Original sentence: " These two Grand Lodges vied for members until Articles of Union were agreed under which both parties agreed to joint rituals.After the final military defeat of the Scottish Jacobites in the 1745 Rebellion, a few of these formed a rival Grand Lodge on 17 July 1751, which they called the "Antient Grand Lodge of England.However, so soon after the 1715 rebellion many Irish and Scottish Masons were not welcome at fashionable lodges, and did not endorse changes made to the rituals by some lodges of the GLE who came to be known as the Moderns.Many English Lodges joined the new body, which immediately entered a period of self-publicity and expansion, and rapidly assumed regulatory functions.None of the Grand Lodges persuaded all of the existing lodges in their countries to join for many years.The Grand Lodge of Ireland and the Grand Lodge of Scotland were formed in 1725 and 1736 respectively.The first Grand Lodge, the Grand Lodge of London and Westminster (later called the Grand Lodge of England (GLE)), was founded on St John's Day, 24 June, when three existing London artisan Lodges and one Westminster gentlemen's Lodge met for a joint dinner.There is no contemporary evidence of, and some geographical problems with, the very well-established traditional date of 1717: it may have been backdated two or three years by the imaginative official historian James Anderson in 1723, in order to aggrandise the lodges and his friends as Past Grand Officers
Edited sentence: " These two Grand Lodges vied for supremacy until the Moderns promised to return to the ancient ritual.However, many Lodges could not endorse changes which some Lodges of the GLE made to the ritual (they came to be known as the Moderns), and a few of these formed a rival Grand Lodge on 17 July 1751, which they called the "Antient Grand Lodge of England.Many English Lodges joined the new regulatory body, which itself entered a period of self-publicity and expansion.The Grand Lodge of Ireland and the Grand Lodge of Scotland were formed in 1725 and 1736 respectively, although neither persuaded all of the existing lodges in their countries to join for many years.The first Grand Lodge, the Grand Lodge of London and Westminster (later called the Grand Lodge of England (GLE)), was founded on St John's Day, 24 June 1717, when four existing London Lodges met for a joint dinner