So I now have the Neophyte ritual of Waite's Independent & Rectified Rite and I'm in the process of transcribing it from the digital scans provided by Freemason's Hall. That will be a followed by a detailed analysis and then a comparison with (off the top of my head): The 1899 version featured in Torrens. To the best of my knowledge there isn't anything earlier that is easily accessible. The Regardie/Stella Matutina version that we all know and love. The version from Waite's