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Article FREEMASONRY IN GLASGOW. ← Page 5 of 10 →
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Freemasonry In Glasgow.
more than once distinctly asserted in Laurie ' s History of Freemasonry , that it was for the first time introduced into Scotland by a corps of Freemasons who came from the continent under the papal patronage , to erect a magnificent abbey at Kilwinning in Ayrshire , of which some interesting relics , characteristic of the style and partially indicating the extent of ground once covered by it , still remain . This abbey was founded by Sir Hugh de MorevilleLord Hih
Con-, g stable of Scotland , in the year 1140 . But the many religious establishments founded and endowed by King David the First of Scotland , and the number of ecclesiastical edifices erected under his patronage before that time , afford the strongest assurance that several lodges of Freemasons must have been in active operation in Scotland prior to the erection of Kilwinning Abbey , since these associations alone , in those days , combined the requisite skill , influence , and ability for the purpose ; and as
far as regards the Christian pointed style of architecture , whatever its original derivation , there is no doubt that it was introduced into these kingdoms and there practiced by the Freemasons ; by whom the art of constructive masonry was , during the middle or dark ages , brought to a higher degree of perfection than it had ever attained to before , or has been able to maintain since ; and of some of whose works it has with justice " been assertedthat " they display more scientific knowled and
, ge , constructive skill , than all the classic fanes of Greece and Rome . " On referring to the article Kilwinning , in the eleventh volume of Sir John Sinclair ' s Statistical Account of Scotland , we find it mentioned that " a number of Freemasons came from the continent to build a monastery there , and with them an architect or Master Mason to superintend and
carry on the work . I his architect resided at Kilwinning , and being a gude and true Mason , intimately acquainted with all the arts and parts of Masonry known on the continent , was chosen Master of the meetings of the brethren all over Scotland . He gave rules for the conduct of the brelhren at these meetings , and decided finally in appeals from all the other meetings or lodges in Scotland . " This account is certainly much more consistent with known facts than the following assertion at page 89
in Bro . Laurie ' s History of Freemasonry . "That Freemasonry was introduced into Scotland by those architects who built the Abbey of Kilwinning is manifest , " says he , " not only from those authentic documents by which the existence of the Kilwinning Lodge has been carried back as far as the end of the fifteenth century , but by other collateral arguments which amount almost to a demonstration . " Of the many religious establishmentsof greater or less pretension
, , patronized by David the First , of saintly memory , towards the close of the eleventh and the beginning of the twelfth century , no one seems to have enjoyed a larger share of his favour than the Heritage of St . Mungo , or Kentigern , in Glasgow . During the life of his brother , King Alexander the First , and when he was Prince of Cumberland , he interested himself greatly in its prosperity ; made minute enquiry into its claims to certain possessions situated within his own principalitywhich he restored
, to it , and got his private chaplain , Johannes Achaius , preferred to the episcopate . This prelate , finding the old church too small , according to the ancient chroniclers of Glasgow , had it pulled down and rebuilt on a nobler plan and more extensive scale . The new edifice was probably begun about A . D . 1115 , when Achaius received consecration at the hands of Pope Paschal the Second . The church was consecrated in 1136 , four years before the founding of Kilwinning Abbey . David , by this time
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Freemasonry In Glasgow.
more than once distinctly asserted in Laurie ' s History of Freemasonry , that it was for the first time introduced into Scotland by a corps of Freemasons who came from the continent under the papal patronage , to erect a magnificent abbey at Kilwinning in Ayrshire , of which some interesting relics , characteristic of the style and partially indicating the extent of ground once covered by it , still remain . This abbey was founded by Sir Hugh de MorevilleLord Hih
Con-, g stable of Scotland , in the year 1140 . But the many religious establishments founded and endowed by King David the First of Scotland , and the number of ecclesiastical edifices erected under his patronage before that time , afford the strongest assurance that several lodges of Freemasons must have been in active operation in Scotland prior to the erection of Kilwinning Abbey , since these associations alone , in those days , combined the requisite skill , influence , and ability for the purpose ; and as
far as regards the Christian pointed style of architecture , whatever its original derivation , there is no doubt that it was introduced into these kingdoms and there practiced by the Freemasons ; by whom the art of constructive masonry was , during the middle or dark ages , brought to a higher degree of perfection than it had ever attained to before , or has been able to maintain since ; and of some of whose works it has with justice " been assertedthat " they display more scientific knowled and
, ge , constructive skill , than all the classic fanes of Greece and Rome . " On referring to the article Kilwinning , in the eleventh volume of Sir John Sinclair ' s Statistical Account of Scotland , we find it mentioned that " a number of Freemasons came from the continent to build a monastery there , and with them an architect or Master Mason to superintend and
carry on the work . I his architect resided at Kilwinning , and being a gude and true Mason , intimately acquainted with all the arts and parts of Masonry known on the continent , was chosen Master of the meetings of the brethren all over Scotland . He gave rules for the conduct of the brelhren at these meetings , and decided finally in appeals from all the other meetings or lodges in Scotland . " This account is certainly much more consistent with known facts than the following assertion at page 89
in Bro . Laurie ' s History of Freemasonry . "That Freemasonry was introduced into Scotland by those architects who built the Abbey of Kilwinning is manifest , " says he , " not only from those authentic documents by which the existence of the Kilwinning Lodge has been carried back as far as the end of the fifteenth century , but by other collateral arguments which amount almost to a demonstration . " Of the many religious establishmentsof greater or less pretension
, , patronized by David the First , of saintly memory , towards the close of the eleventh and the beginning of the twelfth century , no one seems to have enjoyed a larger share of his favour than the Heritage of St . Mungo , or Kentigern , in Glasgow . During the life of his brother , King Alexander the First , and when he was Prince of Cumberland , he interested himself greatly in its prosperity ; made minute enquiry into its claims to certain possessions situated within his own principalitywhich he restored
, to it , and got his private chaplain , Johannes Achaius , preferred to the episcopate . This prelate , finding the old church too small , according to the ancient chroniclers of Glasgow , had it pulled down and rebuilt on a nobler plan and more extensive scale . The new edifice was probably begun about A . D . 1115 , when Achaius received consecration at the hands of Pope Paschal the Second . The church was consecrated in 1136 , four years before the founding of Kilwinning Abbey . David , by this time