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MCLEANSCOTLAND are not
members of any lodge here in Scotland but do
have Masonic coach drivers and your guide will
be Brother Colin Algie of Lodge Tay & Lyon
276 Kenmore. We would like to extend a warm
welcome to all non members wishing alternative
tours and look forward to meeting you here in
the world’s favourite small country. |
MCLEANSCOTLAND
have taken advice from within in order to
create the perfect tour for brethren to enjoy
the experience of Scottish Lodges, Templars and
for the enthusiastic Bruce followers an exciting
trip to Rosslyn Chapel (pictured below). We are
privileged to have knowledge of secret locations
of Templars graves which are off the beaten
track. We design a tour to suit your
requirements not ours! Please contact in the
first instance;
colin@mcleanscotland.com
Bruce tours are a speciality of
mcleanscotland so all you need do is supply us
with your dates, numbers, details and we will
work together with you to create an everlasting
tour that will stay in your memory for a
lifetime.
MCLEANSCOTLAND MASONIC TOUR GUIDE.
COLIN ALGIE
Colin is based in Aberfeldy,
highland
Perthshire. He has a BA Degree in Tourism and is
a Lodge Member here in Scotland, he can guide
your Masonic tour with MCLEANSCOTLAND. Please
tell us where you wish to see, visit and which
locations and we'll do the rest. We work with
you to design an exclusive tour for your Lodge.
Colin has worked at the exclusive Gleneagles
Hotel and also has a great knowledge of the
Scottish whisky industry, also having worked at
Edradour Distillery. His hobbies include;
reading, snooker, golf and all things Scottish
whisky! Contact Colin at;
colin@mcleanscotland.com A good friend
of MCLEANSCOTLAND! |
mcleanscotland work with Masonic
Lodges or Templar & Bruce enthusiasts to prepare
a stunning tour of Scottish sites relevant to
Masonic Lodges, Knight Templar's and the hero
king Robert the Bruce. Tour Rosslyn Chapel
(below),
secret locations we know where you can discover
Templar graves - well off the beaten tracks.
Bruce tours a speciality of mcleanscotland.
Simply make contact with us with all your
details on numbers and dates, we will work with
you to design a tour that will long stay in the
memory and be the best trip you have ever had.
For group tours here in Scotland we have on call
Masonic Coach drivers and Guides. MCLEANSCOTLAND
are not Members of any Scottish Lodge, but offer
Masonic tours as this is our country and we
welcome all!
www.ichfonline.org The 2009 International
Conference on the History of Freemasonry (ICHF).
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NEW JERSEY
FREEMASONRY
- Grand
Master's Tour of Scotland 2007, 4 nights
in Edinburgh & 4 nights in Inverness,
includes private whisky sampling |
Canadian
Masonic Tour a long tour
of both England and Scotland
ROBERT THE BRUCE KING OF
SCOTS TOUR
Robert Bruce,
King of Scots tour plan
A SHORT MASONIC
TOUR Scottish Masonic tours for any
duration, this is six nights.
DA VINCI CODE TOUR
a great wee tour
with all sorts of goodies included
KNIGHT TEMPLAR’S IN SCOTLAND
coming soon
For more
Historic tours follow this
link
Knights Templar in Scotland
1128 - Hugh de
Payen, a relative by marriage to the St Clairs
of Roslin, travels to Scotland where he stays
with his relatives. The Templars are granted
land – which becomes their headquarters in
Scotland at Ballontrodoch – now Temple.
1203 - The sack
of Constantinople. Important relics looted and
fall into Templar hands. The Orkney Crusade
saw Scottish Templar families, including the
Sinclairs, join the crusade.
1307 - 11
October, it is recorded in French
Masonic history that the Templar ships leave
at midnight from La Rochelle, probably heading
to Scotland.
1311 - Bishop
Lamberton of St Andrews gives the Templars his
protection.
1314 - Possibility that Knight Templars fought
at Bannockburn.
1790 - Alexander Deuchar revives the order in
Scotland in an attempt to re-start a new
chivalry. They set the
gold and silver standard for coin weight, and
introduced the "note of hand" – a
kind of 12th century credit card. Christians
at the time were not allowed to charge
interest on money, but the Templars got round
this by charging "rent". The order
quickly became the richest bankers in Europe,
lending to kings, princes and influential
people across Europe. King Philip IV of France
(1268-1314) was one monarch among many who was
heavily in debt to the Knights Templar. The
death of the Pope gave the King an opportunity
to bribe the incoming Catholic leader and
initiate enquiries against the order. They
were charged with heresy and on a Friday the
13th, in October 1307, Jacques de Molay, the
Grand Master of the Knights Templar, and 60 of
his senior knights were arrested in Paris.
Across Europe thousands of Knights Templar
were taken into custody. But when King Philip
raided the Templar treasure house he found it
empty and the fleet gone from Larochelle.
Anyone found sheltering a Templar was under
threat of excommunication. At the time
Scotland was already excommunicated for Robert
the Bruce's involvement in the murder of John
"Red" Comyn. Since Robert the Bruce
could not afford to turn away wealthy and
powerful allies in his struggle against Edward
I, it is not too fanciful to suppose that
Scotland may have welcomed the homeless
knights. French Masonic ritual seems to
indicate that Scotland was designated as the
place of refuge for the Templar treasures. It
is certainly a matter of fact that their land
in Scotland was never seized but was
transferred to the Knights of St John for
safekeeping.
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