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Title: The cyclopædia of fraternities; a compilation of existing authentic information and the results of original investigation as to more than six hundred secret societies in the United States
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Stevens, Albert Clark, 1854-
Subjects: Secret societies
Publisher: New York city, Paterson, N.J., Hamilton printing and publishing company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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bers ofthe original and of the seceding GrandLodges looking to reunion. Negotiationsto that end were continued over a series ofyears, and resulted, in 1813, as pointed out,in a United Grand Lodge of England, sincewhich time the Craft in the United King-dom has been undisturbed by schism orother serious dissension. It is of interestto American Freemasons to note that theexpression York Rite Masons has littleor no basis; that it is, in fact, a misnomer.There was and is no York Masonic rite, andthe symbolic Freemasonry which the worldknows did not come from the Grand Lodgeof all England, founded at Yoik in 1725,but from the Grand Lodge of England,founded at London in 1717. The YorkGrand Lodge outlived its several subordi-nate Lodges, and died twenty years beforethe union of the two great English GrandLodges from which the world received An-cient Craft Masonry. The expression * An-cient York Masons is probably derivedfrom Laurence Dermotts Ahiman Re-zon, which was addressed to the Ancient
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lod. Ter-y 8. Africa. .i^^__ B&ham&s. Greece. Straits Settlements. So, Australia. Japan. Liberia. Borneo. and others. Explanatory.The first Masouic Lodge in France hadan English warrant, as did the first Lodgein Ireland, in Scotland, Spain, Germany,etc. The charter of the first Lodge inSweden came from France, that of the firstin New South Wales, from Ireland, firstin Florida, from Spain, etc. GRAPHIC CHART, SHOWING THE SPREAD OF FREEMASONRY, BEGINNING IN 1725, FROM ENGLAND TO SOME OF THE MORE IMPORTANT COUNTRIES, STATES, COLONIES, AND PROV- INCES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. FREEMASONRY 25 York Masons in England. The Free-masonry of the English schismatics, or An-cients, was more firmly established in Penn-sylvania than in any other of the Americancolonies, where that jieculiar type remainswithout change or elaboration, a curiosity tovisiting brethren. In Pennsylvania, natur-ally, much was formerly heard of AncientYork Masons, and for that reason the ex-pression acquired vogue. Engl

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