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Article FREEMASONRY IN GLASGOW. ← Page 7 of 10 →
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Freemasonry In Glasgow.
wealth and power . About the years 1790-2 , during the incumbency of Bishop Joceline , who in 1175 had been transferred to that bishopric from the Abbacy of Melros , the cathedral was destroyed by fire . This prelate stood high in the favour of the reigning monarch , William the First , surnamed the Lion , with whom he successfully employed his influence for obtaining several important privileges for his adopted city . The king manifested his sympathy on the occasion of the destruction of the
cathedral , by granting a charter of confirmation to the Freemasons employed by Joceline for its re-edification . A copy of this interesting document is to be found in the appendix to the edition of Hamilton of Wishaw ' s description of the Sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew , published by the Mailland Club in 1831 , under the immediate superintendence of John Dillon and John Fullarton , Esquires , and is in the following terms and
orthography" Carta Willielmi Regis Qua ? confirmat Fraternitatem constitutam ad constructionem Ecclesie Glasguensis . " Willielmus Dei gratia Rex Scottorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius terre sue , clericis et laicis , salutem : Necessitati Glasguensis ecclesie , pietate debita compacientes , et earn summi regis et Sanctissimi Kentegerni confessoris intuitu , devocione non modica diligentes , desolacioni ipsius
curam volumus consolationis adhibere ; Et earn quoad possumus regie protectionis munimine confovere . Quum autem mater multarum gentium , exilis antehac et angusta ad honorem Dei ampliri desiderat ; et preterea in hiis diebus nostris , igne consumpta , ad sui reparationem , amplissimis expensis indigens , et nostrum et plurium proborum hominum subsidium expostulat ; Fraternitatem quam ad ejus constructionem venerabilis Jocelinus ejusdem ecclesie Episcopusde consilio Abbatum
, , Priorum et alterius Cleri Episcopatus sui constituat , devote recipimus et regie concessionis munimine usque ad ipsius ecclesie perfectionem confirmamus : Et omnes ejusdem Fraternitatis collectores , et ad ejus fabricam auctoritate Episcopi et capituli ipsius ecclesie auxilium postulantes , in nostra firma pace et protectione suscepimus : Omnibus Ballivis nostris et ministris firmiter precipientes , ut eos ubique in regno meo protegeant etmanuteneant : Et districte prohibentesne quis eis injuriam violenciam
, aut contumeliam aliquam inferat , super meam plenariam forisfacturam : Testibus Hugeone Cancellario nostro , Archembaldo Abbate de Dumfermelin , Willielmo de Lindeseia Justiciario , Philippo de Valoniis , apud Rokesburgh . " The following translation may perhaps not be unacceptable to some of your readers , and will I dare say be excused by the more learned of them , who are of course at liberty to make a better for themselves .
" A charter of confirmation from William the King to the Fraternity appointed for the construction of the Glasgow Cathedral . " William , by the grace of God , King of the Scots , to all good men of his whole kingdom , both Clergy and Laicks , greeting : Sympathising with the necessity of the Glasgow Cathedral , and loving it with no small devotion , both out of regard to its supreme king , and to Kentigern his most holy confessor , —it is our will to take upon ourselves the care of
administering consolation to its desolation , and to cherish it as far as in us lies , with the support of our royal protection . But seeing that this mother of many nations , heretofore in narrow and straightened circumstances , desires to be amplified for the glory of God , and moreover in
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Freemasonry In Glasgow.
wealth and power . About the years 1790-2 , during the incumbency of Bishop Joceline , who in 1175 had been transferred to that bishopric from the Abbacy of Melros , the cathedral was destroyed by fire . This prelate stood high in the favour of the reigning monarch , William the First , surnamed the Lion , with whom he successfully employed his influence for obtaining several important privileges for his adopted city . The king manifested his sympathy on the occasion of the destruction of the
cathedral , by granting a charter of confirmation to the Freemasons employed by Joceline for its re-edification . A copy of this interesting document is to be found in the appendix to the edition of Hamilton of Wishaw ' s description of the Sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew , published by the Mailland Club in 1831 , under the immediate superintendence of John Dillon and John Fullarton , Esquires , and is in the following terms and
orthography" Carta Willielmi Regis Qua ? confirmat Fraternitatem constitutam ad constructionem Ecclesie Glasguensis . " Willielmus Dei gratia Rex Scottorum omnibus probis hominibus tocius terre sue , clericis et laicis , salutem : Necessitati Glasguensis ecclesie , pietate debita compacientes , et earn summi regis et Sanctissimi Kentegerni confessoris intuitu , devocione non modica diligentes , desolacioni ipsius
curam volumus consolationis adhibere ; Et earn quoad possumus regie protectionis munimine confovere . Quum autem mater multarum gentium , exilis antehac et angusta ad honorem Dei ampliri desiderat ; et preterea in hiis diebus nostris , igne consumpta , ad sui reparationem , amplissimis expensis indigens , et nostrum et plurium proborum hominum subsidium expostulat ; Fraternitatem quam ad ejus constructionem venerabilis Jocelinus ejusdem ecclesie Episcopusde consilio Abbatum
, , Priorum et alterius Cleri Episcopatus sui constituat , devote recipimus et regie concessionis munimine usque ad ipsius ecclesie perfectionem confirmamus : Et omnes ejusdem Fraternitatis collectores , et ad ejus fabricam auctoritate Episcopi et capituli ipsius ecclesie auxilium postulantes , in nostra firma pace et protectione suscepimus : Omnibus Ballivis nostris et ministris firmiter precipientes , ut eos ubique in regno meo protegeant etmanuteneant : Et districte prohibentesne quis eis injuriam violenciam
, aut contumeliam aliquam inferat , super meam plenariam forisfacturam : Testibus Hugeone Cancellario nostro , Archembaldo Abbate de Dumfermelin , Willielmo de Lindeseia Justiciario , Philippo de Valoniis , apud Rokesburgh . " The following translation may perhaps not be unacceptable to some of your readers , and will I dare say be excused by the more learned of them , who are of course at liberty to make a better for themselves .
" A charter of confirmation from William the King to the Fraternity appointed for the construction of the Glasgow Cathedral . " William , by the grace of God , King of the Scots , to all good men of his whole kingdom , both Clergy and Laicks , greeting : Sympathising with the necessity of the Glasgow Cathedral , and loving it with no small devotion , both out of regard to its supreme king , and to Kentigern his most holy confessor , —it is our will to take upon ourselves the care of
administering consolation to its desolation , and to cherish it as far as in us lies , with the support of our royal protection . But seeing that this mother of many nations , heretofore in narrow and straightened circumstances , desires to be amplified for the glory of God , and moreover in