Anderson | Anderson's Constitutions Of 1723

Index to Anderson’s Constitutions of 1723


		Until a full transcription of the 1723 edition is completed, researchers are directed to the text of the 1734 edition, transcribed by Paul Royster, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, February 14, 2006. The text of the 1723 edition was reset and published in Philadelphia by M.W. Bro. Benjamin Franklin in 1734. It omitted only the musical scores for some of the songs, the engraved frontispiece and coat of arms of the Duke of Montagu, and the Hebrew type occurring in the note to page 15. A number of additions were also made, such as, on page 90, a new verse numbered VI was inserted in the Enter’d ‘Prentices Song, found on page 84 of the 1723 edtion.

Frontispiece	Engraved by John Pine in Aldersgate Street London.
[i-iv]	Dedication “to His Grace the DUKE of MONTAGU.”
[1] – 48	“History, Laws, Charges, Orders, Regulations, and Usages”
49 – 56	“The CHARGES of a FREE-MASON”
57	Postscript “upon the Act against Masons, 3 Hen. VI. Cap. I.”
58 – 70	General Regulations
71-72	Postscript “the Manner of constituting a New Lodge”
73 – 74	Approbation, Philip Duke of Wharton
75-79	The Master’s Song
80- 82	The Warden’s Song
83	The Fellow-Crafts Song
84	The Enter’d ‘Prentices Song
85 – 90	Music to the Third Part of the Master’s Song
91	Order to publish by Philip Duke of Wharton
[92]	Some books printed for J. Senex and J. Hooke.

[Titlepage] 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 : Printed by William Hunter, for John Senex at the Globe, and John Hooke at the Flower-de-luce over-against St. Dunstan’s Church, in Fleet-street. In the Year of Masonry – 5723 Anno Domini — 1723. 96p. plus frontispiece, 20 cm x 24.5 cm.
Frontispiece Engraved by John Pine in Aldersgate Street London.
Digital page images of the 1734 edition can be accessed online in the Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800, no. 3744, which is derived from microfilm of the copy held in the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California. The London edition of 1723 is available online as digital page images in the Eighteenth Century Collections Online series.