f the _Book of Constitutions_, issued in that
year. So far the Grand Lodge had not extended its jurisdiction beyond
London and Westminster, but the very next year, 1724, there were
already nine Lodges in the provinces acknowledging its obedience, the
first being the Lodge at the Queen's Head, City of Bath. Within a few
years Masonry extended its labors abroad, both on British and on
foreign soil. The first Lodge on foreign soil was founded by the Duke
of Wharton at Madrid, in 1728, and regularized the following year, by
which time a Lodge had been established at the East India Arms,
Bengal, and also at Gibraltar. It was not long before Lodges arose in
many lands, founded by English Masons or by men who had received
initiation in England; these Lodges, when sufficiently numerous,
uniting under Grand Lodges--the old Lodge at York, that ancient Mecca
of Masonry, had called itself a Grand Lodge as early as 1725. The
Grand Lodge of Ireland was created in 1729, those of Scotland[134] and
France in 1736; a Lodge at Hamburg in 1737,[135] though it was not
patented until 1740; the Unity Lodge at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1742,
another at Vienna the same year; the Grand Lodge of the Three
World-spheres at Berlin in 1744; and so on, until the order made its
advent in Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

Following the footsteps of Masonry from land to land is almost as
difficult as tracing its early history, owing to the secrecy in which
it enwrapped its movements. For example, in 1680 there came to South
Carolina one John Moore, a native of England, who before the close of
the century removed to Philadelphia, where, in 1703, he was Collector
of the Port. In a letter written by him in 1715, he mentions having
"spent a few evenings in festivity with my Masonic brethren."[136]
This is the first vestige of Masonry in America, unless we accept as
authentic a curious document in the early history of Rhode Island, as
follows: "This ye [day and month obliterated] 1656, Wee mett att y
House off Mordicai Campanell and after synagog gave Abram Moses the
degrees of Maconrie."[137] On June 5, 1730, the first authority for
the assembling of Free-masons in America was issued by the Duke of
Norfolk, to Daniel Coxe, of New Jersey, appointing him Provincial
Grand Master of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; and three
years later Henry Price, of Boston, was appointed to the same office
for New England. But Masons had evident