Old Records Of The Lodge Of Peebles.

four quarterly meetings for the 3 ear for the improvement of Massonry ancl paying in the quarter Dues , vizt ., the first meeting to be held within the Massons Lodge upon the last Saturday of March next , The second upon the last Saturday of June next , the third upon tbe last Saturday of September next , and the fourth on St . John ' s Day next , and each member failing to attend sd quarterl y meetings for the purposes above mentioned shall be lyable to pay threepence sterling , ancl the master for his not attendance shall pay sixpence sterling for each failyre to go into the Publick funds . AKCHD . ROBERTSON .

Thereafter the society proceeded to settle the Treasurers accompts ancl finds in his hands tbe sum of five pounds , eleA r en shillings five pence three farthings strg . and the society ordains Treasurer to pay to Janet Wilson relict of the Diseast Thomas Tweedale Two pounds fourteen shillings which pays tbe Intrest due to her b y the Lodge from last ( June ) 1785 years , ancl recomends to the Treasurer to take a receipt upon a stamp for the interest preceding that Dateancl the remaining sum of Two pounds seA euteen shillings

, and fiveponce three farthings , remains in the Treasurer ' s hands , ivith Bill upon John Veitch Mason in Cundys-Mills for the sum of Twelve shillings sterling , Do . upon Robert Harper for Eighteen shillings and sevenpence half-penny sterling .

WILLIAM THOMPSON . ROBERT BEOAVN , Dp . Mr JOHN HISLOPE , Senr . Warden . ( Then follows a brief minute of the quarterly meeting the 25 th March , 1786 , with list of members , viz ., 24 present , who paid their clues , and 9 marked absent ; and although the object of the quarterlmeetings Avas for the

y improvement of " Masonery , " nothing seems to have been clone at the March ancl June meetings but the collection of clues . The June minute states that seventeen members were present and paid , while sixteen are marked absent . Tbe next minute refers to some improvement in the Lodge , which we o-iye in full . —R . S . ) Peebles , 29 th September , 1786 .

At the quarterl y meeting of this Lodge it was agreed that there should be three shutters made for the three windows that look to the street of this Lodge or house , and a Door upon the middle of the stair—when William Sanderson and William Kadie agreed to make said three windows [ shutters ] at the a ° -reed price of one pound three shillings ancl sixpence sterling . And said Door for Fii ^ e shilling's and one penny sterling , and obliges themselves to have said Shutters ancl Door furnished and put on before Saint John ' s Day next . ABCHD . ROBERTSON .

WILLIAM SANDERSON . WILLIAM KEDTE . Thereafter there was a motion made that the Master ' s sate in the Lodo-e and the Warden ' s should be raised a little higher than at present , for which purpose . this meeting has appointed a committee of their number to consider of said matterviz . Mr . Archibald Robertson MasterMessrsJohn Hislope

, , . and Robert Marshall Wardens , James Bartram Secy ., William Thomson , Treasurer ; Thomas Stodhart ancl George Donaldson , Stewards , ancl appoints the committie to meet on the 20 th of October next , and to report upon the first of NoA'ember next .

ARCED . ROBERTSON . Peebles , 20 th October , 1786 . "he commitie having mete according to the above appointment and agreed that the master ' s aud wardens' seats should be raised a little higher than at N 2