"What man is there that hath a new house and hath not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it." Deut. xx. 5.

De Syned. Vet. Ebræor., 1. iii., c. xiv., § 1.

Cicero, Brut. i.

See such a form of Dispensation in Cole's Masonic Library, p. 91.

Preston, Append., n. 4 (U.M.L., vol. iii., pp. 150, 151).

Book of Constitutions, orig. ed, p., 70 (U.M.L., vol. xv., book 1, p. 70).