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630696Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 01
Anderson, James (1680?-1739)Francis Espinasse1885
ANDERSON, JAMES, D.D. (1680?–1739), preacher and miscellaneous writer, brother of Adam Anderson [see Anderson, Adam, (1692–1765)], was born, about 1680, at Aberdeen, where he was educated, and probably took the degrees of M.A. and D.D. In 1710 he was appointed minister of the presbyterian church in Swallow Street, London, whence he was transferred, in 1734, to a similar charge in Lisle Street, Leicester Fields. According to the ‘Gentleman's Magazine,' he is said to have been ‘well known among the people of that persuasion resident in London as Bishop Anderson,' and he is described as ‘a learned but imprudent man, who lost a considerable part of his property in the fatal year 1720.' Several of his sermons were printed. One of them, ‘No King-Killers,' preached in 1715, on the anniversary of the execution of Charles I, was a zealous defence of the conduct of the presbyterians during the civil wars, and reached a second edition. Anderson was a freemason, and when, in 1721, on the revival of freemasonry in England, the grand lodge determined to produce an authoritative digest of the ‘Constitutions' of the fraternity, the task was assigned to him (Entick's edition (1747) of the Constitutions, p. 194 et seq.). It was as a grand warden of the lodge that he presented to it, on completing his task, ‘The Constitutions of the Free Masons; containing the History, Charges, Regulations, &c. of that Most Ancient and Right Worshipful Fraternity. For the Use of the Lodges. London. In the year of Masonry 5723, Anno Domini 1723.' This work, which passed through several editions, was long recognised by the English freemasons to be the standard code on its subject, and was translated into German. An American facsimile of the first edition of 1723 was issued at New York in 1855, and there are reprints of the same edition in Cox's ‘Old Constitutions belonging to the Freemasons of England and Ireland' (1871) and in the first volume of Kenning's ‘Masonic Archæological Library' (1878). Anderson also contributed to masonic literature ‘A Defence of Masonry, occasioned by a pamphlet called "Masonry Dissected"' (1738?), which was translated into German, and is reprinted in Oliver's ‘Golden Remains of the Early Masonic Writers' (1847).
In 1732 appeared the work by which Anderson is chiefly remembered, ‘Royal Genealogies; or, the Genealogical Tables of Emperors, Kings, and Princes, from Adam to these times.' Professedly based on ‘Genealogische Tabellen' of Johann Hübner, it was largely supplemented by Anderson's industry. While the earlier sections of the work are of little historical value, the later are often of use in relation to the genealogies of continental dynasties and houses. The volume closes with a synopsis of the English peerage, and in the preface the author intimated his readiness, if adequately encouraged, ‘to delineate and dispose at full length the genealogies of all the peers and great gentry of the Britannic isles.' Anderson's last work, which he was commissioned to undertake by the first Earl of Egmont and his son from materials furnished by them, bore the title, ‘A Genealogical History of the House of Yvery, in its different branches of Yvery, Lovel, Perceval, and Gournay;' but the first volume alone was completed when Anderson died on 25 May 1739, and a second volume, subsequently published, was due to another pen (see ‘To the Reader' in vol. ii.). The work was soon withdrawn from circulation on account of some disparaging remarks in it on the condition of the English peerage and on the character of the Irish people. It was re-issued, however, without the offensive passages, in 1742 (see Notes and Queries, 1st series, iv. 158, and Letters of Horace Walpole (1857), i. 107 n., and ii. 145). Much of the genealogical matter in the book has been pronounced to be mythical (Drummond's Histories of Noble British Families (1846), art. ‘Percival'). Another work of Anderson's, ‘News from Elysium, or Dialogues of the Dead, between Leopold, Roman Emperor, and Louis XIV, King of France,' was published shortly after his death in 1739.
[Anderson's Works; Brief notice (sub nomine) in Catalogue of the Edinburgh Advocates' Library; Gentleman's Mag. liii. 41–2; Gowans's Catalogue of Books on Freemasonry (New York, 1856); Kloss, Bibliographie der Freimaurerei (1844).]
Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 01
Anderson, James (1680?-1739)
by Francis Espinasse
James Anderson c.1680 - 1739
c.1680 - May 28, 1739
The Rev. James Anderson, D.D. was probably born in Aberdeen, Scotland, migrating to London sometime before taking over the lease of a Presbyterian chapel in Swallow Street in 1709-10.
On 29 Sep 1721 he was directed by the Grand Lodge of England to "digest the old Gothic Constitutions in a new and better method." The first edition of the Constitutions, including the Charges of a Freemason, was published in 1723, with a second edition in 1738.
Master, 1723 Lodge No. 17 Junior Grand Warden, 1723 Grand Lodge of England
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Source: Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Albert Mackey. p. 77-8. Portrait from Vol. I - To face page 26. A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry (Ars Magna Latomorum) by Arthur Edward Waite. Volume the First. London, William Rider and Son, Limited, 1921. [Fanciful: in fact it is an engraving of the economist, Dr. James Anderson (1739-1808) which appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine of May 1809. AQC vol. lxxvii (1964), p. 17.]
The Reverend James Anderson was born in Aberdeen the second son of James Anderson who was a member of the Lodge of Aberdeen. It is highly probable that James Anderson was a member of that Lodge as well, although no record of his initiation has been found. He was a member of The Lodge Rummer and Grapes in Channel Row, Westminster in London and is said to have been the master of Lodge 17. In 1723 he was appointed the Junior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of England. The first record of him attending Grand Lodge was 1721, when he was ordered to 'digest' the 'old Gothic Constitutions…in a new and better method.' In 1723 he presented the result of his labours as The Constitutions of the Freemasons……for the Use of the Lodges. This small volume (1723) of 91 pages contains; a Preface by Dr. Desaguliers ( a quite unreliable history of Freemasonry); George Payne's (2nd Grand Master) Charges of a Freemason; and 39 General Regulations. Anderson's 2nd edition (1738) in 230 pages is extremely important as it contains, in the absence of any Minutes prior to 1723, the first account of the founding and early progress of the 1717 Grand Lodge. Anderson through his two editions introduced several terms from Scottish operative Masonry, such as Entered Apprentice & Fellow-Craft, and Cowan.
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630696Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 01
Anderson, James (1680?-1739)Francis Espinasse1885
ANDERSON, JAMES, D.D. (1680?–1739), preacher and miscellaneous writer, brother of Adam Anderson [see Anderson, Adam, (1692–1765)], was born, about 1680, at Aberdeen, where he was educated, and probably took the degrees of M.A. and D.D. In 1710 he was appointed minister of the presbyterian church in Swallow Street, London, whence he was transferred, in 1734, to a similar charge in Lisle Street, Leicester Fields. According to the ‘Gentleman's Magazine,' he is said to have been ‘well known among the people of that persuasion resident in London as Bishop Anderson,' and he is described as ‘a learned but imprudent man, who lost a considerable part of his property in the fatal year 1720.' Several of his sermons were printed. One of them, ‘No King-Killers,' preached in 1715, on the anniversary of the execution of Charles I, was a zealous defence of the conduct of the presbyterians during the civil wars, and reached a second edition. Anderson was a freemason, and when, in 1721, on the revival of freemasonry in England, the grand lodge determined to produce an authoritative digest of the ‘Constitutions' of the fraternity, the task was assigned to him (Entick's edition (1747) of the Constitutions, p. 194 et seq.). It was as a grand warden of the lodge that he presented to it, on completing his task, ‘The Constitutions of the Free Masons; containing the History, Charges, Regulations, &c. of that Most Ancient and Right Worshipful Fraternity. For the Use of the Lodges. London. In the year of Masonry 5723, Anno Domini 1723.' This work, which passed through several editions, was long recognised by the English freemasons to be the standard code on its subject, and was translated into German. An American facsimile of the first edition of 1723 was issued at New York in 1855, and there are reprints of the same edition in Cox's ‘Old Constitutions belonging to the Freemasons of England and Ireland' (1871) and in the first volume of Kenning's ‘Masonic Archæological Library' (1878). Anderson also contributed to masonic literature ‘A Defence of Masonry, occasioned by a pamphlet called "Masonry Dissected"' (1738?), which was translated into German, and is reprinted in Oliver's ‘Golden Remains of the Early Masonic Writers' (1847).
In 1732 appeared the work by which Anderson is chiefly remembered, ‘Royal Genealogies; or, the Genealogical Tables of Emperors, Kings, and Princes, from Adam to these times.' Professedly based on ‘Genealogische Tabellen' of Johann Hübner, it was largely supplemented by Anderson's industry. While the earlier sections of the work are of little historical value, the later are often of use in relation to the genealogies of continental dynasties and houses. The volume closes with a synopsis of the English peerage, and in the preface the author intimated his readiness, if adequately encouraged, ‘to delineate and dispose at full length the genealogies of all the peers and great gentry of the Britannic isles.' Anderson's last work, which he was commissioned to undertake by the first Earl of Egmont and his son from materials furnished by them, bore the title, ‘A Genealogical History of the House of Yvery, in its different branches of Yvery, Lovel, Perceval, and Gournay;' but the first volume alone was completed when Anderson died on 25 May 1739, and a second volume, subsequently published, was due to another pen (see ‘To the Reader' in vol. ii.). The work was soon withdrawn from circulation on account of some disparaging remarks in it on the condition of the English peerage and on the character of the Irish people. It was re-issued, however, without the offensive passages, in 1742 (see Notes and Queries, 1st series, iv. 158, and Letters of Horace Walpole (1857), i. 107 n., and ii. 145). Much of the genealogical matter in the book has been pronounced to be mythical (Drummond's Histories of Noble British Families (1846), art. ‘Percival'). Another work of Anderson's, ‘News from Elysium, or Dialogues of the Dead, between Leopold, Roman Emperor, and Louis XIV, King of France,' was published shortly after his death in 1739.
[Anderson's Works; Brief notice (sub nomine) in Catalogue of the Edinburgh Advocates' Library; Gentleman's Mag. liii. 41–2; Gowans's Catalogue of Books on Freemasonry (New York, 1856); Kloss, Bibliographie der Freimaurerei (1844).]
Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 01
Anderson, James (1680?-1739)
by Francis Espinasse
James Anderson c.1680 - 1739
c.1680 - May 28, 1739
The Rev. James Anderson, D.D. was probably born in Aberdeen, Scotland, migrating to London sometime before taking over the lease of a Presbyterian chapel in Swallow Street in 1709-10.
On 29 Sep 1721 he was directed by the Grand Lodge of England to "digest the old Gothic Constitutions in a new and better method." The first edition of the Constitutions, including the Charges of a Freemason, was published in 1723, with a second edition in 1738.
Master, 1723 Lodge No. 17 Junior Grand Warden, 1723 Grand Lodge of England
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Source: Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Albert Mackey. p. 77-8. Portrait from Vol. I - To face page 26. A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry (Ars Magna Latomorum) by Arthur Edward Waite. Volume the First. London, William Rider and Son, Limited, 1921. [Fanciful: in fact it is an engraving of the economist, Dr. James Anderson (1739-1808) which appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine of May 1809. AQC vol. lxxvii (1964), p. 17.]
The Reverend James Anderson was born in Aberdeen the second son of James Anderson who was a member of the Lodge of Aberdeen. It is highly probable that James Anderson was a member of that Lodge as well, although no record of his initiation has been found. He was a member of The Lodge Rummer and Grapes in Channel Row, Westminster in London and is said to have been the master of Lodge 17. In 1723 he was appointed the Junior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of England. The first record of him attending Grand Lodge was 1721, when he was ordered to 'digest' the 'old Gothic Constitutions…in a new and better method.' In 1723 he presented the result of his labours as The Constitutions of the Freemasons……for the Use of the Lodges. This small volume (1723) of 91 pages contains; a Preface by Dr. Desaguliers ( a quite unreliable history of Freemasonry); George Payne's (2nd Grand Master) Charges of a Freemason; and 39 General Regulations. Anderson's 2nd edition (1738) in 230 pages is extremely important as it contains, in the absence of any Minutes prior to 1723, the first account of the founding and early progress of the 1717 Grand Lodge. Anderson through his two editions introduced several terms from Scottish operative Masonry, such as Entered Apprentice & Fellow-Craft, and Cowan.
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630696Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 01
Anderson, James (1680?-1739)Francis Espinasse1885
ANDERSON, JAMES, D.D. (1680?–1739), preacher and miscellaneous writer, brother of Adam Anderson [see Anderson, Adam, (1692–1765)], was born, about 1680, at Aberdeen, where he was educated, and probably took the degrees of M.A. and D.D. In 1710 he was appointed minister of the presbyterian church in Swallow Street, London, whence he was transferred, in 1734, to a similar charge in Lisle Street, Leicester Fields. According to the ‘Gentleman's Magazine,' he is said to have been ‘well known among the people of that persuasion resident in London as Bishop Anderson,' and he is described as ‘a learned but imprudent man, who lost a considerable part of his property in the fatal year 1720.' Several of his sermons were printed. One of them, ‘No King-Killers,' preached in 1715, on the anniversary of the execution of Charles I, was a zealous defence of the conduct of the presbyterians during the civil wars, and reached a second edition. Anderson was a freemason, and when, in 1721, on the revival of freemasonry in England, the grand lodge determined to produce an authoritative digest of the ‘Constitutions' of the fraternity, the task was assigned to him (Entick's edition (1747) of the Constitutions, p. 194 et seq.). It was as a grand warden of the lodge that he presented to it, on completing his task, ‘The Constitutions of the Free Masons; containing the History, Charges, Regulations, &c. of that Most Ancient and Right Worshipful Fraternity. For the Use of the Lodges. London. In the year of Masonry 5723, Anno Domini 1723.' This work, which passed through several editions, was long recognised by the English freemasons to be the standard code on its subject, and was translated into German. An American facsimile of the first edition of 1723 was issued at New York in 1855, and there are reprints of the same edition in Cox's ‘Old Constitutions belonging to the Freemasons of England and Ireland' (1871) and in the first volume of Kenning's ‘Masonic Archæological Library' (1878). Anderson also contributed to masonic literature ‘A Defence of Masonry, occasioned by a pamphlet called "Masonry Dissected"' (1738?), which was translated into German, and is reprinted in Oliver's ‘Golden Remains of the Early Masonic Writers' (1847).
In 1732 appeared the work by which Anderson is chiefly remembered, ‘Royal Genealogies; or, the Genealogical Tables of Emperors, Kings, and Princes, from Adam to these times.' Professedly based on ‘Genealogische Tabellen' of Johann Hübner, it was largely supplemented by Anderson's industry. While the earlier sections of the work are of little historical value, the later are often of use in relation to the genealogies of continental dynasties and houses. The volume closes with a synopsis of the English peerage, and in the preface the author intimated his readiness, if adequately encouraged, ‘to delineate and dispose at full length the genealogies of all the peers and great gentry of the Britannic isles.' Anderson's last work, which he was commissioned to undertake by the first Earl of Egmont and his son from materials furnished by them, bore the title, ‘A Genealogical History of the House of Yvery, in its different branches of Yvery, Lovel, Perceval, and Gournay;' but the first volume alone was completed when Anderson died on 25 May 1739, and a second volume, subsequently published, was due to another pen (see ‘To the Reader' in vol. ii.). The work was soon withdrawn from circulation on account of some disparaging remarks in it on the condition of the English peerage and on the character of the Irish people. It was re-issued, however, without the offensive passages, in 1742 (see Notes and Queries, 1st series, iv. 158, and Letters of Horace Walpole (1857), i. 107 n., and ii. 145). Much of the genealogical matter in the book has been pronounced to be mythical (Drummond's Histories of Noble British Families (1846), art. ‘Percival'). Another work of Anderson's, ‘News from Elysium, or Dialogues of the Dead, between Leopold, Roman Emperor, and Louis XIV, King of France,' was published shortly after his death in 1739.
[Anderson's Works; Brief notice (sub nomine) in Catalogue of the Edinburgh Advocates' Library; Gentleman's Mag. liii. 41–2; Gowans's Catalogue of Books on Freemasonry (New York, 1856); Kloss, Bibliographie der Freimaurerei (1844).]
Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 01
Anderson, James (1680?-1739)
by Francis Espinasse
James Anderson c.1680 - 1739
c.1680 - May 28, 1739
The Rev. James Anderson, D.D. was probably born in Aberdeen, Scotland, migrating to London sometime before taking over the lease of a Presbyterian chapel in Swallow Street in 1709-10.
On 29 Sep 1721 he was directed by the Grand Lodge of England to "digest the old Gothic Constitutions in a new and better method." The first edition of the Constitutions, including the Charges of a Freemason, was published in 1723, with a second edition in 1738.
Master, 1723 Lodge No. 17 Junior Grand Warden, 1723 Grand Lodge of England
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Source: Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Albert Mackey. p. 77-8. Portrait from Vol. I - To face page 26. A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry (Ars Magna Latomorum) by Arthur Edward Waite. Volume the First. London, William Rider and Son, Limited, 1921. [Fanciful: in fact it is an engraving of the economist, Dr. James Anderson (1739-1808) which appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine of May 1809. AQC vol. lxxvii (1964), p. 17.]
The Reverend James Anderson was born in Aberdeen the second son of James Anderson who was a member of the Lodge of Aberdeen. It is highly probable that James Anderson was a member of that Lodge as well, although no record of his initiation has been found. He was a member of The Lodge Rummer and Grapes in Channel Row, Westminster in London and is said to have been the master of Lodge 17. In 1723 he was appointed the Junior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of England. The first record of him attending Grand Lodge was 1721, when he was ordered to 'digest' the 'old Gothic Constitutions…in a new and better method.' In 1723 he presented the result of his labours as The Constitutions of the Freemasons……for the Use of the Lodges. This small volume (1723) of 91 pages contains; a Preface by Dr. Desaguliers ( a quite unreliable history of Freemasonry); George Payne's (2nd Grand Master) Charges of a Freemason; and 39 General Regulations. Anderson's 2nd edition (1738) in 230 pages is extremely important as it contains, in the absence of any Minutes prior to 1723, the first account of the founding and early progress of the 1717 Grand Lodge. Anderson through his two editions introduced several terms from Scottish operative Masonry, such as Entered Apprentice & Fellow-Craft, and Cowan.
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630696Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 01
Anderson, James (1680?-1739)Francis Espinasse1885
ANDERSON, JAMES, D.D. (1680?–1739), preacher and miscellaneous writer, brother of Adam Anderson [see Anderson, Adam, (1692–1765)], was born, about 1680, at Aberdeen, where he was educated, and probably took the degrees of M.A. and D.D. In 1710 he was appointed minister of the presbyterian church in Swallow Street, London, whence he was transferred, in 1734, to a similar charge in Lisle Street, Leicester Fields. According to the ‘Gentleman's Magazine,' he is said to have been ‘well known among the people of that persuasion resident in London as Bishop Anderson,' and he is described as ‘a learned but imprudent man, who lost a considerable part of his property in the fatal year 1720.' Several of his sermons were printed. One of them, ‘No King-Killers,' preached in 1715, on the anniversary of the execution of Charles I, was a zealous defence of the conduct of the presbyterians during the civil wars, and reached a second edition. Anderson was a freemason, and when, in 1721, on the revival of freemasonry in England, the grand lodge determined to produce an authoritative digest of the ‘Constitutions' of the fraternity, the task was assigned to him (Entick's edition (1747) of the Constitutions, p. 194 et seq.). It was as a grand warden of the lodge that he presented to it, on completing his task, ‘The Constitutions of the Free Masons; containing the History, Charges, Regulations, &c. of that Most Ancient and Right Worshipful Fraternity. For the Use of the Lodges. London. In the year of Masonry 5723, Anno Domini 1723.' This work, which passed through several editions, was long recognised by the English freemasons to be the standard code on its subject, and was translated into German. An American facsimile of the first edition of 1723 was issued at New York in 1855, and there are reprints of the same edition in Cox's ‘Old Constitutions belonging to the Freemasons of England and Ireland' (1871) and in the first volume of Kenning's ‘Masonic Archæological Library' (1878). Anderson also contributed to masonic literature ‘A Defence of Masonry, occasioned by a pamphlet called "Masonry Dissected"' (1738?), which was translated into German, and is reprinted in Oliver's ‘Golden Remains of the Early Masonic Writers' (1847).
In 1732 appeared the work by which Anderson is chiefly remembered, ‘Royal Genealogies; or, the Genealogical Tables of Emperors, Kings, and Princes, from Adam to these times.' Professedly based on ‘Genealogische Tabellen' of Johann Hübner, it was largely supplemented by Anderson's industry. While the earlier sections of the work are of little historical value, the later are often of use in relation to the genealogies of continental dynasties and houses. The volume closes with a synopsis of the English peerage, and in the preface the author intimated his readiness, if adequately encouraged, ‘to delineate and dispose at full length the genealogies of all the peers and great gentry of the Britannic isles.' Anderson's last work, which he was commissioned to undertake by the first Earl of Egmont and his son from materials furnished by them, bore the title, ‘A Genealogical History of the House of Yvery, in its different branches of Yvery, Lovel, Perceval, and Gournay;' but the first volume alone was completed when Anderson died on 25 May 1739, and a second volume, subsequently published, was due to another pen (see ‘To the Reader' in vol. ii.). The work was soon withdrawn from circulation on account of some disparaging remarks in it on the condition of the English peerage and on the character of the Irish people. It was re-issued, however, without the offensive passages, in 1742 (see Notes and Queries, 1st series, iv. 158, and Letters of Horace Walpole (1857), i. 107 n., and ii. 145). Much of the genealogical matter in the book has been pronounced to be mythical (Drummond's Histories of Noble British Families (1846), art. ‘Percival'). Another work of Anderson's, ‘News from Elysium, or Dialogues of the Dead, between Leopold, Roman Emperor, and Louis XIV, King of France,' was published shortly after his death in 1739.
[Anderson's Works; Brief notice (sub nomine) in Catalogue of the Edinburgh Advocates' Library; Gentleman's Mag. liii. 41–2; Gowans's Catalogue of Books on Freemasonry (New York, 1856); Kloss, Bibliographie der Freimaurerei (1844).]
Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 01
Anderson, James (1680?-1739)
by Francis Espinasse
James Anderson c.1680 - 1739
c.1680 - May 28, 1739
The Rev. James Anderson, D.D. was probably born in Aberdeen, Scotland, migrating to London sometime before taking over the lease of a Presbyterian chapel in Swallow Street in 1709-10.
On 29 Sep 1721 he was directed by the Grand Lodge of England to "digest the old Gothic Constitutions in a new and better method." The first edition of the Constitutions, including the Charges of a Freemason, was published in 1723, with a second edition in 1738.
Master, 1723 Lodge No. 17 Junior Grand Warden, 1723 Grand Lodge of England
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Source: Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Albert Mackey. p. 77-8. Portrait from Vol. I - To face page 26. A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry (Ars Magna Latomorum) by Arthur Edward Waite. Volume the First. London, William Rider and Son, Limited, 1921. [Fanciful: in fact it is an engraving of the economist, Dr. James Anderson (1739-1808) which appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine of May 1809. AQC vol. lxxvii (1964), p. 17.]
The Reverend James Anderson was born in Aberdeen the second son of James Anderson who was a member of the Lodge of Aberdeen. It is highly probable that James Anderson was a member of that Lodge as well, although no record of his initiation has been found. He was a member of The Lodge Rummer and Grapes in Channel Row, Westminster in London and is said to have been the master of Lodge 17. In 1723 he was appointed the Junior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of England. The first record of him attending Grand Lodge was 1721, when he was ordered to 'digest' the 'old Gothic Constitutions…in a new and better method.' In 1723 he presented the result of his labours as The Constitutions of the Freemasons……for the Use of the Lodges. This small volume (1723) of 91 pages contains; a Preface by Dr. Desaguliers ( a quite unreliable history of Freemasonry); George Payne's (2nd Grand Master) Charges of a Freemason; and 39 General Regulations. Anderson's 2nd edition (1738) in 230 pages is extremely important as it contains, in the absence of any Minutes prior to 1723, the first account of the founding and early progress of the 1717 Grand Lodge. Anderson through his two editions introduced several terms from Scottish operative Masonry, such as Entered Apprentice & Fellow-Craft, and Cowan.
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