Documenta Latomica Inedita.

SLOASE MS . Here f olloweth there private discourse by way of question and answer . Quest . Are you a mason ? Ans . Tes I am a free mason . Q . How shall I know that P A . By perfect signes and tokens and the first poynts of my entrance . Q . Which is the first signe or token ? show me the first and I will ^ how you the

second . A . The first is heale and conceal or conceal and keep secrefcfc by-no less paine than cutting my tongue from my throat . Q . Where were you made a Mason P A . In a just and perfect or just and lawfull Lodge . Q . What is a just and perfect or just and lawfull Lodge ? A . A just and perfect Lodge is two Interprentices two fellow craftes and two Masters more or fewer , the more the merrier the fewer the betf chear , but if need require five will serve that is two

Interprentices two fellow craftes and one Master on the highest hill or lowest Valley of the world without the crow of a cock or the bark of a dogg . Q . From whom do you derive your principal ! . A . From a great 1 ' than yon . Q . Who is that on earth that is great r than a free mason . A . He yt was caryed to the highest pmnicall of the Temple of Jerusalem . Q . Wheth is your Lodge shut or open . A . It is shut . Q . Where lyes the keys of the Lodge doore . A . They lye in a bound case or und a three cornered pavement about a foote and a halfe from the Lodge door . Q . What is the key of your Lodge door made of . A . It is not made of wood Stone Iron Steel or any sort of metal , but the tongue of a good report behind a Brothr ' s back as well as before his face .

Q . How many Jewles belong to your Lodge . A . There are three the square pavement the biasing Star and the Danly tassley . Q . How long is the cable rope of your Lodge . A . As long as from the lop of the Liver to the root of the tongue . ^ Q . How many Lights are in your Lodge . A . Three the sun the masf and the square . Q . How high is your lodge . A . Without foots yards or inches it reaches to Heaven . Q . How stood your Lodge . A . East and west as all holy Temples stand . Q . Which is the masters place in the Lod . A . The east lace is the master lace in

ge p p the Lodge and the Jewell restefch on him first and he setteth men to worke wt the masters have in the foornoon the wardens reap in the Afternoon . In some places they discourse as followeth ( viz . ) . Q . Where was the first word given . A . At the Tower of Babylon . Q . Where did they first call their Lodge . A . At the holy Chapel ! of St . John . Q . How stood your Lodge . A . As the said holy Chapell and all other holy Temples stand ( east and west ) .

Q . Sow many lights are in your Lodge . A . Two , one to see to go in and another to see to work . Q . What were you sworn by . A . By god and the square . Q . Whether above the clothes or und . the clothes . A . Undr the clothes . Q . Undr what Arme . A . Undr the right Arme . God is Grateful ! to all Worshipfull masters and fellows in that worshipfull Lodge from whence we last came and to you good fellow wt is your name . A . I or B . then giving the grip of the hand he will say Broth . John griet you well you . A . God ' s greeting to you dear Brother .

THE GRAND MYSTERY OE FREE-MASONS DISCOVERED . Wherein are the several Questions put to them at their Meetings and Installations : As also their Oath , Health , Signs , and Points , to know each other by . As they were found in the Custody of a Free-Mason who Dyed Suddenly . And now Publish'd for the Information of the Publick . . Amhuhajai-um collegia , Plia-rmaca-pola .,

Mendici , Medici , halatrones , hoc genus om / me . —HoRAT . Mulus scabit Mulum . London : Printed for T . PAYNE near Stationer ' s-Hall . 1724 . ( Price Six Pence . ) PREEAOE . THIS Piece having been found in the Custody of a FREE-MASON , who died suddenly , it was thought proper to publish it in the very Words of the Copy , that the Publick may at last have something Genuine concerning the Grand Mystery of Free-Masons . T 2