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Article FREEMASONRY IN GLASGOW. ← Page 8 of 10 →
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Freemasonry In Glasgow.
these our days has been consumed by fire , requiring the most ample expenditures for its repairing , and demands both our aid and that of more good men , —the Fraternity , which the right reverend Jocelin , bishop of said cathedral , with the advice of the abbots , priors , and other clergy of his diocese , has appointed , we devoutly receive , and by the support of our royal protection , confirm , aye and until the finishing of the cathedral itself ; and we have taken into our favour all the collectors of this same Fraternityand those who request aid for its construction
, , firmly charging all our bailiffs and servants , that they should protect them everywhere throughout our kingdom ; and strictly forbidding that any one should offer injury , violence , or insult to them , under pain of our highest displeasure . Before these Witnesses ; Hugh , our Chancellor , Archibald , Abbot of Dunfermlin , William Lindsay , Justiciar , and Philip de Velen , at Rokesburgh . " We have already alluded to the acknowledgment of the masonic
jurisdiction by certain of the crafts when applying for distinct letters of deaconry , about the year 1600 . In the appendix to the new edition of the Laws and Constitutions of the Grand Lodge of Scotland , page 153 , we find a corrected copy of a charter granted by the Freemasons of Scotland to Sir William St . Clair , of Roslin , about the years 1627-8 . To this charter the Lodge of Glasgow—represented by William WallaceDeaconand Robert Boyd and Robert CaldwellMasters—subscribes .
, , , This fact is of considerable importance , as completely establishing the identity of the Lodge of Glasgow , there mentioned , with one still existing , and in possession of the ancient charter from Malcolm Canmore ; because , on referring to the chronological record of the Deacons of the Incorporation of Masons , given in Cleland ' s Annals of Glasgow , we find
that Robert Boyd was Deacon both in 1627 and 1628 , which from other data is shown to be the time when the charter was granted . Robert Caldwell , who also subscribes , appears to have been advanced to the chair in the year 1633 . Now we know that it was the invariable practice in those days for the Deacon of that trade to be the Master of the lodge , a practice which of late years has not been so rigidly adhered to , partly perhaps because the Deacon was not always qualified by the regular initiation to undertake the duties of the chairand partly from the
, peculiar fitness of others , who for a succession of years were regularly re-elected from year to year . This was the case with the late Bro . David Hamilton , an architect of considerable eminence in his profession , greatly attached to the Craft , and no less loved and respected by them in return . No where did he feel so much at home , or so completely happy , as when presiding over his lodge and engaged in the performance of its congenial functions . Since his death the ancient practice has , as far as possible ,
been reverted to , although just at this present time a little irregularity in that respect exists , the chair being occupied by Bro . York , an extensive builder , the late Deacon , and aspirant we believe for the highly respectable and influential office of Deacon Convener , with a seat at the City Council Board . The claims of this lodge , then , to a remote antiquity being perfectly genuinethe present office-bearersdeeply deploring the neglect of their
, , predecessors in not stepping forward to assert their rights at the proper time , are as we have already stated , about to present a petition to the Grand Lodge , praying that they may now be taken under its protection , and , in consideration of their royal charter , to be allowed to take precedence along with the Mother Kilwinning , each being first in their own vor ,. vii . x
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Freemasonry In Glasgow.
these our days has been consumed by fire , requiring the most ample expenditures for its repairing , and demands both our aid and that of more good men , —the Fraternity , which the right reverend Jocelin , bishop of said cathedral , with the advice of the abbots , priors , and other clergy of his diocese , has appointed , we devoutly receive , and by the support of our royal protection , confirm , aye and until the finishing of the cathedral itself ; and we have taken into our favour all the collectors of this same Fraternityand those who request aid for its construction
, , firmly charging all our bailiffs and servants , that they should protect them everywhere throughout our kingdom ; and strictly forbidding that any one should offer injury , violence , or insult to them , under pain of our highest displeasure . Before these Witnesses ; Hugh , our Chancellor , Archibald , Abbot of Dunfermlin , William Lindsay , Justiciar , and Philip de Velen , at Rokesburgh . " We have already alluded to the acknowledgment of the masonic
jurisdiction by certain of the crafts when applying for distinct letters of deaconry , about the year 1600 . In the appendix to the new edition of the Laws and Constitutions of the Grand Lodge of Scotland , page 153 , we find a corrected copy of a charter granted by the Freemasons of Scotland to Sir William St . Clair , of Roslin , about the years 1627-8 . To this charter the Lodge of Glasgow—represented by William WallaceDeaconand Robert Boyd and Robert CaldwellMasters—subscribes .
, , , This fact is of considerable importance , as completely establishing the identity of the Lodge of Glasgow , there mentioned , with one still existing , and in possession of the ancient charter from Malcolm Canmore ; because , on referring to the chronological record of the Deacons of the Incorporation of Masons , given in Cleland ' s Annals of Glasgow , we find
that Robert Boyd was Deacon both in 1627 and 1628 , which from other data is shown to be the time when the charter was granted . Robert Caldwell , who also subscribes , appears to have been advanced to the chair in the year 1633 . Now we know that it was the invariable practice in those days for the Deacon of that trade to be the Master of the lodge , a practice which of late years has not been so rigidly adhered to , partly perhaps because the Deacon was not always qualified by the regular initiation to undertake the duties of the chairand partly from the
, peculiar fitness of others , who for a succession of years were regularly re-elected from year to year . This was the case with the late Bro . David Hamilton , an architect of considerable eminence in his profession , greatly attached to the Craft , and no less loved and respected by them in return . No where did he feel so much at home , or so completely happy , as when presiding over his lodge and engaged in the performance of its congenial functions . Since his death the ancient practice has , as far as possible ,
been reverted to , although just at this present time a little irregularity in that respect exists , the chair being occupied by Bro . York , an extensive builder , the late Deacon , and aspirant we believe for the highly respectable and influential office of Deacon Convener , with a seat at the City Council Board . The claims of this lodge , then , to a remote antiquity being perfectly genuinethe present office-bearersdeeply deploring the neglect of their
, , predecessors in not stepping forward to assert their rights at the proper time , are as we have already stated , about to present a petition to the Grand Lodge , praying that they may now be taken under its protection , and , in consideration of their royal charter , to be allowed to take precedence along with the Mother Kilwinning , each being first in their own vor ,. vii . x