VI.1919.02 — The Seven-Fold Profession (six leaves)

Letterpress on laid paper, quarto, leaves B2–B4 and D1–D3 only. Frankfurt, 1618 (imprint on B2v). No complete copy recorded.

Provenance: Unknown before 1768; listed in Pryce-Gwyn's hand in the earliest inventory bound into VI.1919.01; the 1919 Deposit.

Six letterpress quarto leaves displayed flat in a case, the centre leaf a title page reading The Seven-Fold Profession of the Anglican & Romeish Churches, with a Frankfurt imprint. — The six surviving leaves, displayed flat. No complete copy is recorded; a census of one (Cygnus, n.s. 44).

Note. The tract is of the manifesto type made briefly fashionable by the Rosicrucian publications of 1614–16, and is the earliest statement of the “seven gates” figure. The Institute observes that the surviving leaves contain no mention of degrees, offices, or any of the apparatus of the later Order.