THE OLD CHARGES OF BRITISH FREEMASONS.
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by Dr Auderson again adding the modern title of Grand Master."
The last citation from the old MSS. is to be found at p. 101, and is based upon No. 11, or its
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Roberts MS." (44). The " Additional Orders
are those
typographical representative the
is
seriously diminished
Grand Lodge Constitutions (1738), which are
but are said in No. 44 to have been agreed to "at a
undated in the original text (11)
on the Eighth Day of December 16G3." Dr Anderson
General Assembly, held at
was evidently not so careful in his statements as " Roberts," for he supplies the names of the
Grand Master, Deputy Grand Master, and Grand Wardens, present on the occasion (offices, by
selected for insertion in the second edition of the
;
...
the
way, then ujiknown), and alters the day to the Feast of St John the Evangelist 1G63, doubtconformity with modern usage. The text of No. 11 should be consulted at
less to bring it into
page 56 and compared with that supplied by Dr Anderson, when it wUl be readily seen that
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one Grand
the learned Divine has changed the 5th Rule (No. 30 in MS. 11) so as to read
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Roberts MS." {not
one Master" and has appropriated the 6th Rule of the
Master," in lieu of
has discreetly omitted the 7th, and the Obligation. Preston follows in
in No. 11), though he
Anderson's footsteps, and is therefore entitled to no greater credence than the authority upon
whom
he
relies.
As many may be aware, a modern arrangement entitled " The CHARGES of a FREEMxVSON, extracted from the ancient RECORDS of LODGES beyond sea, and of those in
England, Scotland, and Ireland, for the use of the Lodges in London
of
NEW BRETHREN,
or
when
MASTER
the
:
To
shaU order
read at the making
The General Regula-
he
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it," prefaces
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Although Dr Anderson presented an improved (?) version in
printed A.D. 1723.
1738, it was not liked, and in subsequent editions that of 1723 was reverted to, and indeed is
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Charges wliich have been circulated with the Regulations
substantially the same as those
tions,"
for the
Government
of the Craft" of the
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United Grand Lodge of England," from 1815
present date.
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Additional confirmation of the
Inigo Jones
An