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( Continued from page 115 . ) "VTEXT after the particulars respecting tlie two principal JL 1 Scottish Lodges , we hare brief notices of the other more important Lodges on the roll of Scotland , the first in order being Canongate Kilwinning , No . 2 , of whose

establishment in Edinburgh by Mother Kilwinning we have already g iven some acconnt . The charter , which is rightlv designated by Bro . Gould as " the premier Scottish Warrant of Constitution , " reads thus : " At the ludge of Kilwining ,

the twentie day of december 1677 yeares , deacons and wardanes and the rest of the brethren , considering the love and favour showne to us be the rest of the brethren of the cannigate of Edinbroughe , ane part of our number being

willing to be boked and inroled the 9 ch day , gives power and liberty to them to enter , receave , and pass ony qualified persons that they think fitt , in name and behalf of the lodge of Killwinning , and to pay their entry and booking moneys due to the sd lodge , as we do our selves , they

sending on of ther number to us yearly , and we to do the lyke to them . if need be . The 91 k day ther names are insert into this book . " This document was signed by twelve brethren , and is " entered verbatim in the books of

the mother lodge , the original warrant being now lost . The lodge was " reorganised in 1735 by speculative Freemasons , " when " the members worked the third desrree , " and tbe date of its creation on the 20 th December 1677 is

acknowledged by the Grand Lodge of Scotland . The next Lodge is the Scoon and Perth , No . 3 , which is recognised by Grand Lodge as having" existed before 1658 . " Its charter , dated December 24 , 1658 , we are told , "

combines the ' Old Charges ' with items of local interest , and also recites the ' Kilwinning' legends . The conclusion is given in full by Bro . Gould : " And Lastlie , wee , and all of ws off ane mynd , consent , and assent , doe bind and

obleidge ws and our successoris , to mantayne and wphold the haill liberties and previledges of the said Lodge of Scoon , as ane frie Lodge , for entering and passing within ourselves , asthebodie thereof , residing within the burgh of

Perth as sd is : And that soe long as the Sun riseth in the East and setteth in the West , as we wold wish the blessing of God to attend ws in all our wayesand actiones . " On the strength of a statement in the same record to the

effect that according to the " knowledge of our predecessoris ther cam one from the North countrie , named Johne Mylne , ane measone or man weill experted in his calling , who entered himselff both frieman and burges of

this brugh . " Bro . Gould gives the following particulars of the Mylne family , which during five successive generations maintained a connection with the Lodge of Edinburgh . It seems tbe third John Milne was called to

Edinburgh in 1616 to undertake the erection of the King ' s statue , and " on the death of William Wallace in 1631 , Milne was appointed master mason to Charles J ., which office he resigned in 1636 in favour of his eldest son , 1

Johne Mylne , younger , ' who , in 1633 , was made a fellow craft in the Lodge of Edinburgh , became ' deacon of the Lodge and warden ' in 1636 , and served in the former office for many years , having been re-elected ten times

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during twenty-seven years . This same Mylne was at the Masonic meeting at Newcastle in 1641 , and his brother Alexander was ' passed ' Jane 2 , 1635 , in the presence of his ' brother' Lord Alexander , Sir Anthony Alexander , and Sir Alexander Strachan . Robert was apprenticed to

his uncle John in Lodge No . 1 , December 27 , 1653 , and was elected warden in 1663 , also deacon in 1581 , taking a leading part in masonic business until 1707 . Robert Mylne appears \ o have succeeded his uncle as master mason to Charles I ., ^> eing so designated in an agreement with the Perth

authorities for the re-building of the cross which had been removed from High Street , through the possession of the city by Cromwell . William , his eldest son , was received

into the Lodge of Edinburgh , December 27 , 1681 , and was Warden several times from 1695 , dying in 1728 . Thomas Mylne , eldest son of the latter , ' was entered and admitted as apprentice , December 27 . 1721 ; chosen Eldest Prentice

pecember 27 , 1722 ; admitted and received fellow-craft December 27 , 1729 •, and chosen ' master of the society , ' December 27 , 1735 . ' Noticing the connection of this

worthy with the Lodge of Edinburgh , Lyon points out the remarkable fact' of his having been entered in what may emphatically be termed the transition period of its existence , of his having been advanced during the masonic twilight which preceded the institution of the Grand Lodge of

Scotland—and of his having maintained a connection with the lodge until every vestige of its operative character had disappeared . Robert aud William Mylne ( sons of Thomas Mylne ) were also members of the lodge , and on the death

of the former in 1811 ( who was buried in St . Paul ' s Cathedral , having been surveyor of that edifice for fifty years ) , this family's connection with the Lodge of Edinburgh was terminated . " Bro . Gould believes this Scoon and Perth

Lodge joined the Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1642 , when its date " before 1658 " was recognised . •We next come to the Lodge of " Glasgow St . John , " to which in 1850 fche Grand Lodge of Scotland accorded place on the roll as " No . 3 bis . " For this Lodge a very

remarkable antiquity has been claimed by some on the ground that the word " fraternity , " used in the so-called "charter , " means the lodge , while Bro . Gould reasonably enongh contends that it is intended manifestly "to describe a religious fraternity which had been formed to promote the renovation or restoration of the cathedral . The inference

that the charter referred to a masonic lodge appears to me wholly unwarranted by the context . " However , a " Seal of Cause" was required in 1600 for the purpose of separating the Wrights from the Masons as an Incorporation , and from Bro . Buchan , as quoted by the author , we gather

that the first notice in the minutes of tbe " Glasgow Incorporation of Masons" bears date the 22 nd September 1620 , and is to the following effect : " Entry of Apprentices to the Lodge of Glasgow , the last day of December 1613 years , compeared John Stewart , Deacon of Masons , and

signified to David Slater , Warden of the Lodge of Glasgow and to the remenant brethren of that Lodge , that he was to enter John Stewart , bis apprentice , in the said Lodge .

Lykas upon the morn , being the first day of January 1614 years , the said warden ancl brethren of the said Lodge entered the said John Stewart , younger , apprentice to the said John Stewart , elder , conform to the acts and liberty of the

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