Candidate's Petition.

We, the undersigned, most humbly supplicate the Most Wise and Perfect Sovereign, and the Very August, Excellent, Puissant, and Perfect Princes, now assembled, that you will graciously condescend to admit us to your Princely Order, prompted by a humble zeal to obtain perfection. We trust that the sincerity of our endeavours to promote the Glory of the Cross and the Welfare of Mankind will entitle us to your favourable opinions. Assuring you that should you be pleased to grant our request, we pledge ourselves to bear allegiance to this Sovereign Chapter, and to pray for the prosperity and happiness of the Princes of this Sublime Degree. (Signed)

(To be used at page 18, which see.)

I, A. B., in the presence of God, Creator of the Universe, and calling upon these my Brethren as witnesses, do, upon this Sacred Book, most solemnly and sincerely promise that I will never illegally reveal any or either of the s...s or m...s of or belonging to the several degrees of the A. and A. Rite, from the 4° to the 17° both inclusive, which may heretofore have been known by me, shall now, or at any future time may be communicated to me, under the penalties, &c.

[To the Supreme Council of the 33°, to be written at the beginning of the Golden Book or Register of each Chapter, and to be signed by all Candidates previous to the commencement of the Ceremony.]

We, the undersigned, being free and accepted Master Masons, regularly initiated, passed, and raised in a Warranted Lodge, most solemnly promise faithful allegiance, fealty, and solemn submission to the decrees of the Most Puissant and Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General of the 33rd degree, duly, lawfully, and constitutionally established on the 26th October 1845, sitting in Supreme Council at their Grand East in London, for England and Wales and the Dependencies of the British Crown.

We do furthermore promise to hold no Masonic Fellowship, Inter

course, or Communion whatever, in any of the Ineffable and Sublime degrees or Orders of Ancient Free and Accepted Masonry, with any Mason, or body of Masons, which at any time have been, or hereafter may be, established in Great Britain or its dependencies by any authority whatever, except with such as are or may be duly recognised and acknowledged as lawful by the aforesaid S. C.; and we do further declare that we will, after our admission into the Order, as soon as an opportunity shall conveniently occur, sign our name in the Roll of the Golden Book of the Order.

In testimony whereof we have signed this promise and declaration with our own hands this day of

(Signed)