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London : Routledge, 2016.
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9781317275428
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CONTENTS
Volume I
- General Acknowledgements
- General Introduction
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- John Pine, A List of Regular Lodges as Constituted ’till March 25th 1725. (1725)
- [Anon.], The Beginning and First Foundation of the Most Worthy Craft of Masonry with the Charges Thereunto Belonging (1739)
- [Anon.], The Pocket Companion and History of Free-Masons (1754)
- Thomas Dunckerley, The Moral Part of Masonry Explained (1757)
- Thomas Edmondes, An Address … as Delivered at the Steward’s Lodge (1763)
- Thomas Dunckerley, A Charge, Delivered to the Members of the Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, Held at the Castle-Inn, Marlborough (1769)
- William Meeson, An Introduction to Free Masonry: For the Use of the Fraternity; and None Else. In Four Parts (1775)
- William Dodd, An Oration Delivered at the Dedication of Free-Masons’ Hall, Great Queen-Street, Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, on Thursday, May 23, 1776 (1776)
- J. Rotheram, A Charge, Delivered to Several Newly Initiated Brethren, in St. John’s Lodge (1777)
- Anon. [Robert Trewman ed.], The Principles of Free-Masonry Delineated (1777)
- Anon. [William Preston], State of Facts: Being a Narrative of Some Late Proceedings in the Society of Free Masons, Respecting William Preston (1778)
- [Anon.], An Account of the Institution and Proceeding, of the Governors of the Royal Cumberland Free-Mason School (1788)
- James Mullalla, Esq., An Essay on the Origin of Masonry (1792)
- Jane Elizabeth Moore, Miscellaneous Poems (1797)
- [Parliament of Great Britain], An Act for the More Effectual Suppression of Societies Established for Seditious and Treasonable Purposes,and for Better Preventing Treasonable and Seditious Practices (1799)
- Two Masonic Certificates (1798 & 1808)
- [Anon.], The Masonic Museum, Containing a Select Collection of the Most Celebrated Songs, Sung in All the Respectable Lodges (1799)
- [Antients and Moderns Grand Lodges], Articles of Union between the Two Grand Lodges of Freemasons of England (1813)
- Editorial Notes
- Silent Corrections
- List of Sources
Volume II
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Bibliography
- Masonry farther Dissected (1738)
- Alexander Slade, The Free Mason Examin’d, 2nd edn (1754)
- A Master-Key to Free-Masonry (1760)
- Thomas Wilson, Solomon in All His Glory (1777)
- Hiram or the Grand Master-Key, 3rd edn ([c. 1777])
- The Secret of the Order of Free Masons ([1797])
- John Browne, Browne’s Masonic Master-Key, 2nd edn (1802)
- William Finch, A Masonic Treatise (1802)
- [William Finch], Lectures on Masonry ([1809 or 1810])
- Jachin and Boaz ([c. 1810])
- Editorial Notes
- List of Sources
Volume III
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Bibliography
- William Smith, The Book M: Or, Masonry Triumphant (1736)
- The Rite ancien de Bouillon (1740?)
- Womens Masonry or Masonry by Adoption (1765)
- The ‘Sheffield’ Royal Arch Ritual (c. 1780–5)
- The ‘Flather’ MS (1780–1800)
- Alexander Dalziel’s Manuscripts of [William Preston’s?] ‘Old Harodim Lectures’ or ‘Old York Ritual/Lectures’ [c. 1790?]
- William Finch’s MS: ‘Royal Arch A.D. 1804’
- William Finch, Freemasons Guide 1807
- G. N. Drinkwater’s and I. H. Drinkwater’s 1955 transcript of William Waples’s 1951 transcript of John Yarker’s 1896 [?] transcript of the Rituals (not the Lectures) of the Craft degrees of Alexander Dalziel’s c. 1823 Manuscript
- Excerpts from the Texts by Ferdinand Fritz Schnitger
- Alexander Dalziel’s 1830 MSS
- Freemasonry. A Word to the Wise [1796]
- The ‘Sheffield’ Knight Templar Ritual (c. 1800)
- The ‘Deptford’ MS (1814–19)
- High Knights Templar Rituals, Dublin (1795 and 1804)
- Knight of the Red Cross Ritual, Ireland (1806)
- Editorial Notes
- List of Sources
Volume III
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Bibliography
- Anon. [signed Philo Lapidarius], An Answer to the Pope’s Bull, with the Character of a Freemason (1738)
- Bernard Clarke, An Answer to the Pope’s Bull, with a Vindication of the Real Principles of Free-Masonry (1751)
- William Imbrie and William Geddes, The Poor Man’s Complaint against the Whole Unwarrantable Procedure of the Associate Session in Glasgow, Anent him and Others in Seeking a Confession of the Mason and Chapman Oaths (1754)
- James Steven, Blind Zeal Detected: or, A True Representation of the Conduct of the Meeting I was a Member of, and of the Kirk-Session of the Associate Congregation, at Glasgow (1755)
- [Associate Synod], ‘An Act of the Associate Synod Concerning the Mason-Oath’ and A, R, ‘An Impartial Examination of the Act against Freemasons’ (1757) in the Appendix of The Free Masons Pocket Companion (1761)
- Richard Lewis, The Free-Masons Advocate. Or, Falsehood Detected (1760)
- Laurence Dermott, Ahiman Rezon, 2nd edn, excerpt containing polemic against Moderns Freemasons and in praise of Antients Freemasonry (1764)
- [Anon.], A Defence of Free-Masonry, as Practiced in the Regular Lodges, both Foreign and Domestic under the Constitution of the English Grand Master (1765)
- [Anon.], Masonry the Way to Hell, a Sermon (1768)
- [Anon.], Masonry Vindicated: a Sermon. Wherein is Clearly and Demonstratively Proved, that a Sermon, Lately Published, ‘Intitled Masonry the Way to Hell’, is an Intire Piece of the Utmost Weakness, and Absurdity (1768)
- George Smith, ‘Ancient and Modern Reasons Why the Ladies Have Never Been Admitted into the Society of Freemasons’, in The Use and Abuse of Free-Masonry (1783)
- [A Friend to Truth], A Defence of Free Masons etc., in Answer to Professor John Robison’s Proofs of a Conspiracy (1797)
- [Anon.], The Indictment and Trial of John Andrew, Shoemaker in Maybole, Sometime Teacher of a Private School There, and Robert Ramsay, Cart Wright There, Both Members of a Masonic Lodge at Maybole: Charged with the Crime of Sedition, and Administering Unlawful Oaths (1800)
- [Anon.], Petition and Complaint at Brother Gibson’s Instance Against Brother Mitchell, and His Answers Thereto; With the Procedure of the Grand Lodge Thereon and Proof Adduced (1808)
- [Anon.], An Exposition of the Causes which Have Produced the Late Dissensions Among the Free Masons of Scotland (1808)
- [Anon.] An Enquiry into the Late Disputes among the Free-Masons of Ireland; Wherein is Detailed a Free and Important Account of the Different Transactions which Gave Rise to, and Continued the Controversy, from the Commencement to the Establishment of the Grand Lodge of Ulster (1810)
- Editorial Notes
- Silent Corrections
- List of Sources
Volume V
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Bibliography
- Admissions and Lodge Meetings
- Theatre
- Processions
- Debates and Conflicts
- Women
- British Fraternal Societies and the Response to Grand Lodge Freemasonry
- Editorial Notes
- Silent Corrections
- List of Sources
- Index
Volume I
- General Acknowledgements
- General Introduction
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- John Pine, A List of Regular Lodges as Constituted ’till March 25th 1725. (1725)
- [Anon.], The Beginning and First Foundation of the Most Worthy Craft of Masonry with the Charges Thereunto Belonging (1739)
- [Anon.], The Pocket Companion and History of Free-Masons (1754)
- Thomas Dunckerley, The Moral Part of Masonry Explained (1757)
- Thomas Edmondes, An Address … as Delivered at the Steward’s Lodge (1763)
- Thomas Dunckerley, A Charge, Delivered to the Members of the Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, Held at the Castle-Inn, Marlborough (1769)
- William Meeson, An Introduction to Free Masonry: For the Use of the Fraternity; and None Else. In Four Parts (1775)
- William Dodd, An Oration Delivered at the Dedication of Free-Masons’ Hall, Great Queen-Street, Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, on Thursday, May 23, 1776 (1776)
- J. Rotheram, A Charge, Delivered to Several Newly Initiated Brethren, in St. John’s Lodge (1777)
- Anon. [Robert Trewman ed.], The Principles of Free-Masonry Delineated (1777)
- Anon. [William Preston], State of Facts: Being a Narrative of Some Late Proceedings in the Society of Free Masons, Respecting William Preston (1778)
- [Anon.], An Account of the Institution and Proceeding, of the Governors of the Royal Cumberland Free-Mason School (1788)
- James Mullalla, Esq., An Essay on the Origin of Masonry (1792)
- Jane Elizabeth Moore, Miscellaneous Poems (1797)
- [Parliament of Great Britain], An Act for the More Effectual Suppression of Societies Established for Seditious and Treasonable Purposes,and for Better Preventing Treasonable and Seditious Practices (1799)
- Two Masonic Certificates (1798 & 1808)
- [Anon.], The Masonic Museum, Containing a Select Collection of the Most Celebrated Songs, Sung in All the Respectable Lodges (1799)
- [Antients and Moderns Grand Lodges], Articles of Union between the Two Grand Lodges of Freemasons of England (1813)
- Editorial Notes
- Silent Corrections
- List of Sources
Volume II
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Bibliography
- Masonry farther Dissected (1738)
- Alexander Slade, The Free Mason Examin’d, 2nd edn (1754)
- A Master-Key to Free-Masonry (1760)
- Thomas Wilson, Solomon in All His Glory (1777)
- Hiram or the Grand Master-Key, 3rd edn ([c. 1777])
- The Secret of the Order of Free Masons ([1797])
- John Browne, Browne’s Masonic Master-Key, 2nd edn (1802)
- William Finch, A Masonic Treatise (1802)
- [William Finch], Lectures on Masonry ([1809 or 1810])
- Jachin and Boaz ([c. 1810])
- Editorial Notes
- List of Sources
Volume III
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Bibliography
- William Smith, The Book M: Or, Masonry Triumphant (1736)
- The Rite ancien de Bouillon (1740?)
- Womens Masonry or Masonry by Adoption (1765)
- The ‘Sheffield’ Royal Arch Ritual (c. 1780–5)
- The ‘Flather’ MS (1780–1800)
- Alexander Dalziel’s Manuscripts of [William Preston’s?] ‘Old Harodim Lectures’ or ‘Old York Ritual/Lectures’ [c. 1790?]
- William Finch’s MS: ‘Royal Arch A.D. 1804’
- William Finch, Freemasons Guide 1807
- G. N. Drinkwater’s and I. H. Drinkwater’s 1955 transcript of William Waples’s 1951 transcript of John Yarker’s 1896 [?] transcript of the Rituals (not the Lectures) of the Craft degrees of Alexander Dalziel’s c. 1823 Manuscript
- Excerpts from the Texts by Ferdinand Fritz Schnitger
- Alexander Dalziel’s 1830 MSS
- Freemasonry. A Word to the Wise [1796]
- The ‘Sheffield’ Knight Templar Ritual (c. 1800)
- The ‘Deptford’ MS (1814–19)
- High Knights Templar Rituals, Dublin (1795 and 1804)
- Knight of the Red Cross Ritual, Ireland (1806)
- Editorial Notes
- List of Sources
Volume III
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Bibliography
- Anon. [signed Philo Lapidarius], An Answer to the Pope’s Bull, with the Character of a Freemason (1738)
- Bernard Clarke, An Answer to the Pope’s Bull, with a Vindication of the Real Principles of Free-Masonry (1751)
- William Imbrie and William Geddes, The Poor Man’s Complaint against the Whole Unwarrantable Procedure of the Associate Session in Glasgow, Anent him and Others in Seeking a Confession of the Mason and Chapman Oaths (1754)
- James Steven, Blind Zeal Detected: or, A True Representation of the Conduct of the Meeting I was a Member of, and of the Kirk-Session of the Associate Congregation, at Glasgow (1755)
- [Associate Synod], ‘An Act of the Associate Synod Concerning the Mason-Oath’ and A, R, ‘An Impartial Examination of the Act against Freemasons’ (1757) in the Appendix of The Free Masons Pocket Companion (1761)
- Richard Lewis, The Free-Masons Advocate. Or, Falsehood Detected (1760)
- Laurence Dermott, Ahiman Rezon, 2nd edn, excerpt containing polemic against Moderns Freemasons and in praise of Antients Freemasonry (1764)
- [Anon.], A Defence of Free-Masonry, as Practiced in the Regular Lodges, both Foreign and Domestic under the Constitution of the English Grand Master (1765)
- [Anon.], Masonry the Way to Hell, a Sermon (1768)
- [Anon.], Masonry Vindicated: a Sermon. Wherein is Clearly and Demonstratively Proved, that a Sermon, Lately Published, ‘Intitled Masonry the Way to Hell’, is an Intire Piece of the Utmost Weakness, and Absurdity (1768)
- George Smith, ‘Ancient and Modern Reasons Why the Ladies Have Never Been Admitted into the Society of Freemasons’, in The Use and Abuse of Free-Masonry (1783)
- [A Friend to Truth], A Defence of Free Masons etc., in Answer to Professor John Robison’s Proofs of a Conspiracy (1797)
- [Anon.], The Indictment and Trial of John Andrew, Shoemaker in Maybole, Sometime Teacher of a Private School There, and Robert Ramsay, Cart Wright There, Both Members of a Masonic Lodge at Maybole: Charged with the Crime of Sedition, and Administering Unlawful Oaths (1800)
- [Anon.], Petition and Complaint at Brother Gibson’s Instance Against Brother Mitchell, and His Answers Thereto; With the Procedure of the Grand Lodge Thereon and Proof Adduced (1808)
- [Anon.], An Exposition of the Causes which Have Produced the Late Dissensions Among the Free Masons of Scotland (1808)
- [Anon.] An Enquiry into the Late Disputes among the Free-Masons of Ireland; Wherein is Detailed a Free and Important Account of the Different Transactions which Gave Rise to, and Continued the Controversy, from the Commencement to the Establishment of the Grand Lodge of Ulster (1810)
- Editorial Notes
- Silent Corrections
- List of Sources
Volume V
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Bibliography
- Admissions and Lodge Meetings
- Theatre
- Processions
- Debates and Conflicts
- Women
- British Fraternal Societies and the Response to Grand Lodge Freemasonry
- Editorial Notes
- Silent Corrections
- List of Sources
- Index