Prichard's exposure describes the third degree; no second independent source is recorded yet.
SRC-0002: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0002: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
CLM-0001: Record review status is unreviewed; review is not proof of truth.
CLM-0001: No page, section, exhibit or timestamp is recorded.
ITEM-0001: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
CLM-0008 · Content
In the Entered Apprentice obligation the candidate promises not to write, print, carve or engrave the secrets, under a penalty of having his throat cut, his tongue taken from the roof of his mouth and his heart plucked out, these to be buried in the sea sands a cable's length from shore, and his body burnt and the ashes scattered.
Checked against the Internet Archive text on 2026-11-04.
SRC-0002: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0002: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ITEM-0001: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
CLM-0009 · Content
In the Entered Apprentice obligation the candidate swears under a penalty of having his throat cut across, his tongue torn out by its roots and his body buried in the rough sands of the sea at low-water mark.
Checked against the Internet Archive text on 2026-11-04. Pagination is that of the Dick & Fitzgerald third edition as marked in the open transcription. Not counted as corroborating the 1730 wording: Duncan may draw on earlier exposures.
SRC-0006: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0006: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ITEM-0001: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
CLM-0010 · Content
The Master's Part tells how Hiram was killed by three Fellow-Crafts with a setting maul, setting tool and setting beadle, hidden under rubbish and then buried on the brow of a hill, and found fifteen days later by fifteen brethren when a shrub came away easily from the disturbed ground; a sprig of cassia was placed at the head of the grave.
Checked against the Internet Archive text on 2026-11-04.
SRC-0002: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0002: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ITEM-0001: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
CLM-0040 · Change
In the United Grand Lodge of England a permissive variation of the obligations was allowed in 1964. On 11 June 1986 Grand Lodge resolved that all references to physical penalties be omitted from the obligations of the three degrees and of a Master Elect at installation, while keeping them elsewhere in the ceremonies; the resolution became an edict of Grand Lodge.
Checked against the online copy of the paper on 2026-11-04. Mendoza quotes the 1986 resolution. The Grand Lodge proceedings for 11 June 1986 would corroborate it.
SRC-0046: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0046: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
ITEM-0001: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
Evidence qualifications
SRC-0004 · source_authenticity_unassessed: Source authenticity is unassessed; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
SRC-0004 · source_without_content_hash: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.
DISC-0006 · record_unreviewed: Record review status is unreviewed; review is not proof of truth.
DISC-0006 · disclosure_without_coverage: The parts, version or edition covered by this disclosure have not been specified.
ITEM-0001 · status_without_dated_evidence: The recorded practice status is provisional: no dated status claims are linked.
Reviewed means checked against a source. It does not establish source authenticity, independent corroboration or present-day practice.
