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Hiram: or, the grand master-key to the door of both antient and modern free-masonry: being an accurate description of every degree of the brotherhood, as authorized and delivered in all good lodges. The whole comprehending (among an Entertaining Variety of others) the following Articles, viz. 1. History of the Rise and Progress of Masonry. 2. The antient Constitutions, Laws and Charges of the Order. 3. The only true and regular Form used in Making a Mason. 4. The Lectures, Oaths, Obligations, &c. of each Degree: viz. Apprentice, Fellow-Craft, Master, &c. verbatim. 5. Ceremony of the Mop and Pail. 6. Word and Grip of each Degree. 7. Description of the different Claps, and Manner of Drinking with Three Times Three. 8. Hiram's Murder, Borial, and raising, with the Punishment of the Assassins. 9. Account of the four solemn Penalties. 10. Manner of constituting a new Lodge. 11. All the Toasts used by Free Masons. 12. A complete Collection of new Songs. 13. A new and correct List of Lodges. Containing more than any Book on the Subject ever before published. The second edition. Illustrated with proper Remarks, &c. necessary to explain the Whole to the meanest Capacity, whether Brethren or not. And embellished with a beautiful Copper-Plate of the Drawing on the Floor of a Lodge, at the Admission of a new Member. By a member of Royal Arch.
printed for W. Griffin, in Catharine-Street, in the Strand
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