A RITUAL OF FREEMASONRY ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS. TO WHICH IS ADDED A KEY TO THE PHI BETA KAPPA, THE ORANGE, AND WITH NOTES AND REMARKS. BY AVERY ALLYN, K. R. C. K. T. K. M. &c. "Yes, ye vile race, for Hell's amusement given Dark tangled doctrines; dark as fraud can weave, MOORE. NEW YORK: WILLIAM GOWANS. CONSTITUTED UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE GENERAL GRAND ENCAMPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. TO ALL SIR KNIGHTS of the illustrious order of the Red Cross and of the valiant and magnanimous Order of Knight Templars and Knights of Malla around the globe, to whom these presents may come; Greeting. WE, the presiding officers of NEW-HAVEN Encampment of Knights Templars, No. 2, held at NEW-HAVEN, in the State of CONN. do hereby certify and make known, that our illustrious Sir Knight, Avery Allyn, having previously received the necessary degrees, has been regularly dubbed and created in this Encampment, a Knight of the Illustrious order of the Red Cross and of the Valiant and Magnanimous order of Knight Templars and Knights of Malta, or order of St. John of Jerusalem. We do therefore cordially recommend him to the Friendship, Assistance, and Protection of all valiant and magnanimous Sir Knights, in all parts of the Globe wherever he may go. IN TESTIMONY whereof, having first caused our Illustrious Sir Knight to sign his name in the margin, We have hereunto set our hands, and caused the seal of our Encampment to be affixed the 16th day of January, A. D. 1827, and of the order of Knight Templars 709. M. E. LABAN SMITH, G. C. E. WM. H. JCNES, C. G. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty, by WILLIAM GOWANS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. |