sentences:  He probably finished them two years earlier, but delayed publication until the society should find a noble patron to act as Grand Master.After several false starts, the Earl of Blessington agreed to undertake the role, and the volume was then dedicated to him.The constitutions themselves were based on, if not copied from, Spratt's Irish Constitutions, which in turn were based on Anderson's Constitutions, written for the Moderns some three decades earlier.