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the brethren at Galashiels , that our pairt of the comitie will wait upon them at Galashiels upon t he the third day of January next so that the comitie may be tymeously advertised and those concerned have their acpts in readyness .

The meeting continues the former commission to five for intrants . The which day Jeams Prier applyed to the lodge for having John Lows admited a member , and after reasoning the lodge upon consideration

of his youth , and other reasons admitted , it was agreed to delay it till his father was acquainted with the matter , and was conversed about security for his entry money , and his inclinations to the same .

Galashiels , Deer 27 th 1728 . We the under Masons members of the Lodge of Haughfoot having met by vertue of the comission to five for intrants , have after choising Hugh Scot of Gala preses of our meeting , our number

being as follows : — Hugh Scot , John Sanderson , Andrew Thomson , William Cairncross , Willm . Cairncross , yr , George Cairncross , Andrew Tomline , Jeams Brysone Willm . Craig , John Donaldson .

Have with the consent of the preses admitted Hugh Cairncross son to George Cairncross , a member in common form , and have ordered to pay to the Box Master of the lodgo one pound ten shillings Scots , as entry money , and that betwixt and next meeting at Haughfoot .

Galashiels , Jany . 3 rd , 1729-Sederunt of the comitie of Masons of the Lodge of Haughfootl appointed by sederunt last St . John ' s Day , the names of the commitie are as follows : —¦

William Cairncross , Jeams Brysone , George Cairncross , Willm . Henderson , Walter Scot , John Sanderson , Robert Prier , William Cairncross , yr . The which day ane new bill being drawn upon Andrew Thomson , he refuses to compear or accept

the same untill he speak to Torsonce , wherefor the commitie lodged the new drawn bill with the old indorsed bill in the hands of Robert Prier , present Box Master—untill the sd Andrew converse Torsonce .

The comitie having gone through the minutes anent John Sanderson ' s intromissions , when Box Master , can find nothing to charge him with , but

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what he had granted bill for , except £ 3 that was uudetermined betwixt Torsonce and him , And having gone through the minutes , finds in ohn Donaldson ' s hands the soume of £ 6 13 sh . „ which , with bygone intrests , amounts to £ 8 6 sh .

3 pennies Scots per bill . And having gone through George Cairncross ' s intromissions we find he is debitor to the lodge in the soume of £ 3 14 sh . Scots , which he promises to pay to the present Box Master betwixt and

Candlemass next-The committie hereby grants warrant to Robert Prier in Haughfoot , and Walter Scot in Stow Tounhead to call for and pursue in the moat

effectual ! manner the whole debts owing to the sd . lodge , either by bond , bills , ticket , promise ,, or otherways , and to give report to the committie against the second fryday of Agust next , and 1 orders all the members to attend that day at

Haughfoot . The committie recomends to Simeon Aithsison ,. present preses , to give the members of this committie due advertisement , and likways recomends to the Laird of Tcrsonce , Walter Scot , Robert

Prier , and William Henderson to converse the clerk what he must have for filling up the minutes in the book . The comittie finds that Robert Prier has

debursed for the use of the lodge £ 7 llsh , Scots mo ney , and orders him intrest therefor from the date of his debursments . The committie finds due by bills the soxnue of £ 55 10 s . 6 d . ( To be Continued ?)

Masonic Jottings.—No. 11.

MASONIC JOTTINGS . —No . 11 .

BY A PAST PROVINCIAL GEAND MASTEE . THE YEAR , 1717 . One assertion—Speculative Masonry did not show itself until 1717 .

Another assertion—There was no General Assem bly of Operative and Speculative Masons until that memorable year . A learned brother thinks that both assertions s hould , for the present , be looked upon as

problematical . TRANSFORMATION 1717 . A brother says we had better describe what is often called the Transformation of 1717 , as the