Masonic And General Archaeologia.

MASONIC AND GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGIA .

ERAUDS ABUSES IN ST . PAUL S . —In a book with the above title , published in 1712 , we find the following petition : —• " To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled : The humble Petition of Sir Christopher Wren , shewetb , That in the Act of Parliament of 8 and 9 of the late King William , for compleating the Building and Adorning the Cathedral Church of St . Paul , London , there being a Clause for suspending a Moiety of the Surveyor ' s Salary till the said Church

should be finish'd , thereby the better to encourage him to finish the same with-the utmost Diligence and Expedition : Your Petitioner humbly conceives , that the Parliament by putting the Surveyor under such Obligation , did apprehend that the Building , and every thing belonging to it , was wholl y under his Management and Direction , and that it was in his Power to hasten or jji'otract it . That Your Petitioner having been Surveyor of the said Cathedral

Church from the beginning of its Rebuilding , and the same ( as may be seen ) being now compleated , excepting the Iron-fence , some Ornaments undetermined , and some other Matters which some of the Commissioners for the Fabrick have so interposed in , as that his Measures for compleating the'same are wholly over-rul'd and frustrated ; and thereby he is under this Hardship , as neither to be paid the Salary that is due to himnor suffer'd to perfect the

, Work that is made the Condition of it . Your Petitioner therefore most humbly Prays your Honours to grant him such Relief in the Premisses , as to Your Great Wisdom and Justice shall seem meet . And Your Petitioner will ever Pray , etc . —CHR . WREN .

WILLIAM THE LION ' CHART . EE . —We take the following from the Masonic Magazine and Mirror : — " De pteccoe bnfcom eccce Glasg . Wills Dei gra Rex Scottoru . omnibz plis hominibus toci ire sue clicis efc Laicis saleni . Necessitati Glasguen ecclie . Pietate debita coiupaoientes et earn sumni Regis , et scissimi Kentegni . confessoris intuitu deuocoe non moclica . diligentes . desolacoi ipius cura noluniq

cosolacois adhibere . et earn qoad possnmq regie ptectois mnnimine cfoue . Qm ante mat mltarum gentin . exilis anhac et angusta . ad honore Dei ampliari desiderat , et pterea in hiis diebs nils igne cosumpta ad sui reparacoem amplissimis expensis indigene et nrin et pliu pbom honiinum subsidiuin expostulat . Imitate qam ad eiq costructoem venablis Joe . eiusde ecclie eps de cosilio abbatu priori ! et altius cleri epatns sui costittiit . Devote reci pimq . et

regie eocessionis mnnimine usq . ad ipius ecclie pfectoem confirmanq . et oes eiqde frnitatis collectores . et ad eiq fabricam auctoritate E pi et capitli ipius ecclie . auxiliuin postnlantes . in nra firma pace et ptectoe snscipimq oinnibs Ballis nils et ministris firniit pcipientes . vt . eos vbiq in regno nro ptegant et manuteneant et districte phibentes . ne quis eis iniuriaviolenciam ant contumeliarn aliqam inferat sup nram plenaria forisfcuram . Test . Hugone canceliar nro . Archenb Abbe de Diinfermel . Willo de Lundes justic . Philippe de Valonia . apd Rokesburg . "

ON FREEMASONRY . — -From the Travels of Alexander Drummonci , Esq ., Consul at Aleppo , wrote at Smyrna , in the year 1745 : — " At this carnival season they have an assembly here , to which Mr . Consul Crawley did me the honour to introduce me ; and , as I had formed a lodo ^ e of Freemasons in the place , the ladies had conceived a strange notion of my character ; for I had been represented to them , by some priest , as a conjurer of the first magnitude , who had the devil at my command , and raised the dead by my diabolical incantations . Those terrible prepossessions , instead of