(These three were instituted before 1598.)
No. 1 ter Aberdeen (instituted before 1670.)
No. 2 Canongate Kilwinning, Edinburgh (instituted December 20, 1677.)
No. 3 Scone and Perth (instituted before 1658.)
He adds:—'One of the oldest, claiming to be the oldest, Lodge in Scotland is Aberdeen,' but this Lodge has no written records going as far back as those above mentioned," The earliest written information that is at present known of the Lodge is contained in the Burgh Records of the City of
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