This degree is supposedly displayed on panel 3.
In the monumental five volume work British Freemasonry, 1717-1813 of the Masonic scholar Jan Snoek, there is a 1806 “Knight of the Red Cross Ritual Ireland (1806)”. He writes:
There can be little doubt where this ritual of ‘Knight of the Red Cross’ came from. Pierre Lambert de Lintot worked his Rite of Seven Degrees in London from the 1760s to the end of the 1780s.
Thus a “Red Cross” degree was known in the London area (where Graeme was a Mason) since the 1760’ies. He even has an earlier “Red Cross Mason” ritual that was: “obviously a translation of a French ritual for the degree of Chevalier de l’épée et de l’Orient (Knight of the Sword and/or of the East”.
Also in Scotland there was a “Redd Cros” degree, in Stirling, the lodge from where the Kirkwall lodge was founded. The “Red Cross” symbols on the scroll can thus be from either London or Kirkwall until I find a better clue. Certainly the “Red Cross” references are not incompatible with the dating of the scroll.
