Table of contents : Acknowledgements. Introduction. Chapter 1. The Masons. Chapter 2. The Heretics. Chapter 3. The Seventeenth Century. Chapter 4. Grand Lodge. Chapter 5. The Pope’s Bull. Chapter 6. Germany and France. Chapter 7. English Grand Lodge: ‘Wilkes and Liberty!’. Chapter 8. Troubles and Scandals. Chapter 9. The American Revolution. Chapter 10. The Magic Flute. Chapter 11. The French Revolution. Chapter 12. Loyalist and Revolutionary Freemasons. Chapter 13. Napoleon. Chapter 14. The Restoration. Chapter 15. The Case of William Morgan. Chapter 16. The Lautaro Lodge. Chapter 17. The Nineteenth Century. Chapter 18. The New Assault on Freemasonry. Chapter 19. Freemasonry in the World. Chapter 20. Modern Freemasonry in Britain. Chapter 21. Are the Freemasons a Menace? Notes and References. Bibliography.