Sponsors

from the book Encylcopedia of Freemasonry & its Kindred Sciences
by Albert C. Mackey M. D.

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Sponsors - The serious responsibility resting on his sponsors (his proposer and seconder) is shared by the Master, Officers, and Committee, who inquire into the Candidate's credentials.

The Grand Lodge of England does not lay down any minimum period for which a Candidate must be known beforehand to his sponsors; "it is the extent of the knowledge which is important, and Lodge Committees are desired to investigate every case in full light."