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Q. Who received you?
A. A Junior Warden.
Q. How did he dispose of you?
A. He carried me to the north-east part of the lodge, and brought me back again to the west, and delivered me to the Senior Warden.
Q. What did the Senior Warden do with you?
A. He presented me, and shewed me how to walk up by three steps to the Master.
Q. What did the Master do with you?
A. He made me a Mason.
Q. How did he make you a Mason?
A. With my bare-bended knee, and my body within the square, the compass extended to my naked left breast; my naked right hand on the Holy Bible, there I took the obligation or oath of a Mason.
Q. Can you repeat that obligation?
A. I will do my endeavour.
Which is as follows:—
"I hereby solemnly vow and swear, in the presence of ——— and this Right Worshipful Assembly, that I will hail and conceal, and never reveal the secrets or secrecy of Masons or Masonry that shall be revealed unto me, unless to a true and lawful Brother, after an examination, or in a just and and worshipful Lodge of Brothers and Fellows well met."
"I furthermore promise and vow, That I will not write them, print them, mark them, carve them, or engrave them, or cause them to be written, carved, or engraven, on wood or stone, so as the visible character or impression of a letter may appear, whereby it may be unlawfully obtained. All this under no less penalty than to have my throat cut, my tongue taken from the roof of my mouth, my heart plucked
