And also that no Masson shall use no leachery nor be no baude whereby the Crafte might be slandered. And also that no Fellowe goe into the toune a nighte tymes without there is a Lodge of Fellowes, without he have a fellowe with him that he might beare him wytness that he was in an honest place. Also that evy Mr. and Fellowe shall come to the Assembly, that if it be within fyftie mylles 1 about him, yf he haue any warning. And if he haue trespassed against the Crafte then he to abyde the award of the Mrs. & Fellowes. Also that euy Mr. & Fellowe that haue trespassed against the Crafte shall stand then to the award of the Mrs. and Fellowes, to make them accord if they can, and if they may not accorde then to goe to the comon lawe,

Also that no Mr. nor Fellowe make no moulde nor square, nor rule to no layr, nor sett no layr within the Lodge nor without it to hew no moulde stones. And also that euy Mason receive & cherrishe strange Fellowes when they come over the countreyes, and sett them a worke, if they will, as the mannr is, that is to saye if they have mould stones in his place, or els hee shall refreshe him with moony unto the next lodging.

Also that every Mason shall truely serve the Lorde for his paye, and evy Mr. truely to make ane end of his woorke be yt taske or journey, if he have his commands, and that they ought for to have.

These Charges that we have now rehearsed unto yu all, and all others that belong to Masons, ye shall keepe, so healpe you God, and your hallydome, and by this booke in yor hande unto yr power. Amen. So be it.

Scriptum Anno Domini 1583° Die Decembris 250.

The "New Articles."-These, and the "Apprentice Charges" which follow, are very curious and unique, says our European Editor, and are also special, very few MSS. having them. The Articles appear in the Harleian No. 1942, and in the Roberts MS., which is a copy. The "Apprentice Charges," however, are in a few others, among which we may name the Watson and Tew MSS., lately discovered.

The Roberts Version.

General Assembly held at

Additional Orders and Constitutions made and agreed upon at a —, on the Eighth Day of December, 1663.2

I. That no Person, of what Degree soever, be accepted a Free-Mason unless he shall have a Lodge of five Free-Masons at the least, whereof one to be a Master or Warden of that Limit or Division where such Lodge shall be kept, and another to be a Workman of the Trade of FreeMasonry.

II. That no Person hereafter shall be accepted a Free-Mason, but such as are of able Body, honest Parentage, good Reputation, and Observers of the Laws of the Land.

III. That no Person hereafter, which shall be accepted a Free-Mason, shall be admitted into any Lodge, or Assembly, until he hath brought a Certificate of the Time and Place of his Acceptation, from the Lodge that accepted him, unto the Master of that Limit and Division, where such Lodge was kept, which said Master shall enroll the same on Parchment in a Roll to be kept for that Purpose, and give an Account of all such Acceptations, at every General Assembly.

IV. That every Person, who is now a Free-Mason, shall bring to the Master a Note of the Time of his Acceptation, to the end the same may be enrolled in such Priority of Place, as the Person deserves, and to the end the whole Company and Fellows may the better know each other. V. That for the future the said Society, Company, and Fraternity of Free-Masons, shall be regulated and governed by one Master, and as many Wardens as the said Company shall think fit to chuse at every Yearly General Assembly.

VI. That no Person shall be accepted a Free-Mason, unless he be One and Twenty Years Old, or more.

VII. That no person hereafter be accepted a Free-Mason, or know the Secrets of the said Society, until he shall have first taken the Oath of Secrecy here following, viz.:

I, A. B., do here in the presence of God Almighty, and of my Fellows and Brethren here present, promise and declare, That I will not at any Time hereafter by any Act or Circumstance whatsoever, directly or indirectly, publish, discover, reveal or make known any of these Secrets, Privities or Councils of the Fraternity or Fellowship of Free-Masons, which at this time, or at any time hereafter shall be made known unto me. So help me God, and the true and holy Contents of this Book.

1 Watson's MS. says 40 miles; The Thos. W. Tew MS., "seven miles"; Hope. MS., five miles; as also the Harleian 2054 and Mr. Papworth's MS.- -the "fifty miles" being the generally accepted distance, beyond which brethren were not required to attend the annual assembly.- Hughan.

2 [NOTE-The date is added by some former Editor, and is not (and ought not to be), in the Harleian MS., 1942, of which this is a copy.]

The " Apprentice Charges." This Charge belongeth to Apprentices. Imprimis. You shall truly honour God, and his holy Church, the King, your Master, and Dame; you shall not absent yourself, but with the Licence of one or both of them, from their service, by Day or Night.

II. You shall not Purloyn or Steal, or be Privy or accessory to the Value of Six-pence from them or either of them.

III. You shall not commit Adultery or Fornication in the House of your Master, with his Wife, Daughter or Maid.

IV. You shall not disclose your Master's or Dame's Secrets or Councils, which they have reported unto you, or what is to be concealed, spoken or done within the Privities of their House, by them, or either of them, or by any Free-Mason.

V. You shall not maintain any disobedient Argument with your Master, Dame, or any FreeMason.

VI. You shall reverently behave yourself towards all Free-Masons, using neither Cards, Dice, or any unlawful Games, Christmas Time excepted.

VII. You shall not haunt, or frequent any Taverns or Ale-houses, or so much as go into any of them, except it be upon your Master or your Dame, their or any of their Affairs, or with their or the one of their Consents.

VIII. You shall not commit Adultery or Fornication in any Man's House, where you shall be at a Table or at Work.

IX. You shall not marry, or contract yourself to any Woman during your Apprenticeship.

X. You shall not steal any Man's Goods, but especially your Master's, or any of his Fellow Masons, nor suffer any to steal their Goods, but shall hinder the Felon, if you can; and if you cannot, then you shall acquaint the said Master and his Fellows presently

The Watson Version.—The Watson MS.1 ends as follows:

Here Followeth the
Prentices Charge-

First that he shall be true to God and the holy Church, the peace [prince], And to his Master or Dame whom he shall serve, he shall not steal the Goods of his Master or Dame, nor Absent himselfe from his sérvice, nor goe from them about his owne pleasure by day or by Night, without the Lycence of one of them, And that he doe not Committ Adultery or fornication in his Masters house, with the Wife, Daughter, or Servant of his said Master, and that he shall keep Councell in all things that shall be said or done in the Lodge or Chamber by Master or fellow, Being Master or Free-Mason, And that he shall not Hold a Disobedient Argument against any of them, or Disclose any secreets, Whereby any Dissention may arise amongst any Masons their Fellows or Prentices, but Reverently behave themselves to all Free-Masons, being Sworn Brethren to his said Master, and not to use Carding or Diceing, or Any other unlawfull Gameing. Nor to Haunt any Tavern or Alehouses there to Wast any mans Goods, without Lycence of his Master or some other Free-Mason, and shall not Committ Adultery or Fornication in any mans House where he shall worke or be Tabled, And that he shall not purloyn nor Steal the Goods of any person, nor willingly suffer any Harm or Shame to be Done, or Consent thereunto During his Apprentishipp; Butt to withstand the

same to the utmost of his power, and thereof to Inform his said Master or some other Free-Mason with all Convenient possible Speed.

Courteously and Frationally
H.D. Stillson

"Gates

1 The additional strip of the "'Prentice Charge" removes it from the ordinary series of some score or more of original MSS. and places it in the special class with seven others only. These are "Harleian, No. 1942,' Melrose, No. 2," "Hope," " Colne, No. 1," "York, No. 4," head," and the "Wren" MSS. — Hughan's comments. See Kalendar of "Old Charges."

PART II.

COSMOPOLITAN FREEMASONRY.-CRAFT, CAPITULAR,

CRYPTIC.

(“Masonry without respect to Creed, Clime, or Color.")

INTRODUCTION.

THE AMERICAN RITE OF FREEMASONRY.

THE organization or constitution of the several M. W. Grand Lodges in the United States of America has followed certain advancing meridianal lines, which have kept pace with the tides of emigration westward, receiving their impulse from recognized political and military forces. The successful war for independence was waged by the colonies of the Atlantic Slope, assisted by the independent state of Vermont. It is also an acknowledged fact that many of the fathers who shaped the destiny of the young Republic were equally potent factors in the establishment of Freemasonry, the Institution that has grown to the dignity of the American Rite of that Order. American Freemasonry, therefore, properly dates from the Revolution, when all allegiance to the "Mother Country" was thrown off. Like the British Colonies in civil affairs, prior to 1776-83, the lodges owned an allegiance to Britain as the fountain-head of government.

The numbers of these lodges, together with their names and locations, on every part of the Continent, are placed in this work, introductory to a history of their successors, the constituents of the Grand Jurisdictions of to-day.

The Nation's history, its political and military achievements, directed the course of the Fraternity's progress towards the Pacific. Especially is this noticeable of a portion of the area east and south-east of the Rocky Mountains. In the words of one of our Editorial Corps, "The Louisiana Purchase' by the United States Government, extending westward to the eastern boundary of Spanish territory (which afterward became Mexican by reason of the successful war for independence in 1820), prepared the way for the events which rapidly followed; and the war between Mexico and the United States, in 1846-7-8, settled by treaty, obliterated all foreign claims and titles from the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean."

It is not our purpose to repeat here the civil and political history involved in the settlement of the United States westward, from the Atlantic Slope to the Pacific Coast. The progress of the Fraternity, in its march abreast of the advancing lines of civilization, will appear in the history of The American Rite. This is also true of the Order in British America, fostered by its own progressive influences of English, Scottish, and other parentage, flanking us on the north, which has measurably kept step to the "Star of Empire."

Moreover, in the United States, following the establishment of independence, the ritual of the Fraternity was made distinctively American by the blending of the "work" of the "Ancients" and "Moderns" of England with that of Scotland, and as then revised and pruned of its surplusage, it gave us the "work" or ritual as it is now generally practised throughout the country.

These fundamental principles of Freemasonry's growth on this Continent, combined, suggest "Three Meridians" of four longitudinal departments in the United States, and a fifth comprising British America. The Grand Lodge history will, therefore, be arranged under proper Divisions, and will follow, numbered IV., V., VI., VII., VIII., and IX., respectively.

In the preparation of these Divisions the Grand Secretaries of the world were taken into council. The distinguished European Editor took in charge his portion of the work, and with his able assistant has placed us under many obligations, which the reader will appreciate. There being no supreme Grand Lodge known to the government of the Fraternity, it became evident that the writers of the Grand Lodge Divisions must depend upon the archives, in the custody of the Grand Secretaries, for the chronological and skeleton sketches upon which to build a correct history of the Order. These data have been cheerfully furnished, and to such assistance posterity will ascribe much of the value of this volume. The names of these brethren appear in the proper place, each contributor responsible for his own part. Other distinguished Masons have also assisted in the preparation of the histories of Grand Lodges, to whom we give the honor of a place in the List of Contributors.

The desire of all concerned has been to make the work absolutely and historically correct; and to this end those having the closest knowledge of the important events in each Grand Jurisdiction, of its public and private charities, etc., etc., have been freely consulted. The aim has been to make this part of the work full of facts never before printed; in short, one of the most valuable histories of Freemasonry, from its introduction into America to the present time.

THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.

DIVISION IV.

LODGES IN AMERICA UNDER THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION, 1733-1889.

BY JOHN LANE, F.C.A., P.M., P.Z., etc.,

Past Senior Grand Warden of Iowa, Past Provincial Grand Registrar of Devonshire (England), Author of "Masanic Records, 1717-1886," etc.

INTRODUCTION.

Explanatory. In presenting a List of all Lodges warranted by the Grand Lodges of England for the Continent of America, it may not be unnecessary to state that such Warrants emanated from two distinct Bodies: (1) The Premier Grand Lodge, formed in the year 1717, and subsequently designated — though erroneously—"Moderns"; and (2) the rival Grand Lodge, formed in 1751, which arrogated to itself the title "Ancients," later on being known as the "Athol" Grand Lodge.

For convenience, the lodges comprised in the subjoined List, warranted by the junior organization, will be distinguished by the letter (A); and it should not be forgotten that the claim made by members of this rival Grand Lodge to the appellation "York Masons as indicative of any descent

from, or connection with, the "Grand Lodge of all England" at York — has been over and over again proved to be groundless; consequently the designation Ancient York Masons (" A.Y.M."), as applied to members of any Lodge warranted by the "Ancients," is altogether misleading.

The subject of the Introduction of Freemasonry into America will doubtless be carefully treated by competent brethren. I shall therefore proceed simply to enumerate the lodges warranted by the two Grand Lodges of England for that great continent, upon geographical lines, premising at the outset that although proofs exist of the constitution or authorization of many other lodges in America by English Provincial Grand Masters, yet inasmuch as they were never registered in the books of the Mother Grand Lodge, they are not included in this List. A considerable portion of the following information is taken from my "Masonic Records, 1717-1886," but the arrangement, as well as the notes, is now for the first time presented in the following form.