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Latomia.
The Masonic Hull , an established periodical , published at Altenburg , is recommended as deserving success . AA e conclude our pleasing labour , and again offer "hearty good wishes" for the success of our contemporary , who reserves his invitation to correspondents for the advertising pages , which may be the custom at Leipzig ; we merely notice the circumstance to show that we have read every page .
The Annalist.
THE ANNALIST .
THE ROMAN LODGE , EXIS 1 'ING AT ROME IN 1735 . I . v the archives of the Grand Lodge of Scotland is deposited an old parchment bound minute-hook , with the following explanatory memoraiulutn prefixed by a Brother , dated Edinburgh , 20 th November , 1799 .
" Pope Clement the Twelfth having published a most severe edict against Masonry , * the last Lodge held at Rome was on the 20 th August , 1737 , when the late Earl of AVintoun was Master . The officer of the Lodge , who was a servant of Dr . James Irvin ., was sent , as a terror to others , prisoner to the Inquisition , but was soon released . This happened about twelve years before I went to Rome , otherwise I should no doubt have been received , as I was a Brother of the Lodge of Edinburgh—Dunfermline .
" This record of the Roman Lodge remained , after its suppression , in the hands of the Earl of AVintoun till his death , in December , 1750 , when it was given by his lordship ' s executors to Dr . Irvin , the only Brother of that Lotlge then remaining at Rome ; and who , I believe , wrote its original statutes in Latin . " After the death of Dr .. Irvin , his widow gave the record to me , as she had heard her husband call me Brother . I carefully preserved it ,
till I delivered it at Paris to John Macgowan , Esq ., to be by him given to my cousin , Sir Alexander Dick , of Prestonfield , Baronet , who , before the death of his brother , Sir AVilliam " Dick , was known by the name of Dr Alexander Cunningham , and belonged to the Roman Lodge . " After tbe death of Sir Alexander Dick , his son , the late Sir Williani , returned it to Mr . Macgowan , who now put it into the hands of the Right Honourable Sir James Stirling , Baronet , Lord Provost of
Edinburgh , and Grand Master of Scotland , to be , by his lordship , deposited among the archives of the Grand Lodge . " Such is the progress of this record , which is attested by " ANDREW LIHIISDEN . " The praiseworthy anxiety displayed to preserve these relics of a little colony of British Brethren in a foreign land , might warrant the expectation that much of interesting and curious matter was to be met with
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Latomia.
The Masonic Hull , an established periodical , published at Altenburg , is recommended as deserving success . AA e conclude our pleasing labour , and again offer "hearty good wishes" for the success of our contemporary , who reserves his invitation to correspondents for the advertising pages , which may be the custom at Leipzig ; we merely notice the circumstance to show that we have read every page .
The Annalist.
THE ANNALIST .
THE ROMAN LODGE , EXIS 1 'ING AT ROME IN 1735 . I . v the archives of the Grand Lodge of Scotland is deposited an old parchment bound minute-hook , with the following explanatory memoraiulutn prefixed by a Brother , dated Edinburgh , 20 th November , 1799 .
" Pope Clement the Twelfth having published a most severe edict against Masonry , * the last Lodge held at Rome was on the 20 th August , 1737 , when the late Earl of AVintoun was Master . The officer of the Lodge , who was a servant of Dr . James Irvin ., was sent , as a terror to others , prisoner to the Inquisition , but was soon released . This happened about twelve years before I went to Rome , otherwise I should no doubt have been received , as I was a Brother of the Lodge of Edinburgh—Dunfermline .
" This record of the Roman Lodge remained , after its suppression , in the hands of the Earl of AVintoun till his death , in December , 1750 , when it was given by his lordship ' s executors to Dr . Irvin , the only Brother of that Lotlge then remaining at Rome ; and who , I believe , wrote its original statutes in Latin . " After the death of Dr .. Irvin , his widow gave the record to me , as she had heard her husband call me Brother . I carefully preserved it ,
till I delivered it at Paris to John Macgowan , Esq ., to be by him given to my cousin , Sir Alexander Dick , of Prestonfield , Baronet , who , before the death of his brother , Sir AVilliam " Dick , was known by the name of Dr Alexander Cunningham , and belonged to the Roman Lodge . " After tbe death of Sir Alexander Dick , his son , the late Sir Williani , returned it to Mr . Macgowan , who now put it into the hands of the Right Honourable Sir James Stirling , Baronet , Lord Provost of
Edinburgh , and Grand Master of Scotland , to be , by his lordship , deposited among the archives of the Grand Lodge . " Such is the progress of this record , which is attested by " ANDREW LIHIISDEN . " The praiseworthy anxiety displayed to preserve these relics of a little colony of British Brethren in a foreign land , might warrant the expectation that much of interesting and curious matter was to be met with