Especially in relation to the Royal Arch Degree, with valuable appendices. The Grand Lodge of England is the original mother of all regular Masonic Lodges of Three Degrees the world over and thus interest especially centers on the history of the English Rite itself. Hughan has gathered together a very valuable mass of facts and has dealt throughout very exhaustively with the subject of the origin of the English Rite of Freemasonry. He labored in this effort to bring to light hidden secrets of the past.