealths, and dynasties. And though after- 
 wards it was lost in most parts of the earth, it was 
 especially preserved in Shinar and Assyria, where 
 
14 HISTORY OP 
 
 NiMROD * the founder of that monarchy, after the 
 dispersion, built many splendid cities, as Ereck, 
 Accad, and Calneh, in Shinar ; from whence after- 
 wards he went forth into Assyria, and built Nini- 
 veh, Rehoboth, Caleh, and Rhesin. 
 
 In these parts, upon the Tygris and Euphrates, 
 afterwards flourished many learned priests and ma- 
 thematicians, known by the names of Chaldees and 
 Magi, who preserved the good science Geometry, as 
 the kings and great men encouraged the Royal Art. 
 But it is not expedient to speak more plain of the 
 premises, except in a formed Lodge. 
 
 From hence, therefore, the Science and Art were 
 both transmitted to latter ages and distant climes, 
 notwithstanding the confusion of languages or dia- 
 lects, which, though it might help to give rise to the 
 Masons' faculty and ancient universal practice of 
 conversing without speaking, and of knowing each 
 other at a distance, yet hindered not the improve- 
 ment of Masonry in each colony, and their communi- 
 cation in their distinct national dialect. 
 
 And no doubt the Royal Art was brought down 
 to Egypt by Mitzraim, the second son of Ham, 
 about six years after the confusion at Babel, and 
 
 o NiMROD, which signifies a Kebel, was the name given him by 
 the holy Family, and by Moses ; but among his friends in Chal- 
 DEA, his proper name was Belus, which signifies Lord ; and 
 afterwards was worshipped as a God by many nations, under the 
 name of Bel, or Baal, and became the Bacghus of the Ancients, 
 or Bar Ciius, the son of Chus. 
 
FREEMASONRY. 15 
 
 after the flood 160 years, when he led thither his 
 colony ; (for Egypt is Mitzraim in Hebrew) because 
 we find the river Nile's overflowing its banks soon 
 caused an improvement in Geometry, which conse- 
 quently brought Masonry much in request ; for the 
 ancient noble cities, with the other magnificent edi- 
 fices of that country, and particularly the famous 
 Pyramids, demonstrate the early taste and genius 
 of that ancient kingdom. Nay, one of those Egyp- 
 tian Pyramids* is reckoned the first of the seven 
 wonders of the world, the account of which, by his- 
 torians and travellers, is almost incredible. 
 
 The Sacred Records inform us well that the 
 eleven great sons of Canaan (the youngest son of 
 Ham) soon fortified themselves in strongholds and 
 stately walled cities, and erected most beautiful 
 temples and mansions ; for, when the Israelites, 
 under the great Joshua, invaded their country, they 
 found it so regularly fenced, that without the imme- 
 diate intervention of God in behalf of his peculiar 
 people, the Canaanites were impregnable and in- 
 vincible. Nor can we suppose less of the other sons 
 of Ham, viz : Chush, his eldest, in South Arabia, 
 
 ** The marble stones, brought a vast way from the quarries of 
 Arabia, were most of 'em 30 foot long ; and its foundation cov- 
 er' d the ground of 700 foot on each side, or 2800 foot in compass, 
 and 481 in perpendicular height. And in perfecting it were 
 employ'd every day, for 20 whole years, 360,000 men, by some 
 ancient Egyptian King, long before the Israelites were a people, 
 for the honor of his Empire, and at last to become his Tomb. 
 
16 HISTORY OP 
 
 and Phut, or Phuts, (now called Fez) in West 
 Africa. 
 
 And surely the fair and gallant posterity of 
 Japhet, (the eldest son of Noah) even such as 
 travelled into the isles of the Gentiles, must have 
 been equally skilled in Geometry and Masonry ; 
 though we know little of their transactions and 
 mighty works until their original knowledge was 
 almost lost by the havock of war, and by not main- 
 taining a due correspondence with the polite and 
 learned nations ; for, when that correspondence was 
 opened in after ages, we find they began to be most 
 curious architects. 
 
 The posterity of Shem had also equal opportuni- 
 ties of cultivating the useful art, even those of them 
 that planted their colonies in the south and east of 
 Asia, much more those of them that in the great 
 Assyrian empire lived in a separate state, or were 
 blended with other families : nay, that holy branch 
 of Shem (of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ 
 came) could not be unskilful in the learned arts of 
 Assyria ; for Abeam, after the confusion at Babel 
 about 268 years, was called out of Ur of the Chal- 
 dees, where he learned Geometry, and the arts that 
 are performed by it, which he would carefully trans- 
 mit to IsHMAEL, to Isaac, and to his sons, by Ketu- 
 RAH ; and by Isaac, to Esau and Jacob, and the 
 twelve Patriarchs ; nay, the Jews believe that 
 
FREEMASONRY. 17 
 
 Abram also instructed the Eg3^ptians in the Assyrian 
 learning. 
 
 Indeed, the select family long used military 
 architecture only, as they were sojourners among 
 strangers ; but before the 430 years of their pere- 
 grination were expired, even about 86 years before 
 their exodus, the Kings of Egypt forced most of 
 them to lay down their shepherd's instruments and 
 warlike accoutrements, and trained them to another 
 sort of architecture in stone and brick, as Holy 
 Writ and other histories acquaint us, whicli God 
 did wisely over-rule, in order to make them good 
 Masons before they possessed the promised land, 
 then famous for most curious Masonry. 
 
 And while marching to Canaan, through Arabia, 
 under Moses, God was pleased to inspire Bezaleel, 
 of the tribe of Judah, and Aholiab, of the tribe of 
 Dan, with wisdom of heart for erecting that most 
 glorious tent or tabernacle, wherein the Shechinah 
 resided, which, though not of stone or brick, Avas 
 framed by Geometry, a most beautiful piece of 
 architecture, (and proved afterwards the model of 
 Solomon's Temple) according to the pattern that 
 God had shown to Moses in the Mount ; who there- 
 fore became the General Master Mason, as well as 
 King of Jessurun, being well skilled in all the 
 Egyptian learning, and divinely inspired with more 
 sublime knowledge in Masonry. 
 
 So that the Israelites, at tlieir leaving Egypt, were 
 
18 HISTORY OF 
 
 a whole kingdom of Masons, well instructed, under 
 the conduct of their Grand Master Moses, who 
 often marshalled them into a regular and general 
 Lodge, while in the wilderness, and gave them wise 
 charges, orders, &c., had they been well observed ! 
 But no more of the premises must be mentioned. 
 
 And after they were possessed of Canaan, the 
 Israelites came not short of the old inhabitants in 
 Masonry, but rather vastly improved it, by the 
 special direction of Heaven ; they fortified better, 
 and improved their city houses and the palaces of 
 their chiefs, and only fell short in sacred architec- 
 ture while the Tabernacle stood, but no longer ; for 
 the finest sacred building of the Canaanites was the 
 Temple of Dagon in Gaza of the Philistines, very 
 magnificent, and capacious enough to receive 5000 
 people under its roof, that was artfully supported 
 by two main columns,* and was a wonderful dis- 
 covery of their mighty skill in true Masonry, as 
 must be owned. 
 
 But Dagon's Temple, and the finest structures of 
 Tyre and Sidon, could not be compared with the 
 Eternal God's Temple at Jerusalem, begun and 
 
 « By which the glorious Sampson puU'd it down upon the 
 Lords of the Philistines, and was also entangled in the same 
 death which he drew upon his enemies for putting out his eyes, 
 after he had reveal' d his secrets to his wife, that betray' d him 
 into their hands ; for which weakness he never had the honor to 
 be numbered among Masons : But it is not convenient to write 
 more of this. 
 
FREEMASONRY. 19 
 
 finished, to the amazement of all the world, in the 
 short space of seven years and six months, by that 
 wisest man and most glorious King of Israel, the 
 Prince of Peace and Architecture, Solomon, (the 
 son of David, who was refused that honour for 
 being a man of blood) by divine direction, without 
 the noise of workmen's tools, though there were em- 
 ployed about it no less than 3,600 Princes,* or 
 Master Masons, to conduct the work according to 
 Solomon's directions, with 80,000 hewers of stone 
 in the mountain, or Fellow Craftsmen, and 70,000 
 
 labourers, in all 153,600 
 
 Besides the levy under Adoniram to 
 work in the mountains of Lebanon by 
 turns with the Sidonians, viz : . . 30,000 
 
 being in all 183,600 
 
 « In I Kings, v. 16, they are call'd fi'^Tin Hakodim, Rulers or 
 Provosts assisting King Solomon, who were set over the work, 
 and their number there is only 3,300 : But 2 Chron. ii. 18, they 
 are called Q'^illZD^ Menatzchim, Overseers and Comforters of the 
 people in working, and in number, 3,600 ; because either 300 
 might be more curious artists, and the Overseers of the said 
 3,300, or rather, not so excellent, and only Deputy-Masters, to 
 supply their places in case of death or absence, that so there 
 might be always 3,300 acting Masters compleat ; or else they 
 might be the Overseers of the 70,000 ^no ^T'^S^ Isii Sabbal, men 
 of burden, or labourers, who were not Masons, but served the 
 80,000 nsn U3^5< Ish Chotzeb, men of Hewing, called also D'^bna 
 GriiBLiM, stone-cutters and sculpturers ; and also, Bonai, '^2:1 
 Builders in stone, part of which belonged to Solomon, and part 
 to Hiram, King of Tyre, i Kings, v. 18. 
 
20 HISTORY OF 
 
 for which great number of ingenious Masons, Solo- 
 mon was much obliged to Hiram, or Huram, King 
 of Tyre, who sent his masons and carpenters to 
 Jerusalem, and the firs and cedars of Lebanon to 
 Joppa, the next sea-port. 
 
 But above all, he sent his namesake Hiram, or 
 Huram, the most accomplished Mason upon earth.^ 
 
 And the prodigious expence of it also enhaunceth 
 its excellency ; for besides King David's vast pre- 
 parations, his richer son Solomon, and all the 
 
 « We read (2 Chron. ii. 13.) Hikam, King of Tyre, (called there 
 Huram) in his letter to King Solomon, says, I have sent a 
 CUNNING Man, 'iIlN DIIH^ le Huram Abhi, not to be translated 
 according to the vulgar Greek and Latin, Huram my Father, as 
 if this Architect was King Hiram's Father ; for his description, 
 ver. 14, refutes it, and the original plainly imports, Huram op 
 MY Father's, viz. the chief Master-Mason of my Father, King 
 Abibulus; (who enlarg'd and beautify' d the city of Tyre, as 
 ancient histories inform us, whereby the Tyrians at this time 
 were most expert in Masonry) tho' some think Hiram the King 
 might call Hiram the Architect Father, as learned and skillful 
 men were wont to be call'd of old times, or as Joseph was call'd 
 the Father of Pharaoh ; and as the same Hiram is call'd Solo- 
 mon's Father, (2 Chron. iv. 16.) where 'tis said 
 
 SniawiMOH lammelech Abhif Churam ghnasah, 
 Did Huram, his Father, make to King Solomon. 
 
 But the diflSculty is over at once, by allowing the word Abif 
 to be the surname of Hiram the Mason, called also (Chap. ii. 13.) 
 Hiram Abi, as here Hiram Abif ; for being so amply describ'd, 
 (Chap. ii. 14.) we may easily suppose his surname would not be 
 conceal' d : And this reading makes the sense plain and compleat, 
 viz. that Hiram, King of Tyre, sent to King Solomon his name- 
 sake Hiram Abif, the Prince of Architects, describ'd (i Kings, vii. 
 
FREEMASONRY. 21 
 
 wealthy Israelites, and the nobles of all the neigh- 
 bouring kingdoms, largely contributed towards it 
 in gold, silver, and rich jewels, that amounted to a 
 sum almost incredible. 
 
 Nor do we read of anything in Canaan so large, 
 the wall that inclosed it being 7,700 foot in com- 
 pass ; far less any holy structure fit to be named 
 with it, for exactly proportioned and beautiful ai- 
 mensions, from the magnificent porch on the east to 
 
 14.) to be a Widow's Son of the Tribe of Napthali; and in (2 
 Chron. ii. 14.) the said King of Tyre calls him the son of a woman 
 of the daughters of Dajs ; and in both places, that his father was 
 a man of Tyre ; which difficulty is remov'd, by supposing his 
 Mother was either of the Tribe of Dan, or of the Daughters of 
 the city call'd Dan in the Tribe of Napthau, and his deceased 
 Father had been a Napthalite, whence his Mother was call'd a 
 widow of Napthali ; for his Father is not call'd a Tyrian by 
 descent, but a man of Tyre by habitation ; asOBEDEcoMtheLevite 
 is call'd a Gittite by living among the Gittites, and the Apostle 
 Paul a man of Tarsus. But supposing a mistake in transcribers, 
 and that his Father was really a Tyrian by blood, and his Mother 
 only of the Tribe of Dan or Napthali, that can be no bar 
 against allowing of his vast capacity ; for as his Father was a 
 worker in brass, so he himself was fill'd with wisdom and under- 
 standing, and cunning to work all works in brass : And as King 
 Solomon sent for him, so King Hiram, in his letter to Solomon, 
 says. And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with under- 
 standing, skilful to work in gold, silver, brass, iron, stone, 
 timber, purple, blue, fine linnen and crimson ; also ^o grave any 
 manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be 
 put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men 
 of my Lord David thy Father. This divinely inspired workman 
 maintain' d this character in erecting the Temple, and in working 
 the utensils thereof, far beyond the performances of Aiioliab and 
 Bkzaleel, being also universally capable of all sorts of Masonry. 
 
22 HISTORY OP 
 
 the glorious and reverend Sanctum Sanctorum on 
 the west, with most lovely and convenient apart- 
 ments for the Kings and Princes, Priests and Le- 
 vites, Israelites, and Gentiles also ; it being an 
 House of Prayer for all nations, and capable of re- 
 ceiving in the Temple proper, and in all its courts 
 and apartments together, no less than 300,000 
 people, by a modest calculation, allowing a square 
 cubit to each person. 
 
 And if we consider the 1,453 columns of Parian 
 marble, with twice as many Pillasters, both having 
 glorious capitals of several orders, and about 2,246 
 windows, besides those in the pavement, with the 
 unspeakable and costly decorations of it within ; 
 (and much more might be said) we must conclude 
 its prospect to transcend our imagination ; and that 
 it was justly esteemed by far the finest piece of 
 Masonry upon earth before or since, and the chief 
 wonder of the world ; and was dedicated or con- 
 secrated, in the most solemn manner, by King 
 Solomon. 
 
 But leaving what must not, and indeed cannot 
 be communicated by writing, we may warrantably 
 affirm, tha^t however ambitious the heathen were in 
 cultivating of the Royal Art, it was never perfected 
 until God condescended to instruct his peculiar 
 people in rearing the above-mentioned stately tent, 
 and in building at length this gorgeous house, fit 
 for the special refulgence of his glory, where he 
 
FREEMASONRY. 23 
 
 dwelt between the Cherubims on the Mercy-Seat, 
 and from thence gave them frequent oraculous 
 responses. 
 
 This most sumptuous, splendid, beautiful, and 
 glorious edifice, attracted soon the inquisitive artists 
 of all nations to spend some time at Jerusalem, and 
 survey its peculiar excellencies, as much as was al- 
 lowed to the Gentiles, whereby they soon discovered 
 that all the world, with their joint skill, came far 
 short of the Israelites in the wisdom and dexterity 
 of architecture, when the wise King Solomon was 
 Grand Master of the Lodge at Jerusalem, and the 
 learned King Hiram was Grand Master of the 
 Lodge at Tyre, and the inspired Hiram Abif was 
 Master of Work, and Masonry was under the imme- 
 diate care and direction of Heaven, when the noble 
 and the wise thought it their honour to be assisting 
 to the ingenious Masters and Craftsmen, and when 
 the Temple of the true God became the wonder of 
 all travellers, by which, as by the most perfect pat- 
 tern, they corrected the architecture of their own 
 country upon their return. 
 
 So that after the erection of Solomon^s Temple, 
 Masonry was improved in all the neighbouring na- 
 tions ; for the many artists employed about it, under 
 Hiram Abif, after it was finished, dispersed them- 
 selves into Syria, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, 
 Babylonia, Media, Persia, Arabia, Africa, Lesser 
 Asia, Greece, and other parts of Europe, where they 
 
24 HISTORY OF 
 
 taught this liberal art to the free born sons of emi- 
 nent persons, by whose dexterity the kings, princes, 
 and potentates built many glorious piles, and be- 
 came the Grand Masters, each in his own territory, 
 and were emulous of excelling in this Royal Art ; 
 nay, even in India, where the correspondence was 
 open, we may conclude the same ; but none of the 
 nations, nor all together, could rival the Israelites, 
 far less excel them, in Masonry, and their Temple 
 remained the constant pattern.* 
 
 Nay, the Grand Monarch Nebuchadnezar could 
 never, with all his unspeakable advantages, carry up 
 his Masonry to the beautiful strength and magnifi- 
 cence of the Temple work, which he had, in warlike 
 rage, burnt down, after it had remained in splendor 
 
 '■' For tlio' the Temple of Diana at Ephesus is suppos'd to haA^e 
 been first built by some of Japhet's posterity, that made a settle- 
 ment in Jonia about the time of Moses ; yet it was often demol- 
 ish'd, and then rebuilt for the sake of improvements in Masonry ; 
 and we cannot compute the period of its last glorious erection 
 (that became another of the seven wonders of the world) to be 
 prior to that of Solomon's Temple ; but that long afterwards the 
 Kings of Lesser Asia join'd, for 220 years, in finishing it, with 
 107 columns of the finest marble, and many of them with most 
 exquisite sculpture (each at the expence of a King, by the Master- 
 Mason's Dresiphon and Akchiphron) to support the planked 
 cieling and roof of pure cedar, as the doors and linings were of 
 cypress : Whereby it became the mistress of Lesser Asia, in length 
 425 foot, and in breadth 220 foot : Nay, so admirable a fiibrick, 
 that Xerxes left it standing when he burnt all the other temples 
 in his way to Greece ; tho' at last it was set on fire and burnt 
 down by a vile fellow, only for the lust of being talk'd of, on 
 the very day that Albxaa'i>er the Great wfis born. 
 
FREEMASONRY. 25 
 
 416 years from its consecration. For after his wars 
 were over, and general peace proclaimed, he set his 
 heart on architecture, and became the Grand Mas- 
 ter Mason ; and having before led captive the 
 ingenious artists of Judea, and other conquered 
 countries, he raised indeed the largest work upon 
 earth, even the walls^ and city, the palaces and 
 hanging gardens, the bridge and temple of Babylon, 
 the third of the seven wonders of the world, thougli 
 
 * In thickness, 87 foot, in height 350 foot, and in compass 480 
 furlongs, or 60 British miles in an exact square of 15 miles a side, 
 built of large bricks, cemented with the hard bitumen of that 
 old vale of Shinar, with 100 gates of brass, or 25 a-side, and 250 
 towers ten foot higher than the wall. 
 
 From the said 25 gates in each side went 25 streets in strait 
 lines, or in all 50 streets, each 15 miles long, with four half 
 streets next the walls, each 200 foot broad, as the entire streets 
 were 150 foot broad : And so the whole city was thus cut out into 
 67G squares, each being 2 miles and iJn compass ; round which 
 were the houses built three or four stories high, well-adorn' d, 
 and accommodated with yards, gardens, &c. A branch of the 
 Euphrates run thro' the middle of it, from north to south, over 
 which, in the heart of the city, was built a stately bridge, in 
 length a furlong, and thirty foot in breadth, by wonderful art, 
 for supplying the want of a foundation in the river. At the two 
 ends of this bridge were two magnificent palaces, the old palace, 
 the seat of ancient Kings, at the east end, upon the ground of 
 four squares : and the new palace at the west end, built by Neb- 
 uchadnezzar, upon the ground of nine squares, with hanging- 
 gardens (so much celebrated by the Greeks) where the loftiest 
 trees could grow as in the fields, erected in a square of 400 foot, 
 on each side, carried up by terraces, and sustained by vast arches 
 built upon arches, until the highest terrace equal' d the height 
 of the city-walls, with a curious aqueduct to water the whole 
 gardens. Old Babel improv'd, stood on the east side of the river, 
 
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26 HISTORY OF 
 
 vastly inferior, in the sublime perfection of Masonry, 
 to the holy, charming, lovely Temple of God. But 
 as the Jewish captives were of special use to Nebu- 
 chadnezzar in his glorious buildings, so being thus 
 kept at work, they retained their great skill in Ma- 
 sonry, and continued very capable of rebuilding the 
 holy Temple and city of Salem upon its old founda- 
 tions, which was ordered by the edict or decree of 
 the grand Cyrus, according to God's Word, that 
 had foretold his exaltation and this decree : And 
 
 and the new town on the west side, much larger than the old, 
 and built in order to make this capital exceed old Niniveh, tho' 
 it never had so many inhabitants by one half. The river was 
 begirt with banks of brick, as thick as the city walls, in length 
 twenty miles, viz. fifteen miles within the city, and two miles 
 and a half above and below it, to keep the water within its chan- 
 nel ; and each street that cross' d the river had a brazen gate 
 leading down to the water on both banks ; and west of the city 
 was a prodigious lake, in compass 160 miles, with a canal from 
 the river into it, to prevent inundations in the summer. 
 
 In the old town, was the old tower of Babel, at the foundation 
 a square of half a mile in compass, consisting of eight square 
 towers built over each other, with stairs on the out-side round it, 
 going up to the observatory on the top, 600 foot high (which is 
 19 foot higher than the highest pyramid) whereby they became 
 the first Astronomers. And in the rooms of the grand tower, 
 with arched roofs, supported by pillars 75 foot high, the idola- 
 trous worship of their God Belus was perform' d, till now, that 
 this mighty Mason and Monarch erected round this ancient pile 
 a temple of two furlongs on every side, or a mile in compass ; 
 where he lodg'd the sacred trophies of Solomon's Tesiple, and the 
 golden image 90 foot high, that he had consecrated in the plains 
 of Dura, as were formerly in the tower lodg'd many other golden 
 images, and many precious things, that were afterwards all 
 seized by Xerxes, and amounted to above 21 millions sterling. 
 
FREEMASONRY. 27 
 
 Cyrus, having constituted Zerubbabel, the son of 
 Salathiel (of the seed of David, by Nathan, the 
 brother of Solomon, whose royal family was now 
 extinct,) the head, or Prince of the captivity, and 
 the leader of the Jews and Israelites returning to 
 Jerusalem, they began to lay the foundation of the 
 second Temple, and would have soon finished it, if 
 Cyrus had lived ; but at length they put on the 
 cape-stone, in the 6th year of Darius, the Persian 
 monarch, when it was dedicated with joy and many 
 great sacrifices by Zerubbabel, the Prince and 
 General Master Mason of the Jews, about 20 years 
 after the decree of the Grand Cyrus. And though 
 this Temple of Zerubbabel came far short of Solo- 
 mon's Temple, was not so richly adorned with gold 
 and diamonds, and all manner of precious stones, 
 nor had the Shechinah and the holy relicks of Moses 
 in it, &G., yet being raised exactly upon Solomon's 
 
 And when all was finish' d, King Nebuchadnezzar walking in 
 state in his hanging-gardens, and from thence taking a review 
 of the whole city, proudly boasted of this his mighty work ; 
 saying, is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house 
 of the Kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honour 
 of my Majesty? but had his pride immediately rebuk'd by a 
 voice from Heaven, and punish' d by brutal madness for seven 
 years, until he gave glory to the God of Heaven, the Omnipotent 
 Architect of the Universe, which he publish' d by a decree thro' 
 all his empire, and dy'd next year, before his great Babylon was 
 little more than half inhabited (tho' he had led many nations 
 captive for that purpose) ; nor was it ever fully peopled ; for in 
 25 years after his death, the Grand Cyrus conquer' d it, and 
 remov'd the throne to Shushan in Persia. 
 
28 HISTORY OF 
 
 foundation, and according to his model, it was still 
 the most regular, symmetrical, and glorious edifice 
 in the whole world, as the enemies of the Jews have 
 often testified and acknowledged. 
 
 At length the Royal Art was carried into Greece, 
 whose inhabitants have left us no evidence of such 
 improvements in Masonry, prior to Solomon's 
 Temple ;* for their most ancient buildings, as the 
 Citadel of Athens, with the Parthenon, or Temple 
 of Minerva, the Temples also of Theseus, of Jupiter 
 Olympius, &c., their porticos also, and forums, 
 their theatres and gymnasiums, their public halls, 
 curious bridges, regular fortifications, stout ships 
 of war, and stately palaces, were all erected after 
 the Temple of Solomon, and most of them even 
 after the Temple of Zerubbabel. 
 
 Nor do we find the Grecians arrived to any con- 
 siderable knowledge in Geometry before the great 
 Thales Milesius, the philosopher, who died in the 
 reign of Belshazzar, and the time of the Jewish 
 captivity. But his scholar, the greater Pythago- 
 ras, proved the author of the 47 th Proposition of 
 
 o The Grecians having been long degenerated into barbarity, 
 forgetting their original skill in Masonry, (which their fore- 
 fathers brought from Assyria) by their frequent mixtures with 
 other barbarous nations, their mutual invasions, and wasting, 
 bloody wars ; until by travelling and corresponding with the 
 Asiatics and Egyptians, they reviv'd their knowledge in Geom- 
 etry and Masonry both, though few of the Grecians had the 
 honour to own it. 
 
FREEMASONRY. 29 
 
 Euclid's first book, which, if duly observed, is 
 the foundation of all Masonry, sacred, civil, and 
 military * 
 
 The people of Lesser Asia about this time gave 
 large encouragement to Masons for erecting all 
 sorts of sumptuous buildings, one of which must not 
 be forgot, being usually reckoned the fourth of the 
 seven wonders of the world, viz : the Mausoleum, or 
 Tomb of Mausolus, King of Caria, between Lycia 
 and Jonia, at Halicarnassus, on the side of Mount 
 Taurus, in that kingdom, at the command of Arte- 
 misia, his mournful widow, as the splendid testi- 
 mony of her love to him, built of the most curious 
 marble, in circuit 411 foot, in height 25 cubits, sur- 
 rounded with 26 columns of the most famous sculp- 
 ture, and the whole open on all sides, with arches 
 73 foot wide, performed by the four principal Mas- 
 ter Masons and engravers of those times, viz : the 
 east side by Scopas, the west by Leochares, the 
 north by Briax, and the south by Timotheus. 
 
 But after Pythagoras, Geometry became the 
 
 c- Pythagoras travell'd into Egypt the year that Thales dy'd, 
 and living there among the Priests 22 years, became expert in 
 Geometry, and in all the Egyptian learning, until he was cap- 
 tured by Cambyses, King of Persia, and sent to Babylon, where 
 he was much conversant with the Chaldean Magi, and the learned 
 Babylonish Jews, from whom he borrow' d great knowledge, that 
 render' d him very famous in Greece and Italy, where afterwards 
 he flourish' d and dy'd ; when Mordecai was the prime Minister 
 of State to AiiASHUERrs King of Persia, and ten years after Ze- 
 ritbbabel's Temple was fmish'd. 
 
30 HISTORY OF 
 
 darling study of Greece, where many learned philo- 
 sophers arose, some of whom invented sundry Pro- 
 positions, or Elements of Geometry, and reduced 
 them to the use of the mechanical arts."^ Nor need 
 we doubt that Masonry kept pace with Geometry ; 
 or rather, always followed it in proportioned gradual 
 improvements, until the wonderful Euclid of Tyre 
 flourished at Alexandria, who, gathering up the 
 scattered elements of Geometry, digested them into 
 a method that was never yet mended, (and for which 
 his name will be ever celebrated) under the patron- 
 age of Ptolomeus, the son of Lagus, King of Egypt, 
 one of the immediate successors of Alexander the 
 Great. 
 
 And as the noble science came to be more metho- 
 dically taught, the Eoyal Art was the more gener- 
 ally esteemed and improved among the Grecians, 
 who at length arrived to the same skill and magni- 
 ficence in it with their teachers, the Asiatics and 
 Egyptians. 
 
 The next King of Egypt, Ptolomeus Philadel- 
 PHUS, that great improver of the liberal arts and of 
 
 <* Or borrow' d from other nations their pretended inventions, 
 as Anaxagoras, Oenopides, Briso, Antipho, Democritus, Hippo- 
 crates, and TiiEODORUs Ctren^us, the Master of the divine Plato, 
 who amplify' d Geometry, and published the Arts Analytic ; from 
 whose Academy came forth a vast number, that soon dispers'd 
 their knowledge to distant parts, as Leodamus, TnEJirETUs, Arcii- 
 YTAS, Leon, Eudoxus, Menaicumus, and Xenocrates, the Master 
 of Aristotle, from whose Academy also came forth Eudemus, 
 Theopiirastus, ARisTiEUS, Isidorus, Hypsicles, and many others. 
 
FREEMASONRY. 31 
 
 all useful knowledge, who gathered the greatest li- 
 brary upon earth, and had the Old Testament (at 
 least the Pentateuch) first translated into Greek, 
 became an excellent architect and General Master 
 Mason, having, among his other great buildings, 
 erected the famous Tower of Pharos,^ the fifth of 
 the seven wonders of the world. 
 
 We may readily believe that the African nations, 
 even to the Atlantick shore, did soon imitate Egypt 
 in such improvements, though history fails, and 
 there are no travellers encouraged to discover the 
 valuable remains in Masonry of those once renowned 
 nations. 
 
 Nor should we forget the learned Island of Sicily, 
 where the prodigious Geometrician Archimedes 
 did flourish,! and was unhappily slain when Syra- 
 
 ^ On an Island near Alexandria, at one of the mouths of the 
 Nile, of wonderful height and most cunning workmanship, and 
 all of the finest marble, and it cost 800 talents, or about 480,000 
 crowns. The Master of Work, under the King, was Sistratus, a 
 most ingenious Mason ; and it was afterwards much admired by 
 Julius C^sak, who was a good judge of most things, though 
 chiefly conversant in war and politicks. It was intended as a 
 light-house for the harbor of Alexandria, from which the light- 
 houses in the Mediterranean were often called Pharos. Though 
 some, instead of this, mention as the fifth wonder the great Obe- 
 lisk of Semieamis, 150 foot high, and 24 foot square at bottom, 
 or 90 foot in circuit at the ground, all one intire stone, rising 
 pyramidically, brought from Armenia to Babylon about the time 
 of the siege of Troy, if we may believe the history of Semiramis. 
 
 f While Ekatosthenes and Conon flourished in Greece, who 
 were succeeded by the excellent Apollonius of Perga, and many 
 
32 HISTORY OF 
 
 cuse was taken by Marcellus, the Roman General ; 
 for from Sicily, as well as from Greece, Egypt and 
 Asia, the ancient Romans learned both the science 
 and the art, what they knew before being either 
 mean or irregular ; but as they subdued the nationsi 
 they made mighty discoveries in both ; and, like wise 
 men, led captive, not the body of the people, but the 
 arts and sciences, with the most eminent professors 
 and practitioners, to Rome, which thus became the 
 center of learning, as well as of imperial poAver, un- 
 til they advanced to their zenith of glory, under 
 Augustus CiESAR, (in whose reign was born God's 
 Messiah, the great Architect of the Church,) who, 
 having laid the world quiet, by proclaiming univer- 
 sal peace, highly encouraged those dexterous artists 
 that had been bred in the Roman liberty, and their 
 learned scholars and pupils ; but particularly the 
 great Vitruvius, the father of all true architects to 
 this day. 
 
 Therefore it is rationally believed that the glo- 
 rious Augustus became the Grand Master of the 
 Lodge at Rome, having, besides his patronizing 
 Vitruvius, much promoted the welfare of the Fel- 
 low Craftsmen, as appears by the many magnificent 
 buildings of his reign, the remains of which are the 
 pattern and standard of true Masonry in all future 
 
 luoro before the birth of Christ, who, though not working 
 Masong, yet were good Surveyors ; or at least cultivated Geome- 
 try, which is the solid basis of true Masonry, and its rule. 
 
FREEMASONRY. 33 
 
 times, as they are indeed an epitome of the Asiatic, 
 Egyptian, Grecian, and Sicilian architecture, which 
 we often express by the name of the Augustan style, 
 and which we are now only endeavouring to imi- 
 tate, and have not yet arrived to its perfection. 
 
 The old records of Masons aiford large hints of 
 their Lodges from the beginning of the world, in 
 the polite nations, especially in times of peace, and 
 when the civil powers, abhorring tyranny and sla- 
 very, gave due scope to the bright and free genius 
 of their happy subjects ; for then always Masons, 
 above all other artists, were the favourites of the 
 eminent, and became necessary for their grand un- 
 dertakings in any sort of materials, not only in 
 stone, brick, timber, plaister, but even in cloth or 
 skins, or whatever was used for tents, and for the 
 various sorts of architecture. 
 
 Nor should it be forgot that painters also and 
 statuaries"^ were always reckoned good Masons, as 
 
 ^ For it was not without good reason the ancients thought 
 that the rules of the beautiful proportions in building were 
 copied or taken from the proportions of the body natural. Hence 
 Phidias is reckoned in the number of ancient Masons, for erect- 
 ing the statue of the goddess Nemesis at Ehamnus, 10 cubits high, 
 and that of Minerva at Athens, 26 cubits high ; and that of 
 Jupiter Oltmpius, sitting in his temple in Achaia, between the 
 cities of Elis and Pisa, made of innumerable small pieces of por- 
 phyry, so exceeding grand and proportioned that it was reckoned 
 one of the seven wonders, as the famous Colossus at Rhodes was 
 another, and the greatest statue that ever was erected, made of 
 metal, and dedicated to the sun, 70 cubits high, like a great 
 tower at a distance, at the entry of an harbour, striding wide 
 
34 HISTORY OP 
 
 much as builders, stone-cutters, bricklayers, carpen- 
 ters, joiners, upholders, or tent-makers, and a vast 
 many other craftsmen that could be named, who 
 perform according to Geometry and the rules of 
 building ; though none since Hiram Abif has been 
 renowned for cunning in all parts of Masonry ; and 
 of this enough. 
 
 But among the heathen, while the noble science 
 Geometry"^ was duly cultivated, both before and 
 after the reign of Augustus, even till the fifth cen- 
 tury of the Christian aera. Masonry was had in 
 great esteem and veneration ; and while the Roman 
 empire continued in its glory, the Royal Art was 
 carefully propagated, even to the Ultima Thule, and 
 a Lodge erected in almost every Roman garrison ; 
 whereby they generously communicated their cun- 
 ning to the northern and western parts of Europe, 
 which had grown barbarous before the Roman con- 
 enough for the largest ships under sail, built in 12 years by 
 Cares, a famous Mason and statuary of Sicyon, and scholar to 
 the great Lysippus of the same fraternity. This mighty Colossus, 
 after standing 56 years, fell by an earthquake, and lay in mines, 
 the wonder of the world, till Anno Dom. 600, when the Soldan 
 of Egypt carried off its relicks, which loaded 900 camels, 
 
 o By Menelaus, Claudius, Ptolomeus, (who was also the Prince 
 of Astronomers) Plutarch, Eutocius (who recites the inventions 
 of PniLO, DiocLES, NicoMEDES, Spuorus, and Heron, the learned 
 mechanick,) Ktesibius also, the inventor of pumps (celebrated by 
 ViTRUVius, Proclus, Pliny, and Athenj3us) and Geminus, also 
 equalled by some to Euclid ; so Diopiiantus, Nicomachus, Se- 
 EENUS, Proclus, Pappus, Tiieon, &c , all Geometricians, and the 
 illustrious cultivators of the mechanical arts. 
 
FREEMASONRY. 35 
 
 quest, though we know not certainly how long ; be- 
 cause some think there are a few remains of good 
 Masonry before that period in some parts of Europe, 
 raised by the original skill that the first colonies 
 brought with them, as the Celtic edifices, erected by 
 the ancient Gauls, and by the ancient Britains too, 
 who were a colony of the Celtes, long before the 
 Romans invaded this island.* 
 
 But when the Goths and Yandals, that had never 
 been conquered by the Romans, like a general 
 deluge over-ran the Roman empire, with warlike 
 rage and gross ignorance they utterly destroyed 
 many of the finest edifices, and defaced others, very 
 few escaping, as the Asiatic and African nations fell 
 under the same calamity by the conquests of the 
 Mahometans, whose grand design is only to convert 
 the world by fire and sword, instead of cultivating 
 the arts and sciences. 
 
 Thus, upon the declension of the Roman empire, 
 
 ^- The natives within the Roman colonies might be first in- 
 structed in building of citadels and bridges, and other fortifica- 
 tions necessary ; and afterwards, when their settlement produced 
 peace, and liberty, and plenty, the aborigines did soon imitate 
 their learned and polite conquerors in Masonry, having then 
 leisure and a disposition to raise magnificent structures. Nay, 
 even the ingenious of the neighbouring nations not conquered, 
 learnt much from the Eoman garrisons in times of peace and 
 open correspondence, when they became emulous of the Roman 
 glory, and thankful that their being conquered was the means 
 of recovering them from ancient ignorance and prejudices, when 
 they began to delight in the Royal Art. 
 
36 HISTORY OP 
 
 when the British garrisons were drained, the Angles 
 and other lower Saxons, invited by the ancient 
 Britons to come over and help them against the 
 Scots and Picts, at length subdued the south part 
 of this island, which they called England, or Land 
 of the Angles, who, being akin to the Goths, or 
 rather a sort of Vandals, of the same warlike dispo- 
 sition, and as ignorant heathens, encouraged nothing 
 but war, till they became Christians ; and then too 
 late lamented the ignorance of their fathers in the 
 great loss of Roman Masonry, but knew not how to 
 repair it. 
 
 Yet, becoming a free people, (as the old Saxon 
 laws testify) and having a disposition for Masonry, 
 they soon began* to imitate the Asiatics, Grecians, 
 and Romans, in erecting of Lodges and encouraging 
 
 <* No doubt several Saxon and Scotish Kings, with many of 
 the nobility, great gentry, and eminent clergy, became the Grand 
 Masters of those early Lodges, from a mighty zeal then prevalent 
 for^building magnificent Christian temples ; which would also 
 prompt them to inquire after the laws, charges, regulations, cus- 
 toms, and usages of the ancient Lodges, many of which might be 
 preserved by tradition, and all of them very likely in those parts 
 of the British Islands that were not subdued by the Saxons, from 
 whence in time they might be brought, and which the Saxons 
 were more fond of, than careful to revive Geometry and Roman 
 Masonry ; as many in all ages have been more curious and care- 
 ful about the laws, forms, and usages of their respective societies, 
 than about the arts and sciences thereof. 
 
 But neither what was convey'd, nor the manner how, can be 
 communicated by writing, as no man can indeed understand it 
 ^thout the key of a Fellow Craft. " 
 
FREEMASONRY. 37 
 
 of Masons, being taught not only from the faithful 
 traditions and valuable remains of the Britons, but 
 even by foreign Princes, in whose dominions the 
 Royal Art had been preserved much from Gothic 
 ruins, particularly by Charles Martell, King of 
 France, who, according to the old records of Ma- 
 sons, sent over several expert craftsmen and learned 
 architects into England, at the desire of the Saxon 
 kings ;• so that during the heptarchy, the Gothic 
 architecture was as much encouraged here as in 
 other Christian lands. 
 
 And though the many invasions of the Danes oc- 
 casioned the loss of many records, yet in times of 
 truce or peace they did not hinder much the good 
 work, though not performed according to the Au- 
 gustan style ; nay, the vast expence laid out upon 
 it, with the curious inventions of the artists to sup- 
 ply the Roman skill, doing the best they could, de- 
 monstrate their esteem and love for the Royal Art, 
 and have rendered the Gothic buildings venerable, 
 though not imitable by those that relish the ancient 
 architecture. 
 
 And after the Saxons and Danes were conquered 
 by the Normans, as soon as the wars ended and 
 peace was proclaimed, the Gothic Masonry was en- 
 couraged, even in the reign of the Conqueror,* and 
 
 « William the Conqueror built the Tower of London, and 
 many strong castles in the country, with several religious edi- 
 fices, whose example was followed by the nobility and clergy, 
 
38 HISTORY OP 
 
 of his son King William Rufus, who built West- 
 minster Hall, the largest one room perhaps in the 
 earth. 
 
 Nor did the Barons' wars, nor the many bloody 
 wars of the subsequent Norman kings, and their 
 contending branches, much hinder the most sump- 
 tuous and lofty buildings of those times, raised by 
 the great clergy, (who, enjoying large revenues, 
 could well bear the expence,) and even by the Crown 
 too ; for we read King Edward III. had an officer 
 called the King's Free Mason, or General Surveyor 
 of his buildings, whose name was Henry Yevele, 
 employed by that king to build several abbeys, and 
 St. Stephen's Chappel at Westminster, where the 
 House of Commons now sit in Parliament. 
 
 But for the further instruction of candidates and 
 younger brethren, a certain record of Freemasons, 
 written in the reign of King Edward IY. of the 
 Norman line, gives the following account, viz : 
 
 That though the ancient records of the brother- 
 hood in England were many of them destroyed or 
 lost in the wars of the Saxons and Danes, yet King 
 Athelstan, (the grandson of King Alfrede the 
 Great, a mighty architect) the first anointed King 
 of England, and who translated the Holy Bible into 
 the Saxon tongue, when he had brought the land 
 
 particiilarly by Roger de Montgomery. Earl of Arundel, the Arch- 
 bishop of York, the Bishop of Durham, and Gundulph, Bishop 
 of Rochester, a mighty architect. 
 
FREEMASONRY. 39 
 
 into rest and peace, built many great works, and 
 encouraged many Masons from France, wlio were 
 appointed overseers thereof, and brought with them 
 the Charges and Regulations of the Lodges, pre- 
 served since the Roman times, who also prevailed 
 with the king to improve the Constitution of the 
 English Lodges according to the foreign model, and 
 to increase the wages of working Masons. 
 
 That the said King's youngest son, Prince Edwin, 
 being taught Masonry, and taking upon him the 
 Charges of a Master Mason, for the love he had to 
 the said craft, and the honourable principles where- 
 on it is grounded, purchased a free charter of King 
 Athelstan, his father, for the Masons having a cor- 
 rection among themselves, (as it was anciently 
 expressed) or a freedom and power to regulate 
 themselves, to amend what might happen amiss, 
 and to hold a yearly communication and General 
 Assembly. 
 
 That accordingly Prince Edwin summoned all 
 the Masons in the realm to meet him in a congrega- 
 tion at York, who came and composed a General 
 Lodge, of which he was Grand Master ; and having 
 brought with them all the writings and records ex- 
 tant, some in Greek, some in Latin, some in French, 
 and other languages, from the contents thereof that 
 Assembly did frame the Constitution and Charges 
 of an English Lodge, made a law to preserve and 
 
40 HISTORY OP 
 
 observe the same in all time coming, and ordained 
 good pay for working Masons, &g. 
 
 That in process of time, when Lodges were more 
 frequent, the right worshipful the Master and Fel- 
 lows, with consent of the lords of the realm, (for 
 most great men were then Masons) ordained that 
 for the future, at the making or admission of a 
 brother, the Constitution should be read, and the 
 Charges hereunto annexed, by the Master or Ward- 
 en ; and that such as were to be admitted Master 
 Masons, or Masters of Work, should be examined 
 whether they be able of cunning to serve their re- 
 spective Lords, as well the lowest as the highest, to 
 the honour and worship of the aforesaid art, and to 
 the profit of their Lords ; for they be their Lords 
 that employ and pay them for their service and 
 travel. 
 
 And besides many other things, the said record 
 adds, that those Charges and laws of Freemasons 
 have been seen and perused by our late Sovereign 
 King Henry VI. and by the Lords of his honourable 
 Council, who have allowed them, and said that they 
 be right good and reasonable to be holden, as they 
 have been drawn out and collected from the records 
 of ancient times.* 
 
 o In another manuscript more ancient, we read : "That when 
 *'the Master and Wardens meet in a Lodge, if need bo, the 
 " Sheriff of the county, or the Mayor of the city, or Alderman of 
 " the town, in which the congregation is lield, should be made 
 
FREEMASONRY. 41 
 
 Now, thougli in the third year of the said King 
 Henry YI., while an infant of about four years old, 
 the Parliament made an act that affected only the 
 working Masons, who had, contrary to the statutes 
 for labourers, confederated not to work but at 
 their own price and wages ; and because such agree- 
 ments were supposed to be made at the General 
 Lodges, called in the act Chapters and Congrega- 
 tions of Masons, it was then thought expedient to 
 level the said act against the said congregations ;* 
 
 " Fellow and Sociate to the Master, in help of him against rebels, 
 ** and for upbearing the rights of the realm. 
 
 " That Enter' d Prentices at their making were charg'd not to 
 *' be thieves, or thieves maintainors ; that they should travel 
 "honestly for their pay, and love their Fellows as themselves, 
 " and be true to the King of England, and to the realm, and to 
 " the Lodge. 
 
 "That at such congregations it shall be enquir'd whether any 
 *' Master or Fellow has broke any of the articles agreed to. And 
 ** if the offender, being duly cited to appear, prove rebel, and will 
 " not attend, then the Lodge shall determine against him that he 
 " shall forswear (or renounce) his Masonry, and shall no more 
 " use this craft ; the which, if he presume for to do, the Sheriff 
 ' ' of the county shall prison him, and take all his goods into the 
 " King's hands, till his grace be granted him and issued: For 
 " this cause principally have these congregations been ordain'd, 
 *' that as well the lowest as the highest should be well and truly 
 ' ' served in this art foresaid throughout all the kingdom of 
 
 " England. 
 
 " Amen, so mote it be." 
 
 «■ Tertio Hksrici Skxti, cap. I. An. Dom. 1425. 
 
 Title — Masons shall not confederate themselves in chapters and 
 congregations. 
 
 "Whereas, by yearly congregations and confederacies, made 
 "by the Masons in their General Assemblies, the good course 
 
42 HISTORY OP 
 
 yet when the said King Henry VI. arrived to man^s 
 estate, the Masons laid before him and his Lords 
 the above-mentioned Records and Charges, who, 'tis 
 plain, reviewed them, and solemnly approved of 
 them as good and reasonable to be holden : Nay, 
 the said King and his Lords must have been incor- 
 porated with the Freemasons before they could 
 make such review of the Records ; and in this reign, 
 before King Henry's troubles, Masons were much 
 encouraged. Nor is there any instance of execut- 
 ing that act in that or in any other reign since, and 
 the Masons never neglected their Lodges for it, nor 
 ever thought it worth while to employ their noble 
 and eminent brethren to have it repealed ; because 
 the working Masons that are free of the Lodge 
 scorn to be guilty of such combinations ; and the 
 other free Masons have no concern in trespasses 
 against the statutes for labourers.* 
 
 ** and effect of the statutes for labourers be openly violated and 
 '* broken, in subversion of the law, and to the great damage of 
 *' all the Commons, our said Sovereign Lord the King, willing in 
 *' this case to provide a remedy, by the advice and assent afore- 
 ** said, and at the special request of the Commons, hath ordained 
 " and established that such chapters and congregations shall not 
 ** be hereafter holden ; and if any such be made, they that cause 
 ** such chapters and congregations to be assembled and holden, 
 *• if they thereof be convict, shall be judged for felons, and that 
 " the other Masons that come to such chapters and congregations 
 "be punished by imprisonment of their bodies, and make fine 
 '* and ransome at the King's will." — Co. Inst. 3 p. 99. 
 
 o That act was made in ignorant times, when true learning 
 was a crime, and Geometry condemn' d for conjuration ; but it 
 
FREEMASONRY. 43 
 
 The Kings of Scotland very much encouraged the 
 Royal Art, from the earliest times down to the 
 union of the crowns, as appears by the remains of 
 glorious buildings in that ancient kingdom, and by 
 the Lodges there kept up without interruption many 
 hundred years, the records and traditions of which 
 testify the great respect of those kings to this 
 honourable fraternity, who gave always pregnant 
 evidence of their love and loyalty, from whence 
 sprung the old toast among Scots Masons, viz : 
 God bless the King and the Craft ! 
 
 Nor was the royal example neglected by the no- 
 bility, gentry, and clergy of Scotland, who joined in 
 everything for the good of the craft and brother- 
 hood, the kings being often the Grand Masters, un- 
 til, among other things, the Masons of Scotland 
 
 cannot derogate from the honour of the ancient fraternity, who 
 to be sure would never encourage any such confederacy of their 
 working brethren. But by tradition it is believ'd that the Par- 
 liament men were then too much influenced by the illiterate 
 clergy, who were not accepted Masons, nor understood architec- 
 ture, (as the clergy of some former ages) and generally thotight 
 unworthy of this brotherhood ; yet thinking they had an inde- 
 feasible right to know all secrets, by vertue of auricular confes- 
 sion, and the Masons never confessing anything thereof, the said 
 clergy were highly offended, and at first suspecting them of 
 wickedness, represented them as dangerous to the State duruig 
 that minority, and soon influenc'd the Parliament men to lay 
 hold of such supposed agreements of the working Masons, for 
 making an act that might seem to reflect dishonour upon even 
 the whole worshipful fraternity, in whose favour several acts had 
 been both before and after that period made 
 
44 HISTORY OF 
 
 were impowered to have a certain and fixed Grand 
 Master and Grand Warden, who had a salary from 
 the Crown, and also an acknowledgment from every 
 new brother in the kingdom at entrance, whose 
 business was not only to regulate what might hap- 
 pen amiss in the brotherhood, but also to hear and 
 finally determine all controversies between Mason 
 and Lord, to punish the Mason, if he deserved it, 
 and to oblige both to equitable terms ; at which 
 hearings, if the Grand Master was absent, (who was 
 always nobly born) the Grand Warden presided. 
 This privilege remained till the civil wars, but is 
 now obsolete ; nor can it well be revived until the 
 King becomes a Mason, because it was not actually 
 exerted at the union of the kingdoms. 
 
 Yet the great care that the Scots took of true 
 Masonry proved afterwards very useful to England, 
 for the learned and magnanimous Queen Elizabeth, 
 who encouraged other arts, discouraged this ; be- 
 cause, being a woman, she could not be made a 
 Mason, though, as other great women, she might 
 have much employed Masons, like Semiramis and 
 Artemisia.* 
 
 o ELizABKTn, being jealous of any assemblies of her subjects, 
 whose business she was not duly appriz'd of, attempted to break 
 up the annual communication of Masons, as dangerous to her 
 government ; but as old Masons have transmitted it by tradition, 
 when the noble persons her Majesty had commissioned, and 
 brought a sufficient posse with them at York on St. John's Day, 
 were once admitted into the Lodge, they made no use of arms, 
 
FREEMASONRY. 45 
 
 But upon her demise, King James YI. of Scot- 
 land, succeeding to the crown of England, being a 
 Mason King, revived the English Lodges ; and as 
 he was the first King of Great Britain, he was also 
 the first Prince in the world that recovered the 
 Roman architecture from the ruins of Gothic igno- 
 rance ; for, after many dark or illiterate ages, as 
 soon as all parts of learning revived, and Geometry 
 recovered its ground, the polite nations began to 
 discover the confusion and impropriety of the 
 Gothick buildings ; and in the fifteenth and six- 
 teenth centuries, the Augustan stile was raised 
 from its rubbish in Italy by Bramante, Barbaro, 
 Sansovino, Sangallo, Michael Angelo, Raphael 
 Urbin, Julio Romano, Serglio, Labaco, Scamozi, 
 ViGNOLA, and many other bright architects ; but 
 above all, by the great Palladio, who has not yet 
 been duly imitated in Italy, though justly rivalled 
 in England, by our great Master Mason, Inigo 
 Jones. 
 
 But though all true Masons honour the memories 
 of those Italian architects, it must be owned that 
 the Augustan stile was not revived by any crowned 
 head before King James the Sixth of Scotland and 
 First of England, patronized the said glorious Inigo 
 
 and return' d the Queen a most honourable account of the ancient 
 fraternity, whereby her political fears and doubts were dispell' d, 
 and she let them alone, as a people much respected by the noble 
 and the wise of all the polite nations, but neglected the art all 
 her reign. 
 
46 HISTORY OF 
 
 Jones, whom he employed to build his Royal Palace 
 of Whitehall ; and in his reign over all Great 
 Britain, the Banqueting-house, as the first piece of 
 it, was only raised, which is the finest one room 
 upon earth ; and the ingenious Mr. Nicholas 
 Stone performed as Master Mason under the archi- 
 tect Jones. 
 
 Upon his demise, his son King Charles I., being 
 also a Mason, patronized Mr. Jones too, and firmly 
 intended to have carried on his royal father's de- 
 sign of Whitehall, according to Mr. Jones's style ; 
 but was unhappily diverted by the civil wars.* 
 After the wars were over, and the royal family re- 
 stored, true Masonry was likewise restored, espe- 
 
 ^' The plan and prospect of that glorious design being still 
 preserv'd, it is esteem' d by skillful architects to excel that of 
 any other palace in the known earth, for the symmetry, firm- 
 ness, beauty and conveniency of architecture, as indeed all Mas- 
 ter Jones's designs and erections are originals, and at first view- 
 discover him to be the architect : Nay, his mighty genius pre- 
 vail' d with the nobility and gentry of all Britain, (for he was 
 as much honour' d in Scotland as in England) to affect and revive 
 the ancient stile of Masonry, too long neglected, as appears by 
 the many curious fabricks of those times, one of which shall be 
 now mention' d, the least, and perhaps one of the finest, the 
 famous Gate of the Physic Garden at Oxford, rais'd by Henrt 
 Danvers, Earl of Danby, which cost his Lordship many hundred 
 pounds, and is as curious a little piece of Masonry as ever was 
 built there before or since, Avith the following inscription on the 
 front of it, viz : 
 
 GLORIA DEI OPTIMI MAXIMI, HONORI CAROLI REGIS, 
 IN USUM ACADEMIiE ET REIPUBLICJ5, ANNO 1632. 
 HENRICUS COMES DANBY. 
 
FREEMASONRY. 47 
 
 cially upon the unhappy occasion of the burning of 
 London, Anno 1C66 ; for then the city houses were 
 rebuilt more after the Roman style, when King 
 Charles II. founded the present St. PauFs Cathe- 
 dral in London, (the old Gothick fabrick being 
 burnt down) much after the style of St. Peter's at 
 Rome, conducted by the ingenious architect, Sir 
 Christopher Wren. That king founded also his 
 royal Palace at Greenwich, according to Mr. Inigo 
 Jones's design, (which he drew before he died) con- 
 ducted by his son-in-law, Mr. Web ; it is now 
 turned into an hospital for seamen. He founded 
 also Chelsea College, an hospital for soldiers ; and 
 at Edinburgh he both founded and finished his 
 royal Palace of Halyrood House, by the design and 
 conduct of Sir William Bruce, Bart., the Master of 
 the Royal Works in Scotland f so that, besides the 
 tradition of old Masons now alive, which may be 
 relied on, we have much reason to believe that King 
 Charles II. was an accepted Freemason, as every 
 one allows he was a great encourager of the crafts- 
 men. 
 
 But in the reign of his brother King James IL, 
 though some Roman buildings were carried on, the 
 
 ^ It was an ancient Eoyal Palace, and rebuilt after the Augus- 
 tan style, so neat that by competent judges it has been esteem' d 
 the finest house belonging to the Crown ; and though it is not 
 very large, it is both magnificent and convenient, both inside 
 and outside, with good gardens, and a very large park, and all 
 other adjacent accommodations. 
 
48 HISTORY OF 
 
 Lodges of Freemasons in London much dwindled 
 into ignorance, by not being duly frequented and 
 cultivated. But^ after the revolution, Anno 1688, 
 King William, though a warlike Prince, having a 
 good taste of architecture, carried on the aforesaid 
 two famous hospitals of Greenwich and Chelsea, 
 built the fine part of his royal Palace of Hampton 
 Court, and founded and finished his incomparable 
 Palace at Loo, in Holland, &g. And the bright 
 example of that glorious Prince (who by most is 
 reckoned a Freemason) did influence the nobility, 
 the gentry, the wealthy and the learned of Great 
 Britain, to afi'ect much the Augustan style, as ap- 
 pears by a vast number of most curious edifices 
 
 ^ But by the royal example of his brother, King Charles II., 
 the city of London erected the famous Monument, where the 
 great fire began, all of solid stone, 202 foot high from the 
 ground, a pillar of the Dorick order, 15 foot diameter, with a 
 curious stair-case in the middle of black marble, and an iron 
 balcony on the top, (not unlike those of Trajan and Antokinus 
 at Kome) from whence the city and suburbs may be view'd, 
 and it is the highest column we know upon earth. Its pedestal 
 is 21 foot square and forty foot high, the front of which is 
 adorn' d with most ingenious emblems in basso relievo, wrouglit 
 by that famous sculptor Mr. Gabriel Gibber, with large Latin 
 inscriptions on the sides of it, founded Anno 1671, and finish'd 
 Anno 1677. 
 
 In his time also the Society of Merchant Adventurers rebuilt 
 the Royal Exchange of London, (the old one being destroy' d by 
 the fire) all of stone, after the Roman style, the finest structure 
 of that use in Europe, with the King's statue to the life, of white 
 marble, in the middle of the Square, (wrought by the famous 
 Master Carver and Statuary, Mr. Grinlin Gibboxs, who was justly 
 
FREEMASONRY. 49 
 
 erected since throughout the kingdom ; for, when in 
 the ninth year of the reign of our late Sovereign 
 Queen Anne, her Majesty and the Parliament con- 
 curred in an act for erecting 50 new parish churches 
 in London, Westminster, and suburbs ; and the 
 Queen had granted a commission to several of the 
 Ministers of State, the principal nobility, great 
 gentry, and eminent citizens, the two Archbishops, 
 with several other Bishops and dignified clergymen, 
 to put the act in execution ; they ordered the said 
 
 adinir'd all over Europe, for his rivalling, if not surpassing the 
 most fam'd Italian Masters,) on the pedestal of which is the fol- 
 lowing inscription, viz : 
 
 Carolo II. CiisARi Britannkx) To Cbc.vrle3 n. Emperor of Britain 
 
 Paitul/E Patri Father of his Couxtry 
 
 Rbgum Optuio Clemextissimo Best most merqfui, axd 
 
 AuGusnssiMO August of Kings 
 
 Generis Husiani Deucus Deugot of JIankind 
 
 Utriusque FoRTUJf^ VicroRi In Adversity and Prosperity unmov'd 
 
 Pacis Europe Arbitro UMPIR^: of Europe's PEAcas 
 
 Marium Domino ac Vindici Commander and Sovereign of tiie Seas 
 
 SocsETAS I^Leroatorum Advbntur. The Socibty of JIerchant Adventurers ov 
 
 AnGUJE K\GL.iND. 
 
 Qu^ per CCCC jam prope antsos Which for near CCCC Yeaib 
 
 Regia BENiGNrrATE floret Br Royal Favour Flourishetii 
 
 Fidei Lxtemerat^ EI Gratitudlms Of tjn^aken Loyalty and eternal 
 
 ^tern.-s Gratttude 
 
 Hoc TKSTIMO^^UM This Testimont 
 
 Venkrabunda Posun Has In Veneration erbcted 
 
 Anno Salutis Humane MDCLXXXIV. In the Year of Salvation MDCLXXXIT. 
 
 Nor should we forget the famous Theatre of Oxford, built by- 
 Archbishop Sheldon, at his sole cost, in that King's time, which, 
 among his other fine works, was design'd and conducted also by 
 vSir Christopher Wren, the King's architect; for it is justly ad- 
 mir'd by the curious: and the Musteum adjoining to it, a fine 
 building rais'd at the charge of that illustrious University, where 
 there have been since erected several more Roman buildings, as 
 
 3 
 
50 HISTORY OF 
 
 new churches to be raised according to the ancient 
 Koman style, as appears by those that are already 
 raised ; and the present honourable Commissioners 
 having the same good judgment of architecture, are 
 carrying on the same laudable grand design, and 
 are reviving the ancient style, by the order, counte- 
 nance, and encouragement of his present Majesty 
 King George, who was also graciously pleased to 
 lay the first stone in the foundation of his parish 
 church of St. Martin's in Campis, on the south-east 
 corner, (by his Majesty's proxy for the time, the 
 present Bishop of Salisbury) which is now rebuild- 
 ing, strong, large and beautiful, at the cost of the 
 parishioners.* 
 
 In short, it would require many large volumes to 
 contain the many splendid instances of the mighty 
 
 Trinity-College Chappel, Allhallows Church in High- street, Peck- 
 water-square in Christ-Church College, the new Printing-house, 
 and the whole of Queen' s-College rebuilt, &c., by the liberal do- 
 nations of some eminent benefactors, and by the publick spirit, 
 vigilancy, and fidelity of the heads of Colleges, who generally 
 have had a true taste of Roman architecture. 
 
 The learned University of Cambridge not having had the man- 
 agement of such liberal donations, have not so many fine struc- 
 tures; but they have two of the most curious and excellent in 
 Great-Britain of their kind, the one a Gothic building, King's- 
 College Chappel (unless you except King Henry VII. 's Chappel in 
 Westminster- Abbey); and the other a Roman building, Trinity- 
 College Library. 
 
 *» The Bishop of Salisbury went in an orderly procession, duly 
 attended, and having levell'd the first stone, gave it two or three 
 knocks with a mallet, upon which the trumpets sounded, and a 
 
FREEMASONRY. 51 
 
 influence of Masonry from the creation, in every 
 age and in every nation, as could be collected from 
 historians and travellers ; but especially in those 
 parts of the world where the Europeans correspond 
 and trade, such remains of ancient, large, curious, 
 and magnificent colonading, have been discovered 
 by the inquisitive, that they can't enough lament 
 the general devastations of the Goths and Mahome- 
 tans ; and must conclude that no art was ever so 
 much encouraged as this, as indeed none other is so 
 extensively useful to mankind.^ 
 
 Nay, if it were expedient, it could be made ap- 
 pear, that from this ancient fraternity, the Societies 
 
 vast multitude made loud acclamations of joy; when his Lordship 
 laid upon the stone a purse of 100 guineas, as a present from his 
 Majesty for the use of the craftsmen. The following inscription 
 was cut in the foundation stone, and a sheet of lead put upon 
 it, viz : 
 
 D. S, Sacred to God 
 
 SEREX19SIMU3 ReX GEORGIUS HiS MOST EXCELLENT ILAJESTY KIXG GEORGE 
 
 Per Depctatum suum By his Proxy 
 
 Reterkvdum admodum in Christo Patrem The Right Rea-erend Father in Christ 
 RiCHARDUM Episcopl'^m Saiusburjexsem Richard Lord Bishop of Sausbury 
 SuMMUM suuM Eleemosyxarium His Majesty's Ciukf Almoxkr 
 
 Adsistexte (Regis Jussu) Assisted (At His Majesty's Command) 
 
 Domino Tho. He wet Equ. Aur. By Sir Thomas He wet Knight 
 
 JSomaoRUM Regiobum Cdratore Of His Majesty's Royal Buildings 
 
 Princtpau PRiNaPAL Surveyor 
 
 Primcm hujus Ecclesle Lapidem The First Stone of this Church 
 
 Posurr Laid 
 
 Martij 19o Anno Dom. 1721. This 19th of March Anno Domini 1721 
 
 Annoqub Regni sui octavo. Ant) the Eighth Year of his Reign. 
 
 « It were endless to recount and describe the many curious 
 Roman buildings in Great-Britain alone, erected since the revival 
 of Roman Masonry; of which a few may be here mentioned, be- 
 sides those already spoken of, viz : 
 
52 
 
 HISTORY OF 
 
 or Orders of the warlike kniglits, and of tlie reli- 
 gious too, in process of time did borrow many 
 solemn usages ; for none of them were better insti- 
 tuted, more decently installed, or did more sacredly 
 observe their laws and Charges, than the Accepted 
 Masons have done, who, in all ages and in every 
 
 Belonging to the Ckown. 
 
 The Crow.v. 
 
 Possess 'd by the Duke of 
 
 QUEKNSBUKY. 
 
 Duke of Ancaster. 
 
 Duke of Bedford. 
 Earl of Pembkoke. 
 Earl of Strafford. 
 
 Arundel Esq; 
 Hon. Wm. Staxuope, Esq; 
 Earl Stanhope. 
 Lord Carleton. 
 
 The Queen's House at Greenwich, 
 
 Tlie great Gallery in Somerset-Gardens, . 
 
 Gunnersbury-House near Brentford, Middlceex, 
 
 Lindsay-House, in Llncoln's-Inn-Fields, . 
 York-Stairs at the Thames in York-Buildings . 
 St. Paul's-Church in Covent-Garden, with 
 
 its glorious Portico. 
 The Building and Piazza of Covent-Garden, 
 Wilton-Castle in Wiltshire, .... 
 Castle-Ashby in Northamptonshire, . 
 
 Stoke-Park in ditto, 
 
 Wing-House in Bedfordshire, .... 
 Cbevening-House in Kent, .... 
 
 Ambrose Bury in Wiltshire, .... 
 
 All designed by the incomparable Inwo Jones, and most of them 
 conducted by him, or by his son-in-law Mr. Web, according to 
 Mr. Jones's designs. 
 
 Besides many more conducted by other architects, influcnc'd 
 by the same happy genius; such as, 
 Bow-Church Steeple in Chcapside, . 
 Hotham-Honse in Beverley, Yorkshire, . 
 Melvin-House in Fife, .... 
 LongleateHouse in Wiltshire, . 
 Cliesterlee-strect-House in Durham County, 
 Montague- House in Bloomsbury, London, 
 Drumlanrig-Castle in Nithisdaleshire, 
 Castle-Howard in Yorkshire, . 
 Stainborough-House in ditto, 
 Hopton- Castle in Linlithgowshire, 
 Blenheim-Castle at Woodstock, Oxfordshire, 
 Chatsworth-Castle in Derbyshire, 
 I'alace of Hammiiton in Clydsdaleshire, . 
 Wanstead-House in Epping-Fcrest, Essex, 
 
 Duncomb-Park in Yorkshire, 
 Mereworth-Castlo in Kent, 
 
 Built by Sir Chri. Wren. 
 Sir Charles Hotuam Bart. 
 Earl of Levin. 
 Viscount Weymouth. 
 John Hed worth E-^q; 
 Duke of Montagu. 
 Duke of Queensbury. 
 Earl of Cakuslk. 
 Earl of Strafford. 
 Earl of Hopton. 
 Duke of Marlborough. 
 Duke of DEVo.xsnmE. 
 Duke of Hammilton. 
 Lord Castlemain. 
 Thomas Dcncomb Esq; 
 Hon. John Fane Rsq; 
 
FREEMASONRY. 53 
 
 nation, have maintained and propagated their con- 
 cernments in a way peculiar to themselves, which 
 the most cunning and the most learned cannot pene- 
 trate into, though it has been often attempted, while 
 they know and love one another, even without the 
 help of speech, or when of different languages. 
 
 sterling-House near Sterling-Castle, 
 Kinross-House in Kinrossshire, 
 Stourton-Castle in Wiltshire, 
 Willbury-House in ditto, . 
 Bute-Castle in Isle of Bute, 
 Walpole-House near Lin Regis, Norfolk, 
 
 Duke of Argtle. 
 
 Sir WiLUAM Bruce Bart. 
 
 Hexry Hoar Esq; 
 
 "WiLLiAii Benson Esq; 
 
 Earl of Bute. 
 
 Hon. Rob. Walpole Esq; 
 
 ^ wiSfSrns^e?,'' '"^ ^'''^^^"^' ^*- •^^^"'''' { Earl of BuKm-Giox. 
 
 Dormitory of King's-Scliool, Westminster, . . The Crown. 
 Totteuham-Park in Wiltshire, . ... Lord Bruce. 
 
 These three last are design' d and conducted by the Earl of 
 Burlington, who bids fair to be the best architect of Britain, (if 
 he is not so already) and we hear his Lordship intends to pub- 
 lish the valuable remains of Mr. Iniqo Jones, for the improvement 
 of other architects. 
 
 Besides more of the same Roman style, and yet many more in 
 imitation of it, which though they cannot be reduc'd to any cer- 
 tain style, are stately, beautiful, and convenient structures, 
 notwithstanding the mistakes of their several architects : and 
 besides the sumptuous and venerable Gothic buildings, past 
 reckoning, as cathedrals, parish-churches, chappels, bridges, old 
 palaces of the Kings, of the Nobility, of the Bishops, and the 
 gentry, known well to travellers, and to such as peruse the 
 histories of counties, and the ancient monuments of great fami- 
 lies, &c., as many erections of the Roman style may be review'd 
 in Mr. Campbell the architect's ingenious book, call'd Vitruvius 
 Britannicus : and if the disposition for true ancient Masonry 
 prevails, for some time, with noblemen, gentlemen, and learned 
 men, (as it is likely it will) this Island vnll become the Mistress 
 of the Earth, for designing, drawing, and conducting, and capa- 
 ble to instruct all other Nations in all things relating to the 
 Royal Art. 
 
54 HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY. 
 
 And now the free-born British nations, disen- 
 tangled from foreign and civil wars, and enjoying 
 the good fruits of peace and liberty, having of late 
 much indulged their happy genius for Masonry of 
 every sort, and revived the drooping Lodges of 
 London, this fair metropolis flourisheth, as well as 
 other parts, with several worthy particular Lodges, 
 that have a quarterly communication and an annual 
 Grand Assembly, wherein the forms and usages of 
 the most ancient and worshipful fraternity are 
 wisely propagated, and the Royal Art duly culti- 
 vated, and the cement of the brotherhood preserved ; 
 so that the whole body resembles a well built arch, 
 several noblemen and gentlemen of the best rank, 
 with clergymen and learned scholars of most pro- 
 fessions and denominations, having frankly joined 
 and submitted to take the Charges, and to wear the 
 badges of a Free and Accepted Mason, under our 
 present worthy Grand Master, the Most Noble 
 Prince John, Duke of Montague. 
 
THE 
 
 Cl)argc0 of a jTue-iHason, 
 
 EXTRACTED FEOM 
 
 THE ANCIENT RECORDS OF LODGES BEYOND SEA, 
 
 AND OF THOSE IN 
 
 ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND, 
 
 FOR THE tSE OF THE LODGES IN LONDON. 
 
 To be read at the making of New Brethren, or when the Master 
 shall order it. 
 
 The (HSftntVal fJ^taXiUy viz: — I. 
 
 F God and Eeligioa. 
 
 IL Of the Civil Magistrate, Supreme 
 and Subordinate. 
 
 in. Of Lodges. 
 
 IV. Of Masters, Wardens, Fellows, and 
 Apprentices. 
 
 V. Of the Management of the Craft in 
 
 working. 
 
 VI. Of Behaviour, viz. 
 
 1. In the Lodge while Constituted. 
 
 2. After the Lodge is over and the Brethren not gone. 
 
 3. When Brethren meet without Strangers, bat not in a Lodge. 
 
 4. In Presence of Strangers not Masons. 
 
 5. At Home and in the Neighbourhood. 
 
 6. Towards a strange Brother. 
 
r;6 ANCIENT CHARGES. 
 
 I.— ©onccrnins &ott anlr aaeUgion. 
 
 A Mason is oblig'd, by his Tenure, to obey the Moral Law ; 
 and if he rightly understands the Art, he will never be a 
 stupid Atheist, nor an irreligious Libertine. But though in 
 ancient Times Masons were charg'd in every Country to be 
 of the Religion of that Country or Nation, whatever it was, 
 'tis now thought more expedient only to oblige them to that 
 Religion in which all Men agree, leaving their particular 
 Opinions to themselves ; that is, to be good men and true, or 
 Men of Honour and Honesty, by whatever Denominations or 
 Persuasions they may be distinguished ; whereby Masonry 
 becomes the Center of Union, and the Means of conciliating 
 true Friendship among persons that must have remain'd at 
 a perpetual Distance. 
 
 n.— ©f ttje eribtl i^afiistrate, Supreme nnti Sufi orb luate, 
 
 A Mason is a peaceable Subject to the Civil Powers 
 wherever he resides or works, and is never to be concern'd 
 in Plots and Conspiracies against the Peace and Welfare of 
 the Nation, nor to behave himself undutifully to inferior 
 Magistrates ; for as Masonry hath been always injured by 
 War, Bloodshed, and Confusion, so ancient Kings and Princes 
 have been much dispos'd to encourage the Craftsmen, because 
 of their Peaceableness and Loyalty, whereby they practically 
 answer'd the Cavils of their Adversaries, and promoted the 
 Honor of the Fraternity, who ever flourish'd in Times of 
 Peace. So that if a Brother should be a Rebel against the 
 State, he is not to bo countenanc'd in his Rebellion, however 
 he may be pitied as an unhappy iMan ; and, if convicted of 
 no other Crime, though the loyal 1 Motherhood must and ought 
 to disown his Rebellion, and givo no Umbrage or Ground of 
 political Jealousy to the Government for the time being 
 they cannot expel him from the Lodge, and his Relation to i< 
 remains indefeasible. 
 
ANCIENT CHARGES. 57 
 
 m.— <©t Hotrfies. 
 
 A Lodge is a Place where Masons assemble and work: 
 Hence that Assembly, or duly organiz'd Society of Masons, is 
 call'd a Lodge, and every Brother ought to belong to one, and 
 to be subject to its By-laws and the G-eneral Regulations. It 
 is either Particular or General, and will be best understood 
 by attending it, and by the Regulations of the General or 
 Grand Lodge hereunto annex'd. In ancient Times, no Mas- 
 ter or Fellow could be absent from it, especially when warn'd 
 to appear at it, without incurring a severe Censure, until it 
 appear'd to the Master and Wardens, that pure Necessity 
 hinder'd him. 
 
 The Persons admitted Members of a Lodge must be good 
 and true Men, free-born, and of mature and discreet Age, no 
 Bondmen, no Women, no immoral or scandalous Men, but of 
 good Report. 
 
 IV.— ®t i^asters, W&nvtstns, JFellotos an& ^ppvtntittB* 
 
 All Preferment among Masons is grounded upon real Worth 
 and personal Merit only; that so the Lords may be well 
 served, the Brethren not put to Shame, nor the Royal Craft 
 despis'd : Therefore no Master or Warden is chosen by 
 Seniority, but for his Merit. It is impossible to describe 
 these things in writing, and every Brother must attend in his 
 Place, and learn them in a way peculiar to This Fraternity : 
 Only Candidates may know, that no Master should take an 
 Apprentice, unless he has sufficient Imployment for him, and 
 unless he be a perfect Youth, having no Maim or Defect in 
 his Body, that may render him uncapable of learning the Art 
 of serving his Master's Lord, and of being made a Brother, 
 and then a Fellow-Craft in due time, even after he has served 
 such a Term of Years as the Custom of the Country directs ; 
 and that he should be descended of honest Parents ; that so, 
 when otherwise qualify'd, he may arrive to the Honour of 
 being the Warden, and then the Master of the Lodge, the 
 3* 
 
5g ANCIENT CHARGES. 
 
 Grand Warden, and at length the Grand Master of all the 
 Lodges, according to his Merit. 
 
 No Brother can be a Warden until he has pass'd the part 
 of a Fellow-Craft ; nor a Master until he has acted as a War- 
 den, nor Grand-Warden until he has been Master of a Lodge, 
 nor Grand Master unless he has been a Fellow-Craft before 
 his Election, who is also to be nobly born, or a Gentleman of 
 the best Fashion, or some eminent Scholar, or some curious 
 Architect, or other Artist, descended of honest Parents, and 
 who is of singular great Merit in the Opinion of the Lodges. 
 And for the better, and easier, and more honourable Dis- 
 charge of his Office, the Grand Master has a Power to chuse 
 his own Deputy Grand Master, who must be then, or must 
 have been formerly, the Master of a particular Lodge, and 
 has the Privilege of acting whatever the Grand-Master, his 
 Principal, should act, unless the said Principal be present, or 
 interpose his Authority by a Letter. 
 
 * These Rulers and Governors, Supreme and Subordinate, of 
 the ancient Lodge, are to be obey'd in their respective Sta- 
 tions by all the Brethren, according to the old Charges 
 and Regulations, with all Humility, Reverence, Love, and 
 Alacrity. 
 
 v.— ®f t|)e i^anagement of titt Qtvait in toorfeiitff. 
 
 All Masons shall work honestly on working Days, that they 
 may live creditably on Holy Days ; and the time appointed 
 by the Law of the Land, or confirm'd by Custom, shall be 
 observ'-d. 
 
 The most expert of the Fellow-Craftsmen shall be chosen 
 or appointed the Master, or Overseer of the Lord's Work ; 
 who is to be call'd Master by those that work under him. 
 The Craftsmen are to avoid all ill Language, and to call each 
 other by no disobliging Name, but Brother or Fellow ; and 
 to behave themselves courteously within and without the 
 Lodge. 
 
 The Master knowing himself to be able of Cunning, shall 
 
ANCIENT CHARGES. 59 
 
 undertake the Lord's Work as reasonably as possible, and 
 truly dispend his Goods as if they were his own ; nor to give 
 more Wages to any Brother or Apprentice than he really may 
 deserve. 
 
 Both the Master and the Masons receiving their Wages 
 justly, shall be faithful to the Lord, and honestly finish their 
 Work, whether Task or Journey ; nor put the Work to Task 
 that hath been accustom'd to Journey. 
 
 None shall discover Envy at the Prosperity of a Brother, 
 nor supplant him, or put him out of his Work, if he be capable 
 to finish the same ; for no man can finish another's Work so 
 much to the Lord's profit, unless he be thorouglily acquainted 
 with the Designs and Draughts of hifci that began it. 
 
 When a Fellow-Craftsman is chosen Warden of the Work 
 under the Master, he shall be true both to Master and Fel- 
 lows, shall carefully oversee the Work in the Master's Ab- 
 sence to the Lord's Profit ; and his Brethren shall obey him. 
 
 All Masons employ'd shall meekly receive their Wages 
 without Murmuring or mutiny, and not desert the Master till 
 the Work is finish'd. 
 
 A Younger Brother shall be instructed in working, to pre- 
 vent spoiling the Materials for want of Judgment, and for en- 
 creasing and continuing of Brotherly Love. 
 
 All the Tools used in worldng shall be approved by the 
 Grand Lodge. 
 
 No Labourer shall be employ'd in the proper Work of 
 Masonry ; nor shall Fbee Masons work with those that are 
 not free, without an urgent Necessity ; nor shall they teach 
 Labourers and unaccepted Masons, as they should teach a 
 Brother or Fellow. 
 
 VI.— ®f 5Set)abiour, viz. 
 
 1. — In the Lodge while constituted. 
 You are not to hold private Committees, or separate Con- 
 versation, without Leave from the Master, nor to talk of any 
 thing impertinent or unseemly, nor interrupt the Master or 
 
60 ANCIENT CHARGES. 
 
 Wardens, or any Brother speaking to the Master : Nor behave 
 yourself ludicrously or jestingly while the Lodge is engaged 
 in what is serious and solemn ; nor use any unbecoming Lan- 
 guage upon any Pretence whatsoever ; but to pay due Rev- 
 erence to your Master, Wardens, and Fellows, and put them 
 to worship. 
 
 If any Complaint be brought, the Brother found guilty 
 shall stand to the Award and Determination of the Lodge, 
 who are the proper and competent Judges of all such Con- 
 troversies, (unless you carry it by Appeal to the Grand Lodge) 
 and to whom they ought to be referr'd, unless a Lord's Work 
 be hinder'd the mean while, in which Case a particular Refer- 
 ence may be made ; but you must never go to Law about 
 what concerneth Masonry, without an absolute Necessity 
 apparent to the Lodge. 
 
 2. — Behaviour after the Lodge is over and the JBrethren not gone. 
 You may enjoy yourselves with innocent Mirth, treating 
 one another according to Ability, but avoiding all Excess, or 
 forcing any Brother to eat or drink beyond his Inclination, 
 or hindering him from going when his Occasions call him, or 
 doing or saying any thing offensive, or that may forbid an 
 easy and free Conversation ; for that would blast our Harmony, 
 and defeat our laudable Purposes. Therefore no private 
 Piques or Quarrels must be brought within the Door of the 
 Lodge, far less any Quarrels about Religion, or Nations, or 
 State Policy, we being only, as Masons, of the Catholick Reli- 
 gion above-mention'd ; we are also of all Nations, Tongues, 
 Kindreds, and Languages, and are resolv'd against all Poli- 
 ticks, as what never yet conduc'd to the Welfare of the Lodge, 
 nor ever will. This Charge has been always strictly enjoin'd 
 and observ'd ; but especially ever since the Reformation in 
 Britain, or the Dissent and Secession of the^e Nations from 
 the Communion of Rome. 
 
ANCIENT CHARGES. fj] 
 
 3. — Behaviour when Brethren meet wiihcmt Strangers, but not in a 
 Lodge form'd. 
 
 You are to salute one another in a courteous manner, as 
 you will be instructed, calling each other Brother, freely giv- 
 ing mutual Insti'uction as shall be thought expedient, without 
 being overseen or overheard, and without encroaching upon 
 each other, or derogating from that Respect which is due to 
 any Brother, were he not a Mason : For though all Masons 
 are as Brethren upon the same Level, yet Masonry takes no 
 Honour from a Man that he had before ; nay, rather it adds 
 to his Honour, especially if he has deserv'd well of the 
 Brotherhood, who must give Honour to whom it is due, and 
 avoid ill Manners. 
 
 4. — Behaviour in Presence of Strangers not Maso7is. 
 You shall be cautious in your Words and Carriage, that the 
 most penetrating Stranger shall not be able to discover or 
 find out what is not proper to be intimated ; and sometimes 
 ./ou shall divert a discourse, and manage it prudently for the 
 Honour of the Worshipful Fraternity. 
 
 5. — Behaviour at Home, and in your Neighbourhood. 
 You are to act as becomes a moral and wise Man ; particu- 
 larly, not to let your Family, Friends, and Neighbours know 
 the Concerns of the Lodge, &c., but wisely to consult your 
 own Honour, and that of the Ancient Brotherhood, for Rea- 
 sons not to be mention'd here. You must also consult your 
 Health, by not continuing together too late, or too long from 
 home, after Lodge Hours are past; and by avoiding of 
 Ghittony or Drunkenness, that your Families be not neglected 
 or injured, nor you disabled from working. 
 
 6. — Behaviour towards a Strange Brother. 
 You are cautiously to examine him, in such a Method as 
 Prudence shall direct you, that you may not be impos'd upon 
 
C2 A.NCIENT CHARGES. 
 
 by an ignorant false Pretender, whom you are to reject with 
 Contempt and Derision, and beware of giving him any Hints 
 of Knowledge. 
 
 But if you discover him to be a true and genuine Brother, 
 you are to respect him accordingly ; and if he is in want, you 
 must relieve him if you can, or else direct him how he may 
 be reliev'd : You must employ him some Days, or else 
 recommend him to be employ'd. But you are not charged to 
 do beyond your Ability, only to prefer a poor Brother, that is 
 a Good Man and True, before any other poor People in the 
 same Circumstances. 
 
 Filially, All these Charges you are to observe, and also 
 those that shall be oommunicattd to you in Another way ; 
 cultivating Brotherly-Love, the Foundation and Cape-stono, 
 the Cement and Glory of this ancient Fraternity, avoiding all 
 Wrangling and Quarrelling, aU Slander and Backbiting, nor 
 permitting others to slander any honest Brother, but defend- 
 ing his Character, and doing him all good Ofiices, as far as is 
 consistent with your Honour and Safety, and no farther. And' 
 if any of them do you Injury, you must apply to your own or 
 his Lodge ; and from thence you may appeal to the Grand 
 Lodge at the Quarterly Communication, and from thence to 
 the Annual Grand Lodge, as has been the ancient laudable 
 Conduct of our Fore-fathers in every Nation ; never taking a 
 Legal Course, but when the Case cannot be otherwise decided, 
 and patiently listening to the honest and friendly Advice 
 of Master and Fellows, when they would prevent you going 
 to Law with Strangers, or would excite you to put a speedy 
 period to all Law-suits, that so you may mind the Affair of 
 Masonry with the more Alacrity and Success ; but with re- 
 spect to Brothers or Fellows at Law, the Master and Brethren 
 should kindly offer their Mediation, which ought to bo thank- 
 fully submitted to by the contending Brethren ; and if that 
 submission is impracticable, they must liovvever carry on 
 their Process, or Law-Suit, without Wrath and Rancor, (not 
 
ANCIENT CHARGES. 
 
 6.; 
 
 in the coramon way,) saying or doing notliing wliicti may 
 hinder Brotlierly Love, and good Offices to bo renew'd and 
 continu'd ; that all may see the Benign Influence of Masonry, 
 as all true Masons have done from the Beginning of the 
 World, and will do to the End of Time. 
 
 ^meiT, 350 mote it tt* 
 
 POSTSCRIPT. 
 
 A Worthy Brother, learned in the Law, has communicated 
 to the Author (while this Sheet was printing) the Opinion of 
 the Great Judge Coke upon the Act against Masons, 3 lien. 
 VI. Cap. I., which is printed in this Book, Page 35, and which 
 Quotation the Author has compar'd with the Original, viz. 
 
 Coke's Institutes, third Paet, Fol. 99. 
 
 The Cause wherefore this Offense was made Felony, is for 
 that the good Course and Effect of the Statutes of Labourers were 
 tJiereby violated and broken. Now (sais my Lord Coke) all the 
 Statutes concerning Labourers, before this Act, and where- 
 unto this Act doth refer, are repeal'd by the Statute of 5 Eliz. 
 Cap. 4. whereby the Cause and End of making this Act is taken 
 away ; and consequently this Act is become of no Force or 
 Effect; for, cessante ratione Legis, cessat ipsa Lex: And the In- 
 dictment of Felony upon this Statute must contain, that those 
 Chapters and Congregations were to the violating and breaking 
 of the good Course and Effect of the Statutes of Labourers , which 
 now cannot be so aUeg'd, because these Statutes be repealed. 
 Therefore this would be put out of the Charge of Justices of 
 Peace, written by Master Lambert, pag. 227. 
 
 This Quotation confirms the Tradition of old Masons, that 
 this most learned Judge really belong'd to the ancient Lodge, 
 and was a faithful Brother. 
 
Compiled first by Mr. George Payne, 
 
 Anno 1720, when he was ffiranlr^iHaster, and 
 approved by the Grand-Lodge on St. John BaptisVs 
 Day, Anno 1*121, at Stationer' s-Hall, London; 
 when the most noble Prince John Duke of 
 Montagu was unanimously chosen our 
 ®?ranlr ^piaster for the Year ensuing; who chose 
 John Beal, M. D., his Deputy Grand-^Iaster ; 
 , ( Mr. Josiah Villeneau \ were chosen by the 
 ^ I ^ir. Thomas Morris, jun. ) Lodge Grand-Wardens. 
 And now, by the Command of our said Bight Wor- 
 shipful Grand-Master Montagu, the Author of this 
 Book has compared them with, and reduc'd them to 
 the ancient Records and immemorial Usages of the 
 Fraternity, and digested them into this new Method, 
 with several proper Explications, for the Use of the 
 Lodges in and about London and Westminster. 
 
 L 
 
 HE GRAND MASTER, or his Beputy, hath 
 Authority and Right, not only to be present 
 in any true Lodge, but also to preside 
 wherever he is, with the Master of the 
 Lodge on his Left-hand, and to order his 
 Grand Wardens to attend him, who are not to act in 
 particular Lodges as Wardens, but in his Presence, 
 and at his Command ; because there the Grand Master 
 may command the Wardens of that Lodge, or any 
 other Brethren he pleaseth, to attend and act as his 
 Wardens pro tempore. 
 
GENERAL REGULATIONS. 65 
 
 IT. The Master of a particular Lodge has the Right and 
 Authority of congregating the Members of his Lodge into a 
 Chapter at pleasure, upon any Emergency or Occurrence, as 
 well as to appoint the time and place of their usual forming ; 
 And in case of Sickness, Death, or necessary Absence of the 
 Master, the Senior "Warden shall act as Master j/ro tempore, if 
 no Brother is present who has been Master of that Lodge 
 before ; for in that Case the Absent Master's Authority re- 
 verts to the last Master then present ; though he cannot act 
 until the said Senior Warden has once congregated the Lodge, 
 or in his Absence the Junior Warden. 
 
 III. The Master of each particular Lodge, or one of the 
 Wardens, or some other Brother by his Order, shall keep a 
 Book containing their By-Laws, the Names of their Members, 
 with a List of all the Lodges in Town, and the usual Times 
 and Places of their forming, and all their Transactions that 
 are proper to be written. 
 
 lY. No Lodge shall make more than Five New Brethren at 
 one Time, nor any Man under the Age of Twenty-five, who 
 must be also his own Master ; unless by a Dispensation from 
 the Grand-Master or his Deputy. 
 
 V. No Man can be made or admitted a Member of a par- 
 ticular Lodge, without previous notice one Month before 
 given to the said Lodge, in order to make due Enquiry into 
 the Reputation and Capacity of the Candidate ; unless by the 
 Dispensation aforesaid. 
 
 VI. But no Man can be entered a Brother in any particular 
 Lodge, or admitted to be a Member thereof, without the 
 unanimous Consent of all the Members of that Lodge then 
 present when the Candidate is propos'd, and their Consent is 
 formally ask'd by the Master ; and they are to signify their 
 Consent or Dissent in their own prudent way, either virtually 
 or in form, but with Unanimity: Nor is this inherent Privi 
 lege subject to a Dispensation ; because the Members of a 
 
66 GENERAL REGULATIONS. 
 
 particular Lodge are the best judges of it ; and if a fractious 
 Member should be imposed on them, it might spoil their Har- 
 mony, or hinder their Freedom ; or even break or disperse 
 the Lodge ; which ought to be avoided by all good and true 
 Brethren. 
 
 VII. Every new Brotlier at his making is decently to cloath 
 the Lodge, that is, all the Brethren present, and to deposite 
 something for the Relief of indigent and decay'd Brethren, as 
 the Candidate shall think fit to bestow, over and above the 
 small Allowance stated by the By-Laws of that particular 
 Lodge; which Charity shall be lodged with the Master or 
 Wardens, or the Cashier, if the Members think fit to chuse one. 
 
 And the Candidate shall also solemnly promise to submit to 
 the Constitutions, the Charges, and Regulations, and to such 
 other good Usages as shall be intimated to them in Time and 
 Place convenient. 
 
 Vni. No Set or Number of Brethren shall withdraw or 
 separate themselves from the Lodge in which they were made 
 Brethren, or were afterwards admitted Members, unless the 
 Lodge becomes too numerous ; nor even then, without a Dis- 
 pensation from the Grand-Master or his Deputy : And when 
 they are thus separated, they must either immediately join 
 themselves to such other Lodge as they shall like best, with the 
 unanimous Consent of that other Lodge to which they go, (as 
 above regulated,) or else they must obtain the Grand Master's 
 Warrant to join in forming a new Lodge. 
 
 If any Set or Number of Masons shall take upon themselves 
 to form a Lodge without the Grand-Master's Warrant, the 
 regular Lodges are not to countenance them, nor own them 
 as fair Brethren and duly form'd, nor approve of their Acts 
 and Deeds ; but must treat them as Rebels, until they humble 
 themselves, as the Grand-Master shall in his Prudence direct, 
 and until he approve of them by his Warrant, which must be 
 signify'd to the other Lodges, as the Custom is when a new 
 Lodge is to be registcr'd in the List of Lodges. 
 
GENERAL REGULATIONS. 67 
 
 IX. But if any Brollier so far misbcliave himself as to ren- 
 der his Lodge uneasy, he shall be twice duly admonish'd by 
 the Master or Wardens in a form'd Lodge ; and if he will not 
 refrain his Imprudence, and obediently submit to the Advice 
 of the Brethren, and reform what gives them Offence, he shall 
 be dealt with according to the By-Laws of that particular 
 Lodge, or else in such a manner as the Quarterly Communica- 
 tion shall in their great Prudence think fit; for which a New 
 Regulation may be afterwards made. 
 
 X. The Majority of every particular Lodge, when congre- 
 gated, shall have the privilege of giving Instructions to their 
 Master and Wardens, before the assembling of the Grand 
 Chapter, or Lodge, at the three Quarterly Communications 
 hereafter mention'd, and of the Annual Grand Lodge too ; be- 
 cause their Masters and Wardens are their Representatives, 
 and are suppos'd to speak their Mind. 
 
 XL All particular Lodges are to observe the same Usages 
 as much as possible ; in order to which, and for cultivating a 
 good Understanding among Free-Masons, some Members out 
 of every Lodge shall be deputed to visit the other Lodges as 
 often as shall be thought convenient. 
 
 XXL The Grand Lodge consists of, and is form'd by the 
 Masters and Wardens of all the regular particular Lodges 
 upon Record, with the Grand Master at their Head, and liis 
 Deputy on his Left hand, and the Grand- Wardens in their 
 proper Places, and must have a Quarterly Communication 
 about Michaelmas, Christmas, and Lady-Day, in some conve- 
 nient Place, as the Grand-Master shall appoint, where no 
 Brother shall be present who is not at that time a Member 
 thereof, without a Dispensation ; and while he stays, he shall 
 not be allow'd to vote, nor even give his Opinion, without 
 Leave of the Grand Lodge ask'd and given, or unless it be 
 duly ask'd by the said Lodge. 
 
 All Matters are to be determin'd in the Grand-Lodge by a 
 
68 GENERAL REGULATIONS. 
 
 Majority of Votes, each Member having one Vote, and the 
 Grand-Master having two Votes, unless the said Lodge leave 
 any iDarticular thing to the Determination of the Grand- 
 Master for the sake of Expedition. 
 
 XIII. At the said Quarterly Communication, all Matters 
 that concern the Fraternity in general, or particular Lodges, 
 or single Brethren, are quietly, sedately, and maturely to be 
 discours'd of and transacted: Apprentices must be admitted 
 Masters and Fellow-Craft only here, unless by a Dispensation. 
 Here also all Differences that cannot be made up and accom- 
 modated privately, nor by a particular Lodge, are to be seri- 
 ously considered and decided : And if any Brother thhiks 
 himself aggriev'd by the Decision of this Board, he may ap- 
 peal to the Annual Grand-Lodge next ensuing, and leave his 
 Appeal in Writing, with the Grand-Master, or his Deputy, 
 or the Grand-Wardens. 
 
 Here also the Master or the Wardens of each particular 
 Lodge shall bring and produce a List of such Members as 
 have been made, or even admitted in their particular Lodges 
 since the last Communication of the Grand-Lodge: And 
 there shall be a Book kept by the Grand-Master, or his 
 Deputy, or rather by some Brother whom the Grand-Lodge 
 shall appoint for Secretary, wherein shall be recorded all the 
 Lodges, with their usual Times and Places of forming, and 
 the Names of all the JVIembers of each Lodge ; and all the 
 Affairs of the Grand-Lodge that are projjer to be -written. 
 
 They shall also consider of the most prudent and effectual 
 methods of collecting and disposing of what Money shall bo 
 given to, or lodged with them in Charity, towards the Relief 
 only of any true Brother fallen into Poverty or Decay, but of 
 none else : But every particular Lodge shall dispose of their 
 own Charity for poor Brethren, according to their own By 
 Laws, until it be agreed by all the Lodges (in a new Regula 
 tion) to carry in tlie Charity collected by them to the Grand 
 Lodge, at the Quarterly or Annual Communication, in order to 
 
GENERAL REGULATIONS. 69 
 
 make a common Stock of it, for the more handsome Relief of 
 poor Brethren. 
 
 They shall also appoint a Treasurer, a Brother of good 
 worldly substance, who shall be a Member of the Grand- 
 Lodge by virtue of his Office, and shall be alwaj^s present, 
 and have power to move to the Grand-Lodge any thing, 
 especially what concerns his Office. To him shall be commit- 
 ted all Money rais'd for Charity, or for any other Use of the 
 Grand-Lodge, which he shall write down in a Book, with the 
 respective Ends and Uses for which the several Sums are 
 intended ; and shall expend and disburse the same by such a 
 certain Order, sign'd, as the Grand-Lodge shall afterwards 
 agree to in a new Regulation: But he shall not vote in 
 chusing a Grand-Master or Wardens, though in every other 
 Transaction. As in like manner the Secretary shall be a 
 Member of the Grand-Lodge by virtue of his Office, and vote 
 in every thing except in chushig a Grand-Master or Wardens. 
 
 The Treasurer and Secretary shall have each a Clerk, who 
 must be a Brother and Fellow-Craft, but never must be a 
 Member of the Grand Lodge, nor speak without being allow'd 
 or desir'd. 
 
 The Grand-Master, or his Deputy, shall always command 
 the Treasurer and Secretary, with their -Clerks and Books, in 
 order to see how Matters go on, and to know what is expe- 
 dient to be done upon any emergent Occasion. 
 
 Another Brother (who must be a Fellow-Craft) should be 
 appointed to look after the Door of the Grand-Lodge; but 
 shall be no Member of it. 
 
 But these Offices may be farther explain'd by a new Reg- 
 ulation, when the Necessity and Expediency of them may 
 more appear than at present to the Fraternity. 
 
 XIV. If at any Grand-Lodge, stated or occasional, quar- 
 terly or annual, the Grand-Master and his Deputy should be 
 both absent, then the present Master of a Lodge, that has 
 
70 GENERAL REGULATIONS. 
 
 been the longest a Free-Mason, shall take the Chair, and pre- 
 side as Grand-Master pro tempore, and shall be vested with 
 all his Power and Honour for the time ; provided there is no 
 Brother present that has been Grand-Master formerly, or 
 Deputy Grand-Master; for the last Grand-Master present, 
 or else the last Deputy present, should always of right take 
 place in the absence of the present Grand-Master and his 
 Deputy. 
 
 XV. In the Grand-Lodge none can act as Wardens but the 
 Grand- Wardens themselves, if present; and if absent, the 
 Grand-Master, or the Person who presides in his Place, shall 
 order private Wardens to act as Grand-Wardens pro tempore, 
 whose Places are to be supply'd by two Fellow-Craft of the 
 same Lodge, call'd forth to act, or sent thither by the par- 
 ticular Master thereof; or if by him omitted, then they shall 
 be call'd by the Grand-Master, that so the Grand-Lodge may 
 be always compleat. 
 
 XVI. The Grand Wardens, or any others, are first to advise 
 with the Deputy about the Affairs of the Lodge or of the Breth- 
 ren, and not to apply to the Grand-Master without the Knowl- 
 edge of the Deputy, unless he refuse his concurrence in any 
 certain necessary Affair ; in which Case, or in case of any Dif- 
 ference between the Deputy and the Grand Wardens, or 
 other Brethren, both parties are to go by Concert to the 
 Grand-Master, who can easily decide the Controversy and 
 make up the difference by virtue of his great Authority. 
 
 The Grand-Master should receive no Intimation of Business 
 concerning Masonry, but from his Deputy first, except in such 
 certain Cases as his Worship can well judge of; for if the 
 Application to the Grand-Master be irregular, he can easily 
 order the Grand-Wardens, or any other Brethren thus apply- 
 ing, to wait upon his Deputy, who is to prepare the Business 
 speedily, and to lay it orderly before his Worship. 
 
 XVn. No Grand-Master, Deputy Grand-j\faster, Grand 
 Wardens, Treasurer, Secretary, or whoever acts for them, or 
 
GENERAL REGULATIONS. 71 
 
 in their stead pro tempore, can at the same time be the Mas- 
 ter or Warden of a particular Lodge ; but as soon as any of 
 them has honourably discharg'd his Grand OflBce, he returns 
 to that Post or Station in his particular Lodge, fi'om which 
 he was call'd to officiate above. 
 
 XVIIL If the Deputy Grand-Master be sick, or necessarily 
 absent, the Grand-Master may chuso any Fellow-Craft he 
 please to be his Deputy pro tempore : But he that is chusen 
 Deputy at the Grand-Lodge, and the Grand-Wardens too, 
 cannot be discharg'd without the Cause fairly appear to the 
 Majority of the Grand-Lodge ; and the Grand-Master, if he 
 is uneasy, may call a Grand-Lodge on purpose to lay tho 
 Cause before them, and to have their Advice and Concurrence : 
 In which case, the Majority of the Grand-Lodge, if they can- 
 not reconcile the Master and his Deputy or his Wardens, are 
 to concur in allowing the Master to discharge his said 
 Deputy or his said Wardens, and to chuse another Deputy 
 immediately ; and the said Grand-Lodge shall chuse other War- 
 dens in that Case, that Harmony and Peace may be preserved. 
 
 XIX. If the Grand-Master should abuse his Power, and 
 render himself unworthy of the Obedience and Subjection of 
 the Lodges, he shall be treated in a way and manner to be 
 agreed upon in a new Regulation ; because hitherto the an- 
 cient Fraternity have had no occasion for it, their former 
 Grand-Masters having all behaved themselves worthy of that 
 honourable Office. 
 
 XX. The Grand-Master, with his Deputy and Wardens, 
 shall (at least once) go round and visit aU the Lodges about 
 ToAvn during his Mastership. 
 
 XXI. If the Grand-Master die during his Mastership, o** 
 by Sickness, or by being beyond Sea, or any other way should 
 be render'd uncapable of discharging his Office, the Deputy, 
 or, in his Absence, the Senior Grand-Warden, or, in his Ab- 
 sence, the Junior, or, in his Absence, any three present Mas- 
 
72 GENERAL REGULATIONS. 
 
 ters of Lodges, shall join to congregate the Grand-Lodge 
 immediately, to advise together upon that Emergency, and 
 to send two of their number to invite the laM Grand-Master 
 to resume his Office, which now in course reverts to him ; or, 
 if he refuse, then the next last, and so backward. But if no 
 former Grand-Master can be found, then the Deputy shall act 
 as Principal until another is chosen; or, if there be no Depu- 
 ty, then the oldest Master. 
 
 XXn. The Brethren of all the Lodges in and about Lon- 
 don and Westminster shall meet at an Annual Communication 
 and Fead, in some convenient place, on St. John Baptist's Day, 
 or else on St. John Evangelist's Day, as the Grand-Lodge shall 
 think fit by a new Regulation, having of late Years met on SL 
 John Baptist's Day : Provided, 
 
 The Majority of the Masters and Wardens, with the Grand- 
 Master, his Deputy and Wardens, agree at their QuarterJy 
 Communications, three Months before, that there shall be a 
 Feast, and a General Communication of all the Brethren : For 
 if either the Grand-Master, or the Majority of the particular 
 Masters, are against it, it must be dropt for that time. 
 
 But whether there shall be a Feast for all the Brethren, or 
 not, yet the Grand-Lodge must meet in some convenient 
 place annually on St. John's Day ; or, if it be Sunday, then on 
 the next Day, in order to chuse every Year a new Grand- 
 Master, Deputy, and Wardens. 
 
 XXIII. If it be thought expedient, and the Grand-Master, 
 with the Majority of the Masters and Wardens, agree to hold 
 a Grand Feast, according to the ancient laudable Custom of 
 Masons, then the Grand- Wardens shall have the care of pre- 
 paring the Tickets, seal'd with the Grand-Master's Seal, of 
 disposing of tlie Tickets, of receiving the Money for the 
 Tickets, of buying the Materials of the Feast, of finding out 
 a proper and convenient j)lace to feast in, and of every other 
 thing that concerns the Entertainment 
 
GENERAL REGULATIONS. 73 
 
 But, that the Work may not be too burtheiisome to the two 
 Grand-Wardens, and that all Matters may be expeditiously 
 and safely managed, the Grand-Master, or his Deputy, shall 
 have power to nominate and appoint a certain number of 
 Stewards, as his Worship shall think fit, to act in concert 
 with the two Grand-Wardens ; all things relating to the Feast 
 being decided amongst them by a Majority of Voices, except 
 the Grand-Master or his Deputy interpose by a particular 
 Direction or Appointment. 
 
 XXIV. The Wardens and Stewards shall, in due time, wait 
 upon the Grand-Master, or his Deputy, for Directions and 
 Orders about the premisses; but if his Worship and his 
 Deputy are sick, or necessarily absent, they shall call together 
 the Masters and Wardens of Lodges to meet on purpose for 
 their Advice and Orders ; or else they may take the Matter 
 wholly upon themselves, and do the best they can. 
 
 The Grand-Wardens and the Stewards are to account for 
 all the Money they receive, or expend, to the Grand-Lodge, 
 after Dinner, or when the Grand-Lodge shall think fit to 
 receive their Accounts. 
 
 If the Grand-Master pleases, he may in due time summon 
 all the Masters and Wardens of Lodges, to consult with them 
 about ordering the Grand Feast, and about any Emergency 
 or accidental thing relating thereunto, that may require Ad- 
 vice ; or else to take it upon himself altogether. 
 
 XXV. The Masters of Lodges shall each appoint one expe- 
 rienced and discreet Fellow-Craft of his Lodge, to comjiose a 
 Committee, consisting of one from every Lodge, who shall 
 meet to receive-, in a convenient Apartment, every Person 
 that brings a Ticket, and shall have Power to discourse him, 
 if they think fit, in order to admit him, or debar him, as they 
 shall see cause : Provided they send no ^lan away before they 
 have acquainted all the Brethren within Doors with the Rea- 
 sons thereof, to avoid Mistakes ; that so no true Brother may 
 
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74 GENERAL REGULATIONS. 
 
 be debarr'd, nor a false Brother, or mere Pretender, admitted. 
 This Committee must meet very early on St. John's Day at tlic 
 place, even before any Persons come with Tickets. 
 
 XXVI. The Grand-Master shall appoint two or more trusty 
 Brethren to be Porters, or Door-keepers, who are also to be 
 early at the Place, for some good Reasons ; and who are to be 
 at the Command of the Committee. 
 
 XXV II. The Grand-Wardens, or the Stewards, shall ap- 
 point beforehand such a Number of Brethren to serve at Table 
 as they think fit and proper for that Work ; and they may 
 advise with the Masters and Wardens of Lodges about the 
 most proper Persons, if they please, or may take in such by 
 their Recommendation ; for none are to serve that Day but 
 Free and Accepted Masons, that the Communication may be 
 free and harmonious. 
 
 XXVin. All the Members of the Grand Lodge must be at 
 the Place long before Dinner, with the Grand-Master, or his 
 Deputy, at their Head, Avho shall retire, and form themselves. 
 And this is done in order, 
 
 1. To receive any Appeals duly lodg'd, as above regulated, 
 that the Appellant may be heard, and the Affair may be 
 amicably decided before Dinner, if possible ; but if it cannot, 
 it must be delay'd till after the new Grand-Master is elected ; 
 and if it cannot be decided after Dinner, it may be delay'd, and 
 referred to a particular Committee, that shall quietly adjust 
 it, and make Report to the next Quarterly Communication, 
 that Brotherly-Love may be preserv'd. 
 
 2. To prevent any Difference or Disgust which may be 
 feared to arise that Day ; that no Interruption may be given 
 to the Harmony and Pleasure of the Grand Feast. 
 
 3. To consult about whatever concerns the Decency and 
 Decorum of the Grand Assembly, and to prevent all Inde- 
 cency and ill Planners, the Assembly being promiscuous. 
 
GENERAL REGULATIONS. 75 
 
 4. To receive and consider of any good Motion, or any 
 momentous and Important Affair, that sliall be brought from 
 the particular Lodges, by their Representatives, the several 
 Masters and Wardens. 
 
 XXIX. After these things are discuss'd, the Grand-Master 
 and his Deputy, the Grand-Wardens, or the Stewards, the 
 Secretary, the Treasurer, the Clerks, and every other Person 
 shall withdraw, and leave the Masters and Wardens of the 
 particular Lodges alone, in order to consult amicably about 
 electing a new Grand-Master, or continuing the present, if 
 they have not done it the Day before ; and if thej are unani- 
 mous for continuing the present Grand-Master, his Worship 
 shall be call'd in, and humbly desir'd to do the Fraternity the 
 Honour of ruling them for the year ensuing : And after Din- 
 ner it will be known whether he accepts of it or not : For it 
 should not be discover'd but by the Election itself. 
 
 XXX. Then the Masters and Wardens, and all the Breth- 
 ren, may converse promiscuously, or as they please to sort 
 together, until the Dinner is coming in, when every Brother 
 takes his Seat at Table. 
 
 XXXI. Some time after Dinner, the Grand-Lodge is form'd, 
 not in the Retirement, but in the Presence of aU the Breth- 
 ren, who yet are not Members of it, and must not therefore 
 speak until they are desir'd and allow'd. 
 
 XXXII. If the Grand-Master of last Year has consented 
 with the Master and Wardens in private, before Dinner, to 
 continue for the year ensuing ; then one of the Grand-Lodge, 
 deputed for that purpose, shall represent to all the Brethren 
 his Worship's good Government, &c. And, turning to him, 
 shall, in the name of the Grand-Lodge, humbly request him to 
 do the Fraternity the great Honour, (if nobly born, if not,) the 
 great Kindness of continuing to be their Grand-Master for the 
 Year ensuing. And his Worship declaring his Consent by 
 a Bow or a Speech, as he pleases, the said deputed Member 
 
76 GENERAL REGULATIONS. 
 
 of the Grand-Lodge shall proclaim him Grand-Master, and all 
 the Members of the Lodge shall salute him in due Form. 
 And all the Brethren shall for a few Minutes have leave to 
 declare their Satisfaction, Pleasure, and Congratulation. 
 
 XXXin. But if either the Master and Wardens have not 
 in private, this Day before Dinner, nor the Day before, desir'd 
 the lad Grand-Master to continue in the Mastership another 
 Year ; or, if he, when desired, has not consented : Then, 
 
 The last Grand-Master shall nominate his successor for the 
 Year ensuing, who, if unanimously approved by the Grand- 
 Lodge, and if there present, shall be proclaim'd, saluted, and 
 congratulated the new Grand-Master as above hinted, and 
 immediately install'd by the last Grand-Master, according to 
 Usage. 
 
 XXXIY. But if that Nomination is not unanimously ap- 
 prov'd, the new Grand-Master shall be chosen immediately 
 by Ballot, every Master and Warden writing his Man's Name, 
 and the last Grand-Master writing his Man's name too ; and 
 the Man whose Name the last Grand-Master shall first take 
 out, casually or by chance, shall be Grand-Master for the 
 Year ensuing ; and, if present, he shall be proclaim'd, saluted, 
 and congratulated, as above hinted, and forthwith install'd 
 by the last Grand-Master, according to Usage. 
 
 XXXY. The last Grand-Master thus continued, or the new 
 Grand-Master thus install'd, shall next nominate and appoint 
 his Deputy Grand-Master, either the last or a new one, who 
 shall be also declar'd, saluted and congratulated as above 
 hinted. 
 
 The Grand-Master shall also nominate the new Grand- 
 Wardens, and, if unanimously approv'd by the Grand-Lodge, 
 shall be declared, saluted, and congratulated, as above hinted ; 
 but if not, they shall be chosen by Ballot, in the same way as 
 the Grand-Master: As the Wardens of private Lodges are 
 
GENERAL REGULATIONS. 77 
 
 also to be chosen by Ballot in each Lodge, if the Members 
 thereof do not agree to their Master's Nomination. 
 
 XXXVI. But if the Brother, whom the present Grand-Mas- 
 ter shall nominate for his Successor, or whom the Majority 
 of the Grand-Lodge shall happen to chuse by Ballot, is, by 
 Sickness or other necessary Occasion, absent from the Grand- 
 Feast, he cannot be proclaim'd the new Grand-Master, unless 
 the old Grand-Master, or some of the Masters and Wardens 
 of the Grand-Lodge can vouch, upon the Honour of a Brother, 
 that the said Person, so nominated or chosen, will readily 
 accept of the said Office ; in which case the old Gkand-Mas- 
 TER shall act as Proxy, and shall nominate the Deputj'' and 
 Wardens in his Name, and in his Name also receive the usual 
 Honours, Homage, and Congratulation. 
 
 XXXVn, Then the Grand-Master shall allow any Brother, 
 Fellow-Craft, or Apprentice to speak, directing his Discourse 
 to his Worship ; or to make any Motion for the good of the 
 Fraternity, which shall be either immediately consider'd and 
 finish'd, or else referr'd to the Consideration of the Grand- 
 Lodge at their next Communication, stated or occasional. 
 When that is over, 
 
 XXXVHI. The Grand-Master or his Deputy, or somo 
 Brother appointed by him, shall harangue all the Brethren, 
 and give them good Advice : And lastly, after some other 
 Transactions, that cannot be written in any Language, the 
 Brethren may go away or stay longer, as they please. 
 
 XXXIX. Every Animal Grand-Lodge has an inherent Power 
 and Authority to make new Pegulations, or to alter these, for 
 the real benefit of this ancient Fraternity : Provided always 
 that the old Land-Marks be carefully preserv'd, and that such 
 Alterations and new Regulations be proposed and agreed to 
 at the third Quarterly Communication preceding the Annual 
 Grand Feast ; and that they be offered also to the Perusal of 
 all the Brethren before Dinner, in wi-iting, even of the young- 
 
78 GENERAL REGULATIONS. 
 
 est Apprentice ; the Approbation and Consent of the Major- 
 ity of all the Brethren present being absolutely necessary to 
 make the same binding and obligatory; which must, after 
 Dinner, and after the new Grand-Master is install'd, be sol- 
 emnly desir'd ; as it was desir'd and obtain'd for these Reg- 
 ulations, when propos'd by the Grand-Lodge, to about 150 
 Brethren, on St. John Baptist's Day, 1721. 
 
 POSTSCRIPT. 
 
 Here follows the Manner of constituting a Ncto aotrgr, 
 as practis'd by his Grace the Duke of Wharton, the 
 present Right Worshipful €Jranlr^i*lastcr, according- 
 to the ancient Usages of Masons 
 
 Xeto JLotrgc, for avoiding many Irregularities, 
 should be solemnly constituted by the Grand-Mas- 
 ter, with his Deputy and Wardens ; or, in the Grand- 
 Master's Absence, the Deputy shall act for his Wor- 
 ship, and shall chuse some Master of a Lodge to 
 assist him ; or, in case the Deputy is absent, the 
 Grand-Master shall call forth some Master of a 
 Lodge to act as Deputy pro tempore. 
 
 The Candidates, or the new Master and Wardens, being 
 yet among the Fellow-Craft, the Grand-Master shall ask his 
 Deputy if he has examin'd them, and finds the Candidate Mas- 
 ter well skill'd in the noble Science and the royal Art, and duly 
 instructed in our Mysteries, &c. 
 
 And the Deputy answering in the affirmative, he shall (by 
 the Grand-^faster's order) take the Candidate from among his 
 Fellows, and present him to the Grand-Master; saying, Right 
 
GENERAL REGULATIONS. 79 
 
 Worshipful Grand-Master: The Brethren here desire to be form' d 
 into a new Lodge; and I present this my worthy Brother to he 
 their Master, whom I know to be of gcod Morals and great Skill, 
 true and trusty, and a Lover of the whole Frateri'HTY, wheresoever 
 dispersed over the face of the Earth. 
 
 Then the Grand-Master, placing the Candidate on his Left 
 Hand, having ask'd and obtain'd the unanimous Consent of 
 all the Brethren, shall say: I constitute and form these good 
 Brethren into a new Lodge, and appoint you tlie Master of it, 
 not doubtirig of your Capacity and Care to preserve the Ceme.vt 
 of the Lodge, &c., with some other Expressions that are proper 
 and usual on that Occasion, but not proper to be written. 
 
 Upon this, the Deputy s"hall rehearse the Charges of a Mas- 
 ter, and the Grand-Master shall ask the Candidate, saying, Do 
 you submit to these Charges, as Masters Jiave done in all Ages ? 
 And the Candidate signifying his cordial Submission thereun- 
 to, the Graxd-Master shall, by certain significant Ceremonies 
 and ancient Usages, install him, and present him with the 
 Constitutions, the Lodge-Book, and the Instruments of his 
 Office — not altogether, but one after another ; and after each 
 of them, the Grand-Master, or his Deputy, shall rehearse the 
 short and pithy Charge that is suitable to the thing presented. 
 
 After this, the Members of this new Lodge, bowing all to- 
 gether to the Grand-Master, shall return his Worship Thanks, 
 and immediately do their Homage to their new Master, and 
 signily their Promise of Subjection and Obedience to him by 
 the usual Congratulation. 
 
 The Deputy and the Grand-Wardens, and any other Breth- 
 ren present, that are not Members of this new Lodge, shall 
 next congratulate the new Master ; and he shall return liis 
 becoming Acknowledgments to the Grand-Master first, and to 
 the rest in their Order. 
 
 Then the Grand-Master desires the New Master to enter 
 
80 
 
 GENERAL REGULATIONS. 
 
 immediately upon the Exorcise of his OflBce, in chusing his 
 Wardens: And the New Master, caUing forth two Fellow- 
 Craft, presents them to the Grand-Master for his Approbation, 
 and to the New Lodge for their Consent. And that being 
 granted, 
 
 The Senior or Junior Grand- Warden, or some Brother for 
 him, shall rehearse the Charges of Wardens ; and the Candi- 
 dates being solemnly ask'd by the New Master, shall signify 
 their submission thereunto. 
 
 Upon which the New Master, presenting them with the 
 Instruments of their Office, shall, in due Form, install them in 
 their proper Places; and the Brethren of that New Lodge 
 shall signify their Obedience to the new Wardens by the usual 
 Congratulation. 
 
 And this Lodge, being thus compleatly constituted, 
 shall be register'd in the Grand-Master's Book, and 
 by his Order notify'd to the other Lodges. 
 
APPROBATION. 
 
 Whereas by the Confusions occasion'd in the Saxon, 
 Danish, and Norman Wars, the Records of Masons have been 
 much vitiated, the Free Masons of England twice thought it 
 necessary to correct their Constitutions, Charges, and Reg- 
 ulations ; first in the Reign of King Athelstan the Saxon, and 
 long after in the Reign of King Edward IV. the Norman: 
 And Whereas the old Constitutions in England have been 
 much interpolated, mangled, and miserably corrupted, not 
 only with false Spelling, but even with many false Facts and 
 gross Errors in History and Chronology, through Length of 
 Time, and the Ignorance of Transcribers, in the dark, illiterate 
 Ages, before the Revival of Geometry and ancient Architect- 
 ure, to the great Offence of all the learned and judicious 
 Brethren, whereby also the Ignorant have been deceiv'd. 
 
 And our late Worthy Grand-Master, his Grace the Duke 
 of Montagu, having order'd the Author to peruse, correct, and 
 digest, into a new and better Method, the History, Charges, 
 and Regulations of the ancient Fraternity ; He has accord- 
 ingly examin'^ several Copies from Italy and Scotland, and 
 sundry Parts of England, and from thence, (tho' in many 
 things erroneous,) and from several other ancient Records of 
 Masons, he has drawn forth the above-written new Constitu- 
 tions, with the Charges and General Regulations. And the 
 Author having submitted the whole to the Perusal and Cor- 
 rections of the late and present Deputy Grand-Masters, and of 
 other learned Brethren ; and also of the Masters and Wardens 
 of particular Lodges at their Quarterly Communication : He 
 did regularly deliver them to the late Grand-Master himself, the 
 said Duke of Montagu, for his Examination, Correction, and 
 Approbation ; and his Grace, by the Advice of several Breth- 
 ren, order'd the same to be handsomely printed for the use 
 of the Lodges, though they were not quite ready for the 
 Press during his Mastership. 
 
 Therefore We, the present Grand-Master of the Right 
 Worshipful and most ancient Fraternity of Free and Accepted 
 Masons, the Deputy Grand-Master, the Grand-Wardens, the 
 Masters and Wardens of particular Lodges (with the Consent 
 of the Brethren and Fellows in and about the Cities of Lon- 
 don and Westminster) having also perused this Performance, 
 Do Join our laudable Predecessors in our solemn Approbation 
 4* 
 
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 GENERAL REGULATIONS. 
 
 tlioreof, as wliat We believe will fully answer the End pro- 
 posed ; all the valuable tilings of the old Records being re- 
 tain'd, the Errors in History and Chronology corrected, the 
 false Facts and the improper Words omitted, and the whole 
 digested in a new and better Method. 
 
 And we ordain That these be receiv'd in every particular 
 Lodge under our Cognizance, as the Only Constitutions of Free 
 and Accepted Masons amongst us, to be read at the making of 
 new Brethren, or when the Master shall think fit; and which 
 the new Brethren should peruse before they are made. 
 
 Philip, Duke of Wharton, ©fvantr-flSaster* 
 
 J. T. Desaguliers, ll. d. and f. r. s.. Deputy Grand- Master. 
 
 Joshua Timsox, ) ^ ,. ^r^^ 
 William Hawkins, f 
 
 And the Masters and Wardens of particular Lodges, viz. 
 
 L Thomas Morris, sen., Master. 
 
 John Bristow, \ 
 Abraham Abbot, J 
 
 IL Richard Hail, Master. 
 Phiup Wolvebston, \ 
 JoHX Dover, j 
 
 III. John Turner, Master 
 
 Wardens. 
 
 Wardens. 
 
 Anthony Sayer, 
 Ei)WARD Cale, 
 
 ^' I Wardens. 
 IV. Mr. Geosge Payn-e, Master. 
 
 I Wardeiis. 
 
 Stephen Hall, M. D., 
 Francis Sorell, Esq., 
 
 V. Mr. Math. Birkhead, Master 
 Francis Baily, \ Tir 
 Nicholas Abraham, j" 
 
 VI. William Re^vd, Ma&ter. 
 
 John Glover, \ wardens 
 RoBEiiT Cordell, I ^y<^r<^^- 
 
 vn. Henry Branson, Master. 
 
 Henry Lug, \ lyarden' 
 
 JohnTownshknd, j- '»'«'^««"' 
 
 Vin. Master. 
 
 Jonathan Sisson, \ 
 John Shipton, j 
 
 IX. George Owen, M. D., Master 
 
 Eman Bowen, \ irrardens 
 John Heath, / >^«»^«««s. 
 
 X. Master. 
 John Ludton. 
 Richard 
 
 ^ardens. 
 
 Wardens. 
 
 Wardens. 
 
 XI. Franos, Earl of Dalkeith, Master. 
 Capt. Andrew Robinson, •") xir„„,7^„ 
 Col. Thomas Lnwood j ^^^^'''^^ 
 
 Xn. John Beal, M.D. and F.R.S., Master. 
 Edtv'ard Pawlet, Esq., 1 rrrardens 
 Charles Moke, Esq., J ^«^««««- 
 
 Xin Thomas MoriuSj jun.. Master. 
 
 XIV. Thomas Robbe, Esq., Master. 
 
 Thomas GRA^-E, ") -nr^,./,^^ 
 Bray Lane, '\W<^rdens. 
 
 XV. Mr. John Shepherd, Master. 
 John Senex, ") ttw^^^, 
 JoiLN BucLER, j ^«'-^^- 
 
 XVI. John Georges, Esq., Master. 
 
 Robert Gray, Esq., \ lynrdens 
 
 Charles Grymes, Esq. '^ *^aiaens. 
 
 xv: 
 
 The 
 
 } 
 
 VII. James Anderson. A.M., ") ,f--/.,. 
 The autijor of this JSooft. ;^^'^«'' 
 GwiNN Vavghan, Esq.^^^ | ^y^..^^ 
 
 Walter Greenwood, Esq 
 XVIII. Thomas Harbln, Master. 
 
 WiLIJAM ATTLi-nr, ") T,^ 
 
 John Sajcon, / ^* ' 
 XEX. Robert Capell, Master. 
 
 Isaac MANSFreLD 
 
 WiLUAM Blv, 
 XX. John Gorman, Master 
 
 Charles Garby, 
 
 Edward Morphey, 
 
 ''ardens. 
 
 Wardens. 
 
 Wardent 
 
THE M AS T ER'S SONG; 
 
 THE HISTORY OF MASONRY. 
 
 BY THE AUTHOR. 
 
 To be sung mth a Chorus, when the Master shall give leave, either (me 
 
 Part only, or altogether, as he pleases. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 Adam, the first of humane Kind, 
 
 Created with Geometry 
 Imprinted on his Royal Mind, 
 
 Instructed soon his Progeny 
 Cain and Seth, who then improv'd 
 
 The hb'ral Science in the Art 
 Of Architecture, which they lov'd, 
 
 And to their Offspring did impart. 
 
 II. 
 Cain a City fair and strong 
 
 First Luilt, and call'd it Consecrate, 
 From Enoch's Name, his eldest Son, 
 
 Which all his Race did imitate. 
 But godly Enoch, of Seth's Loins, 
 
 Two Columns rais'd with mighty Skill 
 And all his Family enjoins 
 
 True Colonading to fullfil. 
 
 ni. 
 Our Father Noah next appear'd, 
 
 A Mason too divinely taught ; 
 And by divine Command uprear'd 
 
 The Ark that held a goodly Fraught: 
 
84 MASONIC SONGS. 
 
 'Twas built by true Geometry, 
 A Piece of Architecture fine ; 
 
 Helpt by his Sons, in Number Three, 
 Concurring in the Grand Design. 
 
 So from the gen'ral Deluge none 
 
 Were sav'd, but Masons and their Wiv es ; 
 And all Mankind from them alone 
 
 Descending, Architecture thrives ; 
 For they, when multiply'd amain. 
 
 Fit to disperse and fill the Earth, 
 In Shinar's large and lovely Plain 
 
 To Masonry gave second Birth. 
 
 V. 
 
 For most of Mankind were employ'd. 
 
 To build the City and the Tow'r ; 
 The Gen'ral Lodge was overjoy'd, 
 
 In such Effects of Masons Pow'r ; 
 'Till vain Ambition did provoke 
 
 Their Maker to confound their Plot ; 
 Yet tho' with Tongues confus'd they spoke, 
 
 The learned Art they ne'er forgot. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Who can unfold the Royal Art? 
 
 Or sing its Secrets in a Song ? 
 They're safely kept in Mason's Heart, 
 
 And to the ancient Lodge belong. 
 
 [Stop here to drink the present Grand-Mastefs 
 Health.] 
 
MASONIC SONGS. 86 
 
 PART II. 
 
 I. 
 
 Thus when from Babel they disperse 
 
 In Colonies to distant Climes, 
 All Masons true, who could rehearse 
 
 Their Works to those of after Times ; 
 King Nimrod fortify'd his Realm, 
 
 By Castles, Towr's, and Cities fair : 
 Mitzra'm, who rul'd at Egypt's Helm, 
 
 Built Pyramids stupendous there. 
 
 II. 
 Nor Japhet, and his gallant Breed, 
 
 Did less in Masonry prevail ; 
 Nor Shem, and those that did succeed 
 
 To promis'd Blessings by Entail ; 
 For Father Abram brought from Ur 
 
 Geometry, the Science good ; 
 Which he reveal'd, without demur, 
 
 To all descending from his Blood. 
 
 in. 
 Nay, Jacob's Race at length were taught, 
 
 To lay aside the Shepherd's Crook, 
 To use Geometry were brought, 
 
 Whilst under Phar'oh's cruel Yoke ; 
 'Till Moses Master-Mason rose. 
 
 And led the Holy Lodge from thence, 
 All Masons train'd, to whom he chose. 
 
 His curious Learning to dispense. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Aholiab and Bezaleel, 
 
 Inspired Men, the Tent uprear'd : 
 Where the Shechinah chose to dwell, 
 
 And Geometrick Skill appear'd : 
 
MASONIC SONGS. 
 
 And when these valiant Masons fili'd 
 Canaan, the leam'd Phenicians knew 
 
 The tribes of Isra'l better skill'd 
 In Architecture firm and true. 
 
 V. 
 
 For Dagon's House in Gaza Town 
 
 Artfully propt by Columns two ; 
 By Samson's mighty Arms pull'd down 
 
 On Lords Philistian, whom it slew ; 
 Tho' 'twas the finest Fabrick rais'd 
 
 By Canaan's Sons, could not compare 
 With the Creator's Temple prais'd. 
 
 For glorious Strength and Structure fair. 
 
 VI. 
 
 But here we stop a while to toast 
 
 Our Master's Health and Wardens both ; 
 And w^arn you all to shun the Coast 
 
 Of Samson's Shipwrackt Fame and Troth ; 
 His Secrets once to Wife disclos'd, 
 
 His Strength was fled, his Courage tam'd, 
 To Cruel Foes he was expos'd, 
 
 And never was a Mason nam'd. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Wlio can unfold the Royal Art? 
 
 Or sing its Secrets in a Song ? 
 They're safely kept in Mason's Heart, 
 
 And to the Ancient Lodge belong. 
 
 [Stop here to drink the Health of the Master and 
 Wardens of this particular Lodge ] 
 
MASONIC SONGS. SI 
 
 PART III. 
 
 I. 
 
 We sing of Masons' ancient Fame, 
 
 When fourscore Thousand Craftsmen stood, 
 Under the Masters of great Name, 
 
 Three Thousand and six Hundred good, 
 Employ'd by Solomon the Sire, 
 
 And Gen'ral Master-Mason too ; 
 As Hiram was in stately Tyi'e, 
 
 Like Salem, built by Masons true. 
 
 II. 
 The Royal Art was then divine, 
 
 The Craftsmen counsell'd from above. 
 The Temple did all Works outshine, 
 
 The wond'ring World did all approve ; 
 Ingenious Men, from every Place, 
 
 Came to survey the glorious Pile ; 
 And, when return'd, began to trace 
 
 And imitate its lofty Style. 
 
 III. 
 At length the Grecians came to know 
 
 Geometry, and learnt the Art, 
 Which great Pythagoras did show, 
 
 And glorious Euclid did impart; 
 Th' amazing Archimedes, too, 
 
 And many other Scholars good ; 
 Till ancient Romans did review 
 
 The Art, and Science understood. 
 
 IV. 
 
 But when proud Asia they had quell'd. 
 And Greece and Egypt overcome. 
 
 In Architecture they excell'd. 
 
 And bro-ught the Learning all to Rome ; 
 
88 MASONIC SONGS. 
 
 Where wise Vitruvius, Master prime 
 
 Of Architects, the Art improv'd, 
 In great Augustus' peaceful Time, 
 
 When Arts and Aiiists were belov'd 
 
 V. 
 
 They brought the Knowledge from the East; 
 
 And as they made the Nations yield, 
 They spread it thro' the North and West, 
 
 And taught the World the Art to build; 
 Witness their Citadels and Tow'rs, 
 
 To fortify their Legions .fine, 
 Their Temples, Palaces, and Bow'rs, 
 
 That spoke the Masons' Grand Design. 
 
 TI. 
 
 Thus mighty Eastern Kings, and some 
 
 Of Abram's Race, and Monarchs good, 
 Of Egypt, Syria, Greece, and Rome, 
 
 True Architecture understood : 
 No wonder, then, if Masons join, 
 
 To celebrate those Mason-Kings, 
 With solemn Note and flowing Wine, 
 
 Whilst ev'ry Brother jointly sings. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Who can unfold the Royal Art? 
 
 Or sing its Secrets in a Song ? 
 They're safely kept in Mason's Heart, 
 
 And to the ancient Lodge belong. 
 
 [Stop here to drink to the glorious Memory of Empe- 
 rors, Kings, Princes, Nobles, Gentry, Clergy, and 
 learned Scholars that ever propagated the Art.] 
 
MASONIC SONGS. 89 
 
 PART TV. 
 
 I. 
 Oh ! glorious Days for Masons wise, 
 
 O'er all the Roman Empire when 
 Their Fame, resounding to the Skies, 
 
 Proclaim'd them good and useful Men ; 
 For many Ages thus employ'd, 
 
 Until the Goths, with Avarlike Rage, 
 And brutal Ignorance, destroy 'd 
 
 The Toil of many a learned Age. 
 
 n. 
 But when the conqu'ring Goths were brought 
 
 T' embrace the Christian Faith, they found 
 The Folly that their Fathers wrought, 
 
 In loss of Architecture sound. 
 At length their Zeal for stately Fanes 
 
 And wealthy Grandeur, when at Peace, 
 Made them exert their utmost Pains, 
 
 Their GoTinc Buildings to upraise. 
 
 III. 
 Thus many a sumptuous lofly Pile 
 
 Was rais'd in every Christian Land, 
 Tho' not conform'd to Roman Style, 
 
 Yet which did Reverence command ; 
 The King and Ceaft agreeing stfll, 
 
 In well-form'd Lodges to supply 
 The mournful Want of Roman SkiU 
 
 With their new sort of Masonry. 
 
 IV. 
 
 For many Ages this prevails, 
 
 Their Work is Architecture deem'd ; 
 
 In England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, 
 The Craftsmen highly are esteem* d, 
 
90 MASONIC SONGS. 
 
 By Kings, as Masters of the Lodge, 
 
 By many a wealthy, noble Peer, 
 By Lord and Lah'd, by Priest and Judge, 
 
 By all the People every where. 
 
 V. 
 
 So Masons' ayuient Records tell, 
 
 King Athelstan, of Saxon Blood, 
 Gave them a Charter free to dwell 
 
 In Lofty Lodge, with Orders good. 
 Drawn from old Writings by his Son, 
 
 Prince Edwin, General Master bright. 
 Who met at York the Brethren soon, 
 
 And to that Lodge did all recite. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Thence were their Laws and Charges fine 
 
 In ev'ry Reign observ'd with Care, 
 Of Saxon, Danish, Norman Line, 
 
 Till British Crowns united were : 
 The Monarch First of this whole Isle 
 
 Was learned James, a Mason King, 
 Who First of Kings reviv'd the Style 
 
 Of Great Augustus : Therefore sing. 
 
 . CHORUS. 
 
 Who can unfold the Royal Art 7 
 
 Or sing its Secrets in a Song? 
 They're safely kept in Mason's Heart, 
 
 And to the ancient Lodge belong. 
 
 [Stop here to drink to the happy Memory of all the 
 Revivers of the ancient Augustan Style.] 
 
MASONIC SONGS. 91 
 
 PART Y. 
 
 I. 
 Thus tlio' in Italy the Art 
 
 From GoTiiicK Rubbish first was rais'd ; 
 And great Palladio did impart 
 
 A Style by Masons justly prais'd : 
 Yet here his mighty Rival Jones, 
 
 Of British Architects the Prime, 
 Did build such glorious Heaps of Stones, 
 
 As ne'er were matched since Cassar's Time. 
 
 n. 
 
 King Charles the First, a Mason too, 
 
 With several Peers and wealthy Men, 
 Employ'd him and his Craftsmen true, 
 
 'Till wretched Civil Wars began. 
 But after Peace and Crown restor'd, 
 
 Tho' London was in Ashes laid, 
 By Masons Art and good Accord, 
 
 A finer London rear'd its Head. 
 
 in 
 
 King Charles the Second raised then 
 
 The finest Column upon Earth, 
 Founded St. Paul's, that stately Fane, 
 
 And Royal Change, with Joy and Mirth: 
 But afterwards the Lodges fail'd, 
 
 'Till Great Nassau the Tast reviv'd, 
 Whose bright Example so prevail'd, 
 
 That ever since the Art has thriv'd. 
 
 rv. 
 Let other Nations boast at will. 
 
 Great Britain now will yield to none, 
 For true Geometry and Skill, 
 
 In building Timber, Brick, and Stone; 
 
MASONIC SONGS. 
 
 For Architecture of each sort, 
 
 For curious Lodges, where we find 
 
 The Noble and tlie Wise resort, 
 
 And drink with Craftsmen true and kind. 
 
 V. 
 
 Then let good Brethren all rejoice, 
 
 And fill their Glass with cheerful Heart ; 
 
 Let them express with grateful Voice 
 The praises of the wond'rous Art; 
 
 Let ev'ry Brother's Health go round, 
 Not Fool or Knave, but Mason true ; 
 
 And let our Master's Fame resound, 
 The noble Duke of Montagn. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Who can unfold the Royal Art? 
 
 Or sing its Secrets in a Song ? 
 They're safely kept in Mason's Heart, 
 
 And to the ancient Lodge belong. 
 
THE WARDEN'S SONG; 
 
 OR, 
 
 ANOTHER HISTORY OF MASONRY. 
 
 COMPOs'd since the most noble prince PHILIP, DUKE OF 
 WHARTON, WAS CHOSEN GRAND-MASTER. 
 
 BY THE AUTHOR. 
 To be sung and play'd at the Quarterly Communication. 
 
 I. 
 
 When e'er we are alone, 
 
 And ev'ry Stranger gone. 
 In Summer, Autmun, Winter, Spring, 
 Begin to play, begin to sing. 
 The mighty Genius of the lofty Lodge, 
 
 In ev'ry Age 
 
 That did engage 
 And well inspir'd the Prince, the Priest, the Judge, 
 The Noble and the Wise to join 
 In Rearing Masons' Grand Design. 
 
 n. 
 The Grand Design to rear, 
 Was ever Masons' Care, 
 From Adam down before the Flood, 
 Whose Art old Noah understood. 
 And did impart to Japhet, Shem, and Ham, 
 Who taught their Race 
 To build apace 
 Proud Babel's Town and Tow'r, until it came 
 To be admir'd too much, and then 
 Dispersed were the Sons of Men. 
 
94 MASONIC SONGS. 
 
 in. 
 
 But the' their Tongues confus'd 
 In distant Climes they us'd, 
 They brought from Shinar Orders good, 
 To rear the Art they understood : 
 Therefore sing first the Princes of the Isles ; 
 Next Belus Great, 
 Who fixt his Seat 
 In old Assyria, building stately Piles ; 
 And Mitzraim's Pyramids among 
 The other subjects of our Song. 
 
 And Shem, who did instil 
 The useful wond'rous Skill 
 Into the Minds of Nations great : 
 And Abram next, who did relate 
 
 Th' Assyrian Learning to his Sons, that when 
 In Egypt's Land, 
 By Pharaoh's Hand, 
 
 Were roughly taught to be most skilful Men ; 
 Till their Grand-Master Moses rose, 
 And them deliver'd from their Foes. 
 
 But who can sing his Praise, 
 
 Who did the Tent upraise ? 
 Then sing his Workmen true as Steel, 
 Aholiab and Bezaleel ; 
 Sing Tyre and Sydon, and Phenicians old. 
 
 But Samson's Blot 
 
 Is ne'er forgot : 
 He blabb'd his Secrets to his Wife, that sold 
 Her Husband, who at last pull'd down 
 The House on all in Gaza Town. 
 
MASONIC SONGS. 95 
 
 m 
 
 n. 
 
 But Solomon the King 
 
 With solemn Note we sing, 
 Who rear'd at length the Grand Design, 
 By Wealth, and Pow'r, and Art divine ; 
 Helpt by the learned Hiram, Tyrian Prince, 
 
 By Craftsmen good. 
 
 That understood 
 Wise Hiram Abif 's charming Influence : 
 He aided Jewish Masters bright, 
 Whose cm'ious Works none can recite. 
 
 Tn. 
 
 These glorious Mason Kings 
 
 Each thankful Brother sings, 
 Who to its Zenith rais'd the Art, 
 And to all Nations did impart 
 The useful Skill : For from the Temple fine, 
 
 To ev'ry Land, 
 
 And foreign Strand, 
 The Craftsmen march'd, and taught the Grand Design ; 
 Of which the Kings, with mighty Peers, 
 And learned Men, were Overseers. 
 
 vm. 
 
 Diana's Temple next, 
 
 In Lesser Asia fixt : 
 And Babylon's proud Walls, the Seat 
 Of Nebuchadnezar the Great ; 
 The Tomb of Mausolus, the Carian King ; 
 
 With many a Pile 
 
 Of lofty Style 
 In Africa and Greater Asia, sing, 
 In Greece, in Sicily, and Rome, 
 That had those Nations overcome. 
 
96 MASONIC SONGS. 
 
 Then sing Augustus too, 
 The Gen'ral Master true, 
 Who by Vitrivius did refine, 
 And spread the Masons' Grand Design 
 Thro' North and West, till ancient Britons chose 
 The Royal Art 
 In ev'ry Part, 
 And Roman Architecture could disclose ; 
 Until the Saxons warlike Rage 
 Destroy'd the Skill of many an Age. 
 
 At length the Gothick Style 
 Prevail'd in Britain's Isle, 
 When Masons' Grand Design reviv'd, 
 And in their well form'd Lodges thriv'd, 
 Tho' not as formerly in Roman Days : 
 Yet sing the Fanes 
 Of Saxon Danes, 
 Of Scots, Welsh, Irish ; but sing first the Praise 
 Of Athelstan and Edwin Prince, 
 Our Master of great Influence. 
 
 XI. 
 
 And eke the Nokman Kings 
 
 The British Mason sings ; 
 'Till Roman Style revived there, 
 And British Crowns united were 
 In learned James, a Mason King, who rais'd 
 
 Fine Heaps of Stones 
 
 By Inigo Jones, 
 That rival'd wise Palladio, justly prais'd 
 In Italy, and Britain too, 
 For Architecture firm and true. 
 
MASONIC SONGS. 
 XII. 
 
 And thence in ev'ry Reign 
 
 Did Masonry obtain 
 With Kings, the Noble and the Wise, 
 Whose Fame, resounding to the Sides, 
 Excites the present Age in Lodge to join, 
 
 And Aprons wear 
 
 With Skill and Care, 
 To raise the Masons ancient Grand Design, 
 And to revive th' Augustan Style 
 In many an artful glorious Pile. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 From henceforth ever sing 
 
 The Craftsman and the King, 
 With Poetry and Musick sweet 
 Resound their Harmony compleat ; 
 And with Geometry in skilful Hand, 
 
 Due Homage pay, 
 
 Without Delay, 
 To Wharton's noble Duke, our Master Grand: 
 He rules the Free-born Sons of Art, 
 By Love and Friendship, Hand and Heart. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Who can rehearse the Praise, 
 In soft Poetick Lays, 
 Or Solid Prose, of Masons true. 
 Whose Art transcends the common View ? 
 Their Secrets, ne'er to Strangers yet expos'd, 
 Preserv'd shall be 
 By Masons Free, 
 And only to the ancient Lodge disclos'd ; 
 Because they're kept in Masons' Heart 
 By Brethren of the Royal Art. 
 5 
 
THE FELLOW-CRAFT'S SONG 
 
 BY OUR BROTHER CHARLES DELAFAYE, ESQ. 
 To be sung and play'd at the Grand-Feast. 
 
 Hail, Masonry ! thou Craft divine ! 
 
 Glory of Earth, from Heav'n reveal'd; 
 Which dost with Jewels precious shine, 
 
 From all but Masons' Eyes conceal'd. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Thy Praises due who can rehearse 
 In nervous Prose, or flowing Verse ? 
 
 II. 
 As Men from Brutes distinguisht are, 
 
 A Mason other Men excels ; 
 For what's in Knowledge choice and rare 
 
 But in his Breast securely dwells ? 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 His silent Breast and ftiithful Heart 
 Preserve the Secrets of the Art. 
 
 III. 
 From scorching Heat, and piercing Cold ; 
 
 From Beasts, whose Roar the Forest rends ; 
 From the Assaults of Warriours bold 
 
 The Masons' Art Mankind defends. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Be to this Art due Honour paid, 
 
 From which Mankind receives such Aid. 
 
/ MASONIC SONGS 99 
 
 IV. 
 
 Ensigns of State, that feed our Pride, 
 
 Distinctions troublesome, and vain! 
 By Masons true are laid aside: 
 
 Art's free-born Sons such Toys disdain. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Ennobled by the Name they bear, 
 Distinguisht by the Badge they wear. 
 
 V. 
 
 Sweet Fellowship, from Envy free: 
 
 Friendly Converse of Brotherhood ; 
 The Lodge's lasting Cement be ! 
 
 Which has for Ages firmly stood. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 A Lodge thus built, for Ages past 
 Has lasted, and will ever last. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Then in our Songs be Justice done 
 
 To those who have enrich'd the Art, 
 From Jabai. down to Burlington, 
 
 And let each Brother bear a Part. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Let noble Masons' Healths go round : 
 Their Praise in lofty Lodge resound. 
 
THE 
 
 ENTER'D 'PRENTICE'S SONG. 
 
 BY OUR LATE BROTHER 
 
 MR. MATTHEW BIRKHEAD, DECEAS'D. 
 
 To be sung wlien all grave Business is over, and with the Master's leave. 
 
 Come, let us prepare, 
 
 We Brothers that are 
 Assembled on merry Occasion; 
 
 Let's drink, laugh, and sing ; 
 
 Our Wine has a Spring : 
 Here's a Health to an Accepted Mason. 
 
 n. 
 
 The World is in pain 
 
 Our Secrets to gain, 
 And still let them wonder and gaze on ; 
 
 They ne'er can divine 
 
 The Word or the Sign 
 Of a rree and an Accepted Mason. 
 
 III. 
 
 Tis Tfiis and 'tis Thai, 
 
 They cannot tell What, 
 Why so many Great Men of the Nation 
 
 Should Aprons put on. 
 
 To make themselves one 
 With a Free and an Accepted Mason. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Great Kings, Dukes, and Lords, 
 Have laid by their Swords, 
 Our Mysfry to put a good Grace on ; 
 
ANCIENT EXTRACT. 101 
 
 And ne'er been asham'd • 
 
 To hear themselves nam'd 
 With a Free and an Accepted Mason. 
 
 Antiquity's Pride 
 
 We have on our side, 
 And it maketh Men just in their Station : 
 
 There's nought but what's good 
 
 To be understood 
 By a Free and an Accepted Mason. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Then join Hand in Hand, 
 
 T' each other firm stand, 
 Let's be merry, and put a bright Face on. 
 
 What Mortal can boast 
 
 So Noble a Toast, 
 As a Free and an Accepted Mason? 
 
 It is thought not amiss to insert here a Paragraph from an 
 old Record of Masons, viz. The Company of Masons, being 
 otherwise termed Free Masons, of ancient Standing and good 
 Reckoning, by means of affable and kind Meetings diverse 
 Tymes, and as a loving Brotherhood showld use to doe, did 
 frequent this mutual Assembly in the Tyme of King Henry 
 V. the 12th Year of his most gracious Reign. And the said 
 Record describing a Coat of Arms, much the same with that 
 of the London Company of Freemen Masons, it is generally 
 believ'd that the said Company is descended of the ancient 
 Fraternity ; and that in former Times no Man was made Free 
 of that Company, until he was install'd in some Lodge of Free 
 
lU2i RECOMMENDATION. 
 
 and Accej^ted Masons, as a necessary Qualification. But that 
 laudable Practice seems to have been long in Dissuetude. 
 The Brethren in foreign Parts have also discover'd that sev- 
 eral noble and ancient Societies and Orders of ^Men have de- 
 rived their Charges and Regulations from the Free Masons, 
 (which are now the most ancient Order upon Earth,) and per- 
 haps were originally all Members too of the said ancient and 
 worshipful Fraternity. But this will more fully appear in 
 due time. 
 
 London, this 11th Bay of January, 172g. 
 At the Quarterly Communication, This Book, which 
 was undertaken at the Command of His Grace the Duke 
 of Montagu, our late CKrantr-i^aBter, having been regu- 
 larly approved in Manuscript by the Grand-Lodge, was 
 this Day produced here in Print, and approved by the 
 Society : Wherefore we do hereby Order the same to be 
 Published, and recommend it for the Use of the Lodges. 
 
 Philip, Duke of Wharton, Grand-Master. 
 I. T. Desaguliers, Deputy Grand-Master. 
 
 FINIS 
 
ANALYTICAL INDEXES 
 
 TO 
 PREPARED BY 
 
 ALBERT G. MACKEY. M.D. 
 
 INDEX TO THE HISTORICAL PART. 
 
 A. 
 
 Abraham learaed Geometry and the kindred Arts in Ur of the Chal- 
 
 dees, and transmitted them to his sons, - - - 16 
 Adam had the principles of Geometry and the hberal Sciences impressed 
 
 upon his heart, 11 
 
 " taught his sons Geometry, and its use, 12 
 
 African nations conjectured to have imitated the Egyptians in Masonry, 31 
 
 Aholiab with Bezaleel erected the Tabernacle, ■ - - - 17 
 
 Anne, Queen of England, encouraged Architecture, - - - - 49 
 
 Archimedes, a prodigious Geometrician in Sicily, - - - * - 31 
 
 Architecture flourished in the reign of William III., - - - - 48 
 
 Ark of Noah fabricated by Geometry according to the rules of Masonr}-, 13 
 
 Arms of Freemasonry in the reign of Henry V., - - - - 98 
 
 Athelstane, King of England, encouraged Masons from France, - - 39 
 
 " improved the Constitutions of the English Lodges, - - 39 
 
 " increased the "Wages of the working Masons, - - - 39 
 
 " granted a free Charter, for the assembling of the Masons, 
 
 to his son. Prince Edwin, about a.d. 930, - - - - 39 
 
 Augustan style of Architecture defined, 33 
 
 Augustus, Emperor of Rome, encouraged Masonry and the Masons, and 
 
 particularly Vitruvius, 32 
 
 " became the Grand Master of Masons at Rome, - 32 
 
104 ANALYTICAL INDEX. 
 
 B. 
 
 Baal, or Bel, was one name by which Nimrod was worshiped. Note, 14 
 
 Babylon, city of, described, Note, 25 
 
 Bonai, or builders, at the Temple, defined, 19 
 
 Britons, the ancient, had a few remains of good Masonry before the 
 
 Roman conquest, - 35 
 
 Buildings, list of those erected in England since the revival of Ma- 
 sonry, Note, 52 
 
 C. 
 
 Cain built a city, and called it consecrated or dedicated, after the name 
 
 of Enoch, his son, 12 
 
 " posterity of, imitated his example in the improvement of Geometry 
 
 and Masonry, - - - 12 
 
 " erected many curious works, 14 
 
 Canaan, sons of, erected many beautiful temples and mansions, - 15 
 
 Candidates, by Prince Edwin's constitutions, were to be examined before 
 
 they were admitted as Master Masons, 40 
 
 Captives at Babylon retained their skill in Masonry, by building the 
 
 works of Nebuchadnezzar, - - - - - - 26 
 
 " rebuilt the Temple of Jerusalem, a.m. 3468, - - - - 26 
 
 Celtic edifices were erected by the ancient Gauls and Britons before the 
 
 Roman conquest, 35 
 
 Chaldees and Magi preserved Geometry on the Tigris and Euphrates, 14 
 
 Charles I. was an accepted Freemason, 46 
 
 " founded St. Paul's in 1666, - - - - - 47 
 " _ founded other edifices, 47 
 
 Charles Martel, King of France, sent expert Craftsmen and learned 
 
 Architects to England, a.d. 741, 37 
 
 Civil Wars, Masonry languished during the, 46 
 
 Colossus of Rhodes described, Note, 33 
 
 Confusion of languages helped to give rise to the Masonic modes of re- 
 cognition, 14 
 
 Constitution and Charges of an English Lodge were framed by the 
 Assembly at York, from all the writings and records in Greek, 
 Latin, French, and other languages then extant, - - - 39 
 " and charges ordered to be read by the Master and Warden, on 
 the admission of a new Brother, 40 
 
 Cyrus was Grand Master, a.m. 3468, and ordered the rebuilding of the 
 
 Temple at Jerusalem. 26 
 
ANALYTICAL INDEX. 105 
 
 D. 
 
 Dagon, Temple of, described, ... . . . . jg 
 
 Danes, the invasion of, occasioned the loss of many Masonic records, in 
 
 England, A.D. 832, 37 
 
 E. 
 
 Edwin, Prince, summoned a General Assembly of Masons at York, 
 
 about 930, 39 
 
 " obtained a free Charter for them from his father, King Athelstane , 39 
 Elizabeth, Queen, discouraged Masonry, because, being a woman, she 
 
 could not be made a Mason, 44 
 
 " anecdote of her, Note, 44 
 
 England received Masonry from France in the reign of King Charles 
 
 Martel, A.D. 741, 37 
 
 Enoch erected two pillars, which by some, however, have been attributed 
 
 toSeth, ..-....-. j^ote, 12 
 Entered Apprentices, directions to, in an old MS., - - - Noie, 41 
 Euclid gathered up the scattered elements of Geometry, and digested 
 
 these into a method, at Alexandria, a.m. 3700, - - - - 80 
 Europe, northern, there are few remains of good Masonry there before 
 
 the Roman conquest, 35 
 
 Expelled Masons, an old regulation concerning, - - - 2iote, 40 
 
 F. 
 Forty-seventh Propositibn of Euclid's first book is the foundation of all 
 
 Masonry, - - - - - - ... 29 
 
 Freemasons' Arms, in the reign ot Henry V., were the same as those of 
 
 the "Working Masons, 98 
 
 G. 
 General Assembly held at York, and framed the Constitution and Charges 
 
 of the English Lodges, 39 
 
 Geometry was written on the heart of Adam, 11 
 
 " is the foundation of all the mechanical Arts, and particularly of 
 
 Masonry and Architecture, 11 
 
 " was taught by Adam to his sons, 12 
 
 " and Masonry practised by Cain and Seth, - - - 12 
 
 " brought by Noah and his sons from the Old World to the New, 13 
 " and Masonry practised in the Vale of Shinar, - - - 13 
 " " carried by the workmen thence after their disper- 
 
 sion into distant parts, . . . ^ . . - - 13 
 
 " and Masonry lost in most parts of the earth, - - - 13 
 5* 
 
106 ANALYTICAL INDEX. 
 
 Geometry and Masonry preserved by Nimrod in Shinar and Assyria, - 13 
 " afterwards preserved on the Tigris and Euphrates by the Chal- 
 
 dees and Magi, 14 
 
 *' and Masonry were thence transmitted to later ages, - - 14 
 " " were much unproved in Egypt, from the overflow- 
 ings of the Nile, 15 
 
 " was cultivated in Greece after the time of Pythagoras, - - 29 
 
 " was digested into a method by Euclid at Alexandria, a.m. 3700, 30 
 
 George I. encouraged the revival of the ancient style, - - - 50 
 
 " laid the foundation-stone of the chapel of St. Martin in campis, 50 
 
 Ghiblim, the Stonecutters at the Temple, .... Note, 19 
 
 Gothic style was encouraged in England during the Heptarchy, - - 37 
 
 Goths and Vandals were enemies of Masonry, 35 
 
 Grand Master was always nobly born in Scotland, - - - - 43 
 
 Greece, Masonry carried into, after the Temple, - - - - 28 
 
 " not distinguished for knowledge of Geometry until the time of 
 
 Thales, A.M. 3457, 28 
 
 " knowledge of Geometry and Masonry in, was revived by its cor- 
 respondence with the Asiatics and Egyptians, - - Note, 28 
 
 H. 
 
 Harodim, the Eulers or Provosts at the Temple, 19 
 
 Henry V., condition of Masonry in the reign of, - • - - - 98 
 
 Henry VI. approved the Constitutions of Prince Edwin, - - - 40 
 
 " act passed in the reign of, was made for the Working Masons , 42 
 
 " act of, was never enforced against the Freemasons, - - 42 
 
 Hiram Abif, meaning of his name, Note, 20 
 
 " " his character, 21 
 
 " " called Master of the Work, 23 
 
 Hiram, King of Tyre, 20 
 
 " " " was Grand Master of the Lodge at Tyre, • - 23 
 
 I. 
 
 Ish Chotzeb, the Hewers of the Temple, .... Note, 19 
 
 Ish Sabbal, the Laborers at the Temple, 19 
 
 Israelites, forced by the kings of Egypt to learn Masonry, - - - 17 
 
 " were a whole kingdom of Masons when they left Egypt, - 17 
 " improved Masonry after they possessed Canaan, by special 
 
 direction of Heaven, 17 
 
 " none of the neighboring nations could equal them in Masonry, 24 
 
ANALYTICAL INDEX. 107 
 
 J. 
 
 James I. revived the English Lodges, 45 
 
 " revived the Augustan style in England, 45 
 
 James 11., Lodges dwindled in the reign of, 48 
 
 Japhet, posterity of, were skilled in Geometry and Masonry, - - 13 
 
 Jones, Inigo, was a successful imitator of Palladio, - . - - 45 
 
 " " his genius and works, ... . 27bte, 46 
 
 Jupiter, Olympus, statue of, described, 33 
 
 K. 
 King's Freemason or General Smveyorwas the name of an officer in the 
 
 reign of Edward IIL, 38 
 
 Knighthood, military orders of, borrowed many of their usages from 
 
 Masonry, 62 
 
 L. 
 
 Lodge of Masons in every Roman garrison, 34 
 
 Lodges, their revival in London, 54 
 
 list of, in London in 1723, 82 
 
 M. 
 
 Mahometans were enemies of Masomy, 35 
 
 Masonry, the Old World was not ignorant of it, - - - - - 13 
 " was communicated to the New World by Noah and his sons, 13 
 " was can-ied, after the dlsijersion at Babel, into distant parts, 13 
 " was preserved by Nimrod in Shiuar and Assyria, - - 13 
 " was encouraged by the kings and great men there, - - 14 
 " was transmitted thence, with Geometry, to later ages and dis- 
 tant climes, 14 
 
 " was brought to Egypt by Mitzraim, 160 years after the flood, 15 
 " was improved in all the nations which were adjacent to Judea, 
 
 after the building of the Temple , by the dispersion of the workmen , 2 3 
 
 " was extended to Greece, - - 28 
 
 " was extended to Lower Asia, - - - - 29 
 
 " was cultivated in Greece, ... - - 30 
 
 " was cultivated in Sicily, .... - - 31 
 
 " was transmitted from Sicily to Rome, 32 
 
 " was extended to Ultima Thule, - 34 
 
 " was encouraged by the Saxons and Normans, - - - 3Q 
 
 " was encouraged in Scotland, ...... 43 
 
108 ANALYTICAL INDEX, 
 
 Masonry was discountenanced by Queen Elizabeth, - - - - 44 
 
 " was encouraged by James I., 45 
 
 " was encouraged by Charles II., 47 
 
 " languished during the Civil Wars, 46 
 
 " recovered at the Restoration, in 1666, 46 
 
 " dwindled in the reign of James II., 47 
 
 " had a mighty iufluence in every age and nation, - - - 51 
 
 " condition of, in England, in 1723, 45 
 
 Masons were always the favorites of the eminent, in times of peace and 
 
 freedom, 33 
 
 Mausoleum, the, described, 29 
 
 Menatzchim, the Overseers at the Temple, .... Note, 19 
 
 Montagu, Duke of, Grand Master of England, 54 
 
 Monument, the London, described, Note, 48 
 
 Moses, the General Master Mason, 18 
 
 N. 
 Nebuchadnezzar set liis heart on Architecture, and became the Grand 
 
 Master Mason, a.m. 3416, - - . . - - - 25 
 
 " built Babylon, 25 
 
 Nimrod preserved Masonry in Shinar and Assyria, - - - - 13 
 
 " built many cities, 14 
 
 Noah and three sons were all true Masons, 13 
 
 " " " brought with them, over the flood, the traditions 
 
 and arts of the antediluvians, 13 
 
 Normans encouraged Masoniy, 37 
 
 O. 
 
 Overseers at the Temple, - Noie, 19 
 
 Oxford Theatre described, 49 
 
 P. 
 
 Painters always have been reckoned as good Masons, because they per- 
 form according to Geometry and the rules of building, - - 33 
 
 Palladio revived the Augustan style in Italy, 45 
 
 Pharos, the Tower of, described, Note, 31 
 
 Phidias was one of the ancient Masons, 33 
 
 Ptolomeus Philadelphus was General Master Mason in Egypt, and erected 
 
 the Tower of Pharos, A.M. 3748, 30 
 
 Pyramids are a proof of Masonry in Egypt, 14 
 
ANALYTICAL INDEX. l09 
 
 Pythagoras was the author of the 47th proposition of Euclid's first book, 28 
 
 " account of, Note, 29 
 
 R. 
 
 Record, Masonic, in the reign of Edward IV., described, - - - 38 
 
 Religious Orders borrowed many of their usages from Masonry, - 47 
 
 S. 
 Sampson never was numbered among Masons, because he revealed his 
 
 secrets to his wife, Note, 18 
 
 Saxons, before their conversion to Christianity, were enemies of Masonry, 36 
 
 " afterwards erected Lodges, and encouraged Masonry, - - 36 
 
 Scotland, Masonry encouraged in, 43 
 
 " Grand Master and Grand Warden in, had a fixed salary from 
 
 the Crown, • - 44 
 
 " regulations of, - 44 
 
 Seth was the prime cultivator of Astronomy, 12 
 
 " taught Geometry and Masonry to his offspring, - - - - 12 
 
 " family of, erected many curious works, 13 
 
 Shem, posterity of, cultivated the Masonic Arts, 16 
 
 Sheriff or Mayor ordered by an old MS. to be made Fellow and 
 Sociate to the Master of a Lodge, in help of him against 
 
 rebels, - - Note, 40 
 
 Shinar, a vast number of the race of Noah employed in building a city 
 
 and tower in the vale of, 13 
 
 Shinar, workmen at, celebrated for their skill in Masonry, - - 13 
 
 " " carried their skill into distant parts, - - - - 13 
 
 Sicily taught Geometry and Masonry to Rome, 32 
 
 Solomon built the Temple at Jerusalem, 19 
 
 " dedicated or consecrated the Temple, a.m. 3000 - - - 22 
 " was Grand Master of the Lodge at Jerusalem, - - - 23 
 Statuaries have always been reckoned good Masons, because they per- 
 form according to Geometry and the rules of building, - - 33 
 Stone, Nicholas, was Master Mason under Inigo Jones, - - - - 46 
 
 T. 
 
 TabeiTiacle was erected by Aholiab and Bezaleel under Moses, and 
 
 framed by Geometry, 17 
 
 Temple of Solomon described, 18 
 
110 ANALYTICAL INDEX. 
 
 Temple, the Second, foundations of, laid by order of Cyrus, a.m. 34G8, 23 
 
 " " dedicated by Zerubbabel, A.M. 3489, - - 27 
 
 " " described, 27 
 
 " of Ephesiis described, Note, 24 
 
 V. 
 
 Vandals were enemies of Masonry, 35 
 
 Vitruvius was the father of all true Architects, 32 
 
 W. 
 
 William the Conquerob built the Tower of London, - - Note, 37 
 
 William 11. encouraged Masonry, and built Westminster Hall, - - 38 
 
 William III. is reckoned a Freemason, 48 
 
 " encouraged Masonry, 48 
 
 " in the reign of, the Augustan style was much affected, - 48 
 
 Woikmen at the Temple described, ... ... 19 
 
 Wren, Sir Christopher, was the King's Architect, 49 
 
 Y. 
 
 Yevele, Henry, was the King's Freemason, or General Surveyor, in the 
 
 reign of Edward IH., 38 
 
 Vork, General Assembly at, about a.d. 930, 39 
 
 Z. 
 
 Zerubbabel, as General Master Mason of the Jews, dedicated the 
 
 Second Temple with joy, a.m. 3489, - 27 
 
MASONIC SONGS. 
 
 II. 
 INDEX TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL PART. 
 
 A. 
 
 Age of a candidate to be not less than 25, except by dispensation, 
 
 (4 Regulation), 65 
 
 Annual Communication of all the city Lodges to be holden on St. John 
 
 theBaptist'sorSt. John the Evangelist's day, (22 Reg.), - - 72 
 " " new Grand Master, Deputy, and Wardens, to be 
 
 chosen at the (22 Reg.), ... - ... 72 
 
 Appeals may be carried to the Grand Lodge, 59 
 
 " to the Annual, from the Quarterly Communication of the Grand 
 
 Lodge, 62 
 
 Atheist, no Mason can be one, .... ... 56 
 
 B. 
 
 Behavior in a Lodge, 69 
 
 " after Lodge, before leaving, 60 
 
 " without strangers, but out of Lodge, 61 
 
 " in presence of strangers not Masons, 61 
 
 " at home, .... 61 
 
 " to a strange Brother, - - 61 
 
 Bondmen cannot be admitted as Masons, 57 
 
 Brother, Masons to salute each other by the title of, - - - 58, 61 
 
 Brotherly love is to be cultivated as a foundation and cape-stone, - 62 
 
 C. 
 Candidates, not more than five to be made at one time (4 Reg.), - - 65 
 Candidate, age of, not to be less than 25 years (4 Reg.), - - - 65 
 
 " to be unanimously elected (6 Reg.), 65 
 
 " to clothe the Lodge, and to deposit something for charity, 
 
 (7 Reg.), 66 
 
 " shall promise to submit to the constitutions, charges, and 
 
 regulations (7 Reg.), 66 
 
 Cashier may be appointed by a Lodge to take charge of the charity 
 
 fund (7 Reg.), 66 
 
112 ANALYTICAL INDEX 
 
 Caution before strangers inculcated, 61 
 
 " " one's family, friends, and neighbors, - - - - 61 
 Charity Fund to be lodged with the Master, or Wardeas, or Cashier, if 
 
 there be one (7 Reg.), 66 
 
 '• to be deposited by every new Brother at his making (7 Reg.), 66 
 
 " regulation for, in the Grand Lodge (13 Reg.), - - - 68 
 
 Clandestine Lodge, how to be treated (8 Reg.), 66 
 
 Committee to be appointed to examine all Brethren coming to the annual 
 
 feast (25 Reg.), 73 
 
 Conmiittees, private, forbidden to be holden in a Lodge, - - - 69 
 
 Complaints (nr charges), how to be conducted, .... 60 
 
 Constituting a new Lodge, manner of, 78 
 
 D. 
 
 Defect, physical, a disqualification for Apprentices, - - - - 57 
 
 Deputy Grand Master to be chosen by the Grand Master, - - - 58 
 
 " '•' " to be appointed by the Grand Master at the Grand 
 
 Feast (35 Reg.), 76 
 
 *' " " must have been the Master of a Lodge, - - 58 
 " " " may perfonn the duties of Grand Master in his 
 
 absence, 58 
 
 " " " being sick, the Grand Master may appoint a 
 
 Deputy, pro tempore (18 Reg.), - - - 71 
 " " " cannot act as Master or Warden of a Lodge, 
 
 while in office (17 Reg.), - - - - 70 
 " " " cannot be discharged without the consent of the 
 
 Grand Lodge (18 Reg.), 71 
 
 Disorderly Brother, how to be dealt with (9 Reg.), - - - - 67 
 Dispensations, cases in which they may be granted (5, 8, 12, 13 
 
 Reg.), • - - 65, 66, 67, 68 
 
 E 
 
 Envy forbidden, 59 
 
 Excesses forbidden, - 60 
 
 Entered Apprentices allowed to speak at the Annual Communication (37 
 
 Reg.) - - 77 
 
 " " allowed to vote in making new regulations (39 Reg.), 77 
 
 F. 
 Feast to be held on St. John the Baptist's or St. John the Evangelist's 
 
 day (22 Reg.), 72 
 
 " must be agreed upon three months before (22 Reg.), - - 72 
 
ANALYTICAL INDEX. 113 
 
 Feast, if objected to by the Grand Master, or a majority of the Masters, 
 
 it must be dropped (22 Reg.), 72 
 
 " how to be managed (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30 Reg.), - 72, 73, 74, 75 
 
 Fellow, a name by which Masons may call each other, - - - - 58 
 Fellow Crafts and Master Masons only, to be made only in Grand Lodge 
 
 (13 Reg.), - - 68 
 
 " " permitted to speak at Annual Communication (37 Reg.), 77 
 
 Fidelity to the Lord (i. e., employer) inculcated, 59 
 
 Free-bom, Masons must be, 57 
 
 G. 
 
 Grand Lodge to consist of Master and Wardens of all the Lodges, with 
 
 the Grand Master, Deputy, and Grand Wardens (12 Reg.), 67 
 " " to hold Quarterly Conamunications and an annual one 
 
 (12 Reg.), - 67 
 
 " " duties and functions of (13 Reg.), - - - - 67 
 " " aU matters in, to be determined by a majority of votes 
 
 (12 Reg.), ... - .... 67 
 
 " " none but members to be present (12 Reg.), - - - 67 
 
 Grand Master must have been a Fellow Craft, 68 
 
 " " other quaUfications of, 58 
 
 " - " authority and powers of, 62 
 
 " " has two votes (12 Reg.), 67 
 
 " ** not to be applied to on business without the knowledge of 
 
 hisDeputy (16 Reg.), 70 
 
 " " has a right to preside in any Lodge (1 Reg.), - - 64 
 
 " " cannot be the Master or Warden of a Lodge during tie 
 
 time of oflBce (17 Reg.), 70 
 
 " " abusing his power, to be treated by a new regulation 
 
 (19 Reg.), 71 
 
 " ** dying, or being otherwise rendered incapable of discharg- 
 
 ing his oflBce, how his place is to be supplied (21 Reg.), 71 
 " " to be elected only by the Master and Wardens of the 
 
 Lodges (29 Reg.), 75 
 
 " " how to be proclaimed (32 Reg.), - - - - 75 
 " "if not elected at the Annual Communication, or refuses 
 to serve, then the present Grand Master shall appoint 
 his successor, to be unanimously approved by the 
 Grand Lodge (33 Reg.), 75 
 
114 ANALYTICAL INDEX. 
 
 Grand Master to act as proxy for the Grand Master elect, if he be absent 
 at the time of his election, and to receive homage for him 
 
 (36 Reg.), 77 
 
 " " must harangue- the Brethren and ^ve them good advice 
 
 at the Annual Communication (38 Reg.) , - - - 77 
 
 H. 
 Health must be consulted, by not continuing together too late, or too long 
 
 from home after lodge hours are past, 60 
 
 Heni7 V., opinion concerning the act passed in the reign of, - - 63 
 
 Honor of the Ancient Brotherhood to be consulted, - - - - 61 
 
 I. 
 
 HI language to be avoided by the Craftsmen, 58 
 
 Instructing the Master and Wardens, right of secured to the Lodge, 
 
 (9 Reg.), 67 
 
 Instruction to be given to the younger Brethren, 61 
 
 J. 
 
 Journey-work not to be put to task, .... - - 69 
 
 L. 
 Laborers not to be employed in the proper work of Masonry ^ - - 59 
 Language, unbecoming, not to be used in the Lodge, - - - - 58 
 Law, not to be resorted to, about what concerns Masonry, without an ab- 
 solute necessity, apparent to the Lodge, 60 
 
 Law suits between Masons to be conducted without wrath and rancour, 62 
 Legal course, never to be taken, unless the case cannot be otherwise 
 
 decided, 62 
 
 Libertine, irreligious, (i. e., a freethinker,) a Mason cannot be one, - 56 
 
 Lodge, definition of, 57 
 
 " every Brother to belong to one, 57 
 
 " anciently, no Mason could be absent from it, except from neces- 
 sity, vnthout severe censure, 57 
 
 " qualifications for admission to (2 Reg.), 65 
 
 " Rulers and Governors of, to be obeyed in their respective stations, 
 
 with humility, reverence, love, and alacrity, - - - 58 
 
 " is either particular or general, 57 
 
 " by-laws, roll, and minutes of, to be kept by the Master, Wardens, 
 
 or some Brother appointed by the Master (3 Reg.), - - 65 
 " members of, are the best judges of whom they shall admit 
 
 (6 Reg.), 65 
 
 " Grand. (See Grand Lodge.) 
 
ANALYTICAL IXDEX. " 115 
 
 M. 
 
 Majority of votes to decide in the Grand Lodge (12 Reg.), - - 67 
 
 Making of more than five new Brothers at one time forbidden (4 Reg.) 65 
 
 Mason, the religion of one, 56 
 
 Master of a Lodge, his rights and authority (2 Reg.), - - - 65 
 
 " " must have acted as "Warden, 58 
 
 ** " the most expert of the Fellow Crafts to be chosen 
 
 as the, 58 
 
 " " who is the oldest Freemason, to preside in the Grand 
 
 Lodge , in the absence of higher officers (14 Reg.) , 6 9 
 " Grand. (See Gi^and Master.) 
 " Masons and Fellow Crafts to be made only in the Grand Lodge 
 
 (13 Reg.), * - - - 64 
 
 Merit, the only ground of preferment among Masons, ■ - - 57 
 
 Mirth, innocent, to be enjoyed after Lodge, - - - - - 60 
 
 Moral Law, a Mason obliged by his tenure to obey the, • - - 50 
 
 Motions to be received before dinner at the annual feast (28 Reg.), - 74 
 
 O. 
 
 Obedience to the Rulers of Masonry inculcated, - - - - 58 
 
 P. 
 
 Past Grand Master, or Past Deputy, takes the place of the Grand 
 
 Master in his absence, and that of the Deputy (14 Reg.), - - 69 
 
 " Master, the last, to preside in the absence of the Master (2 Reg.), 65 
 Petition or notice to be one month previous to admission of a member 
 
 (5 Reg.), 65 
 
 Politics not to be brought into the Lodge, . - - - - 60 
 
 Porters to be appointed for the annual feast (26 Reg.), - - - 74 
 
 Preferment among Masons grounded on merit, 57 
 
 Proxy, Grand Master may be installed, and make his nominations by 
 
 (36 Reg.), 77 
 
 Q. 
 
 (Qualifications for admission, 67 
 
 " physical, of candidates, 57 
 
 Quarreling and wrangling forbidden, 60 
 
 Quarrels alwut religion or politics forbidden, 60 
 
 Quarterly Communications of the Grand Lodge directed to be holden 
 
 (12 Reg.), 67 
 
116 ANALYTICAL INDEX. 
 
 Quarterly Communications none but members to be present at them 
 
 (12 Reg.), 67 
 
 " " Master Masons and Fellow Crafts to be made 
 
 only there, except by dispensation (13 Reg.) , 68 
 
 " ** differences that cannot be settled in private 
 
 or by Lodges, are to be decided there 
 
 (13 Reg.), 68 
 
 ** " appeal from the, to the annual Grand Lodge 
 
 (13 Reg.), 68 
 
 ** ** Masters and Wardens to make their returns 
 
 there (13 Reg.), 68 
 
 R. 
 
 Rebels to government not to be countenanced, but cannot be expelled, 56 
 
 Regulations, (General, were compiled by Geo. Payne, ■ ■ - 64 
 
 " " how to be altered (39 Reg.), • - - - 77 
 
 Religion of a Mason, what it ought to be, 56 
 
 " disputes about, never to be brought into the Lodge, - - - 60 
 
 Representatives of a Lodge are the Master and Wardens (10 Reg.), 67 
 
 Reverence to be paid to the Master, Wardens, and Fellows, - - 60 
 Roll of members to be kept by the Master, Wardens, or some other 
 
 Brother appointed by the Master (3 Reg.), - - - - 65 
 
 S. 
 
 Salute. Brethren to salute one another in a courteous manirer, - 60 
 
 Secretary, Grand, provision for his apijointment (13 Reg.), - - - 68 
 
 " " cannot be Master or Warden of a Lodge during his 
 
 time of office (17 Reg.), 70 
 
 Seniority no ground for preferment in Masonry, - - - - - 57 
 Senior Warden presides in the Master's absence, if no Past Master be 
 
 present; and if there is, he must congregate the Lodge (2 Reg.), 65 
 
 Song, the Master's, .... 83 
 
 " " Warden's, 93 
 
 " " FeUow Craft's, 98 
 
 " " Entered Apprentice's, 100 
 
 Stewards for the annual feast to be appointed (23 Reg.), - - - 72 
 
 Strange Brethren to be cautiously examined, 61 
 
 " " to be respected and relieved, 62 
 
 " " to be employed or recommended, - - - - 62 
 
 Sulyection to the civil povrers inculcated, - - - - - 56 
 
ANALYTICAL INDEX. 117 
 
 T. 
 
 Task work not to be put to journey, .... - - 59 
 
 Tyler, Grand, dii-ected to be appointed (13 Beg.), - • - - 68 
 
 " " must be a Fellow Craft (13 Reg.), - - - - 68 
 
 " " shall not be a member of the Grand Lodge (13 Reg.), 68 
 
 Tools to be approved by the Grand Lodge, 59 
 
 Treasurer, Grand, his appointments and powers (13 Reg.), - - - 59 
 " " cannot be Master or Warden of a Lodge during the 
 
 time of his office (17 Reg.), - - ' - - 70 
 
 U 
 
 Unanimity in balloting for candidates required (6 Reg.) - - - 65 
 
 " " cannot be dispensed with (6 Reg.) - - - 65 
 
 Uniformity in work to be observed (11 Reg.), 67 
 
 V. 
 
 Visitation of the city Lodges by the Grand Master directed, (12 Reg.) 67 
 
 Votes, a majority of, to decide all questions in the Grand Lodge, (12 Reg.) , 67 
 
 " the Grand Master has two, (12 Reg.), 67 
 
 W. 
 
 Wages, no more to be given than deserved, 69 
 
 " to be received without murmuring, 59 
 
 Warden must be a Fellow Craft, 58 
 
 " to oversee the work in the Master's absence, - - - 59 
 Wardens, to be elected by the Lodge, if it does not approve of the 
 
 Master's nomination (35 Reg.), - - . . . . 7g 
 
 Warden, Grand, must have been the Master of a Lodge, - - - 58 
 " " cannot be a Master or Warden of a Lodge during his 
 
 timeof office (17 Reg.), 70 
 
 Wardens, Grand, who are to act as such in the Grand Lodge (15 Reg.), 70 
 " " cannot be discharged by the Grand Master, without 
 the consent of the majority of the Grand Lodge 
 
 (18 Reg.), 71 
 
 " " are to prepare tickets for the feast (23 Reg.), - 72 
 
 " " to be nominated by the Grand Master (35 Reg.), - 76 
 " " to be elected by the Grand Lodge, if the Grand 
 
 Master's nomination is not approved (35 Reg.), - 76 
 
118 ANALYTICAL INDEX. 
 
 Warrant to form a new Lodge, must be obtained from the Grand Master 
 
 (8 Reg.), 6G 
 
 Withdrawal of a number of Brethren from a Lodge, when only to be 
 
 Ijermitted (8 Reg.), 66 
 
 Women not to be admitted members of a Lodge, 57 
 
 Work on working days inculcated, 58 
 
 " to be done reasonably, 58 
 
 " to be honestly finished, 59 
 
 Worth and merit, the only grounds of preferment among Masons, - - 59 
 
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