This document lists over 200 Masonic documents from 643 AD to 2006 AD, including early Masonic charges, manuscripts, constitutions, and rituals from locations across Europe and North America. It provides a chronological overview of the development of Freemasonry through hundreds of source documents spanning over a millennium of history.
This document lists over 200 Masonic documents from 643 AD to 2006 AD, including early Masonic charges, manuscripts, constitutions, and rituals from locations across Europe and North America. It provides a chronological overview of the development of Freemasonry through hundreds of source documents spanning over a millennium of history.
This document lists over 200 Masonic documents from 643 AD to 2006 AD, including early Masonic charges, manuscripts, constitutions, and rituals from locations across Europe and North America. It provides a chronological overview of the development of Freemasonry through hundreds of source documents spanning over a millennium of history.
This document lists over 200 Masonic documents from 643 AD to 2006 AD, including early Masonic charges, manuscripts, constitutions, and rituals from locations across Europe and North America. It provides a chronological overview of the development of Freemasonry through hundreds of source documents spanning over a millennium of history.
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Operative Masons Charges
Edict of Rothari A.D. 643
Constitutions York 926 Charter of Bologna 1248 York 1370 (French Translation) Preambolo Veneziano relativoalle Mariegole dei Taiapiera, dei tagliatori dip ietra (1307) Anglo-Norman Charges 1356 England Regius 1390 British Museum Cooke 1450 British Museum Strassburg, Ratisbona 1459 Germany Torgau Ordinances 1462 Germany Watson MS series 1535 Grand Lodge No.1 1583 London Schaw 1598 The Sinclair MS 1601 Jones 1607 ( Possibly 1655) Wood 1610 Worcester Thorp 1629 Leicester Sloane No. 3848 1646 British Museum Inigo Jones MS 1655 Sloane No.3323, 1659 British Museum Atcheson Haven 1666, Grand Lodge of Scotland Aberdeen 1670, Aberdeen Lodge No.1 (copy published "Voice of Masonry" Decemb er 1874) Henery Heade 1675, Inner Temple, London Melrose No.2 1675, Melrose St. John Lodge No.1 Stanley 1677 West Yorkshire Library The Thomas Tew MS 1680 Plot 1686 Epitome in Nat. Hist. Staffordshire Clerke 1686 Antiquity 1686, Lodge of Antiquity No.2 William Watson 1687, West Yorkshire Library Beaumont 1690, West Yorkshire Library Waistell 1693, West Yorkshire Library York No.4 1693, York Lodge No.236 Edinburgh 1696 Edinburgh 1696 (French Translation) Foxcroft 1699 Buchanan 1600's Phillips No.1 1600's Cheltenham Phillips No.2 1600's Cheltenham
Speculative Masons Charges
York No.1 1600's York York No.5 1600's York York No.6 1600's York Kilwinning, 1600's Kilwinning Lodge No.0 Lansdowne 1560 - 1600's British Museum Harleian No.1942 1600's British Museum Harleian No.2054, 1600's British Museum Grand Lodge No.2 1600's London Colne No.1 1600's Royal Lancashire Lodge Harris No.1 1600's Bedford Lodge No.157, Dumfries No.1 1600's Dumfries Kilwinning Dumfries No.2 1600's Dumfries Kilwinning
Stirling 1600's, Ancient Lodge No.30, Stirling Hope 1600's Benevolent Lodge No.303, Teignmouth Bain 1600's London Dring-Gale 1600's London Langdale 1600's Rochdale Clapham 1600's West Yorkshire Library Dauntesey 1600's Manchester Taylor 1600's West Yorkshire Library Lechmere 1600's Worcester Beswicke-Royde, 1600's East Lancashire David Ramsay, 1600's Hamburg Embleton 1600's, West Yorkshire Library Sloane No.3329, 1700 British Museum (french Translation) Drinkwater No.1, 1700 Manchester Association Drinkwater No.2, 1700 Manchester Association Chetwode Crawley 1700 (french Translation) Boyden 1700, Washington, DC. Strachan 1700 QC Lodge No.2076 Alnwick 1701 Newcastle York No.2, 1704 York Lodge No.236 Heaton 1705 England Scarborough, York 1705 Grand Lodge of Canada Dumfries N.4 1710 London (french Translation) Talents 1700-20 London Brooks Hill 1700-20 London Cama Circa 1705 London Inigo Jones 1705 Worcester Trinity College 1711 (french Translation) Kevan 1714 Robert's Constitutions 1722 Roberts 1722 (original) Macnab 1722 Ancient Charges of a Free Mason 1723 Regulations of a Free Mason 1723 Post Boy Sham Exposure 1723 Haddon 1723 London Briscoe 1724 Printed Grand Mystery of Freemasons 1724 Printed Grand Mystery of Freemasons 1724 (french Translation) Institution of Free Masons 1725 Institution of Free Masons 1725 (french Translation) Whole Institution of Free-Masons Opened 1725 Spencer 1726 Massachusetts Graham 1726 London (french Translation) Songhurst Circa 1726 London Fisher 1726 London Dundee 1727 Wilkinson 1727 (french Translation) Tho. Carmick 1727 Pennsylvania Woodford 1728 London Cole 1728 Engraved in Cole's Constitutions Free Masonry according to the Scriptures 1737 (spanish translation) La Reception d'un Frey Maon 1737 Langley 1738 Printed Dodd 1739 Printed Levander-York 1740 Port Sunlight Free Masons Catechism 1740 Harry Carr (spanish translation) Le Parfait Maon 1744 Le Sceau rompu 1745
Holywell 1748 Lancashire
Fortitude 1750 Fortitude Lodge No. 281, Lancaster Essex 1750 Harry Carr Thistle Manuscript 1756, Thistle Lodge No. 62, Dumfries The Free Mason Examin'd 1758 Three Distinctive Knocks 1760 Printed Melrose No.3, 1762 Melrose St. John Lodge No.1 Jachin and Boaz 1762 Tew 1700's West Yorkshire Library Portland 1700's Wilbick Abbey Hughan 1700's West Yorkshire Library Papworth's 1700's London Phillips No.3, 1700's Cheltenham Newcastle College 1700's Newcastle Probity 1700's Probity Lodge No.61, Halifax Colne No.2, 1700's Royal Lancashire Lodge No.116, Colne Harris No.2, 1700's British Museum Rawlinson 1700's Bodleian Library Dumfries No.4, 1700's Dumfries Kilwinning Lodge No.53 Gateshead 1700's Lodge of Industry No.48 Krause 1806 (Printed from an Older MSS) Dowland MSS (An Older MSS which was Printed in 1815 date unknown) Hargrove 1818 Printed Tunnah 1828 London The Albury MS.1875 MHC No.1 The Act of Regularity 2005 MHC No.2 The Observances of Freemasonry 2005 MHC No.3 The Constitutions of the Craft 2005 MHC No.4 The Foundations of Regular Craft Ritual 2006