the
general mark of this degree, and the letters form the circle, in the
centre of which every brother of this degree places his particular
mark, to which his obligation alludes.

Q. What followed? A. I was more fully instructed with the secrets of
this degree.

Q. Of what do they consist? A. Of signs and tokens.

Q. Have you a sign? A. I have.

Q. What is it called? A. Heave over.

Q. What does it allude to? A. To the manner of heaving over work that
the Overseers said was unfit for the Temple; also the manner the
keystone was hove over.

Q. Have you any other sign? A. I have (at the same time giving it).

Q. What is that? A. The due-guard of a Mark Master Mason.

Q. What does it allude to? A. To the penalty of my obligation; which
is, that my right ear should be smote off, that I might forever be
unable to hear the word, and my right hand be chopped off, as the
penalty of an impostor, if I should ever prove wilfully guilty of
revealing any part of my obligation.

Q. Have you any further sign? A. I have.

Q. What is that? A. The grand sign, or sign of distress.

Q. What does it allude to? A. To the manner the Fellow Crafts carry
their work up to the Temple for inspection; also the manner I was
taught to carry my work, on my advancement to this degree.

Q. Have you any other sign? A. I have not; but I have a token (gives
it to him).

Q. What is this? A. The pass-grip of a Mark Master Mason.

Q. What is the name of it? A. "JOPPA."

Q. What does it allude to? A. The city of Joppa.

Q. Have you any other token? A. I have.

Q. What is this? A. The real grip of a Mark Master Mason.

Q. What is the name of it? A. MARK WELL.

Q. What does it allude to? A. To a passage of Scripture, where it
says, "Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward
sanctuary, which looketh towards the East, and it was shut; and the
Lord said unto me, son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes,
and hear with thine ears, all that I say unto thee concerning all the
ordinances of the house of the Lord, and the laws thereof, and mark
well the entering in of the house, with the going forth of the
sanctuary."

Q. Who founded this degree? A. Our three ancient Grand Masters, viz.:
Solomon, King of Israel, Hiram, King of Tyre, and Hiram Abiff.

Q. Why was it founded? A. Not only as an honorary reward, to be
conferred on all who have proved themselves meritorious in the
preceding degrees, but to render it imposs