NOTHING can prove more fhocking to all faithful Mafons, then to fee any of their brethren profane or break through the facred Rules of their order; and fuch as can do it, they wish had never been admitted.

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New lodge, for avoiding many irregulaArities, fhould be folemnly conftituted

by the Grand-Mafter, with his deputy and wardens; or, in the Grand-Master's absence, the deputy acts for his worship, the senior grandwarden as deputy, the junior grand-warden as the fenior, and the prefent mafter of a lodge as the junior: Or if the deputy is also abfent, the grandmaster may depute either of his grand-wardens, who can appoint others to act as grand-wardens, pro tempore.

THE lodge being opened, and the candidates or new master and wardens being yet among the fellow-crafts, the grand-mafter shall ask his deputy if he has examined them, and whether he finds the mafter well fkilled in the noble science and the

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royal art, and duly inftructed in our mysteries, &c. the deputy anfwering in the affirmative, shall (by the grand-master's order) take the candidate from among his fellows, and prefent him to the grand-mafter, faying, Right Worshipful Grand Mafter, the brethren bere, defire to be formed into a regular lodge; and I prefent my worthy brother A. B. to be (inftalled) their mafter, whom I know to be of good morals and great skill, true and trusty, and a lover of the whole fraternity, wherefcever difperfed over the face of the earth.

THEN the grand mafter placing the candidate on his left hand, and having asked and obtained the unanimous confent of the brethren, fhall fay (after fome other ceremonies and expreffions that cannot be written) I conftitute and form thefe good brethren into a new regular lodge, and appoint you, brother A. B. the master of it, not doubting of your capacity and care to preferve the cement of the lodge, &c.

UPON this the deputy, or fome other brother for him, shall rehearse the charge of a master; and the grand master shall ask the candidate, saying, Do you fubmit to thefe charges as masters have done in all ages? And the new mafter fignifying his cordial fubmiffion thereto, the grand-mafter shall by certain fignificant ceremonies and ancient ufages, inftall him and prefent him with his warrant, the book of conftitutions, the lodge-book, and

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inftruments of his office, one after another; and after each of them the grand-mafter, his deputy, or fome brother for him, shall rehearse the short and pithy charge that is fuitable to the thing present.

NEXT, the members of this new lodge, bowing altogether to the grand-mafter, fhall return his worship their thanks (according to the custom of masters) and shall immediately do homage to their new mafter, and (as faithful craftsmen) fignify their promise of fubjection and obedience to him by usual congratulations.

THE deputy and grand wardens, and any other brethren that are not members of this new lodge, fhall next congratulate the new master, and he fhall return his becoming acknowledgments (as master-masons) first to the grand-mafter and grand officers, and to the reft in their order.

THEN the grand-mafter orders the new mafter. to enter immediately upon the exercife of his office,. and, calling forth his fenior warden, a fellow-craft (mafter-mafon) presents him to the grand-master for his worship's approbation, and to the new lodge for their confent; upon which the fenior or junior grand warden, or fome brother for him, fhall rehearse the charge of a warden, &c. of a private lodge; and he, fignifying his cordial fubmiffion thereto, the new mafter fhall prefent him fingly with the feveral inftruments of his office, and, in

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ancient manner and due form, inftal him in his proper place.

In like Manner the new mafler fhall call forth his junior warden, who fhall be a mafter-mafon, and prefented (as above) to the junior grand-warden, or fome other brother in his stead, and shall in the above manner be inftalled in his proper Place; and the brethren of this new lodge fhall fignify their obedience to these new wardens, by the ufual congratulations due to wardens.

THE Grand-Master then gives all the brethren joy of their mafter and wardens, &c. and recommends harmony, &c. hoping their only contention, will be a laudable emulation in cultivating the royal art, and the focial virtues.

THEN the grand-secretary, or fome brother for him, (by the grand-master's order) in the name of the grand-lodge, declares and proclaims this new lodge duly constituted No.

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UPON which all the new lodge together (after the custom of masters) return their hearty and fincere thanks for the honour of this conftitution.

THE grand-master alfo orders the grand-secretary to register this new lodge in the grand lodge-book, and to notify the fame to the other particular lodges; and, after fome other ancient customs and-demonstrations of joy and fatisfaction, he orders the fenior grand-warden to close the lodge. G

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