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Documenta Latomica Inedita.

Q . Give me the Jerusalem Word . A . Giblin . Q . Give me the Universal Word . A . Boaa . Q . Eight Brother of ours , your Same ? A . N . or M . Welcome Brother ilf . or N . to our Society . Q . How many particular Points pertain to a Free-Mason P A . Tliree ; Fraternity , Fidelity , and Tacity . Q . What do they represent ? A- Brotherly Love , Belief , and Truth , among all Eight

Masons ; for which all Masons were ordain'd at the Building of the Tower of Babel , and at the Temple of Jerusalem . Q . How many proper points ? A Five ; Foot to Foot , Knee to Knee , Hand to Hand , Heart to Heart , and Ear to Ear . Q . Whence is an Arch derived ? A . From Architecture . Q . How many Orders in Architecture ? A . Five ; the TMSCCTO , ZDoriclc , Ioniclc , Corinthian , and Oomposit . Q . What do they answer ? A . They answer to the Base , Perpendicular , Diameter , Circumference , and Square . Q . What is the right Word , or right Point of a Mason ? A . Adieu .

THE FREE-MASON s OATH . Yon must servo God according to the best of your Knowledge and Institution , and be a true Leige Man to the King , and help and assist any Brother as far as your ability will allow : By the Contents of the Sacred Writ you will perform this Oath . So help you God . A FREE-MASON ' S HEALTH . HERE ' S a Health to our Society , and to every faithful Brother that keeps his Oath of Secrecy . As we are sworn to love each other . The World no Order knows like this our noble and

Ancient Fraternity : Let them wonder at the Mystery . Here , Brother , I drink to thee . SIGNS TO KNOW A TRUE MASON . 1 . To put off the Hat with two Fingers and a Thumb . 2 . To strike with the Eight-Hand on the Inside of the Little Finger of the Left three Times , as if hewing . 3 . By making a Square , viz . by setting your Heels together , and the Toes of both Feet

straight , at a Distance , or by any other Way of Triangle . 4 . To take Hand in Hand with Left and Eight Thumbs close , and touch each Wrist three Times with the Fore-Finger each Pulse . 5 . You must Whisper , saying thus , the Masters and Fellows of the worshipful Company from whence I came , greet yon all well . The other will answer , God greet well the Masters and Fellows of the worshipful Company from whence you came . 6 . Stroke two of your Fore-Fingers over your Eye-Lids three Times . 7 . Turn a Glass or any other Thing that is hollow , downwards , after you have drank out of it . S . Ask how you do ; and your Brothers drink to each other . 9 . Ask what Lodge they were made Free-Masons at .

N . B . In the Third of King Henry the Sixth , and Act of Parliament was pass'd , whereby it is made Felony to cause MASONS to confederate themselves in Chapiters ancl Assemblies . The Punishment is Imprisonment of Body , and make Fine and Eansom at the King ' s Will . I now leave the matter , important as it is from an historical point of view , in the hands of Masonic students , believing that for the first time these three curious old Masonic " formulse " ancl the translation of the German one , are

collected and collated together for perusal and stud y by the intelligent and studious of the Craft , the " Wissenden , " in fact , the expert readers and bri ght Masons of our excellent ancl useful brotherhood . Steinbrenner says , indeed , page 148 , " that no one who ' attentively reads these two examinations , ' that is to say , the examination taken out of the Grand Mystery , 1724 ,. and that of the German Steinmetzen just given , can fail to he struck with the general

resemblance of the st y le and ideas of both . " I therefore give the earlier one from the Sloane MS ., 3329 , and a copy of the Grand Mystery from a folio edition , 1724 . All I think that any fair and attentive reader can say is , that the English examinations are much more full than the German one , and that perhaps the difference of idea and symbolism is to be attributed to the different ways of different nations .

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FREEMASONRY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ; CHESTER, 1650-1700—APPENDIX. Article 1
THE QUEEN AND THE CRAFT. Article 12
DOCUMENTA LATOMICA INEDITA. Article 13
ACTS OF PARLIAMENT RELATING TO CRAFTSMEN. Article 18
ADONHIRAMITE MASONRY. Article 20
FOUNTAINS ABBEY, YORKSHIRE. Article 25
RELIEF. Article 32
USE OF THE WORD FREEMASON. Article 33
THE LANTERN AT PLUMPTON HALL. Article 34
AFTER ALL; Article 36
LITERARY GOSSIP. Article 41
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Documenta Latomica Inedita.

Q . Give me the Jerusalem Word . A . Giblin . Q . Give me the Universal Word . A . Boaa . Q . Eight Brother of ours , your Same ? A . N . or M . Welcome Brother ilf . or N . to our Society . Q . How many particular Points pertain to a Free-Mason P A . Tliree ; Fraternity , Fidelity , and Tacity . Q . What do they represent ? A- Brotherly Love , Belief , and Truth , among all Eight

Masons ; for which all Masons were ordain'd at the Building of the Tower of Babel , and at the Temple of Jerusalem . Q . How many proper points ? A Five ; Foot to Foot , Knee to Knee , Hand to Hand , Heart to Heart , and Ear to Ear . Q . Whence is an Arch derived ? A . From Architecture . Q . How many Orders in Architecture ? A . Five ; the TMSCCTO , ZDoriclc , Ioniclc , Corinthian , and Oomposit . Q . What do they answer ? A . They answer to the Base , Perpendicular , Diameter , Circumference , and Square . Q . What is the right Word , or right Point of a Mason ? A . Adieu .

THE FREE-MASON s OATH . Yon must servo God according to the best of your Knowledge and Institution , and be a true Leige Man to the King , and help and assist any Brother as far as your ability will allow : By the Contents of the Sacred Writ you will perform this Oath . So help you God . A FREE-MASON ' S HEALTH . HERE ' S a Health to our Society , and to every faithful Brother that keeps his Oath of Secrecy . As we are sworn to love each other . The World no Order knows like this our noble and

Ancient Fraternity : Let them wonder at the Mystery . Here , Brother , I drink to thee . SIGNS TO KNOW A TRUE MASON . 1 . To put off the Hat with two Fingers and a Thumb . 2 . To strike with the Eight-Hand on the Inside of the Little Finger of the Left three Times , as if hewing . 3 . By making a Square , viz . by setting your Heels together , and the Toes of both Feet

straight , at a Distance , or by any other Way of Triangle . 4 . To take Hand in Hand with Left and Eight Thumbs close , and touch each Wrist three Times with the Fore-Finger each Pulse . 5 . You must Whisper , saying thus , the Masters and Fellows of the worshipful Company from whence I came , greet yon all well . The other will answer , God greet well the Masters and Fellows of the worshipful Company from whence you came . 6 . Stroke two of your Fore-Fingers over your Eye-Lids three Times . 7 . Turn a Glass or any other Thing that is hollow , downwards , after you have drank out of it . S . Ask how you do ; and your Brothers drink to each other . 9 . Ask what Lodge they were made Free-Masons at .

N . B . In the Third of King Henry the Sixth , and Act of Parliament was pass'd , whereby it is made Felony to cause MASONS to confederate themselves in Chapiters ancl Assemblies . The Punishment is Imprisonment of Body , and make Fine and Eansom at the King ' s Will . I now leave the matter , important as it is from an historical point of view , in the hands of Masonic students , believing that for the first time these three curious old Masonic " formulse " ancl the translation of the German one , are

collected and collated together for perusal and stud y by the intelligent and studious of the Craft , the " Wissenden , " in fact , the expert readers and bri ght Masons of our excellent ancl useful brotherhood . Steinbrenner says , indeed , page 148 , " that no one who ' attentively reads these two examinations , ' that is to say , the examination taken out of the Grand Mystery , 1724 ,. and that of the German Steinmetzen just given , can fail to he struck with the general

resemblance of the st y le and ideas of both . " I therefore give the earlier one from the Sloane MS ., 3329 , and a copy of the Grand Mystery from a folio edition , 1724 . All I think that any fair and attentive reader can say is , that the English examinations are much more full than the German one , and that perhaps the difference of idea and symbolism is to be attributed to the different ways of different nations .

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