THE STONEMASONS OF GERMANY.
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Lrotherliood have
come from the Lords and
cities
almost entirely
;
but should a master behave
otherwise than right in any case, he shall be summoned before the craft, and submit to its
And in case of a pending judgment no such master shall be avoided of his
judgment.
matter be adjudged, unless it be that such a one be disobedient to the
in that case he may well be left to go idle.
fellows until
judgment
;
tlie
Not
No
to
Lodge witlwut permission.
leave the
go out from the lodge without leave, or if he go to his broth
or any other meal, remain out without leave
nor shall any make Holy Monday. If any one
do so, he shall stand to punishment by the master and fellows, and the master shall have
LI.
fellow shall
;
power
to discharge
him
in the
week when he
will.
No more
LI I. And
Beatings.
no lodge, no matter for what cause, shall any one be beaten without
the knowledge and consent of tlie workmaster.
And there shall not in any employment
or elsewhere, anything be judged or heard by either masters or fellows, without the
superior
in future, in
workmaster's knowledge and consent in the judgment of the penalty.
Not
And
LIII.
run
to
together in the Lodge.
in the future the fellows shall wait in the lodge at their piece of stone,
and
no longer run together to chatter, so that the Lords be not hindered in their work.
Dliat an Apprentice shall vow
to
the Craft lohen he has served his time
and
is
declared free.
LIV. In the
first
place, every apprentice
when he has
served his time, and
is
declared free,
on his truth and honour, in lieu of oath, under pain of losing his right
to practise masonry, that he will disclose or communicate the mason's
greeting and grip to
no one, except to him to whom he may justly communicate it and also that he will write
shall promise the craft,
;
nothing thereof
Secondly, He shall promise as aforesaid, to be obedient to the craft of masonry in all things
concerning the craft, and if he should be sentenced by the craft he shall conform wholly to
such sentence, and yield obedience thereto.
He
Thirdly,
may
weaken but
shall promise not to
to strengthen the craft, so far as his
means
extend.
No
one shaU stand by another to hew stones who is not honestly of the craft and
employ any one to hew stones who is not a true stonemason, unless it
be previously permitted to him of a whole craft.^
Fourthly,
no master
LV. And no one
and
him by a
lent
;
shall
shall alter of his
craft
;-
but
if
own
knowledge, wiU, and approval of a whole
'
'
will
and power his mark which has been granted
it he shall
only do it with tlie
he ever desire to alter
craft.
This curious expression probably means,
This evidently means by a meeting of the
" Of
all
craft.
the
members
of the craft iu his neighbourhootl."