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contrair he shall be compted ane animie to this house , and debared from being imploied within our privilige . ' On the 27 th December , 1 ( 589 , the Deacon , Masters , and Fellow-Crafts then assembled , having their attention directed to an Act which had been passed in 1661 , providing that no Master shall employ a person who has not been passed a Fellow-Craft in two years after the expiry of his apprenticeship , under a penalty of twenty shillings Scots each day he so
employs him , declare that this is a reasonable Act , and then the names of a number of journeymen are given , who had not conformed to the law , and the deliberations of course terminate by an injunction being laid on ail the Masters of the Incorporation not to employ any such journeymen until they comply with this enactment . And under date the 27 th December , 1705 , we find the following minute : —viz . 'Ye qlk day ye Deacon of the Massons and his breathering , taking to yr consideration , that yr are several masteris of this house that
tolerate jurnimen to work up and down this citie , contrair to yr oath of admission , and particularly Deacon Nisbet , who tolerat Thomas Paterson , to kop chimney heads , and he only received from ye sd . Thomas forty peneies per day ; therefor to prevent the lyk in tyme coming , yt any master who shall tolerat any such jurniman , wt the owner gree with ye master , ye master shall be obliged to pay to this house tow punds Scots toties quoties , and lykwayes that any such jurniman who shall come and desyer any master to tolerat ym as sd . is shall be discharged from working wn . this borough for three yearis yrafter , and yt any jurniman who
shall be found johing to any person wn . this borough , without ane master , we hereby ordain Oliver Marson our officer qrever he can apprehend any such person so jobing , to tak ym and con vine ym befor the Deacon to be punished according to yr fault , or the privilege of this brought Buck is a specimen of the mode in which the Lodge interfered with persons belonging to the building art within the city of Edinburgh , and we shall have more to adduce to the same effect when we come to give a narrative of the contendings of the Journeymen ' s Society with the parent Lodge .
" The Lodge Mary ' s Chapel consisted of Masters , Fellow-Crafts , and Apprentices , and its principal office-bearers were a Deacon or Preses , and a Warden or Treasurer . It had no Senior or Junior Wardens—in the capacity in which we now find them in all Masonic Lodges—prior to 1737 , that is the year after the formation of the Grand Lodge . At that time the Warden was relieved from the duty of Treasurer , or Boxmaster , as he was sometimes called , and a different person was elected to fill this office . A distinction is kept up between the Masters and the individuals who held the rank of Fellow-Craft and Apprentice ,
but nothing , so far as I have observed , is said about any ceremony being used at the advancement of a Fellow-craft to a Master Mason , or about any fees being paid for giving such a degree . It seems , indeed , doubtful if the Lodge , from its commencement down to the formation of the Grand Lodge , practised anything more than the two degrees of Apprentice and Fellow-Craft . The Masters referred to in almost every one of the early minutes are , therefore , likely to have been merely Masters in trade , and not Masters in the sense in which they are now
regarded in the Masonic Lodges of this county . The journeymen evidently held a subordinate position in the Lodge , but this perhaps arose from their condition in life , and not from belonging to a lower grade of speculative Masonry . They received a certain amount of protection and also relief when in distress , and their wives and children had some privileges and claims to support , but they had little power especially over the appropriation of the funds , and were generally forced to
submit to such regulations as the masters thought fit to impose . u Previous to the secession of the Fellow-Crafts who formed our own Lodge , a person , on being entered in the Lodge of Edinburgh , paid twelve pounda Scots , * and on being advanced to the Degree of Fellow-Craft , twenty-four pounds Scots . Most of the Fellow-Crafts took a mark , which is generally inserted in the books after their names , and which they no doubt engraved on their tools , and carved on the stones which thoy prepared . For obtaining a mark they paid a sum of
K pound Scots is Is . Sd . sterling
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contrair he shall be compted ane animie to this house , and debared from being imploied within our privilige . ' On the 27 th December , 1 ( 589 , the Deacon , Masters , and Fellow-Crafts then assembled , having their attention directed to an Act which had been passed in 1661 , providing that no Master shall employ a person who has not been passed a Fellow-Craft in two years after the expiry of his apprenticeship , under a penalty of twenty shillings Scots each day he so
employs him , declare that this is a reasonable Act , and then the names of a number of journeymen are given , who had not conformed to the law , and the deliberations of course terminate by an injunction being laid on ail the Masters of the Incorporation not to employ any such journeymen until they comply with this enactment . And under date the 27 th December , 1705 , we find the following minute : —viz . 'Ye qlk day ye Deacon of the Massons and his breathering , taking to yr consideration , that yr are several masteris of this house that
tolerate jurnimen to work up and down this citie , contrair to yr oath of admission , and particularly Deacon Nisbet , who tolerat Thomas Paterson , to kop chimney heads , and he only received from ye sd . Thomas forty peneies per day ; therefor to prevent the lyk in tyme coming , yt any master who shall tolerat any such jurniman , wt the owner gree with ye master , ye master shall be obliged to pay to this house tow punds Scots toties quoties , and lykwayes that any such jurniman who shall come and desyer any master to tolerat ym as sd . is shall be discharged from working wn . this borough for three yearis yrafter , and yt any jurniman who
shall be found johing to any person wn . this borough , without ane master , we hereby ordain Oliver Marson our officer qrever he can apprehend any such person so jobing , to tak ym and con vine ym befor the Deacon to be punished according to yr fault , or the privilege of this brought Buck is a specimen of the mode in which the Lodge interfered with persons belonging to the building art within the city of Edinburgh , and we shall have more to adduce to the same effect when we come to give a narrative of the contendings of the Journeymen ' s Society with the parent Lodge .
" The Lodge Mary ' s Chapel consisted of Masters , Fellow-Crafts , and Apprentices , and its principal office-bearers were a Deacon or Preses , and a Warden or Treasurer . It had no Senior or Junior Wardens—in the capacity in which we now find them in all Masonic Lodges—prior to 1737 , that is the year after the formation of the Grand Lodge . At that time the Warden was relieved from the duty of Treasurer , or Boxmaster , as he was sometimes called , and a different person was elected to fill this office . A distinction is kept up between the Masters and the individuals who held the rank of Fellow-Craft and Apprentice ,
but nothing , so far as I have observed , is said about any ceremony being used at the advancement of a Fellow-craft to a Master Mason , or about any fees being paid for giving such a degree . It seems , indeed , doubtful if the Lodge , from its commencement down to the formation of the Grand Lodge , practised anything more than the two degrees of Apprentice and Fellow-Craft . The Masters referred to in almost every one of the early minutes are , therefore , likely to have been merely Masters in trade , and not Masters in the sense in which they are now
regarded in the Masonic Lodges of this county . The journeymen evidently held a subordinate position in the Lodge , but this perhaps arose from their condition in life , and not from belonging to a lower grade of speculative Masonry . They received a certain amount of protection and also relief when in distress , and their wives and children had some privileges and claims to support , but they had little power especially over the appropriation of the funds , and were generally forced to
submit to such regulations as the masters thought fit to impose . u Previous to the secession of the Fellow-Crafts who formed our own Lodge , a person , on being entered in the Lodge of Edinburgh , paid twelve pounda Scots , * and on being advanced to the Degree of Fellow-Craft , twenty-four pounds Scots . Most of the Fellow-Crafts took a mark , which is generally inserted in the books after their names , and which they no doubt engraved on their tools , and carved on the stones which thoy prepared . For obtaining a mark they paid a sum of
K pound Scots is Is . Sd . sterling