Mark Coleman Wallace PhD Thesis - University of St Andrews

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authority of the Kilwinning Lodge previous to the passing of the above act must
be considered as Lodges of Freemasons and intitled to the privileges of the Act
of Parliament.
I do not know that the Grand Lodge of Scotland has ever been
recognised as a corporate Body so as to have a persona standi or right of
bringing an action before a court of law and therefore I do not know that the
Grand Lodge can take any competent steps in its own name, indeed it was
determined that a mason lodge had no persona standi…But if the Grand Lodge
will be so good as to furnish me with a list of the Lodges which have been
Erected in Scotland either by the Kilwinning Lodge or by any other authority
than there own since the passing of the above Act I will direct the proper
Magistrates to make inquiry with regard to them and if necessary suppress them.
4 This query is already answered and I am afraid that the Grand Lodge
has no means of bringing back the Kilwinning Lodge to obedience
but by her own Censures which probably the Kilwinning Lodge will
not regard. The opinion of [Signed] C. Hope
St Andrews Square
March 1803