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Destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar II
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516 BCE to 70 CE
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never built
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Early German stonemasons with rules, ceremonies, and titles
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(an "Old Charges" document) Statutes and Regulations of the Society of Masters of the Wall and the Frame – or if you prefer: Union, Association, League, Brotherhood or Company of Stone Masons and Carpenters.
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(an "Old Charges" document) Having been appointed Provost of Paris, in 1261 with major responsibilities for justice, police and administration of the city, Étienne Boileau (c.1200-c.1270) soon began to codify the regulations, customs and practices of the different corporations of craftmen and workers having their trade in the capital of the French kingdom.
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(an "Old Charges" document) by a Council held in Avignon, at the request of John XXII (1244-1334), a native of Cahors (France) (1). The importance of this document is that it places an earlier date on the formal policy of the Roman Catholic Church related to Masons’ membership of guilds and associations.
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(an "Old Charges" document) In 1356, to end a violent conflict between mason hewers (1) and mason layers (or setters) (2), the London authorities, acting on behalf of the King of England, Edward III (1312-1377), drew up special regulations to organize the craft of stone construction. Those corporate rules were strengthened during the following century, with the creation of a Company of Masons of London in 1481.
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(an "Old Charges" document)
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(an "Old Charges" document) also called the Halliwell Manuscript
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(an "Old Charges" document) Second oldest document known to exist, related to Masonry.
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(an "Old Charges" document) The Statutes of the Stonecutters and Masons’ Association, commonly called the Statutes of Regensburg, were adopted on April 25, 1459, at a general meeting of Stone Masons and Master Builders of Germany (1) held in the city of Regensburg.
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References made to a tracing house at Westminster Abbey
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erected their first Hall, in the City of London
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(an "Old Charges" document)
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(an "Old Charges" document) the Elected Masters of the Brotherhood dedicated to St. John, Members of Freemasonry, allegedly gathered in the city of Cologne, in the Rhineland, to draft a new Charter, which was more concerned with Accepted Masonry than with the manual practice of the Craft.
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(an "Old Charges" document)
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is mentioned in an indenture bearing this date
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(an "Old Charges" document)
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(an "Old Charges" document)
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(an "Old Charges" document)
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Possibly oldest lodge in the world
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Oldest Masonic Lodge Minutes - July 31, 1599: Lodge of Edinburgh No. 1 has records to prove its long time existence as the Oldest Masonic Lodge, and the first historical reference of a non-operative or speculative freemason being initiated as a member (1634)
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First record of the admission of a non-operative Mason in a Lodge of Scotland
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(an "Old Charges" document) Having been written nearly twenty years after the Grand Lodge No. 1 Manuscript (1583), the The York No. 1 Manuscript shows many similarities with it, and only few differences with the Watson Manuscript written some 65 years earlier.
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(an "Old Charges" document)
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(an "Old Charges" document)
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London Masons Account Book describes some Masonic members as "Acceptions"
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(an "Old Charges" document)
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Sir Robert Moray initiated by Scotch masonic regiment at Newcastle-on-Tyne
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(an "Old Charges" document)
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(an "Old Charges" document)
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(an "Old Charges" document)
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(an "Old Charges" document)
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(an "Old Charges" document) This document is in fact titled: Some Questions that Masons use to put to these who profess to have the Mason Word before they will acknowledge them.
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(an "Old Charges" document)
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(an "Old Charges" document) It contains a questions and answers Catechism, bu includes, in detail, the words and signs of Freemasons. But this is not the only peculiarity of the Sloane Manuscript, which seems to make a significant distinction between the Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master. This suggests that previous to the year 1700, the approximate date estimated for the document, some English lodges were already working with all three degrees: EA, FC, MM.
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(an "Old Charges" document)
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(an "Old Charges" document)
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(an "Old Charges" document)
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Four London Lodges came together at the Goose and Gridiron Tavern in St Paul’s Churchyard, declared themselves a "Grand Lodge of London & Westminster" and elected Anthony Sayer as their Grand Master.
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Rev. John T Desaguliers elected GM of the Mother GL of England
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GL adopted the regulation that all regular lodges secure a Charter
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The Old Constitutions of the Ancient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons
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(an "Old Charges" document). James Anderson was a Master of a
Masonic lodge and a Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge. He was commissioned to write this history of the Free-Masons by the Grand Lodge of London and Westminster in September of 1721, and it was published in 1723. Full Version:
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028&context=libraryscience Sources:
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(Document) The Grand Mystery of Free-Masons Discover’d
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(an "Old Charges" document) consists of a long list of Questions and Answers.
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(an "Old Charges" document) a long Catechism made of some 74 questions and answers
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(an "Old Charges" document) The book appeared in London in 1730 at a price of sixpence, under the title: Masonry Dissected: A Universal and Genuine Description, of all its Branches from the original to this present time. Its author was a certain Samuel Prichard, “Late Member of a Constituted Lodge”.
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The GL of England issues a deputation to Daniel Coxe to act as "Provincial GM of the Provinces of new York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
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Persecution follows, in Florence
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Henry Price, the Provincial Grand Master over all of North America for the Grand Lodge of England, granted a charter to a group of Boston Freemasons. This lodge was later named St. John's Lodge and was the first duly constituted lodge in America.
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erected in Philadelphia, PA
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The first Masonic book published in the colonies was Benjamin Franklin's reprint of Anderson's constitution in 1733. And Franklin sent copies of that book to Boston where his family is from and also down to the Carolinas for sale. Full Version:
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028&context=libraryscience Sources:
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issues In Eminenti Apostolatus, condemning Freemasonry and forbidding Catholics from joining.
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issues a Bull Providas, condemning Freemasonry on the grounds of its alleged naturalism, demand for oaths, secrecy, religious indifferentism, and possible threat to the Church and State. It confirmed the previous constitution In Eminenti Apostolatus. It specifically forbid Roman Catholics from seeking membership in any Masonic group.
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was formed, as a schism from the current Free and Accepted Grand Lodge.
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Franciscan Father José Torrubia give a list of 97 Lodges to the Inquisition
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Washington was 20 years old when he received the first degree of Entered Apprentice on November 4, 1752 in the Lodge at Fredericksburg. He paid the lodge two pounds and three shillings to join. Ten days after turning 21, on March 3, 1753, he was passed to the second degree of Fellowcraft. On August 4, 1753, he was raised to the third degree of Master Mason. The lodge’s surviving minute book records Washington attending only two more meetings: September 1, 1753, and January 4, 1755.
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Earliest known record of conferring Knight Templar, at St. Andrews Royal Arch Chapter, Boston, MA
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On September 18, 1793, George Washington acting as grand master pro tem, he presided at the Masonic ceremonial laying of the United States Capitol cornerstone Source: https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/freemasonry/
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At Washington’s 1799 funeral, brothers of Alexandria Lodge performed Masonic rites. After Martha Washington’s death the lodge acquired many valuable items from the estate, including a Masonic apron sent from France in 1793. With these items and many curiosities, the lodge opened a museum in 1812. Source: https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/freemasonry/
