Editing Scottish Rite (section)

===Scots Master Degree===
There are records of lodges conferring the degree of "Scots Master" or "Scotch Master" as early as 1733.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Our Valley – Scottish Rite Temple, A.&A.S.R. |url=http://wilmingtonaasr.ipower.com/about-our-valley/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180428002638/http://wilmingtonaasr.ipower.com/about-our-valley/ |archive-date=2018-04-28 |access-date=2017-06-14 |website=wilmingtonaasr.ipower.com}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=About Scottish Rite |url=http://www.aasrcalgary.ca/about/about-scottish-rite |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223220524/http://www.aasrcalgary.ca/about/about-scottish-rite |archive-date=2017-12-23 |access-date=2017-06-14 |website=aasrcalgary.ca}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Boston |first=Scottish Rite |title=Scottish Rite Boston |url=http://www.scottishriteboston.org/en/page.php?id=159#.WUFKI3NwZAg |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302140458/http://scottishriteboston.org/en/page.php?id=159#.WUFKI3NwZAg |archive-date=2017-03-02 |access-date=2017-06-14 |website=scottishriteboston.org}}</ref> A lodge at the Devil (Tavern), Temple Bar in London is the earliest such lodge on record.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of the Rite {{!}} Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, S.J., U.S.A. |url=https://scottishrite.org/about/history/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |language=en-US}}</ref> Other lodges include a lodge at Bath in 1735, and the French lodge, St. George de l'Observance No. 49 at Covent Garden in 1736. The references to these few occasions indicate that these were special meetings held for the purpose of performing unusual ceremonies, probably by visiting Freemasons.<ref name="JacksonRoseCroix">{{cite book |last1=Jackson |first1=Alexander Cosby Fishburn |title=Rose Croix: A History of the Ancient & Accepted Rite for England and Wales |date=1987 |publisher=Lewis Masonic |isbn=0853181519 |edition=Revised (Original 1980) |location=London}}</ref>{{rp|5}} The [[Copiale cipher]], dating from the 1740s{{cn|date=April 2025}} says, "The rank of a Scottish master is an entirely new invention..."<ref name=":3">{{cite web |last=Megyesi |first=Beáta |title=Copiale cipher. Translation from German (August 2011). |url=http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~bea/copiale/copiale-translation.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116062833/http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~bea/copiale/copiale-translation.pdf |archive-date=16 January 2013 |access-date=2 November 2013 |website=[[Uppsala University]]}}</ref>