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procession will then be made to the High Church , or St . Giles ' s , where a sermon will be preached by the Rev . David Arnot , D . D . y the Grand Chaplain , " 3 rd . After service the procession will be re-formed , and proceed to the site of the Hall in George Street , when the foundation-stone will be laid ; the
ceremony being ended , the procession will return to Holyrood , where the Grand Lodge will be closed . The route of the procession will be from Holyrood Palace by Canongate and High Street to St . Giles ' , from thence to the site by Bank Street , the Mound , Prince ' s Street , and Castle Street . The procession will return to the palace by George Street , St . Andrew Square , Prince ' s Street , and the Regent Road .
" In the evening there will be a banquet in the Music Hall at five o ' clock , at which His Grace the Grand Master , assisted by his office-bearers , will preside . "
Lodge of Journeymen ( No . 8 ) . —Continued frompxtge § 20 . "On the 9 th of February following , the masters of Mary ' s Chapel , along with the two journeymen who had not seceded with their brethren , viz ., James Mack , freeman mason in Portsburgh , and Alexander Baxter , freeman niason in Canongate , met and chose David Thomson , late Deacon of the Incorporation of Masons , to be their preses , in room of James Watson , who , they had been informed , had , in conjunction with the journeymen both entered Apprentices ; and passed Fellow
Crafts in a public change-house . I am strongly inclined to believe that Deacon Watson was One of the first masters of the Journeymen Lodge . As I have already said , we have no minutes from 1710 to 1723 , and consequently his name does not appear in our records ; but when ' the prases of the Lodge of Edinburgh , and the Deacon of the Incorporation of Masons , seceded with the journeymen , it is natural to suppose that he presided at the meetings in the public ale-house so vehemently denounced by the parent Lodge ,
"In order to crush the new society , the parent Lodge passed a series of very stringent laws and prohibitions . On the 21 st of December , 1713 , William Smellie , Deacon of the Masons , being preses , and Henry Wilson , Warden , the members statuted and ordained , that since the journeymen , who had deserted their society , had presumed at their own hand to enter Apprentices , and pass bellow Crafts in a public change-house , without their concurrence , and in manifest contempt of their jurisdiction and authority , no Apprentices , or Fellow Crafts so entered and passed , should be employed by any Master Mason , either within or without the city , until
they presented a supplication to the mother Lodge , and made full satisfaction , under the penalty of £ 12 Scots , to be paid by the master who employed them , as often as he contravened this act . Having thus cut off the entrants with the Journeymen from employment , they advanced another step on the St . John ' s Day following . On that day they enacted , that no person who has any title to the freedom of Mary ' s Chapel—as freeman ' s sons , sons-in-law , or apprentices for the freedom—who has either been entered an Apprentice or passed a Fellow Craft with James Watson and the journeymen combined with him , or who has attended any
of their meetings , shall be admitted to the freedom of Mary ' s Chapel , till such time as he shall apply to the Deacon , Warden , and Brethren of the Lodge , give satisfaction for his contempt , arid pay a fine to the Warden of £ 24 Scots . And in order to make their meshes round the journeymen still more complete , they passed an act on the 22 nd December , 1714-, which prohibited the journeymen from registering any separate society , or setting up an independent Lodge in the city , under a penalty , if they did so , of being discharged from work within the city , and privileges , and imposing a fine of 206 ' . Scots on every member of Mary ' s Chapel ,
as often as he employed any such journeymen , '' Here , then , we have three edicts of a most rigorous character , fulminated against the journeymen from tho Chapel of the Virgin , in Nicldry ' s-wynd ; and , from tho potency of tho fulnunators , we would naturally suppose that they would bo more than sufficient to annihilate the infant society ; but they had no such effect . The journeymen were not so easily disheartened and overcome . They manfully braved the fury of the mother Lodge , backed as it was by the whole strength of the incorporation ; and determinedly refused either to surrender their
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procession will then be made to the High Church , or St . Giles ' s , where a sermon will be preached by the Rev . David Arnot , D . D . y the Grand Chaplain , " 3 rd . After service the procession will be re-formed , and proceed to the site of the Hall in George Street , when the foundation-stone will be laid ; the
ceremony being ended , the procession will return to Holyrood , where the Grand Lodge will be closed . The route of the procession will be from Holyrood Palace by Canongate and High Street to St . Giles ' , from thence to the site by Bank Street , the Mound , Prince ' s Street , and Castle Street . The procession will return to the palace by George Street , St . Andrew Square , Prince ' s Street , and the Regent Road .
" In the evening there will be a banquet in the Music Hall at five o ' clock , at which His Grace the Grand Master , assisted by his office-bearers , will preside . "
Lodge of Journeymen ( No . 8 ) . —Continued frompxtge § 20 . "On the 9 th of February following , the masters of Mary ' s Chapel , along with the two journeymen who had not seceded with their brethren , viz ., James Mack , freeman mason in Portsburgh , and Alexander Baxter , freeman niason in Canongate , met and chose David Thomson , late Deacon of the Incorporation of Masons , to be their preses , in room of James Watson , who , they had been informed , had , in conjunction with the journeymen both entered Apprentices ; and passed Fellow
Crafts in a public change-house . I am strongly inclined to believe that Deacon Watson was One of the first masters of the Journeymen Lodge . As I have already said , we have no minutes from 1710 to 1723 , and consequently his name does not appear in our records ; but when ' the prases of the Lodge of Edinburgh , and the Deacon of the Incorporation of Masons , seceded with the journeymen , it is natural to suppose that he presided at the meetings in the public ale-house so vehemently denounced by the parent Lodge ,
"In order to crush the new society , the parent Lodge passed a series of very stringent laws and prohibitions . On the 21 st of December , 1713 , William Smellie , Deacon of the Masons , being preses , and Henry Wilson , Warden , the members statuted and ordained , that since the journeymen , who had deserted their society , had presumed at their own hand to enter Apprentices , and pass bellow Crafts in a public change-house , without their concurrence , and in manifest contempt of their jurisdiction and authority , no Apprentices , or Fellow Crafts so entered and passed , should be employed by any Master Mason , either within or without the city , until
they presented a supplication to the mother Lodge , and made full satisfaction , under the penalty of £ 12 Scots , to be paid by the master who employed them , as often as he contravened this act . Having thus cut off the entrants with the Journeymen from employment , they advanced another step on the St . John ' s Day following . On that day they enacted , that no person who has any title to the freedom of Mary ' s Chapel—as freeman ' s sons , sons-in-law , or apprentices for the freedom—who has either been entered an Apprentice or passed a Fellow Craft with James Watson and the journeymen combined with him , or who has attended any
of their meetings , shall be admitted to the freedom of Mary ' s Chapel , till such time as he shall apply to the Deacon , Warden , and Brethren of the Lodge , give satisfaction for his contempt , arid pay a fine to the Warden of £ 24 Scots . And in order to make their meshes round the journeymen still more complete , they passed an act on the 22 nd December , 1714-, which prohibited the journeymen from registering any separate society , or setting up an independent Lodge in the city , under a penalty , if they did so , of being discharged from work within the city , and privileges , and imposing a fine of 206 ' . Scots on every member of Mary ' s Chapel ,
as often as he employed any such journeymen , '' Here , then , we have three edicts of a most rigorous character , fulminated against the journeymen from tho Chapel of the Virgin , in Nicldry ' s-wynd ; and , from tho potency of tho fulnunators , we would naturally suppose that they would bo more than sufficient to annihilate the infant society ; but they had no such effect . The journeymen were not so easily disheartened and overcome . They manfully braved the fury of the mother Lodge , backed as it was by the whole strength of the incorporation ; and determinedly refused either to surrender their