Early Masonic
Documents
Compiled by Lee Miller, 1999 - 2002
Old Charges consist of about 130 MS.
beginning ca. 1390
Abbreviations:
OC = Old Charge Cat = Catechism OMDHS =
In the Library of the Onondaga Masonic Districts Historical Society
RJ = Rejoinder Const = Constitutions
EMC = ‘Early Masonic Catechisms” by Knoop,
Jones & Hamer, 1963.
MS = Manuscrip
Word = Mason’s Word EFE = “Early French Exposures,” by Harry Carr,
1971.
[which most of them are]
Date
|
Document
|
Type
|
Category
|
ACQ
Text
Vol., Yr & Pg
|
Other Text
Reprint
|
|
1390-98 ca |
Halliwell (Regius) Poem MS. |
MS |
|
|
Mas. Book Club |
|
1490 ca |
Cooke MS. |
MS |
OC |
|
|
|
1500 ca |
Dowland MS. |
MS |
OC |
|
|
|
1560 ca |
Landsdowne MS. |
MS |
OC |
|
|
|
1600 ca |
York MS., No. 1 |
MS |
OC |
|
|
|
1625 ca |
Harleian MS., No. 2054 |
MS |
OC |
|
|
|
1632 ca |
Grand Lodge MS. No. 1 |
MS |
OC |
|
|
|
1646 |
Sloane MS., No. 3848 |
MS |
OC |
|
|
|
1659 |
Sloane MS., No. 3323 |
MS |
OC |
|
|
|
1660 ca |
Harleian MS., No. 1942 |
MS |
OC |
|
|
|
1666 |
Aitcheson-Haven MS. |
MS |
OC |
|
|
|
1670 ca |
Edinburgh-Kilwinning MS. |
MS |
OC |
|
|
|
1670 ca |
York MS., No. 5 |
MS |
OC |
|
|
|
1680 ca |
York MS., No. 6 |
MS |
OC |
|
|
|
1686 |
Lodge of Antiquity MS. |
MS |
OC |
|
|
|
1693 |
York MS., No. 2 |
MS |
OC |
|
|
|
1696 |
Edinburgh Register House MS. |
MS |
Word |
43, 1930 |
EMC |
|
1700 ca |
Chetwode Crawley MS. |
MS |
Word |
|
EMC |
|
1700 ca |
Sloane MS., No. 3329 |
MS |
Cat |
|
EMC |
|
1701 |
Alnwick MS. |
MS |
Cat |
|
|
|
1704 |
York MS., No. 4 |
MS |
Cat |
|
|
|
1710 ca |
Dumfries Kilwinning MS., No. 4 |
MS |
Cat |
6, 1893 |
|
|
1711 |
Trinity College, Dublin MS. |
MS |
Cat |
|
|
|
1714 ca |
Papworth MS. |
MS |
Cat |
|
|
|
1714-20 ca |
Kevan MS. [OMDHS on disk] |
MS |
Word |
67, 1954 |
EMC |
|
1723 |
Mason’s Examination, A |
Flying Post |
Cat |
|
|
|
1723 |
Anderson’s Constitutions |
|
Constitutions |
OMDHS |
|
|
1723 |
Post Boy Sham Exposure, The |
Post Boy No. 5373 |
Exposure |
|
Heredom vol. 7 |
|
1724 |
Grand Mystery of Free-Masons Discovered |
Pamphlet |
Cat |
|
|
|
1724 |
The Sisterhood of Free Sempstresses |
Letter |
Poss. RJ |
|
EMC p. 226-228 |
|
1724 |
Whole Institution of Masonry, The |
MS |
Cat |
|
|
|
1724 |
Letter from the Grand Mistress, A |
Letter |
Poss. RJ |
|
EMC p. 229-239 |
|
1725 ca |
Institution of Free Masons |
MS |
Cat |
|
|
|
1725 |
Whole Institution of Free-Masons Opened |
Broadsheet |
Cat |
|
|
|
1725 |
Free-Masons Vindication, The |
|
RJ |
|
EMC p. 184-186 |
|
1726 |
Graham MS. |
MS |
Cat |
50, 1937 |
OMDHS - disk |
|
1726 |
Grand Mystery Laid Open |
Broadsheet |
Cat |
|
EMC p. 97-98 |
|
1727 ? |
Mason’s Confession, A |
Scots Magazine |
Cat |
|
EMC p. 99-107 |
|
1727 ca |
Wilkinson MS. |
MS |
Cat |
|
EMC p. 108-151 |
|
1730 |
The Perjur’d Free Mason Detected |
Pamphlet |
Cat |
|
EMC p. 187-209 |
|
1730 Aug |
Mystery of Free-Masonry, The |
Daily Journal News |
Cat |
|
EMC p. 152-156 |
|
1730 Oct |
Prichard’s Masonry Dissected |
Pamphlet |
Expose |
OMDHS |
EMC p. 157-173 |
|
1730-01 |
A Defence of Masonry |
|
RJ |
|
EMC p. 210-225 |
|
1737 |
Reception d’un Frey-Macon |
French Exposure |
Ritual |
|
EFE p. 3-8 |
|
1738 |
La Reception Mysterieuse |
French Exposure |
Ritual |
|
EFE p. 9-39 |
|
1738 |
Anderson’s Constitutions, Rev. |
|
Const |
|
|
|
1740 ca |
Chesham MS. |
|
Cat |
|
EMC p. 174 |
|
1740 ca |
Dialogue Between Simon & Philip |
|
Cat |
|
EMC p. 175-181 |
|
1742 |
Le Secret des Francs-Macons |
French Exposure |
Ritual |
|
EFE p. 41-84 |
|
1744 |
Le Catechisme des Francs-Macons |
French Exposure |
Cat |
|
EFE p. 85-112 |
|
1744 |
La Franc-Maconne ou Revelation des Mysteres des Franc-Macons |
French Exposure |
Cat |
|
EFE p. 113-156 |
|
1744 |
Le Parfait Macon |
French Exposure |
Cat |
|
EFE p. 157-200 |
|
1745 |
Le Sceau Rompu The Broken Seal |
French Exposure |
Cat |
|
EFE p. 201-226 |
|
1745 |
L’Ordre des Francs-Macons Trahi et Le Secret des Mopses
Revele The Order of the Free-Masons Betrayed and The
Secret of the Mopses Revealed |
French Exposure |
Cat |
|
EFE p. 227-277 |
|
1747 |
Les Francs-Macons Ecrases The
Free-Masons Crushed |
French Exposure |
Cat |
|
EFE p. 281-314 |
|
1747 |
La Desolation des Entrepreneurs Modernes
[The Desolation of the Modern Builders] |
French Exposure |
Cat |
|
EFE p. 315-375 |
|
1748 |
L’Anti-Macon |
French Exposure |
Cat |
|
EFE p. 376-415 |
|
1750 |
Essex MS. |
|
Cat |
51, 1938, |
EMC p. 182-183 |
|
1751 |
Le Macon Demasque |
French Exposure |
Cat |
|
EFE p. 417-475 |
|
1760 |
Three Distinct Knocks |
|
Expose |
OMDHS |
|
|
1762 |
Jachin and Boaz |
|
Expose |
OMDHS |
|
|
1772 |
Preston’s “Illustrations of Masonry” |
|
Lecture |
|
|
|
1796 |
Webb’s “Illustrations of Masonry & Monitor” |
|
Monitor |
OMDHS |
|
|
1802 |
Finch’s Masonic Treatise |
|
Cat/Ritl |
OMDHS - disk |
|
|
1826 |
Wm. Morgan’s ‘Illustrations of Masonry’ |
|
Expose |
OMDHS |
|
|
1827 |
Folger MS. |
Cat [from French?] |
|
OMDHS |
Mas. Book Club |
|
1829 |
Light on Masonry, Bernard |
Book, Utica, NY |
Expose |
OMDHS |
Anti-Masonic |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1610 ca ? |
Inigo Jones Constitutions |
|
Const |
x |
|
|
|
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Miscellaneous Papers: |
|
|
|
|
|
1951 |
Haughfoot, The Lodge at (Carr) Pt I |
|
|
63, 1950 |
|
|
1951 |
Haughfoot, The Lodge at (Carr) Pt II |
|
|
64, 1951 |
|
|
1968 |
600 Years of Craft Ritual (Carr) |
|
|
81, 1968 |
Mo. Research L. |
|
1966 |
Masonic Fire (Carr) |
|
|
79, 1966 |
|
|
1970 |
Early Masonic Catechisms (Carr) Pt I |
|
Cat |
83,1970 |
|
|
1971 |
Early Mas. Catechisms (Carr) Pt II |
|
Cat |
84, 1971 |
|
|
1972 |
Early Mas. Catechisms (Carr) Pt III |
|
Cat |
85, 1972, 331 |
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See also another listing under title of
Masonic Rituals which details the many Craft rituals.
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