So comprehensive a title as the one selected for the present work would be a vain assumption if the author's object was not really to embrace in a series of studies the whole cycle of Masonic history and science. Anything short of this would not entitle the work to be called THE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY.

Freemasonry as a society of long standing, has of course its history, and the age of the institution has necessarily led to the mixing in this history of authentic facts and of mere traditions or legends.
We are thus led in the very beginning of our labors to divide our historical studies into two classes. The one embraces the Legendary History of Freemasonry, and the other its authentic annals.

The Legendary History of Freemasonry will constitute the subject of the first of the five parts into which this work is divided. It embraces all that narrative of the rise and progress of the institution, which beginning with the connection with it of the antediluvian patriarchs, ends in ascribing its modern condition to the patronage of Prince Edwin and the assembly at York.
This narrative, which in the 15th and up to the end of the 17th century, claimed and received the implicit faith of the Craft, which in the 18th century was repeated and emendated by the leading writers of the institution, and which even in the 19th century has had its advocates among the learned and its credence among the un learned of the Craft, has only recently and by a new school been placed in its true position of an apocryphal story.
And yet though apocryphal, this traditionary story of Freemasonry which has been called the Legend of the Craft, or by some the Legend of the Guild, is not to be rejected as an idle fable. On the contrary, the object of the present work has been to show that these Masonic legends contain the germs of an historical, mingled often with a symbolic, idea, and that divested of certain evanescences in the shape of anachronisms, or of unauthenticated statements, these Masonic legends often, nay almost always, present in their simple form a true philosophic spirit.
To establish this principle in the literature of Freemasonry, to divest the legends of the Craft of the false value given to them as portions of authentic history by blind credulity, and to protect them from the equally false estimate that has been bestowed upon them by the excessive incredulity of un-philosophic sceptics, who view them only as idle fables without more meaning than what they attach to monkish legends—in one word, to place the Legendary History of Freemasonry in the just position which it should occupy but has never yet occupied, is the object of the labors expended in the composition of the first part of this work. The second part of the work will pass out of the field of myth and legend and be devoted to the authentic or recorded history of Freemasonry.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER XLIII

The Union Of The Two Grand Lodges Of England

CHAPTER XLIV

The Grand Lodge Of France

CHAPTER XLV

Origin Of The Grand Orient Of France

CHAPTER XLVI

Introduction Of Freemasonry Into The North American Colonies

CHAPTER XLVII

The Early Grand Lodge Warrants

CHAPTER XLVIII

Origin Of The Royal Arch

CHAPTER XLIX

The Introduction Of Royal Arch Masonry Into America

CHAPTER L

The General Grand Chapter Of The United States

THE HISTORY OF THE SYMBOLS OF FREEMASONRY AND THE HISTORY OF THE A.·. A.·. SCOTTISH RITE BY WILLIAM R. SINGLETON, 33D

THE HISTORY OF THE INTRODUCTION AND PROGRESS OF FREEMASONRY IN THE UNITED STATES

SALUTATORY

CHAPTER LI

General History Of Christian Knighthood

Orders Of Knighthood.

Knights Templars During The Seven Crusades

From 1118 To 1291.

The Causes Which Led To The Martyrdom

Of De Molay And Others.

Execution Of De Molay.

Era Subsequent To The Dispersion Of The Knights Templars.

Order Of Knights Of Malta.

Commentary Remarks.

Conclusion.

List Of Grand Masters Of Knights Templars

Grand Masters Of The Order Of St. John, Rhodes,

And Malta, A.D. 1099 To 1799.

List Of Rulers Of The Latin Kingdom Of Palestine,

A.D. 1099-1205.

CHAPTER LII

The Introduction Of Knight Templarism Into America

CHAPTER LIII

The General Grand Encampment Of Knights Templars

In The United States

CHAPTER LIV

History Of The Introduction Of Freemasonry Into

Each State And Territory Of The United States

The First Lodges and the Grand Lodges.

Massachusetts.

Georgia.

New Hampshire.

South Carolina.

New York.

Rhode Island.

Maryland.

Connecticut.

Virginia.

North Carolina.

Maine.

New Jersey.

Michigan.

Delaware.

Vermont.

Florida.

Kentucky.

District of Columbia.

Episode.

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The History Of Freemasonry Vol. V

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