[3][4] In 1756, he published the book Thoughts, Moral and Divine, issued in London.
He published it by subscription, and was enabled thereby to make advances towards a restoration of a settled life.
A second edition was brought out at Birmingham in 1758;[5] a third at Coventry in 1759; a fourth at Manchester in 1761; a fifth at Exeter (retitled A collection of thoughts...) in 1764 and a sixth at London in 1766.
[6] In 1769 he published A Candid Disquisition of the Principles and Practices of the most ancient and honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons, London, 8vo, also by subscription.
[9] According to a Freemason encyclopaedia Calcott travelled extensively (also suggested by the range of places where his book was published)[6] and spent time in America.