Edinburgh Register House MS 1696 masonic

Edinburgh Register House MS 1696.txt Knoop, D; Jones, G P; Hamer, D;The Early Masonic Catechisms,Manchester University Press (1963)Second Edition, pp 31-34 The Edinburgh Register House MS 1696 Discovered in 1930 by Bro Charles T McInnes in the Old Register House, Edinburgh SOME QUESTIONES THAT MASONS USE TO PUT THOSE WHO HAVE YE WORD BEFORE THEY … Read more

Robert Burns – Freemason, Bard of Ayrshire & Ploughman Poet

Robert Burns

Burns’s rise in popularity for his poems also contributed to his rise in Freemasonry. At a meeting of Lodge St. Andrew in Edinburgh in 1787, at which the Grand Master and Grand Lodge of Scotland was present, Burns was toasted by the Worshipful Grand Master, Most Worshipful Brother Francis Chateris, with the words “Caledonia and Caledonia’s bard, Bro. Robt. Burns”

The Provincial Grand Lodge of Edinburgh is supporting St Columba’s Hospice as its current designated external charity.

St Columba’s Hospice, Edinburgh, opened in 1977 as a 15-bed unit in Challenger Lodge, an original Georgian building overlooking the Firth of Forth. It has developed and expanded since then to provide a modern, comprehensive range of care services within its much-extended buildings and in the wider community. Rebuild Project Over the next four years, … Read more