From a several of these lodges produced fashionable symbolic or speculative Freemasonry, which specifically while in the seventeenth and 18th hundreds of years adopted the rites and trappings of historical religious orders and of chivalric brotherhoods. In 1717 the initial Grand Lodge, an association of lodges, was founded in England. https://local.yahoo.com/info-101684666-west-hills-masonry-irvine