Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

Bibliography

William Smith, The Book M: Or, Masonry Triumphant (1736)

The Rite ancien de Bouillon (1740?)

Womens Masonry or Masonry by Adoption (1765)

The ‘Sheffield’ Royal Arch Ritual (c. 1780–5)

The ‘Flather’ MS (1780–1800)

Alexander Dalziel’s Manuscripts of [William Preston’s?] ‘Old Harodim Lectures’ or ‘Old York Ritual/Lectures’ [c. 1790?]

William Finch’s MS: ‘Royal Arch A.D. 1804’

William Finch, Freemasons Guide 1807

G. N. Drinkwater’s and I. H. Drinkwater’s 1955 transcript of William Waples’s 1951 transcript of John Yarker’s 1896 [?] transcript of the Rituals (not the Lectures) of the Craft degrees of Alexander Dalziel’s c. 1823 Manuscript

Excerpts from the Texts by Ferdinand Fritz Schnitger

Alexander Dalziel’s 1830 MSS

Freemasonry. A Word to the Wise [1796]

The ‘Sheffield’ Knight Templar Ritual (c. 1800)

The ‘Deptford’ MS (1814–19)

High Knights Templar Rituals, Dublin (1795 and 1804)

Knight of the Red Cross Ritual, Ireland (1806)

Editorial Notes

List of Sources

About the Author

General Editor: Róbert Péter (volumes 4–5) is at the University of Szeged, Hungary


Volume Editors: Cécile Revauger (volume 1) is at the University Bordeaux Montaigne


Jan A. M. Snoek (volume 2–3) is at Heidelberg University, Germany