The period immediately following the constitution of the Grand Lodge of England, in 1717. is especially interesting to the student of Masonic history and ritual for many reasons not the least being one the tracing of the invention or adaptation of the curious series of degrees or ceremonies superimposed on the foundation laid by the members of the four lodges who met the “Goose Gridiron” on St. John the Baptist’s Day in that year.
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1912 - Some Notes on the Rise of Speculative Freemasonry in the Eighteenth Century - Bro Clifton S Bingham.
