To THOMAS DUNCKERLY, Ef. 
PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER 
OF THE ANCIENT AND HONOURABLE FRATERNITY OF 
FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF DORSET, ESSEX, 
GLOUCESTER, SOMERSET, BRISTOL, SOUTH- 
AMPTON, AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 
Sak R; 
RESU MIN G onthe well-known voodneRor your 
Heart, and that liberality of Sentiment, which ren- 
ders your Aétions, like your Defcent, NOBLE, permit 
me to folicit your Prote€tion to a Work, which, though 
of the firft Importance in the Caufe of Humanity, will 
acquire new Vigour under your Aufpices, and dawn forth 
with accumulated Luftre under the Shield of your Arm ; 
which, like that of the good Samaritan, is ever reached 
‘out to adminifter Comfort and Relief to your afflifted 
fellow Creatures. © 
It has been a long-eftablifhed Maxim among civilized 
Societies, to fubmit to their Prefident whatever is thought 
conducive to the general Good. You are the illuftrious 
Heap of many refpectable Lodges of free and accepted 
Mafons, whofe Care it has been to cherifh a Contempla- 
tion 
