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The Masons Of The Middle Ages.
THE MASONS OF THE MIDDLE AGES .
CHAPTER I . THE CATHEDRAL OP STRASBURG . * THE attention and curiosity of the good people of Strasburg was attracted on the 18 th of January , 1318 , by a heraldattended b at
, y serjeants--arms , bearing silver maces who traversed the narrow ancl dark streets of that city , about eight o clock in the evening . As may be supposed , a crowd rapidly collected around him and the honest burghers leaned out of their casements on their elbowsor hastened to their door
, -steps . Questions rapidly passed , to which none received a satisfactory reply while the curious and eager concourse followed the authorities , impatiently awaiting the explanation ofthe enigma . Unmoved by the sarcasms which reached him , the herald movedon at the slow pace which suits the representative of authority , the Serjeants restraining the most pressing amonothe leand the
peop , trumpeters sounding a flourish at shorl intervals . . Suddenly , all came to a stand-still . They had reached the grand square of Strasburg . The pressure from the crowd , to which every street and lane had now contributed its contingent portion having been repressed' b the
y Serjeants , and the trumpets having once more sounded , a solemn silence succeeded to the tumult which had prevailed the instant before . The herald then slowly unfolded a parchment , to which the seals of the magistracy were appended ; and after castinoa dignified look on the bystandershe commenced
, reading what proved to be a decree of the Council of Strasburg , in the ioliowmg terms : — \ ' In the name and b y the will of the mi ghty and powerful prince Roclolph , emperor of Germany , the Council of Strasburg , considering that , by the death of Erwin Steinbach
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Masons Of The Middle Ages.
THE MASONS OF THE MIDDLE AGES .
CHAPTER I . THE CATHEDRAL OP STRASBURG . * THE attention and curiosity of the good people of Strasburg was attracted on the 18 th of January , 1318 , by a heraldattended b at
, y serjeants--arms , bearing silver maces who traversed the narrow ancl dark streets of that city , about eight o clock in the evening . As may be supposed , a crowd rapidly collected around him and the honest burghers leaned out of their casements on their elbowsor hastened to their door
, -steps . Questions rapidly passed , to which none received a satisfactory reply while the curious and eager concourse followed the authorities , impatiently awaiting the explanation ofthe enigma . Unmoved by the sarcasms which reached him , the herald movedon at the slow pace which suits the representative of authority , the Serjeants restraining the most pressing amonothe leand the
peop , trumpeters sounding a flourish at shorl intervals . . Suddenly , all came to a stand-still . They had reached the grand square of Strasburg . The pressure from the crowd , to which every street and lane had now contributed its contingent portion having been repressed' b the
y Serjeants , and the trumpets having once more sounded , a solemn silence succeeded to the tumult which had prevailed the instant before . The herald then slowly unfolded a parchment , to which the seals of the magistracy were appended ; and after castinoa dignified look on the bystandershe commenced
, reading what proved to be a decree of the Council of Strasburg , in the ioliowmg terms : — \ ' In the name and b y the will of the mi ghty and powerful prince Roclolph , emperor of Germany , the Council of Strasburg , considering that , by the death of Erwin Steinbach