Old Records Of The Lodge Of Peebles.

OLD RECORDS OF THE LODGE OF PEEBLES .

BY P . KO . ROBERT SANDERSON , P . O . SEC . PEEBLES AND SELKIRK . ( s . C . ) ( Continued from page 53 of the Scottish Freemason . ) AT Peebles the Twenty-seventh day of December , one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five years , which being the anneversity of St .

John the Evangelist , and the Honourable Lodge of Massons Peebles Kilwinning conveened , & c . ( follows a list of thirty-one brethren present , and minute the same as previous St . John ' s Day ) when was duly and legally elected and chosen by plurality of votes for Master , John Brown ; Senior Warden , Peter Gillas ; Junior Warden , James Grosart ; Senior Stewart , Robert Sommervil ; Junior Stewart , Thomas Cairns ; Boxmaster , Robert Scott ; Key Keeper , James Traqnair ; Clerk , James Bertram ; Master , Wardens , and other members of the Lodge were qualified by taking the oath defideli administratione officee and ordains the master to sign thir proceedings . WiLur . HAEPEE .

Thereafter the meeting agreed that there shall be a quarterly meeting , viz ., the first meeting to be upon the last wedensday of March , seventeen hundred and seventy-six—the second on the last wedensday of June—and the third upon tho last Wedensday of September—and the fourth upon St . John ' s Day next , and to continue so yearly , and every member shall pay sixpence of Dues at each quarterly meeting , and each member failing to attend said meeting shall pay two shillings sterling upon St . John ' s Day , and each member paying as above shall be Intituled to a Ball ticket gratas , and ordains the master to sign this minute . WILLM . HARPER .

Peebles , 29 th Deer ., 1775 . Which day a meeting of the Lodge of Massons Peebles Kilwinning conveened according to previous warning to the whole of the Bretheren in order to Examine into what money was in Robert Scott ' s hands the present Boxmaster , and to settle other affairs relitive to said Lodge . And after Robert Scott Boxmaster had given in an accompt of Dispursments given out by him since the nineteenth of January lastwere found of Ballance in his hands the

, sum of five pounds , fourteen shillings sterling , of which he paid to Thomas Tweedale Masson in Peebles , five pounds sterling as the annual rent due at ths twenty-fourth day of June last , upon one Hundred pounds sterling due by this Lodge to said Thomas Tweedale , also said Boxmaster paid to Thomas Tweedale fifteen shillings sterling as the annual rents clue at this date upon fifteen pounds sterling due bthis Lodto AVilliam L Masson in Peebles

y ge yon and one of the members of this Lodge for which two sums Thos . Tweedale granted his discharge , which was lodged in the Boxmaster ' s hands . Thereafter it was agreed that Alexander Hewet ( or Ewart , as the name appears in former minute ) Tacksman of the Lodge should be sent for , who accordingly compeared , and paid into the Boxmaster Two pounds five shillings sterling as the year ' s rent of said lod and that from Whitsunday seventeen

ge , hundred and seventy-four , to Whitsunday seventeen hundred and seventy-five years , and agreed to possess said Lodge , from Whitsunday seventeen hundred and seventy-six , to Whitsunday seventeen hundred and seventy-seven , at the same rent and under the same conditions conform to a minute in this Book of date t' -. e sixteenth clay of . December seventeen hundred and seventy-four and 2 K