Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

10 DGE MINUTES , ETC . B" 0 . 5 ( PEOM 3 ? . 3 SS . ; In the inside of the title-page of the St . Mungo Bye-laws ( printed in 1 S 62 ) , I find the following : — " Lodge St . Mungo , Glasgow , Mo , 27 , Holding off Grand Lodge of Scotland , Date of confirmation 1729 , originally part of St . John ' s Lod Glasgow 3 date

ge , , , of constitution , 1057 . " Now that is a mistake , as the charter—see page 3 S 7—proves . It should be : — " Date of confirmation 1762 , which refers to date of constitution , as a pendicle of Mother Kilwinning , in 1729 ; and also claiming to have been previously chartered byorto have oriinallformed part of

, , g y , the Lodge of Glasgow St . John ( now Mo . 3 his ) , date of constitution . . . . ?"* However , to proceed with the old minutes : — < 1762 . 27 th December , Saint J ohn's Day . —Annual Election . " "Att our Lodof St . J . of St . Ms . K . Gw .

ge K-wing . The twenty-seventh day of December , one thousand seven hundred and sixty-two years . " The officers then were Master , S . W ., J . W ., S . and J . Stewarts , Sec , Treas ., aud Tyler . " Key Masters . — J . Stewart . B . Hd . Key ; W . Mr . Centre Key ; Treasurer left hand Key of the lodge box . "

" All of whom accepted of their respective stations as above by takeing upon them the oaths Defideli , and were ordained and appointed to continue stedfastly under the same In terms of the regulations of this Lodge unti'l regularly removed at next annual election . "

" Confirmed by " " David Marshall , G . Mr . " In 1764 the " Key Masters " -were—Master , centre Key ; Treas ., right Key ; J . W ., left Key . The minutes are only of the election till Mov . 26 th , 1766 . But in August 5 th , 1767 , we find them making new rules or " acts . " ( For former acts see page 289 ante . )

Act made 19 . " Att our Lodge of St . Js . St . Mungos Kirk Glasgow . In reference to Act 14 , John Hind , Et . W ., John Brown , Senr . "Warden , and the rest of the brethren being present , It was fully agreed upon that no office-bearer from the Master to the Junior Stewart is not to pay aney sellarry into the Lodge at their first election to an office-bearer . "

Act 20 . " That every member entered into this Lodge is to pay seven shillings and sixpence at Entrey and two shillings and sixpence at Passing and Enising—for Saint Mary ' s at Edinburgh . " Act 21 .

" Likewise it is fully agreed upon that the Lodge is to meet regurly every first Wednesday of the Quarter , viz ., —the first Wednsday of Eebury , the first 'Wednsday of May , the first Wednsday . of August , and the first Wednsday of Mbvernber . " 22 . "Any persons who have been admitted masons and not joyned with a Body before admission as a member of this lodge is to pay four shillings and sixpence , and

those that have been members of aney other Lodge and have paid their Deus is to pay three shillings ster . " " These and the foregoing ruls We the members of this Lodge do hear subscribe . " Then follow 120 signatures .

" Glasgow , 3 May , 1769 . " Att a meeting of the St . Mungo ' s Lodge , held at their Hall here , it was unanimously agreed that the E . W . John Gourlie should nominate a committee and invested them with full power to settle and regulate affair relative to the Lodge—the Lodge

likeevery wise bound themselves to agree to and stand by their resolutions and to fulfill and perform the same they further allowed the committee to amend any laws now subsisting or make any new ones that shall to them appear necessary , and that the same shall be binding upon the whole members of the lodge agreeable

to the voice of the Lodge the Bight Worshipful nominated the following brethren . '' Jn . Gourlie Ex . Oft . ; E . Bain , S . W . & c . " three of whom to be a quorum to meet at Mr . Gourlay ( s house , 10 th May , 1769 . "

30 th Movem'ber , 1769 . Election and committee apppointed anent acts . " At the Lodge Eoom eight December 1769 years The members warned to attend and the Lodge opened It was agreed that every person who was a Mason and admitted a member of this lodge should pay of Entry

monie ( instead of three shillings formerly in use to have been paid ) five shillings sterling , Besides Tylers dues . " " Same day it was enacted that the Entry monie of every apprentice should be raised to one pound one shilling stg . And the passing and , raising of a

fellow Craft seven shillings and sixpence—every app ' beside the one pound to pay 2 s . 6 d . to St . Mary ' s Lodge . " Same day the following Masons , after petitioning to be made members of the Lodge , were unanimously admitted , paid their dues and gave their oath of

alledgeance , & c . " Then follow 2 S names . " Same day , it being represented that the Lodge wanted proper clothing , jewels , & c , some of them at present being borrowed , The Lodge appointed the following members as a Committee to get decent clothing and Jewells for the Lodge before St . John ' s day next with

power to them to dae therein as they thought proper , viz ., —then follow seven names . At the Lodge Eoom , 24 th April , 1770 , Alesr . Elliot and Alexr . Campbell were passed fellow crafts and made masters and paid their dues . " *

Second Mov ., 1770 . " The annual committee for regulating the affairs of the Lodge agreed that the quarter accts be for this year 2 s . Gil ., and ordained the Tyler to get the same from the members . They also ordained the Tyler to be paid £ 1 5 s . stg . yearly . " "At a meeting of St . Mungo ' s Lodge held in their hall this 1 st of December , 1773 , Present the E . W . Archibald Mair " and 14 brethren , the election then