The constitutions of the free-masons: containing the history, charges, regulations, &c. of that most ancient and right worshipful fraternity: for the use of the lodges

James Anderson's The Constitutions of the Free-Masons collects the history, charges, regulations and rituals that governed lodges in early modern England. A pivotal work of Freemasonry. More than a freemasonry history book, it stands as both an authoritative masonic lodge regulations manual and a readable masonic rituals guide, laying out the charges and governance that animated eighteenth-century fraternal orders. The tone moves between sober legal instruction and ceremonial diction, so re...