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United Grand Lodge of England

For further information about regular Freemasonry, i.e. Freemasonry of the United Grand Lodge of England, please refer to the following sites:

• Freemasonry Today
• United Grand Lodge of England
• The London Lodges

Freemasonry was officially founded in 1717 by the establishment of the Grand Lodge of England in London, from the four lodges which met at:

• the Goose & Gridiron Ale-house in St Paul’s Church
• the Crown Alehouse in Parker’s Lane near Drury Lane
• the Apple Tree Tavern in Charles Street, Covent Garden
• the Rummer & Grapes Tavern in Channel Row, Westminster

Mr Anthony Sayer was the first Grand Master, the present being the Duke of Kent.

The following are useful:

• Hamill and Gilbert, Freemasonry: A Celebration of the Craft, Mackenzie 1992
• John Hamill, The Craft, a History of English Freemasonry, Crucible 1986
• Douglas Knoop, The Mason Word: Ars Quatuor Coronatorum (Transactions of the QC Lodge) 51, 1938
• D. Knoop and GP Jones, The Evolution of Masonic Organisation, being a re-examination of the Old Charges and of the Earlier Documents Relating to Operative Masonry.
• Manly P. Hall, An Encyclopaedic Outline of Masonic, Qabbalistic, and Rosicrucian Symbolic Philosophy
• M. de Pace, Introducing Freemasonry (a practical guide to Masonic practice in England and Wales), 1983, Lewis Masonic.
• Harry Carr, The Freemason at Work, revised ed. Frederick Smyth, Lewis Masonic. 1992
• Knoop, Jones and Hamer, The Two Earliest Masonic Mss. Manchester University Press, 1938 [BE 42 KNO]
• David Stevenson, The Origins of Freemasonry - Scotland's Century 1590-1710, 1998 Cambirdge University Press
• Bernard E. Jones, Freemasons' Guide and Compendium, CD-Rom, available from www.lintel.org
• Kent Henderson, Masonic World Guide, 1984 Lewis Masonic

Women’s orders are not officially recognised by the United Grand Lodge of England. Although the UGLE admits that they exist, the two types of orders do not have official communication. If you wish to find out more about this question you should contact both the United Grand Lodge of England and some orders that admit women.

Addresses

The United Grand Lodge of England	Freemasons’ Hall 60 Great Queen Street London WC2B 5AZ [exclusively male order]
International Co-Freemasonry	Le Droit Humain British Federation Hexagon House 37/39 Surbiton Hill Road Surbiton, Surrey KT6 4TS [male and female admitted]
The Honourable Fraternity of Antient Freemasons	68 Great Cumberland Place London W1H 7FD [exclusively female]
Order of Women Freemasons	27 Pembridge Gardens London W2 4EF (020) 7229 2368 [exclusively female]