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Accounts of the meetings of the Friendly Society of the Roman Catholic clergy in the Lowland District of Scotland are given in this booklet. It includes accounts from September 1808 to August 1816. A list of members of the Friendly Society for 1816 is also present.

Friendly Societies were benevolent associations offering savings, investment, pensions and insurance.

About the printer

The printer of this account is unknown. The printing press was housed at Aquhorties Seminary, the college for educating the Lowland clergy since 1799. Here, boys trained for the priesthood. Aquhorties Seminary closed in 1829, but the building still exists near Inverurie in Aberdeenshire.