Men in Aprons
Colin Kidd: Freemasonry, 7 May 1998
Who’s Afraid of Freemasons? The Phenomenon of Freemasonry
by Alexander Piatigorsky.
Harvill, 398 pp., £25, August 1997,1 86046 029 1 Show More
by Alexander Piatigorsky.
Harvill, 398 pp., £25, August 1997,
“... still in its infancy. In 1717, the Grand Lodge of England was formally established and in 1723, James Anderson, commissioned in 1721 to ‘digest’ the old ‘Gothic’ charges of Masonry, published its modern Constitutions. A Jacobite, the Duke of Wharton, did hold the Grand Mastership in 1722-23, but left – tongue and throat intact – in 1723, under ... ”