MarkR
Premium Member
Of course, I should have known that you'd dismiss anything that doesn't accord with your view that anything prior to 1717 was just "stonecraft" and eating and drinking, and since then it's been a dramatic society.So What! Some guy joined a stonecraft lodge so that he could pay them money to eat, drink, sing and talk and who no intention of learning the stonecraft profession.
Back to, so what! Four lodges planned to have quarterly dinner parties so that they could get together and eat, drink, sing and talk every 3 month that have nothing to do with stonecraft activities.
At least one of the four "time immemorial" lodges that formed the Premier Grand Lodge had very few stonemason members. The Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary's Chapel) records FAR predate 1717. Yeah, I know. They just "changed their business model" causing high-born men of learning to want to hang around with stonemasons.