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Initiated: May 18, 1736 Passed: June 2, 1736 Lodge Canongate Kilwinning Grand Master: St. Andrew's day 1736 Grand Lodge of Scotland Text reprinted from Albert G. Mackey Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, 1966. p. 899. Initiation dates noted in Heredom, the transactions of the Scottish Rite Research Society, Volume VI, Year 1997. Hereditary Grand Master Mason of Scotland 1736. > From the Original in St. John's Chapel. Canongate Edinburgh. Lithd. by Brothr. Schenk. Edinburgh. Frontispiece: The Laws and Constitutions of the Grand Lodge of the Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of Scotland. Edinburgh : MDCCCXLVIII. The St. Clairs of Roslin were hereditary grandmasters of Masonry in Scotland. King James II conferred that dignity upon them. The first grandmaster, William St. Clair, Earl of Orkney and Caithness, and his successors, held their courts in Ayrshire, town of Kilwinning. William St. Clair of Roslin being destitute of an heir and having to sell his estates in 1736, resigned all claim to the grandmastership, and the office became elective. He, himself, was elected to the position and d. in 1778 at age 78. He was the last of the direct male line of Roslin. Upon his death a solemn funeral lodge was held. A poem was composed and set to the air of Roslyn Castle, a couplet of which reads: Like St. Clair live, like St. Clair die; Then join the Eternal Lodge on high soc.org.freemasonry From: "Dai McClymont" Date: Thu Apr 7, 2005 Dear Brethren Certain remarks have been made, as usual, about "shreds of evidence". One of the latest concerns the hereditary patronage of the Sinclairs over Masonry. I do not presume to contradict the assertion that there is no proof (presumably the writers meant "documentary proof") of this status. What is much more important, however, is the fact that this status was generally accepted. It is a historical fact that people generally believed that the Sinclairs were hereditary patrons of Scottish Freemasonry. Herewith an excerpt from the funeral oration for the first elected Grand Master of Scottish Freemasonry, William Sinclair, delivered by one of his successors in 1778: "Among other marks of royal approbation conferred on his ancestors, for their faithful and valuable services, they enjoyed the dignity if Grand Master Mason, by charters of high antiquity, from the Kings of Scotland. This hereditary honour continued in the family of Roslin under the year 1736; when, with a disinterestedness of which there are a few examples, he made a voluntary resignation of the office into the hands of the Craft in general; by which from being hereditary, it has ever since been elective: and in consequence of such a singular act of generosity it is, that, by your suffrages, 1 have now the honour to fill this chair." The full oration is on the Grand Lodge of Scotland's website. The fact that a Sinclair was the first Grand Master is all the more striking, as William Sinclair was only made a mason in May of the year that he was elected Grand Master. This fact is recorded in volume 7 of Heredom, the transactions of the Scottish Rite Research Society. The article records that "Although the first reference to this plan appears in September 1735, the records indicate that most of the work involved in setting up the Grand Lodge took place between September 29, 1736 and the date of the first meeting two months later. There are only two specific references in 1735 to what would become the Grand Lodge, and both appear in the minutes of Canongate Kilwinning. The first is dated September 29, 1735, when a committee is formed 'for framing proposals to be layed before the Several Lodges in order to the chusing a Grand Master for Scotland.' The second occurs on 15 October, when the committee was again directed to 'take under consideration proposals for a Grand Master.'". If nothing else, the excerpts indicate the strength of that belief, and that the belief in question influenced a Lodge to "recruit" a man with a view to using his hereditary prestige to validate a proposed Grand Lodge. In the final event, 4 lodges formed the Grand Lodge, with another 29 lodges in attendance. There are also some hints that there was already some sort of informal association of lodges in existence at the time. Go figure. Although the initiative had been taken by Canongate Kilwinning, the article shows how that lodge was persuaded to include Lodge Edinburgh in its deliberations. The co-operation of this lodge was crucial to the success of the initiative, because of its prestige. The Schaw 2nd Ms. of 1599 (but not known in 1735/6) refers to three lodges, and ranks them as follows: Edinburgh, Kilwinning, Stirling. What is also noteworthy is that the three lodges in question remained in existence well into the modern "speculative" period. There is no suggestion of any discontinuity or change from operative to speculative. One also has to ask why, if Masons' lodges moved around according to where the work was, that these three lodges remained in 3
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