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The Origins of Freemasonry: Scotland's Century, 1590–1710 (Cambridge University Press, 1990) Stevenson. David. The First Freemasons: Scotland's Early Lodges and Their Members (Aberdeen University Press, 1988)
This is a list of all verifiable organizations that claim to be a Masonic Grand Lodge. A Masonic "Grand Lodge" (or sometimes "Grand Orient") is the governing body that supervises the individual "Lodges of Freemasons" in a particular geographical area, known as its "jurisdiction" (usually corresponding to a sovereign state or other major geopolitical unit).
For many years the mainstream Grand Lodges did not recognize Prince Hall Freemasonry and considered their Prince Hall Freemasonry irregular, despite the UGLE's approval of their regularity. [ citation needed ] In the 1980s, [ citation needed ] many mainstream Grand Lodges began to recognize Prince Hall Grand Lodges as Freemasons.
The Royal Order of Scotland is an appendant order within the structures of Freemasonry.Membership is an honour extended to Freemasons by invitation. The Grand Lodge of the Royal Order of Scotland is headquartered in Edinburgh, with a total of 88 subordinate Provincial Grand Lodges; of these, the greatest concentration (more than a third) is in the British Isles, with the rest located in ...
The Grand Lodge of Antient Free and Accepted Masons of Scotland is the governing body of Freemasonry in Scotland. It was founded in 1736. It was founded in 1736. About one third of Scotland's lodges were represented at the foundation meeting of the Grand Lodge .
This is a list of all verifiable organizations that claim to be a Masonic Grand Lodge in Europe. A Masonic "Grand Lodge" (or sometimes "Grand Orient") is the governing body that supervises the individual "Lodges of Freemasons" in a particular geographical area, known as its "jurisdiction" (usually corresponding to a sovereign state or other major geopolitical unit).
M. William Ivison Macadam; Hugh MacDonald (Scottish politician) Henry Mackenzie; Walter Erskine, Earl of Mar and Kellie (1839–1888) Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont
The term Continental Freemasonry was used in Mackey's 1873 Encyclopedia of Freemasonry to "designate the Lodges on the Continent of Europe which retain many usages which have either been abandoned by, or never were observed in, the Lodges of England, Ireland, and Scotland, as well as the United States of America". [115]