1855. This title shows the presumed origin of the Royal Arch degree in a letter to Robert T. Crucefix, Grand Master of S.G.I.G. for England and Wales. Following the writing of this letter, Rev. Oliver was favored by Brother Willoughby of Birkenhead with a sight of a very old floor cloth painted on silk, belonging to a Royal Arch chapter in the city of Chester, and used only a very few years after the degree was admitted into the system of Constitutional Masonry. This ancient document offers a confirmation of the opinion expressed in the following pages respecting the transfer of the latter portion of the 3rd Degree to the Royal Arch.