From a handful of of such lodges produced contemporary symbolic or speculative Freemasonry, which specially within the 17th and 18th hundreds of years adopted the rites and trappings of historical religious orders and of chivalric brotherhoods. In 1717 the 1st Grand Lodge, an Affiliation of lodges, was founded in England. https://zoominfo.com/c/west-hills-masonry/348030068