Fellow Crafts were entitled to take a part in any discussion in which the lodge, while open in the first or second degree, might engage, but not to vote.

This privilege is expressly stated by Preston, as appertaining to a Fellow Craft, in his charge to a candidate, receiving that degree.
"As a Craftsman, in our private assemblies you may offer your sentiments and opinions on such subjects as are regularly introduced in the Lecture, under the superintendence of an experienced Master, who will guard the landmark against encroachment."[79] This privilege is not now, however, granted in this country to Fellow Crafts.

All, therefore, that has been said in the preceding chapter, of the rights of Entered Apprentices, will equally apply, _mutatis mutandis_, to the rights of Fellow Crafts..