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Excerpt from Hayden's Researches of Masonry The new Grand Lodge directed George Payne, who had been elected its Grand Master, to collect all the documents, manuscripts, charters, rituals, etc., relating to the ancient usages of the fraternity, for the purpose of connecting them with the registers and anglo-saxon deeds written in the Gothic and Latin languages, and of the whole to form a body of laws and doctrines, and to publish so much of the same as might be judged proper and necessary. After the careful examination of all these deeds, and a report made of their subjects by a commission composed of fourteen brethren, chosen from the most erudite Masons of London, the Grand Lodge directed that brother Dr. Anderson, a doctor of philo Sophy and eminent minister of the Presbyterian Church at London, compile from these documents a constitution to be preceded by a history of the corporation, which would in the future serve as a guide to modern Free masonry. Brother Anderson, having acquitted himself of the task, in 1722, submitted his work to the commission, who approved it, and caused it to be sanctioned by the Grand Lodge on the 25th of March, 1723. This constitution is entitled, The Book of Constitutions for Freemasons, Containing the History, Charges, and Regulations, etc., of that Most Ancient and Right Worshipful Fraternity for the Use of the Lodges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.