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The Freemasons' Magazine. For May 1796. Present State Of Freemasonry In Scotland.
every other thing anent the premises as fully and freely as the said Sir Anthony Alexander could do himself by virtue of the forsaid gift granted by King Charles the First to him as the said Commission of the date forsaid in itself more proports And now seeing Robert Scott Daniel Aitkin Alexander Baillie John Aitkin and William Brown for themselves and several others Massons in and about the town of Biggar have by a petition instantly given in humbly supplicat us to receive them as a pendicle of our said honourable lodge of Linlithgow that so they may be defended from
the insults or incroachments of any other lodge within this kingdom of Scotland THEREFORE and for the love and favour which wee have and bear to the forsaids persons and by virtue of the powers and priviledges granted to us by the said Sir Anthony Alexander master of work WILL YE US to have of this date called and received the forsaids Robert Scott Daniel Aitkin Alexander Baillie John Aitken and William Brown Massons with such others as they have or shall hereafter associat to yourselves either as entered apprentices or fellow craftsmen as a just and true pendicle of our
said honourable Lodge of Linlithgow WITH FULL POWER to them to choose their own deacon warden box-master keye-keepers and all other members of trade and to punish delinquents and keep good order amongst the entered apprentices and fellow crafts and that from tyme to tyme as the same shall fall out PROVIDEING ahvise LIKEAS it is hereby specially provided and declared that the forsaids persons and those whom they have alreadie or shall associat to themselves be bound and obleidgecT to keep perforin and observe the whole laws acts and statutes alreadie made
or that shall be made by the honourable Lodge of Linlithgow conform to an extract thereof to be given unto them from tyme to tyme under the hand of the clerk of the Lodge And that they shall pay yearly into the box of the said Lodge of Linlithgow the soum of twenty-shillings Scots money as ane acknowledgement and duty payable to us by them as a pendicle in manner above writen And particularly it is grounded that they nor their associats shall no time hereafter either enter or pass , any person or persons who already is or shall be entered or past in the honourable Lodge of
Linlithgow and that under the penalty of fifty-pounds sterldng money and ft ' urder we the saids deacon warden box-master and keye-keepers'bind and obleige us and our successors in office to deliverer cause be delivered to the forsaid persons or their associats taken or to be taken in sufficient extracts of all our authenticks when the same shall be requyred and that under the hand of our clerk of trade upon their own proper charges and expenses in witnes whereof writen upon stampt paper by James Smith writer in Edinburgh and clerk to the forsaid Lodge wee have dated these presents consisting of this and the two preceeding pages ATT Queeiisferry the eleventh day of July one thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven years .
JAMES SMITH , Clk . JAMES M'CALPIN . ANDREW CHRISTIE . JOHN COUBRUGH . WILLIAM JOHNSTON , AVILLIAM MECKLE . ¦ JAMES GRlNLLEY . JOHN ANDERSON . JOHN BLAKIE . ROBERT RAMSAY .
THE Right Worshipful LODGE OF BIGGAR was constituted by a charter from that of Linlith gow , as appears from the following extracts of the records , the former , dated Biggar , December 27 , 1725 . — " The which day , the Masons living in and near the town of Biggar met , and after due consideration of their loss , in not having a Lodge in this place , and the many irregular entries that were made here , unanimously condescended , that they would erect one , and therefore made choice of Robert Scott for deacon , Alexander Bailie , warden , Mr . Andrew Aikmau , key-keeper . "
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The Freemasons' Magazine. For May 1796. Present State Of Freemasonry In Scotland.
every other thing anent the premises as fully and freely as the said Sir Anthony Alexander could do himself by virtue of the forsaid gift granted by King Charles the First to him as the said Commission of the date forsaid in itself more proports And now seeing Robert Scott Daniel Aitkin Alexander Baillie John Aitkin and William Brown for themselves and several others Massons in and about the town of Biggar have by a petition instantly given in humbly supplicat us to receive them as a pendicle of our said honourable lodge of Linlithgow that so they may be defended from
the insults or incroachments of any other lodge within this kingdom of Scotland THEREFORE and for the love and favour which wee have and bear to the forsaids persons and by virtue of the powers and priviledges granted to us by the said Sir Anthony Alexander master of work WILL YE US to have of this date called and received the forsaids Robert Scott Daniel Aitkin Alexander Baillie John Aitken and William Brown Massons with such others as they have or shall hereafter associat to yourselves either as entered apprentices or fellow craftsmen as a just and true pendicle of our
said honourable Lodge of Linlithgow WITH FULL POWER to them to choose their own deacon warden box-master keye-keepers and all other members of trade and to punish delinquents and keep good order amongst the entered apprentices and fellow crafts and that from tyme to tyme as the same shall fall out PROVIDEING ahvise LIKEAS it is hereby specially provided and declared that the forsaids persons and those whom they have alreadie or shall associat to themselves be bound and obleidgecT to keep perforin and observe the whole laws acts and statutes alreadie made
or that shall be made by the honourable Lodge of Linlithgow conform to an extract thereof to be given unto them from tyme to tyme under the hand of the clerk of the Lodge And that they shall pay yearly into the box of the said Lodge of Linlithgow the soum of twenty-shillings Scots money as ane acknowledgement and duty payable to us by them as a pendicle in manner above writen And particularly it is grounded that they nor their associats shall no time hereafter either enter or pass , any person or persons who already is or shall be entered or past in the honourable Lodge of
Linlithgow and that under the penalty of fifty-pounds sterldng money and ft ' urder we the saids deacon warden box-master and keye-keepers'bind and obleige us and our successors in office to deliverer cause be delivered to the forsaid persons or their associats taken or to be taken in sufficient extracts of all our authenticks when the same shall be requyred and that under the hand of our clerk of trade upon their own proper charges and expenses in witnes whereof writen upon stampt paper by James Smith writer in Edinburgh and clerk to the forsaid Lodge wee have dated these presents consisting of this and the two preceeding pages ATT Queeiisferry the eleventh day of July one thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven years .
JAMES SMITH , Clk . JAMES M'CALPIN . ANDREW CHRISTIE . JOHN COUBRUGH . WILLIAM JOHNSTON , AVILLIAM MECKLE . ¦ JAMES GRlNLLEY . JOHN ANDERSON . JOHN BLAKIE . ROBERT RAMSAY .
THE Right Worshipful LODGE OF BIGGAR was constituted by a charter from that of Linlith gow , as appears from the following extracts of the records , the former , dated Biggar , December 27 , 1725 . — " The which day , the Masons living in and near the town of Biggar met , and after due consideration of their loss , in not having a Lodge in this place , and the many irregular entries that were made here , unanimously condescended , that they would erect one , and therefore made choice of Robert Scott for deacon , Alexander Bailie , warden , Mr . Andrew Aikmau , key-keeper . "