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An Historical Account Of Master And Free Masons.
Cassiodorus had recommended Euclid to Theocloric king of tbe Goths . " * There is , as it has been judiciously observed , an evident disparity between several of the ornamental parts of many cathedrals , which will be evident by contrasting the skill of the amateur monk Avith that of the professional artist . t III . Offering to our present vieAv such master-masons Avhose more eminent and
ascertained pretentions may have distinguished them from others , whose names have been recognised in various documents , I have selected the folWing only . Such of them AVIIO have been employed in military architecture will be noticed with reference to their several works . J The
master-masons , and their brotherhood , could have been scarcely ever void of employment , as their labours were not always confined to ecclesiastical buildings . They were employed not only in raising castles , but inventing military stratagems
in their formation , and making engines of war : such had the peculiar name of Ingeniatories . § For completing castellated or grand domestic mansions , they were no less in requisition . A very early instance occurs in the reign of Henry III . of Paul le Peverer , in his house at Todington , in Bedfordshire , and of the numerous artificers Avhom he had assembled . II
Master-Masons from the Twelfth to the end of the Fifteenth Ceutury . XII . Century . William Anglus . XIII . Century . Adam de Glapham and Patric de
Carlile , " magister easmentariorum , et carpentariorum , cum septem sociis , " emp loyed to build Caernarvon Castle . —Lib . Garderoba ? 26 Edw . I . 1200 . Henricus de Ellerton , " magister operum , " 1292 . Michael de Cantuaria , CEementarius , St . Stephen ' s Chapel
XIV . Century . Eichard de Stowe was the master-mason of Lincoln Cathedral , and Nicholas Walton , magister-carpentarius , ( roof-maker ) , in 130 G . Henry Latomus , from 1300—1319 . Evesham Abbey .
William Boyden , 1308—1326 . Walter de Weston . —Pat . 4 Edw . Tertii , 1331 . St . Stephen's , Westminster , and Windsor Castle , St . George's Hall . William Wynford .-fi Nave of Winchester Cathedral .
Henry Yevely of London , master-mason ; Ilobert Wasburn , ancl John SwalloAv , and W . Hall , master-carpenters of Westminster and Eltham Halls . —Rymer ' s Fcedera . Robert de Skillington , ** master-mason of the hall in Kenilworth Castle , 1392 .
XV . Century . In the computus of payments ( in 1429 ) of the cathedral of Canterbury , the names of the masters , wardens , and masons , are all recited . —Preston . William Horwood . Chapel of the College of I ' otheringay . —Contract with Richard
, Duke of York , 1435 . t + John Wastell , Henry Semerk , mastermasons of King ' s College , 1444 . John Smyth , master-mason ; Robert
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
An Historical Account Of Master And Free Masons.
Cassiodorus had recommended Euclid to Theocloric king of tbe Goths . " * There is , as it has been judiciously observed , an evident disparity between several of the ornamental parts of many cathedrals , which will be evident by contrasting the skill of the amateur monk Avith that of the professional artist . t III . Offering to our present vieAv such master-masons Avhose more eminent and
ascertained pretentions may have distinguished them from others , whose names have been recognised in various documents , I have selected the folWing only . Such of them AVIIO have been employed in military architecture will be noticed with reference to their several works . J The
master-masons , and their brotherhood , could have been scarcely ever void of employment , as their labours were not always confined to ecclesiastical buildings . They were employed not only in raising castles , but inventing military stratagems
in their formation , and making engines of war : such had the peculiar name of Ingeniatories . § For completing castellated or grand domestic mansions , they were no less in requisition . A very early instance occurs in the reign of Henry III . of Paul le Peverer , in his house at Todington , in Bedfordshire , and of the numerous artificers Avhom he had assembled . II
Master-Masons from the Twelfth to the end of the Fifteenth Ceutury . XII . Century . William Anglus . XIII . Century . Adam de Glapham and Patric de
Carlile , " magister easmentariorum , et carpentariorum , cum septem sociis , " emp loyed to build Caernarvon Castle . —Lib . Garderoba ? 26 Edw . I . 1200 . Henricus de Ellerton , " magister operum , " 1292 . Michael de Cantuaria , CEementarius , St . Stephen ' s Chapel
XIV . Century . Eichard de Stowe was the master-mason of Lincoln Cathedral , and Nicholas Walton , magister-carpentarius , ( roof-maker ) , in 130 G . Henry Latomus , from 1300—1319 . Evesham Abbey .
William Boyden , 1308—1326 . Walter de Weston . —Pat . 4 Edw . Tertii , 1331 . St . Stephen's , Westminster , and Windsor Castle , St . George's Hall . William Wynford .-fi Nave of Winchester Cathedral .
Henry Yevely of London , master-mason ; Ilobert Wasburn , ancl John SwalloAv , and W . Hall , master-carpenters of Westminster and Eltham Halls . —Rymer ' s Fcedera . Robert de Skillington , ** master-mason of the hall in Kenilworth Castle , 1392 .
XV . Century . In the computus of payments ( in 1429 ) of the cathedral of Canterbury , the names of the masters , wardens , and masons , are all recited . —Preston . William Horwood . Chapel of the College of I ' otheringay . —Contract with Richard
, Duke of York , 1435 . t + John Wastell , Henry Semerk , mastermasons of King ' s College , 1444 . John Smyth , master-mason ; Robert