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The Old Charges is the name given to a collection of approximately one hundred and thirty documents written between the 14th and 18th centuries. Most of these documents were initially in manuscript form and later engraved or printed, all originating from England or Scotland.
There are a number of masonic manuscripts that are important in the study of the emergence of Freemasonry.Most numerous are the Old Charges or Constitutions.These documents outlined a "history" of masonry, tracing its origins to a biblical or classical root, followed by the regulations of the organisation, and the responsibilities of its different grades.
[F 6] The second-generation manuscripts of the Old Charges from 1583 onwards retain Euclid as the main myth of their moral regulation: in 1710, manuscript Dumfries n°. 4, without much difference to the preceding writings, grants him the additional gift of prophecy, thus taking a further step in the construction of the myth, with the divinatory ...
Operative Masonry or The Worshipful Society of Free Masons, Rough Masons, Wallers, Slaters, Paviors, Plaisterers and Bricklayers or simply The Operatives is a fraternal guild claiming a history of hundreds of years over which customs, traditions, knowledge and practices were developed and handed down.
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The word Manuscript means a document written by hand as defined in Wikipedia. For documents on freemasonry this only relates to the Old Charges, i.e. de medieval documents.Pvosta 17:11, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Tales of parties, drink, rosaries and more are in the pages. You can learn more at a scholarly talk. Plus, there will be drink and music.
On that occasion he used his speech to claim the precedence of his own lodge over all other masonic lodges, since the old charges stated that the first lodge was held in York. [ 3 ] The York lodge disappears from history during the 1730s, but it enjoyed a revival in 1761, with Drake as the first Grand Master.