He trained the monks in the traditions of plainchant for daily services and prayers. Musically, the title preceptor usually refers to a monk responsible for making music in a monastery. Some lodges, and some preceptors, take his theoretical status as a teacher more seriously than others. His main responsibility is to prompt those masons who have forgotten their words. In English Freemasonry, the Preceptor of the lodge is usually appointed by the Master. The preceptor is an elected position and is usually a Freemason who has spent several years as a director of ceremonies in his local lodge and is considered an expert in the ritual of the order. Such lodges operate within a geographical area and provide training in the performance of the order's ritual for members of the order.

Within modern-day Freemasonry the preceptor is the head of a lodge of instruction. A preceptory's main focus would be its church and accommodation for the brethren.Д®xamples include the Hospitaller Torphichen Preceptory in West Lothian, Scotland West Peckham Preceptory in West Peckham, England and the Templar Aslackby Preceptory in Lincolnshire, Keele Preceptory in Staffordshire and Temple, Midlothian.

The preceptor had supreme control of his brethren and was only answerable to the grand master of his particular order. A preceptor was historically in charge of a preceptory, the headquarters of certain orders of monastic knights, such as the Knights Hospitaller and Knights Templar, within a given geographical area.

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