Manuscript book containing copy of the Morin Patent, Regulations and Constitutions of 1762, the Thirteenth Degree, the Fourteenth Degree, and Rules and Regulations, 1761-1787

Manuscript Record Book with the Morin Patent of 1761 (copy). Includes other manuscripts: Regulations and Constitutions of 1762, "made by the Nine Commissaries Nominated by the Sov. Grand Council of Sublime Knights of the Royal Secret, Princes of Masonry at the Grand East of Berlin" (see Baynard p.488 for transcription); The Degree of the Ancient Masters Called the Royal Arch (ritual); Fourteenth Degree (ritual); and the Rules and Regulations--(Excellent and Superexcellent Royal Arch Masons. Warrant No. 170 Ancient York Masons, ca. 1787, held in "His Majesty's Third Regiment" connected with Lodge No. 170). This is a copy of the Morin Patent, issued August 27, 1761, from the Grand Consistory in Paris, the patent authorized Stephen Morin (d.1771) to confer degrees and form new bodies in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, "to multiply the sublime Degrees of High Perfection and to create Inspectors in all places where the Sublime Degrees are not established."