J.Anderson,The constitutions of the Freemasons:Containing the history,charges,regulations,etc.of that ... fraternity,London,1723.
J.Anderson,The New Book of Constitutions of the ... Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons ... collected and digested,by order of the Grand Lodge,from their old records ... and lodge-books,London,1738.
Anon,‘Cunningham,James,fourteenth Earl of Glencairn(1749-91)’,The Burns Encyclopedia,consulted online,http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/CunninghamJamesfourteenthEarlofGlencairn174915191.255.shtml,on 14 April 2017.‘My first,my dearest Patron’.
R.Beachy,‘Masonic apologetic writings’,in M.Fedelma Cross(ed.),Gender and Fraternal Orders in Europe,1300-2000,Basingstoke,2010.
F.Benigno,‘Assolutezza del potere e nascita della sfera pubblica:critica di un modello’,in M.Rospocher(ed.),Oltre la sfera pubblica:Lo spazio della politica nell’Europa moderna,Bologna,2013.
R.A.Berman,‘The Architects of Eighteenth-Century English Freemasonry,17Z0-1740’,University of Exeter PhD Thesis,2010. Especially on Desaguliers and Whig networks.‘Many London Freemasons represented precisely the type of men the Whig government would have favoured’,p.155.
R.A.Berman,The Foundations of Modern Freemasonry:The Grand Architects,Political Change and the Scientific Enlightenment,1714-1740,Brighton,2012.
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‘Boniface Oinophilus’(pseud,of A.-H.de Sallengre),Ebreitatis Encomium,or The Praise of Drunkenness,London,1812.‘When the King Enjoys his Own Again’,p.90.‘’Tis wine,ye Masons,makes you Free’,p.83.
A.T.Carpenter,John Theophilus Desaguliers:A Natural Philosopher,Engineer and Freemason in Newtonian England,London,2011. Walpole as Mason,p.104.
W.J.Chetwode Crawley,‘Notes on Irish Freemasonry,no.Ⅵ,The Wesleys and Irish Freemasonry’,AQC,15,1902.
J.C.D.Clark,English Society 1660-1832,Cambridge,2000.
P.Clark,British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800,Oxford,2000. The authority on the area,upon which I have drawn heavily. On Burns’s networking,pp.230-1. Two thousand coffee houses,p.163.
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D.G.Hackett,That Religion in Which All Men Agree:Freemasonry and American Culture,Berkeley,CA,2014. Another fundamental study. Accounts of Masonic procession in Charleston,quoted p.19. The book also has a fine chapter on Native-American Masonry.
E.Hatton,New View of London:or an Ample account of that City,London,1708. A‘fraternity of ... many of the Nobility and Gentry’,p.611.
J.Herron Lepper,‘The Earl of Middlesex and the English Lodge in Florence’,AQC,58,1945.
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M.C.Jacob,The Origins of Freemasonry:Facts & Fictions,Philadelphia,PA,2006.
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B.Krysmanski,‘Lust in Hogarth’s Sleeping Congregation-Or,How to Waste Time in Post-Puritan England’,Art History,21,3 September 1998;on a cartoon of Desaguliers giving a boring sermon.
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J.Lane,Masonic Records 1717-1894(2nd edn),London,1895.
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H.Morrison,‘“Making Degenerates into Men” by Doing Shots,Breaking Plates,and Embracing Brothers in Eighteenth-Century Freemasonry’,Journal of Social History,46(1),2012. Covers Mozart and Haydn’s revels in their Lodge.
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A.Newman,‘Politics and Freemasonry in the Eighteenth Century’,AQC,104,1991.
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W.Read,‘Let a man’s religion ... be what it may’,AQC,98,1985. Cites the case of English Freemasonry’s first Catholic Grand Master.
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J.M.Shaftesley,‘Jews in English Freemasonry in the 18th and 19th Centuries’,AQC,92,1979.
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D.Stevenson,The Origins of Freemasonry:Scotland’s Century,1590-1710,Cambridge,1988.‘An exclusive cell within the London Company’,p.281.‘1000 ridiculous postures and grimmaces’,quoted p.137.
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A.Tinniswood,His Invention So Fertile:A Life of Christopher Wren,London,2001.
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E.Ward,A Compleat and Humorous Account of All the Remarkable Clubs and Societies in the Cities of London and Westminster,London,1756. ‘Crepitations’,p.31.
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