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Reporting Oneself To The Registrar Of Strangers.
REPORTING ONESELF TO THE REGISTRAR OF STRANGERS .
The fellow craft holds his hat in his left hand : By Leave and Favour : I have a hearty greeting to deliver from the honourable elder and all the strangers working at N . or M . to the honourable elder and all the fellows working here in the free city
of Lubeck . The assembly returns thanks for the greeting , and stands treat to the stranger . As regards decency and decorum , the carpenters hold the same ideas as the masons .
To go into the street bareheaded , barefoot , or without a neckerchief , is punishable ; the fellow craft carpenter must always wear a hat . Any shortcomings in this respect are reported to the elder , who summons the delinquent to the next meeting , in these words :
By Leave and Favour : You will be so good as to appear before the elder next Saturday , according to Craft usage and custom . The person addressed answers , " That is praiseworthy . "
PROCEDURE AT THE HEARING . The defendant must appear at the meeting and report himself thus : By Leave and Favour : That I may make my entrance and appear
before ^ the Avorshipful elder , as well as before the entire company . Then the accuser steps in front of the Craft table and repeats his complaint . Elder ( to the Defendant ) : Do you acknowledge yourself guilty or not ?
In the first case he must pay a fine ; in the second he must prove his innocence . If he pleads not guilty , and cannot be justified by eyewitnesses , the elder says : The company knows Avhat it should do . The accuser then steps forth and challenges the accused to a bout
at fisticuffs , which is conducted according to all the rules . * As soon as the vanquished party calls for peace the elder knocks three times with the foot-rule on the table . The loser stands forth and says : —
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Reporting Oneself To The Registrar Of Strangers.
REPORTING ONESELF TO THE REGISTRAR OF STRANGERS .
The fellow craft holds his hat in his left hand : By Leave and Favour : I have a hearty greeting to deliver from the honourable elder and all the strangers working at N . or M . to the honourable elder and all the fellows working here in the free city
of Lubeck . The assembly returns thanks for the greeting , and stands treat to the stranger . As regards decency and decorum , the carpenters hold the same ideas as the masons .
To go into the street bareheaded , barefoot , or without a neckerchief , is punishable ; the fellow craft carpenter must always wear a hat . Any shortcomings in this respect are reported to the elder , who summons the delinquent to the next meeting , in these words :
By Leave and Favour : You will be so good as to appear before the elder next Saturday , according to Craft usage and custom . The person addressed answers , " That is praiseworthy . "
PROCEDURE AT THE HEARING . The defendant must appear at the meeting and report himself thus : By Leave and Favour : That I may make my entrance and appear
before ^ the Avorshipful elder , as well as before the entire company . Then the accuser steps in front of the Craft table and repeats his complaint . Elder ( to the Defendant ) : Do you acknowledge yourself guilty or not ?
In the first case he must pay a fine ; in the second he must prove his innocence . If he pleads not guilty , and cannot be justified by eyewitnesses , the elder says : The company knows Avhat it should do . The accuser then steps forth and challenges the accused to a bout
at fisticuffs , which is conducted according to all the rules . * As soon as the vanquished party calls for peace the elder knocks three times with the foot-rule on the table . The loser stands forth and says : —