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Masonic Reprints, No. 2076.

MASONIC REPRINTS , No . 2076 .

BY BRO . R F . GOULD .

THE seventh volume of the series , though the second in order of publication , has just issued from the press . The work reproduced is " The New Book of Constitutions , " 1738 ; the commentator upon the same being Bro . W . J . Hughan ; and the editor of the whole undertaking , Bro . G . W . Speth .

No reprint of a Masonio book was more imperatively required than the one under review , aud it now sees the light under circumstances which leave nothing to be desired . The fidelity of the text has been assured by the

watchful care of Bro . Speth ; and of the remarkable features of Dr . Anderson's most important Masonic work , ifc almost goes without saying that none of these have been overlooked by Bro . Hughan .

The " Introduction " to this volume of reprints is , indeed , a weighty contribution to our stock of Masonic knowledge , and its importance will perhaps be brought more fully

home to the ordinary reader , if I weave into the form of a narrative some early historical facts , from which a little light , at all events , will be cast upon a portion of our annals that still lies buried in much obscurity .

The Grand Lodge of England , as all students are aware , was founded in 1717 , and it appears to have held annual meetings only , until 1720 , assembling on St . John ' s Day , in Harvest , in each year . But in 1720 , " a Quarterly

Communication or Grand Lodge " was held on St . John s Day in winter . At this meeting , Grand Master Payne proposed for his successor the Duke oi Montagu , and this nobleman was duly installed on the 24 th June 1721 .

The next meeting of Grand Lodge took place on the 29 th September 1721 , under which date the following ia recorded : —

" His Grace ' s Worship and the Lodge finding Fault with all the Copies of the old Gothic Constitutions , ordered Brother James Anderson , A . M ., to digest the same in a new and better Method . " This resulted in the appearance of tho " Book of Constitutions , " containing the first official

account of Freemasonry , which was published in 1723 ; tho second , or " New Book of Constitutions , " following it , after an interval of fifteen years , in 1738 . These works have been often termed the basis of Masonio history , but it is not so much my purpose in the present article to

criticise what Anderson accomplished , as to invite attention to the peculiar circumstances under which he received his mandate from the Grand Master and Grand Lodge in 1721 . I therefore pass over the many interesting features of his two " Books of Constitutions , " and shall proceed to take a closer view of their author .

James Anderson was a Scotch Presbyterian minister , who becoming later iu life a D . D . is nsually accorded tho prefix which belongs to that degree . Hence I shall speak oi him as the Doctor , though he had not yet become one whon he first looms upon the Masonic horizon .

This waa on the 29 th September 1721 , as recorded by Anderson himself in the Constitutions , 1738 , wherein is to be found the only account of the proceedings of the Grand Lodge of England for the first seven years of its oxistenco fl 717-24 \

We find then , that Dr . Anderson first introduces his own name as having been present in Grand Lodge , undor tho year 1721 , aud I think it may be safely assumed that it was the actual date of his connection with that body , In

favour oi this view a great many reasons might be assigned , but I refrain from giving them , as my object is not to present a scries of arguments , but to embody , in the form of a narrative , some conclusions to which I have been led by tho evidence , so as to facilitate a cloaror grasp of the