From a handful of of such lodges created fashionable symbolic or speculative Freemasonry, which notably during the seventeenth and 18th generations adopted the rites and trappings of historic spiritual orders and of chivalric brotherhoods. In 1717 the 1st Grand Lodge, an Affiliation of lodges, was Launched in England. columns and https://zoominfo.com/c/west-hills-masonry/348030068