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The Freemasons' Magazine. Or General And Complete Library.
This sumptuous art of Geometry , it being professed by Emperors ,-Kings , Popes , Cardinals , and Princes innumerable , Avho have ail of them left us the permanent monuments of it in their several places of their dominions ; nor will this , I presume , be denied ,-Avhen Avell considered , that renowned example the Trajan Collumn , it being one of the most superb remainders of the Roman magnificence to be now seen
standing , and which has more immortalized the Emperor Trajan than all the pens of historians -. it was erected to him by the senate and people of Rome , in memory of those great services he had rendered the country , and to the end the memory of it might remain to all succeeding ages , and continue so long as the empire itself . Anno Domini 300 . In St . Aiban ' s timethe king of Englandthat
, , , was a Pagan , did Avail the totvn about that tvas called Verulam , and St . Alban was . a worthy knight , and steward of the king ' s household , and had the government of the realm , and also of making the town walls , and loved Masons well , and cherished them much , and he made their pay rig ht good , standing as the realm did ; for he gave them two
shillings a week , and three-pence to their chear ; for before that time through all the land , a Mason had but a penny a day , and his meat , until St . Alban amended it . And he gave them a charter of the king and council for to hold a general council , and gave it the name of an assembly , and was thereat himself , and 'helped to make Masons , and gaA'e them charges as you shall hear a'fterwards . .
It happened presently after the martyrdom of St . Alban ( who is trul y termed England's p ' roto-martyr ) , that a certain king invaded the land and destroyed most of the natives by fire and sAvord : that the science of Masonry was much decayed until the reign of Ethelbert , Anno Domini , 656 ) King of Kent , Gregory the first surnamed Magnus , sent jnto the isle of Britain a monk , with other learned men to preach the
Christian faith , for this nation as yet had not fully received it ; this said Ethelbert built a church in Canterbury , and dedicated it to St . Peter and . St . Paul , and is supposed to have built , or restored the phurch of St . Paul's , in London ; he also built the church of St . Andrews , in Rochester .
. Sibert , King of the East Saxons , by persuasion of Ethelbert , King of Kent , having received the Christian faith , built the monastry at Westminster , Anno Domini , 6 30 , to the honour of God and St . Peter . Sigebert , King of the East Angles , began to erect the University Of Cambridge , Anno Domini , 915 . Athelstane began his reign ; he Avas a man beloved of all men , he had great devotion toAvards the churches , as appeared in the building ,
adorning and endoAving of monastries , he built one at Wilton , in tlie Diocess of Salisbury , and another at Michelney , in Somersetfhire ; besides these there were but few famous monastries in this realm , but that he adorned the same either with some new p iece of building , jewels , books , or portions of land : he greatly enriched the churches of York . ... .... Edwin , brother to Kins ; Athelstane , loved Masons much more than
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Magazine. Or General And Complete Library.
This sumptuous art of Geometry , it being professed by Emperors ,-Kings , Popes , Cardinals , and Princes innumerable , Avho have ail of them left us the permanent monuments of it in their several places of their dominions ; nor will this , I presume , be denied ,-Avhen Avell considered , that renowned example the Trajan Collumn , it being one of the most superb remainders of the Roman magnificence to be now seen
standing , and which has more immortalized the Emperor Trajan than all the pens of historians -. it was erected to him by the senate and people of Rome , in memory of those great services he had rendered the country , and to the end the memory of it might remain to all succeeding ages , and continue so long as the empire itself . Anno Domini 300 . In St . Aiban ' s timethe king of Englandthat
, , , was a Pagan , did Avail the totvn about that tvas called Verulam , and St . Alban was . a worthy knight , and steward of the king ' s household , and had the government of the realm , and also of making the town walls , and loved Masons well , and cherished them much , and he made their pay rig ht good , standing as the realm did ; for he gave them two
shillings a week , and three-pence to their chear ; for before that time through all the land , a Mason had but a penny a day , and his meat , until St . Alban amended it . And he gave them a charter of the king and council for to hold a general council , and gave it the name of an assembly , and was thereat himself , and 'helped to make Masons , and gaA'e them charges as you shall hear a'fterwards . .
It happened presently after the martyrdom of St . Alban ( who is trul y termed England's p ' roto-martyr ) , that a certain king invaded the land and destroyed most of the natives by fire and sAvord : that the science of Masonry was much decayed until the reign of Ethelbert , Anno Domini , 656 ) King of Kent , Gregory the first surnamed Magnus , sent jnto the isle of Britain a monk , with other learned men to preach the
Christian faith , for this nation as yet had not fully received it ; this said Ethelbert built a church in Canterbury , and dedicated it to St . Peter and . St . Paul , and is supposed to have built , or restored the phurch of St . Paul's , in London ; he also built the church of St . Andrews , in Rochester .
. Sibert , King of the East Saxons , by persuasion of Ethelbert , King of Kent , having received the Christian faith , built the monastry at Westminster , Anno Domini , 6 30 , to the honour of God and St . Peter . Sigebert , King of the East Angles , began to erect the University Of Cambridge , Anno Domini , 915 . Athelstane began his reign ; he Avas a man beloved of all men , he had great devotion toAvards the churches , as appeared in the building ,
adorning and endoAving of monastries , he built one at Wilton , in tlie Diocess of Salisbury , and another at Michelney , in Somersetfhire ; besides these there were but few famous monastries in this realm , but that he adorned the same either with some new p iece of building , jewels , books , or portions of land : he greatly enriched the churches of York . ... .... Edwin , brother to Kins ; Athelstane , loved Masons much more than