The history of Freemasonry encompasses the origins, evolution and defining events of the fraternal organisation known as Freemasonry. It covers three phases. Firstly, the emergence of organised lodges
Initiation Paris 1745 Retinted to resemble Moderns Lodge 1805
Third degree ceremony, Paris, 1745, retinted in 1812 to resemble a Moderns Lodge in London
Henry Price, "Provincial Grand Master of New England and Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging"
The Grand Lodge of All England Meeting since Time Immemorial in the City of York was a body of Freemasons which existed intermittently during the eighteenth century, mainly based in York. It does not
Francis Drake, who Mackey compared to London's Desaguliers in his role in York's Grand Lodge