From the few of these lodges developed fashionable symbolic or speculative Freemasonry, which particularly from the seventeenth and 18th hundreds of years adopted the rites and trappings of historical religious orders and of chivalric brotherhoods. In 1717 the 1st Grand Lodge, an Affiliation of lodges, was founded in England. Before https://digitalasset.blob.core.windows.net/digitalassets/wsthillsmasonry/Hardscape-Contractors.html