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The Annalist.
furious bull was now let loose upon them , tossing all their prospects of prosperity into the air , and trampling under foot their luckless Tyler , down into the darksome dungeons ofthe Inquisition . * Doubtless , had this little band of Brethren been allowed to continue their philanthropic labours , progressing as they were in numbers and in name , a central Light would have been established in Italy , which would have shed abroad its vivifying influence over those beautiful but benighted regions ,
in a moral and Masonic sense . There being no preliminary account of the foundation of the Roman Lodge prefixed to the minutes , it is impossible to say when it was first formed , or whether it ever received any charter from the mother Lodge of Kilwinning , which was wont to grant such before the establishment of a representative Grand Lodge in 1736 , or whether it held of any other in Great Britain or Ireland . From several of the principal members being Scotsmen , such as Dr . Irvin , & c , it is probable that it originated with Scottish Masons , more especially as it had been thought proper to deposit its minutes among the archives of the Grand Lodge of Scotland .
It may be permitted to conclude these fragments of the Roman Lodge with a few words concerning the writer of the memorandum , Andrew Lumisden , Esq , This gentleman ' s family was a branch of tlie Lumisdens of Cushney , who had long been settled in Edinburgh . At an early age he imbibed an attachment to the Stuart family , and in the year 1745 was active in favour of Prince Charles . The ill-success experienced by the exiled family obliged Mr . Lumisden , t with many others , to renounce his native country : he accompanied the Pretender to Rome
, lived in the . court , and became his private secretary . In the details of this office , and the pursuits of literature , his life passed , so long as his service could be of any use to his patron . He was afterwards permitted to revisit this country , and his latter days were spent in Edinburgh , where he died , in 1801 , at the advanced age of eighty-one . For twenty years he resided at Rome , and he passed eighteen years in Paris , before his return . He is principallknown as the author of " Remarks on
y the Antiquities of Rome and its Environs , being a classical and topographical survey of the ruins of that celebrated city . " London , 1797 , quarto plates , and portrait of the author . He is termed , by the author of the " Pursuits of Literature , " an " ingenious , accomplished , and very learned gentleman , " and his work is described as a " pleasing and most judicious performance . "
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The Annalist.
furious bull was now let loose upon them , tossing all their prospects of prosperity into the air , and trampling under foot their luckless Tyler , down into the darksome dungeons ofthe Inquisition . * Doubtless , had this little band of Brethren been allowed to continue their philanthropic labours , progressing as they were in numbers and in name , a central Light would have been established in Italy , which would have shed abroad its vivifying influence over those beautiful but benighted regions ,
in a moral and Masonic sense . There being no preliminary account of the foundation of the Roman Lodge prefixed to the minutes , it is impossible to say when it was first formed , or whether it ever received any charter from the mother Lodge of Kilwinning , which was wont to grant such before the establishment of a representative Grand Lodge in 1736 , or whether it held of any other in Great Britain or Ireland . From several of the principal members being Scotsmen , such as Dr . Irvin , & c , it is probable that it originated with Scottish Masons , more especially as it had been thought proper to deposit its minutes among the archives of the Grand Lodge of Scotland .
It may be permitted to conclude these fragments of the Roman Lodge with a few words concerning the writer of the memorandum , Andrew Lumisden , Esq , This gentleman ' s family was a branch of tlie Lumisdens of Cushney , who had long been settled in Edinburgh . At an early age he imbibed an attachment to the Stuart family , and in the year 1745 was active in favour of Prince Charles . The ill-success experienced by the exiled family obliged Mr . Lumisden , t with many others , to renounce his native country : he accompanied the Pretender to Rome
, lived in the . court , and became his private secretary . In the details of this office , and the pursuits of literature , his life passed , so long as his service could be of any use to his patron . He was afterwards permitted to revisit this country , and his latter days were spent in Edinburgh , where he died , in 1801 , at the advanced age of eighty-one . For twenty years he resided at Rome , and he passed eighteen years in Paris , before his return . He is principallknown as the author of " Remarks on
y the Antiquities of Rome and its Environs , being a classical and topographical survey of the ruins of that celebrated city . " London , 1797 , quarto plates , and portrait of the author . He is termed , by the author of the " Pursuits of Literature , " an " ingenious , accomplished , and very learned gentleman , " and his work is described as a " pleasing and most judicious performance . "