Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

164 ROfAL ARCH MASONRI!*.
not only with the sentiments of the oldest and best informed
Masons, with whom I hate conversed, but is, also,
agreeable'to written and printed documents in my possession
; some of the latter of which are almost as old as the
art of printing itself. They are as follows:
"1. Entered Apprentice.
"2. Fellbw Craft.
"3. Master Mason.
" 4. Royal Arch Mason."
Free Mason's Library, p. 318.
This is a capital witness. He makes one more degree
than the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, in their Book of
Constitutions, and the Masons of Britain admit: but hear
him.
44 The following orders, which have within a few years
past be&n manufactured into degrees, ar^ merely elucidatory
of the second, third* and fourth degrees, viz.
Past Master,
Mark Master,
Select Master,
Most Excellent Master,
Royal Master, and
Ark Master, or Noachite
, (These have been manufactured
within a few years past;
it is not many years, since Mr.
Cole's fourth degree, the Royal
Arch, was also manufactured.)
Free Mas. Library, p. 318.
Now, by turning to the Grand Circular of the Most Puissant
Sovereign Inspectors General of Free Masonry, found
in Dalcho's Orations, p. 78, we shall see a Ust of the names
of the masonic degrees to the number of thirty-three: manufactures
flourish. They are all enumerated in this volume.
Again! " List of the various masonic degrees.
" In a late publication, 1816, we find the following list of
masonic degrees, which the author states are conferred in
the Sublime Grand Lodges, in Charleston, S. C, in the city