Founded in the year 1702 it was the World's first Lodge
of purely speculative Masons and although The Grand Lodge of Scotland was
founded in 1736, however, the Haughfoot Lodge remained independent during
it's whole existence from 1702 - 1763.
The original Haughfoot Lodge (and other Lodges of Freemasons working before
1700) worked a Bi-Gradal Ritual based onThe Edinburgh Register House Manuscript
dated 1696 and discovered in 1930 by Bro Charles T McInnes in the Old Register
House, Edinburgh. These rituals were being used before the formation of
a Grand Lodge - (England 1717 - Ireland - 1725 - Scotland 1736).
