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Freemasonry In Glasgow.
district ; and they entertain good hopes that the application will be favourably received both in Grand Lodge and by the Grand Committee . Their hopes are the more sanguine because the right of the Mother Lodge itself to the first place was not till a comparatively recent period conceded .
Bro . Laurie informs us , at pace 162 of his History , " That at the grand election on St . Andrew ' s Day , 1743 , a letter was read from the Lodge of Kilwinning , complaining that they were only second on the roll , while as the Mother Lodge of Scotland they were entitled to the first place . The Grand Lodge however decreed that as the Lodge of Kilwinning had produced no documents to show that they were the oldest lodge in Scotland , and as the Lodge of Mary ' s Chapel had shown their records as far back as 1598 , the latter had an undoubted right to continue first on the roll . " On this decision Bro . Lawrie further remarks
that" The conduct of the Grand Lodge in this affair by no means contradicts what has been said in the general history , respecting the antiquity of the Kilwinning Lodge . It is well known and universally admitted , " says he , "that Kilwinning was the birth-place of Scottish Masonry ; but as the records of the original lodge were lost , the present lodge at Kilwinning could not prove that theirs was the identical lodge which had first practised Freemasonry in Scotland . " The powerful impulse given to Freemasonry bthe foreign artists
y who built the extensive Abbey of Kilwinning , the deference then paid to their Master Mason , the Grand Communications held then in early times , and the numerous progeny of daughters bearing the honoured title of Kilwinning , not only in Scotland but abroad , sufficiently vindicate the title of the Mother Kilwinning to the position now universally conceded to her ; but we do not think her honour or reputation will in any degree suffer by having the not less venerable Lodge of Glasgow
placed by her side . In the year 1810 , when the foundation stone of the Royal Lunatic Asylum ( recently converted into the Town ' s Hospital or Poor House ) was laid with masonic ceremonies , the Lodge of Glasgow Freemen St . John ' s took precedence next to the Grand Lodge , in virtue of their royal
charter . But some years afterwards , we think it was when the Monument to John Knox was founded under similar circumstances , the Mary ' s Chapel of Edinburgh disputed their right to precedence , on the ground of their not being in connection with the Grand Lodge . The city marshal , however , having superadded his authority to that of Malcolm Canmore , the Lodge of Glasgow maintained its position . The Mary ' s Chapel took a formal protest against the proceeding , but we are not aware that it was afterwards followed up . On several occasions since the more than
equivocal claims of this lodge , seeing that she is not under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge , have given rise to unseemly derangement of the masonic ceremonials , although they have hitherto invariably maintained their pretensions with success , —indeed we have no doubt that , like their gallant predecessors who so opportunely interposed for the rescue of our noble cathedral from the mistaken zeal of the reformers in 1574 , the valiant Freemen St . John were quite prepared to do battle in defence of
what they had been taught to believe were their just and lawful rights . To avoid however any thing like discord and jarring among members of the same catholic fraternity , and one , too , which so earnestly and eloquently inculcates the duties of charity and forbearance , we hope that an amicable settlement of this matter will speedily be accomplished .
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Freemasonry In Glasgow.
district ; and they entertain good hopes that the application will be favourably received both in Grand Lodge and by the Grand Committee . Their hopes are the more sanguine because the right of the Mother Lodge itself to the first place was not till a comparatively recent period conceded .
Bro . Laurie informs us , at pace 162 of his History , " That at the grand election on St . Andrew ' s Day , 1743 , a letter was read from the Lodge of Kilwinning , complaining that they were only second on the roll , while as the Mother Lodge of Scotland they were entitled to the first place . The Grand Lodge however decreed that as the Lodge of Kilwinning had produced no documents to show that they were the oldest lodge in Scotland , and as the Lodge of Mary ' s Chapel had shown their records as far back as 1598 , the latter had an undoubted right to continue first on the roll . " On this decision Bro . Lawrie further remarks
that" The conduct of the Grand Lodge in this affair by no means contradicts what has been said in the general history , respecting the antiquity of the Kilwinning Lodge . It is well known and universally admitted , " says he , "that Kilwinning was the birth-place of Scottish Masonry ; but as the records of the original lodge were lost , the present lodge at Kilwinning could not prove that theirs was the identical lodge which had first practised Freemasonry in Scotland . " The powerful impulse given to Freemasonry bthe foreign artists
y who built the extensive Abbey of Kilwinning , the deference then paid to their Master Mason , the Grand Communications held then in early times , and the numerous progeny of daughters bearing the honoured title of Kilwinning , not only in Scotland but abroad , sufficiently vindicate the title of the Mother Kilwinning to the position now universally conceded to her ; but we do not think her honour or reputation will in any degree suffer by having the not less venerable Lodge of Glasgow
placed by her side . In the year 1810 , when the foundation stone of the Royal Lunatic Asylum ( recently converted into the Town ' s Hospital or Poor House ) was laid with masonic ceremonies , the Lodge of Glasgow Freemen St . John ' s took precedence next to the Grand Lodge , in virtue of their royal
charter . But some years afterwards , we think it was when the Monument to John Knox was founded under similar circumstances , the Mary ' s Chapel of Edinburgh disputed their right to precedence , on the ground of their not being in connection with the Grand Lodge . The city marshal , however , having superadded his authority to that of Malcolm Canmore , the Lodge of Glasgow maintained its position . The Mary ' s Chapel took a formal protest against the proceeding , but we are not aware that it was afterwards followed up . On several occasions since the more than
equivocal claims of this lodge , seeing that she is not under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge , have given rise to unseemly derangement of the masonic ceremonials , although they have hitherto invariably maintained their pretensions with success , —indeed we have no doubt that , like their gallant predecessors who so opportunely interposed for the rescue of our noble cathedral from the mistaken zeal of the reformers in 1574 , the valiant Freemen St . John were quite prepared to do battle in defence of
what they had been taught to believe were their just and lawful rights . To avoid however any thing like discord and jarring among members of the same catholic fraternity , and one , too , which so earnestly and eloquently inculcates the duties of charity and forbearance , we hope that an amicable settlement of this matter will speedily be accomplished .