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Early Masonic Documents

Early Masonic Documents Old Charges consist of about 130 MS. beginning ca. 1390-98 Compiled by Lee Miller, 1999 - 2002 Abbreviations: MS = Manuscript Cat = Catechism OMDHS = In the Library of the Onondaga Masonic Districts Historical Society – OMDHS [which many of them are] OC = Old Charge Const = Constitutions EMC = ‘Early Masonic Catechisms” by Knoop, Jones & Hamer, 1963.

RJ = Rejoinder Word = Mason’s Word EFE = “Early French Exposures,” by Harry Carr, 1971.

Mackey = listed in “Encyclopedia of Freemasonry,” vol. 1, pg. 258 [1924 ed.], under ‘Expositions.’

Mackey MSS = ibid., vol. II, pgs 464-67. [see source refs. in Mackey for this unusual lot of MSS, not normally listed elsewhere ??]

Date 1390-98 ca 1459 Apr 1462 1450-90 ca 1500 ca 1560 ca 1598 Dec 1600 ca 1610 1625-60 ca 1628 ca 1629 1632 ca 1646 1650 1650 1650-1700 1650-1700 1650-1700 1659 1650 ca 1650-60 ca 1666 1665-70 ca 1670 ca 1670 1674 1675

Document Halliwell (Regius) Poem MS. Strasburg Constitutions [stone-masons] Torgau Constitutions [stone-masons] Cooke MS. Dowland MS. Landsdowne MS. [ca 1600] Wm. Schaw Statutes MS. [operative] York MS., No. 1 Wood MS. Harleian MS., No. 2054 St. Clair Charters John T. Thorp Grand Lodge MS. No. 1 [1583] Sloane MS., No. 3848 Grand Lodge No. 2 Taylor Lochmore Buchanan Ancient Stirling Sloane MS., No. 3323 G. W. Bain Harleian MS., No. 1942 Aitcheson-Haven MS. Edinburgh-Kilwinning MS. York MS., No. 5 Aberdeen Melrose No. 2 Henery Heade

Classif A

ACQ Vol 99 Family Branch

B.1 D.b.36 D.d.2

Cooke Grand Lodge Dowland Grand Lodge Lansdowne

D.c.3

Grand Lodge York

E.b.3

Sloane

D.a.1 E.b.1

Sloane

Grand Lodge Grand Lodge Sloane Sloane Grand Lodge

E.b.2

Sloane

Sloane

F.3 T.2

Roberts Tew

D.c.17

Grand Lodge York

Type MS Const., Germany Const., Germany MS MS MS MS [Edinburgh] MS MS MS MSS. MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS

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Category

ACQ Text Vol., Yr & Pg

Other Text Reprint Mas. Book Club Mackey, vol. II, p. 729 Mackey, vol. II, p. 791

OC OC OC OC OC OC

1895

Mackey MSS Mackey, vol. II, p. 715 Mackey MSS

OC OC AQC xxi 1908

Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS

OC Mackey MSS OC OC OC OC

AQC xxi 1908

Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey

Ordinances

Early Masonic Documents

Date 1675-1700 1675-1700 1675-1700 1675-1700 1675-1700 1675-1700 1675-1700 1675-1700 1677 1677 1677 ca 1677 ca 1675-80 1610-80 ca 1680 ca 1686 1686 1687 1690 ca 1690 ca 1690 ca 1690 ca 1690 1693-1704 1693 1696 1699 1700 ca 1700 ca 1700 ca 1700 ca 1700 ca 1701 1693-1704 1700-25 1700-25 1700-25 1700-25 1705

Document Dumfries No. 1 Dumfries No. 2 Beaumont Dumfries No.3 Hope T. W. Embleton Colne No. 1 Hughan Stanley Carson Phillipps No. 1 Phillipps No. 2 York MS., No. 6 Inigo Jones Constitutions T. W. Tew Lodge of Antiquity MS. Col. Clerke William Watson Dauntesey Harris No. 1 David Ramsey Langdale H. F. Beaumont York MS., No. 2 Waistell Edinburgh Register House MS. Thomas Foxcroft Chetwode Crawley MS. Sloane MS., No. 3329 Clapham Newcastle College Roll John Strachan Alnwick MS. York MS., No. 4 Colne No. 2 Phillipps No. 3 Dumfries No. 4 Cama Scarborough

Classif

ACQ Vol 99 Family Branch

D.h.18

Grand Lodge Dumfries

D.d.15

D.c.27

E.a.10 E.c.9

Grand Lodge Lansdowne

Grand Lodge York

Sloane Sloane

Thorp Hope

Type MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS MS

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ACQ Text Vol., Yr & Pg

Category

OC Const.

Other Text Reprint Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS

x Mackey MSS

OC Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS OC Word

43, 1930

Word Cat

1899-1900

Mackey MSS EMC Mackey MSS EMC EMC Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS

Cat Cat Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey MSS

ER CC SL

Early Masonic Documents

Date 1710 ca 1711 1714-20 ca 1714-20 ca 1722 1723 1723 1723 1723 1724 1724 1724 1724 1724 1725 ca 1725 1725 1725 1725-50 1726

Document Classif Dumfries Kilwinning MS., No. 4 H.1 Trinity College, Dublin MS. Papworth MS. D.b.30 Kevan MS. [OMDHS on disk] Macnab Mason’s Examination, A Anderson’s Constitutions Post Boy Sham Exposure, The Haddon Grand Mystery of Free-Masons Discovered Sisterhood of Free Sempstresses, The Secret History of the Freemasonry, The Whole Institution of Masonry, The Letter from the Grand Mistress, A Institution of Free Masons Whole Institution of Free-Masons Opened Free-Masons Vindication, The Songhurst Rawlinson Graham MS.

1726 1726 1727 ?

1727 1727 ca 1728 1728 1730 1730 ca 1730 Aug 1730 Oct 1730-01 1736 1737

Grand Mystery Laid Open Spencer Mason’s Confession, A Carmick, Thomas MS. Wilkinson MS. Woodford Supreme Council The Perjur’d Free Mason Detected Gateshead Mystery of Free-Masonry, The Masonry Dissected by Sam’l Prichard A Defence of Masonry Probity Secrets of Masonry made known to all men, The, by S.P. [Sam’l Prichard] Mystery of Masonry, The Reception d’un Frey-Macon Masonry further dissected

1737 1737 1738

ACQ Vol 99 Family Branch Sundry Grand Lodge Dowland

Type MS MS MS MS MS The Flying Post Post Boy No. 5373 MS Pamphlet, London Letter MS Letter MS Broadsheet MS MS MS Broadsheet MS Scots Magazine

Category Cat Cat Cat Word Cat Const.

Exposure

ACQ Text Vol., Yr & Pg 6, 1893

Other Text Reprint

67, 1954

EMC Mackey MSS

K ME

OMDHS Heredom vol. 7 Mackey MSS

Cat Poss. RJ

GMD EMC p. 226-228 Mackey ‘Expositions’

Cat Poss. RJ Cat Cat RJ

Cat

DU TC

WIM EMC p. 229-239

AQC xi 1898 50, 1937

Cat

EMC p. 184-186 Mackey MSS Mackey MSS OMDHS – disk EMC p. 97-98 Mackey MSS EMC p. 99-107

Cat

GM 80, 1967 GMO MC

AQC xxii 1909 MS MS MS Pamphlet MS Daily Journal News Pamphlet, London

Cat

Cat Cat Expose RJ

MS Exposure, Londoon Exposure, London French Exposure Exposure, London

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Ritual

OMDHS

EMC p. 108-151 Mackey MSS Mackey MSS EMC p. 187-209 Mackey MSS EMC p. 152-156 EMC p. 157-173 EMC p. 210-225 Mackey MSS Mackey ‘Expositions’ Mackey ‘Expositions’ EFE p. 3-8 Mackey ‘Expositions’

W

MF MD

Early Masonic Documents

Date 1738 1738 1740 ca 1740 ca 1740 ca 1742 1744 1744

Document Classif La Reception Mysterieuse Anderson’s Constitutions, Rev. Chesham MS. Dialogue Between Simon & Philip Levander - York Le Secret des Francs-Macons, Geneva Le Catechisme des Francs-Macons, Paris La Franc-Maconne ou Revelation des Mysteres des Franc-Macons 1744 Le Parfait Macon 1745 Le Sceau Rompu The Broken Seal 1745 L’Ordre des Francs-Macons Trahi et Le Secret des Mopses Revele, Amsterdam The Order of the Free-Masons Betrayed and The Secret of the Mopses Revealed 1747 Les Francs-Macons Ecrases The Free-Masons Crushed 1747 La Desolation des Entrepreneurs Modernes [The Desolation of the Modern Builders] 1748 L’Anti-Macon 1750 Essex MS. 1751 Le Macon Demasque 1756 Thistle Lodge 1760 Three Distinct Knocks, The 1760 Master Key to Freemasonry, A 1762 Jachin and Boaz 1762 Melrose No. 2 1764 Hiram; or, The Grand Master Key 1765 Shibboleth, or Every Man a Freemason 1766 Solomon in all his Glory 1766 Mahhabone, or the Grand Lodge Door Open’d 1767 Tubal Kain 1769 Freemason Stripped Naked, The 1772 Preston’s “Illustrations of Masonry” 1775-1800 Crane No. 2 1781 Receuil precieux de la Maconnerie Adonhiramite, Paris

ACQ Vol 99 Family Branch

Type French Exposure

Category Ritual Const Cat Cat

ACQ Text Vol., Yr & Pg

Other Text Reprint EFE p. 9-39

MS French Exposure French Exposure French Exposure

Ritual Cat Cat

EMC p. 174 EMC p. 175-181 Mackey MSS EFE p. 41-84 EFE p. 85-112 EFE p. 113-156

French Exposure French Exposure

Cat Cat

EFE p. 157-200 EFE p. 201-226

French Exposure

Cat

EFE p. 227-277

French Exposure

Cat

EFE p. 281-314

French Exposure

Cat

EFE p. 315-375

French Exposure

Cat Cat Cat

51, 1938,

Exposure

OMDHS

Exposure

OMDHS

French Exposure MS

AQC xviii 1905

Exposure

EFE p. 376-415 EMC p. 182-183 EFE p. 417-475 Mackey MSS Mackey ‘Exposition’

MS Exposure, London Exposure Exposure Exposure

Mackey MSS Mackey ‘Exposition’ Mackey ‘Exposition’ Mackey ‘Exposition’ Mackey ‘Exposition’

Exposure Exposure

Mackey ‘Exposition’ Mackey ‘Exposition’ Lecture

MS Exposure

4

Mackey MSS Mackey ‘Exposition’

Partial

Early Masonic Documents

Date 1781 1781 ca 1794 1796

Document Classif Crane No. 1 Harris No. 2 Master Key, The, by I. Browne [cypher] Webb’s “Illustrations of Masonry & Monitor” 1801-1802 Wm. Finch’s ‘A Masonic Treatise, with an Elucidation on the Religious and Moral Beauties of Freemasonry, &c.’ London 1825 Manual of Freemasonry by Rich Carlisle 1826-1828 Wm. Morgan’s ‘Illustrations of Masonry’ 1827 Folger MS. 1828 ca Tunnah 1829 Light on Masonry, by David Bernard 1852 Ritual of Freemasonry, A, by Avery Allen 1852 Wren

1951 1951 1968 1966 1970 1971 1972

ACQ Vol 99 Family Branch

Type MS MS Exposure, London

Category

Monitor

OMDHS

Cat/Rit’l

OMDHS – disk

Exposure, London Exposure, Batavia Expose Cat [from French?]

MS Book, Utica, NY Expose Exposure, NY MS

Miscellaneous Papers: Haughfoot, The Lodge at (Carr) Pt I Haughfoot, The Lodge at (Carr) Pt II 600 Years of Craft Ritual (Carr) Masonic Fire (Carr) Early Masonic Catechisms (Carr) Pt I Early Mas. Catechisms (Carr) Pt II Early Mas. Catechisms (Carr) Pt III

ACQ Text Vol., Yr & Pg

Cat Cat Cat

Other Text Reprint Mackey MSS Mackey MSS Mackey ‘Exposition’

Mackey ‘Exposition Alex Horne, typescript Mackey ‘Exposition’

OMDHS OMDHS OMDHS

63, 1950 64, 1951 81, 1968 79, 1966 83,1970 84, 1971 85, 1972, 331

Mas. Book Club Mackey MSS Anti-Masonic Mackey ‘Exposition’ Mackey MSS

Mo. Lodge of Research pamph.

See also another listing under title of Masonic Rituals which details the many Craft rituals . . . post 1829, in the OMDHS Library collections.

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