The history of freemasonry : its legends and traditions, its chronological history . ganiczation. In view of all these facts it is impossible to recognize the bodyat York in any other light than that of a Mother Lodge, a bodyassuming, without the essential preliminaries, the prerogatives of aGrand Lodge, while to the body established at London in 1717must be conceded the true rank and title of the Mother GrandLodge of the World, from which, directly or indirectly, have pro-ceeded as its legitimate offspring all the Grand Lodges which havebeen organized in the 18th and 19th centuries. io;8 HIST
The history of freemasonry : its legends and traditions, its chronological history . ganiczation. In view of all these facts it is impossible to recognize the bodyat York in any other light than that of a Mother Lodge, a bodyassuming, without the essential preliminaries, the prerogatives of aGrand Lodge, while to the body established at London in 1717must be conceded the true rank and title of the Mother GrandLodge of the World, from which, directly or indirectly, have pro-ceeded as its legitimate offspring all the Grand Lodges which havebeen organized in the 18th and 19th centuries. io;8 HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY Now, what must we infer from these historical facts? This andno more nor less : that there never was, as a legitimate organiza-tion, a Grand Lodge of York or a Grand Lodge of all England,but only a Mother Lodge in the city of York, which assumed thetitle and prerogatives of a Grand Lodge, but exercised the func-tions both of a Grand and a private lodge—an anomaly unknownto and unrecognized by Masonic law. CHAPTER XL ORGANIZATION OF THE GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND. is much easier to write the history of the organ,ization of the Grand Lodge of Scotland thanthat of England. The materials in the formercase are far more abundant and more authentic,and the growth of the organization was moregradual, and each step more carefully England almost the only authority orguide that we have for the occurrences which led to the establish-ment of the Grand Lodge, in the year 1717, is the meager historysupplied by Anderson in the second edition of the Book ofConstitutions. The four old Lodges suddenly sprung, as we have already seen,into being, with no notification of their previous existence, and noaccount of the mental process by which their members were led toso completely change their character and constitution from the Op-erative to a purely Speculative institution. In Scotland, on the contrary, the processes which led to thechange are well marked—the previous
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