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British Freemasonry, 17171813

General Editor: Rbert Pter, University of Szeged
Volume Editors: Ccile Rvauger, University of Bordeaux Montaigne
and Jan A M Snoek, Heidelberg University
5 Volume Set: c.2000pp: June 2015
978 1 84893 377 4: 234x156mm: 450/$795

Freemasonry was a major cultural and

social phenomenon and a key element of the
Enlightenment. It was to have an international
influence across the globe. This primary resource
collection charts a key period in the development
of organized Freemasonry culminating in the
formation of a single United Grand Lodge of
England.
The secrecy that has surrounded Freemasonry
has made it difficult to access information
and documents about the organization and its
adherents in the past. This collection is the result
of extensive archival research and transcription
and highlights the most significant themes
associated with Freemasonry.
The documents are drawn from masonic
collections, private archives and libraries
worldwide. The majority of these texts have never
before been republished. Documents include
rituals (some written in code), funeral services,
sermons, songs, certificates, an engraved list of
lodges, letters, pamphlets, theatrical prologues
and epilogues, and articles from newspapers and
periodicals.
This collection will enable researchers to identify
many key masons for the first time. It will be
of interest to students of Freemasonry, the
Enlightenment and researchers in eighteenthcentury studies.

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The ceremony of making a free mason,

from Hiram, or, The grand master-key to the door of both
ancient and modern Free-Masonry (1764)
Library and Museum of Freemasonry, London

Includes more than 550 texts

Many texts are published here by special

arrangement with the Library and Museum of
Freemasonry, London

Contains over 260 pages of newly transcribed

manuscript material

Documents are organized thematically

Full editorial apparatus including general

introduction, volume introductions, headnotes
and explanatory endnotes

A consolidated index appears in the final

volume

Selected Contents*
Volume 1: Institutions
A List of the Regular Lodges as constituted till March
25th, 1725 (1725) [facsimile]; The Beginning and first
foundation of the most worthy Craft of Masonry
with the Charges thereunto belonging (1739); Thomas
Dunckerley, The Moral Part of Masonry (1757); The
Pocket Companion and History of Freemasons etc
(1754); T Edmondes [Deputy Grand Master], An
Address Delivered to the Stewards Lodge (1763);
Thomas Dunckerley, A Charge which was Delivered
to the Members of a Lodge, Held at the Castle Inn,
Marlborough, at a Meeting for the Distribution of
Charity, to Twenty-Four Poor People, at which Most of
the Ladies in Marlborough were Present, September
11, 1769; W 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, Lincolns-Inn-Fields, on Thursday, May 23, 1776
(1776); J A Rotheram, A Charge Delivered to Several
Newly Initiated Brethren in St. Johns Lodge, of the
Ancient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted
Masons in Newcastle upon Tyne (1777); The Principles
of Freemasonry 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); Account of the Institution and
Proceedings, of the Governors of the Royal Cumberland
Free-Mason School, Instituted 25th Mar, 1788, for
the Maintenance and Education of Female Orphans
(1788); James Mullalla, Esq, An Essay on the Origin
of Masonry. God Always Acts Geometrically, To the
Right Honourable Lord Donoughmore Grand Master
of Masons in Ireland (1792); Jane Elizabeth Moore,
Miscellaneous Poems. On Various Occasions. By Jane
Elizabeth Moore. Containing a Characteristic Poem
to the Engraving. A Poetical Correspondence with
a Gentleman of the Masonic Society, on the Subject
of their Excluding the Fair Sex and Many Other
Interesting Particulars, second edition (1797); An
Act for the More Effectual Suppression of Societies
Established for Seditious and Treasonable Purposes,
and for Better Preventing Treasonable and Seditious
Practices [12th July 1799]; Masonic Certificate 1, issued
to John Hunter Blair (12 March 1798) [manuscript];
Masonic Certificate 2, issued to Percy Clinton Sydney
Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford (19 March 1808)
[manuscript]; The Masonic Museum: Containing a
Select Collection of Most Celebrated Songs, Dedicated
to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Grand
Master (1799), excerpts; Articles of Union between the
two grand Lodges of Freemasons [1813]

Volume 2: Rituals I English, Irish

and Scottish Craft Rituals
Masonry Farther Dissected; or, More Secrets of that
Mysterious Society Reveald. Faithfully Englished
from the French Original just Publishd at Paris,
by the Permission and Privilege of M. De Harraut,
Lieutenant-General of Police (1738); Alexander Slade,
The Free Mason Examind or the World brought out of
Darkness into Light, second edition (1754); A MasterKey to Free-Masonry: By which all the Secrets of the
Society are Laid Open, and their Pretended Mysteries
Exposed to the Public (1760); Thomas Wilson [master of
the Swan Tavern Lodge], Solomon in all his Glory: or,
The Master-Mason. Being a True Guide to the Inmost
Recesses of Free-Masonry, both Ancient and Modern
(1777); Member of Royal Arch., Hiram: or the Grand
Master-Key to the Door of both Antient and Modern
Free-Masonry. Being an Accurate Description of
Every Degree of the Brotherhood, as Authorized and
Delivered in all Good Lodges [c.1777]; The Secret of the
Order of Free Masons and the Ceremonies Observed
at the Reception of Members into it (1797); John
Browne, Browns Masonic Master-Key through the
Three Degrees by way of Polyglot under the Sanction
of the Craft in General (1802); William Finch, A
Masonic Treatise, with an Elucidation on the Religious
and Moral Beauties of Freemasonry, for the Use of
Lodges and Brothers in General (1802); William Finch,
Lectures on Masonry (c.1810); Samuel Prichard, Jachin
and Boaz: or the Free Masons Catechism to which is
subjoined The Mason Word [c.1810]

Volume 3: Rituals II HarodimMaterial and Higher Degrees

William Smith, The book M, or, Masonry Triumphant:
In Two Parts. Part I Containing, the History, Charges,
Regulations of Free Masons: With an Account of
Several Stately Fabricks Erected by that Illustrious
Society ([1736]); Rite Ancien de Bouillon [manuscript]
(c.1740); A Sister Mason, Womens Masonry or Masonry
by Adoption (1765); The Sheffield Ritual of the Royal
Arch (c.1785) [manuscript]; The Flather Manuscript
(17801800); Alexander Dalziels Manuscripts of
[William Prestons?] Old Harodim Lectures or Old York
Ritual/Lecures [c.1790] [manuscripts]; Free-Masonry.
A Word to the Wise! Being a Vindication of the Science,
as Patronised by the Grand Lodge of England; and
the Devices of the Craft-y on the Fraternity Disclosed,
under the Following Heads: Elects of Nine, of Perignan,
of Fifteen, Noachites, Architects, Grand Architects, Scots
Masters, Excellents, Super Excellents, Super Intendants,
Knights of the Sword and of the East, Rosycrusians,
Knights Templars, Royal Arch, &c. &c. (c.1796); The
Sheffield Ritual of the Knights Templar (c.1800)
[manuscript]; The Deptford Manuscript (181419) [copy
of an older manuscript]; Dublin Rituals of the High
Knights Templar (1795 & 1804) [manuscripts]; An Irish
Ritual of the Knight of the Red Cross (1806) [manuscript]

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Volume 4: Debates

Volume 5: Representations

Philo Lapidarius, An Answer to the Popes Bull, with

the Character of a Freemason. In an Epistle to the
Right Honorable and Right Worshipful Lord Mountjoy,
Grand Master of Ireland (1738); Bernard Clarke, An
Answer to the Popes Bull. With a Vindication of the
Real Principles of Free-Masonry (1751); William Imbrie
and William Geddes, The Poor Mans Complaint:
Against the Unwarrantable Procedure of the Associate
Synod in Glasgow, Anent Him and Others in Seeking
a Concession of the Mason and Chapmen 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, Anent some Oaths,
especially the Masons Oath (1755); Act of the Associate
Synod against the Free Masons, with an Impartial
Examination of the Act (1757); Richard Lewis, The FreeMasons Advocate. Or, Falsehood Detected. Being a Full
Refutation of a Scandalous Libel, Entitled, A MasterKey to Free-Masonry (1760); Defence of Free-Masonry
as Practiced in the Regular Lodges, both Foreign and
Domestic under the Constitution of the English Grand
Master (1765); Freemasonry the High-Way to Hell. A
Sermon Wherein Clearly Proved, both from Reason
and Scripture (1768); Masonry Vindicated: A Sermon
(1768); Capt. George Smith, The Use and Abuse of
Free-Masonry; a Work of the Greatest Utility to the
Brethren of the Society, to Mankind in General, and
to the Ladies in Particular (1783); A Defence of Free
Masons etc., in Answer to Professor John Robinsons
Proofs of a Conspiracy (1797); 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-and Stiling Themselves,
The Grand Assembly of Knights Templars [c.1800];
Alexander Lawrie, Petition and Complaint at Brother
Gibsons Instance Against Brother Mitchell, and His
Answers Thereto; With the Procedure of the Grand
Lodge Thereon and Proof Adduced (1808); C Stewart,
An Exposition of the Causes Which Have Produced the
Late Dissensions Among the Free Masons of Scotland
(1808); 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 (1812)

Texts come from newspapers and periodicals from

17211813 and are divided into sections on admissions,
processions, theatre, attacks and debates, women, and
British fraternal societies and the response to Grand
Lodge Freemasonry.
Includes selections from: Adams Weekly Courant;
Applebees Original Weekly Journal; Argus; Bath
Chronicle; Bells Weekly Messenger; Bingleys Journal;
British Journal; Caledonian Mercury; Chelmsford
Chronicle; Common Sense or The Englishmans
Journal; Courier and Evening Gazette; Critical
Review, or, Annals of literature; Daily Advertiser;
Daily Courant; Daily Gazeteer; Daily Journal;
Daily Post; Diary or Woodfalls Register; Dublin
Chronicle; Dublin Evening Post; Dublin Gazette;
Dublin Mercury; Edinburgh Magazine; European
Magazine, and London Review; Evening Mail;
Faulkners Dublin Journal; Felix Farleys Bristol
Journal; Flying Post or The Weekly Medley; Fogs
Weekly Journal; Freemans Journal or The NorthAmerican Intelligencer; Gazetteer and London Daily
Advertiser; General Evening Post; Gentlemans
Magazine; Gloucester Journal; Grub Street Journal;
Hampshire Telegraph; Harrops Manchester Mercury
(and General Advertiser); Hibernia Magazine, and
Dublin Monthly Panorama; History of the Works of
the Learned; Jacksons Oxford Journal; Lancashire
Journal; Leeds Intelligencer; Leicester Journal; Lloyds
Evening Post; London and Country Journal; London
Chronicle; London Daily Advertiser; London Daily Post
and General Advertiser; London Evening Post; London
Gazetteer; London Journal; London Packet or New
Lloyds Evening Post; Manchester Mercury; Middlesex
Journal or Chronicle of Liberty; Mists Weekly Journal;
Monthly Magazine, and British Register; Monthly
Review; Morning Chronicle; Morning Herald; Morning
Post; Morning Star; Newcastle Courant; Newcastle
General Magazine; The Northern Star; Old England
or The National Gazette; Old Whig or The Consistent
Protestant; Oracle and Daily Advertiser; Oracle and
Public Advertiser; Parkers Penny Post; Pennsylvania
Gazette; Portsmouth Telegraph or Mottleys Naval
and Military Journal; Post Boy; Public Advertiser;
Public Register or The Freemans Journal; Pues
Occurrences; Rayners London Morning Advertiser;
Reads Weekly Journal; Royal Gazette; Saunders News
Letter; Schofields Middlewich Journal, or Cheshire
Advertiser; Scots Magazine; Shrewsbury Chronicle;
Sleaters Public Gazeteer; St. Jamess Evening Post;
Stamford Mercury; Star; Sussex Chronicle; The Hull
Packet and Original Weekly Commercial, Literary and
General Advertiser; The Ipswich Journal; The Leeds
Mercury; The Newry Telegraph; The Norfolk Chronicle,
or Norwich Gazette; The Observer; The Plain Dealer;
The Westminster Journal, or New Weekly Miscellany;
The York Courant; True Briton; Universal Journal;
Universal London Morning Advertiser; Universal
Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure; Universal
Spectator and Weekly Journal; Weekly Register;
Wheelers Manchester Chronicle; Whitehall Evening
Post; World and Fashionable Advertiser

Documents sourced from:

Library and Museum of Freemasonry, London

Leeds Central Library

Library of Freemasons Hall, Dublin

National Library of Scotland

Tapton Hall Masonic Library, Sheffield

University of Glasgow Library

British Library

William Waples Library, Sunderland

Edinburgh New College Library

York Minster Library

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