Essential Sources

Essential Sources for Masonic Research

Constitutions

1723 1st ed Anderson http://books.google.com/books?id=LkICAAAAQAAJ

http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/history/anderson/ (Charges & Regulations)

http://books.google.ca/books?id=JStcSI7udk8C (1855 NY Reprint)

(1734 Franklin Reprint text)

1738 2nd ed Anderson http://books.google.com/books?id=IXRxZE-4JXsC&dq

1756 3rd ed Entick http://books.google.com/books?id=SbavagLj33UC

1767 4th ed Entick http://books.google.com/books?id=rwgIAAAAQAAJ

1784 5th ed Noorthouck http://books.google.com/books?id=QmzqsGE55esC

1815/1819 6/7th ed UGLE http://www.freemason.com/library/cafam01.htm (not facsimile)

1815/1819 6/7th ed UGLE (1823 Kingston, Canada) CIHM 92750 Robarts Library microform

1827 8th ed UGLE http://books.google.ca/books?id=GOJeyAeY2XoC

1841 9th ed UGLE http://books.google.ca/books?id=HCGatpEQ4HQC

1847 10th ed UGLE http://books.google.ca/books?id=tvYDAAAAQAAJ

1853 11th ed UGLE http://books.google.ca/books?id=CIcBAAAAQAAJ

1861 14th ed UGLE http://books.google.ca/books?id=AGRHAAAAYAAJ

1884 19th ed UGLE http://books.google.ca/books?id=_AwiAAAAMAAJ

1960 30th ed UGLE http://www.scribd.com/doc/32429992/United-Grand-Lodge-of-England-Constitutions-1960

Editions: 1-5 Premier Grand Lodge: 1723 1756 1767 1784

UGLE: 6-20: 1815 1819 1827 1841 1847 1853 1855 1858 1861 1863 1867 1871 1873 1884 1896

UGLE: 21-37: 1901 1911 1917 1919 1922 1926 1940 1947 1955 1960 1965 1970 1979 1984 1989 1995 1999

UGLE: 38-45: 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2012

Current texts UGLE http://www.ugle.org.uk/about-ugle/book-of-constitutions/

Ancient Grand Lodge: Ahiman Rezon: 8 edns: 1756 1764 1778 1787 1800 1801 1807 1813

1756 1st ed http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/Ahiman_Rezon.html

1764 2nd ed http://books.google.ca/books?id=m-dAAAAAcAAJ

1778 3rd ed http://books.google.ca/books?id=iDIiAAAAMAAJ (1805 NY Reprint)

1787 4th ed

1800 5th ed

1801 6th ed

1803 7th ed http://books.google.ca/books?id=_k0BAAAAQAAJ (1803 Belfast)

1813 8th ed http://books.google.ca/books?id=-TEiAAAAMAAJ

Ontario

1856 GLC http://www.archive.org/details/grandlodge1857onta (First post-UGLE Constitution)

1864 GLC http://archive.org/details/cihm_50664 (2nd Ed.?)

1881 GLC http://archive.org/stream/cihm_03247

Known Editions: (1855 UGLE Mutatis Mutandis (not!), [legally, UGLE-1853, actually UGLE-1827])

1856 ... 1864 ... 1872 ... 1875-Resolutions+Rulings .. 1881 ... 1883-Resolutions+Rulings .. GLCPO 1899 ...

1909 ... 1938 ... 1941 ... 1943 ... 1946 ... 1952 ... 1958 1959 ...1962 ... 1966 .. 1977 .. 1998

2001 2004 2005 2006 ... 2011

GLC(PO) Proceedings http://www.archive.org/details/grandlodge

GLNL Constitution (copied from GLCPO) http://www.glnl.ca/fmsystem/filestore/Grand%20Lodge%20Documents/Constitution%20Revised%20Oct%202009.pdf

William Preston: Illustrations of Masonry

1772 1st ed http://archive.org/details/cu31924030274868 ESTC reel 250 no. 06

1775 2nd ed http://books.google.ca/books?id=XYOuURhpQpoC

1781 3rd ed ESTC reel 2434, no.09 Robarts Library microfilm

1788 7th ed http://books.google.ca/books?id=JiV9FDRueb4C

1796 9th ed http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/ritual/preston.pdf (no page nos)

1796 9th ed http://books.google.ca/books?id=XggzI1QUus4C

1796 9th ed ESTC reel 8196, no. 03 Robarts Library microfilm

1804 11th ed http://books.google.ca/books?id=lYL1XSCCkNsC Kessinger partial

1812 12th ed http://www.ronigo.com/library/Preston,%20William%20-%20Illustrations%20of%20Masonry%20%5Bpdf%5D.pdf

1812 12th ed http://freemasons-freemasonry.com/preston_illustrations_masonry.html

1772-1812 DVD by Andrew Prescott HS 395 P74 2001 978-0-9541589-0-3 Brock-Sankey

1829 14th ed Oliver http://books.google.ca/books?id=6n_xHtVd6PQC

U.S.A. (Preston-Webb)

1797 Webb ESTC reel 255 no. 19 Robarts Library microfilm

1808 Webb http://books.google.ca/books?id=Bi8iAAAAMAAJ

Manuscripts, Exposures, and Ceremony Texts

1390 Regius Ms. (Halliwell)

1420 Cooke Ms.

1560 Landsdowne Ms.

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1666 Aitcheson-Haven Ms.

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1686 Antiquity Ms.

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1730 Masonry Dissected

1738 The Freemason's Pocket Companion

1760 Three Distinct Knocks

1762 Jachin and Boaz

1825 Carlisle's Manual

Cf: https://sites.google.com/site/tsmr99/governance

http://canonbury.ac.uk/texts.htm