British dominations in Menorca have left a legacy that is not only made of colonial architecture and various anglicisms, which still persist in the Insular Dialectal Catalan. A long tradition of circles, publications and societies that produced political and ideological discourse can be traced in every corner of the island since the beginning of the 18th century to the present day. While the rest of the kingdom of Spain lived with anguish the return of Fernandino absolutism, while the dream of the liberals of Cádiz took the course of exile and persecution, in Menorca they flourished – among other things – several Masonic lodges of humanistic and liberal inspiration. Professor Juan José Morales Ruiz, head of the Mastería Mastería Master in Spain and America, points out that “it is known that during the second English occupation the La Antiènt Lodge N.72 existing in regiment 11 of the British forces ”, and also points out that, according to existing records, a few years later were founded“ in Port Mahón two other lodges: between 1766 and 1770 the N.141 Lodge of Fornitude and the N.117 UNION LODGE”
In this context of enlightened effervescence it can be found that the activity that English and French liberal intellectuals developed in the continent had their correlation in the Menorca Britanican island until then accustomed to the extreme rigidity of the Roman Apostolic Catholic rite observed by the Holy Inquisition, which would be established again on the island in 1802 upon returning to Spanish hands. However, for almost a hundred years Menorca, it remained under this sustained influence made of merchant tolerance, openness and liberalism that characterized British Protestants and Masons and was generating a pregnance in the Menorcan society.
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