The history of freemasonry : its legends and traditions, its chronological history . title of Ancient YorkMasons. Such was the universal practice on the American Continent,where the Grand Lodges established under the obedience of theGrand Lodge of Moderns and those organized by the York orAncient Lodges preserved the distinctive principles of their parentsand inherited their angry passions. But such a condition of things was too alien to the benign andfraternal sentiments of Freemasonry to be perpetuated. Move-ments toward a reconciliation were inaugurated toward the closeof the 18th century,
The history of freemasonry : its legends and traditions, its chronological history . title of Ancient YorkMasons. Such was the universal practice on the American Continent,where the Grand Lodges established under the obedience of theGrand Lodge of Moderns and those organized by the York orAncient Lodges preserved the distinctive principles of their parentsand inherited their angry passions. But such a condition of things was too alien to the benign andfraternal sentiments of Freemasonry to be perpetuated. Move-ments toward a reconciliation were inaugurated toward the closeof the 18th century, and finally, in 1813, the Atholl Grand Lodgewas forever dissolved by a fusion of the two contending bodies inEngland into the now existing body under the title of the UnitedGrand Lodge of England. This excellent example was speedilyfollowed by similar amalgamations in all the States where the rivalryhad prevailed. But the fusion in England, which closes the history of the AthollGrand Lodge, is too important an event to be treated otherwisethan in a separate chapter. CHAPTER XLII. THE GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND, SOUTH OF THE TRENT J OR THESCHISM OF THE LODGE OF ANTIQUITY •JF the four old Lodges of London which united inthe formation of a Grand Lodge in the year1717, the one which at that time met at the Goose and Gridiron Ale-house in St. PaulsChurchyard, assumed the precedency as No. 1,and under all its changes of name and localityretained that precedency until the union of thetwo Grand Lodges in 1813, when, in casting lots, it lost its primi-tive rank and became No. 2, a number which it has ever sinceretained. Anderson calls it the Senor Lodge whose Constitutionis About the year 1729 it removed from the Goose and Grid-iron, to the Kings Arms Tavern, also in St. Pauls it remained, except for a brief interval in 1735 until 1768,having taken in 1760 the name of the West India and AmericanLodge. In 1768 it removed to the Mitre, in Fleet Street, andin 177
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