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The Old Master Masons.
THE OLD MASTER MASONS .
BY THE EDITOR . IT would be a subject of deeji interest to us Masonic students to-day , and even as-archaeological students generally , if we could ascertain the names of those able men who have left such "marks" behind them of their
geometrical science aud constructive skill . But for various reasons they are , to a great extent at any rate , shrouded from our anxious gaze , not only by the " mist of oblivion " but by the " silence of the grave . " We know very little indeed of them , certainly , though now and then in a chance chronicle or a stray jiassage a name occurs , and we hear , if very little indeed of them personally , something , but only a something , that is unsatisfactory mostly at the best , of the labours they directed and the work they achieved . We propose then , in the following article , as others have clone before us , to try and lay before Masonic
students and readers a connected and chronological list of those worthies of operative Masonry who have so adorned civil and ecclesiastical architecture , so benefitted mankind , so advanced art and civilization , and were jirobably all members of the Masonic guild or sodality or "Loge Latomorum" ( like Mapylton was at Canterbury ) of that "limitt . " Dallaway , as it is known , tried to do something of the same kind many years ago in his "Discourses on Architecture" in 1833 though he was notwe believea Freemason . Our old friend
, , , and fellow-labourer , Bro . E . W . Shaw , developed his idea , by his own untiringenergy , industry , and archaeological energy , some twenty years later in the old Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror . We think , if we remember rightly , a similar attempt has been made since then in America , though we have lost the reference . But we believe we are correct in stating that the present is the first attempt , in its exact form , to bring the matter formall y to
the attention of Masonic and archceological students . For the object of the writer to-day , bo it noted and remembered , is not to assert dogmatically that " this" is " that , " and that " so and so are so and so , " but simply to draw a " sketchy" outline , which others must fill up and fill iu for themselves , as inclination prompts or information directs . Just now there seems a sort of mistrust of the old statement of monkish and ecclesiastical builders ; but I would beg to observe that there is scarcel y il
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Old Master Masons.
THE OLD MASTER MASONS .
BY THE EDITOR . IT would be a subject of deeji interest to us Masonic students to-day , and even as-archaeological students generally , if we could ascertain the names of those able men who have left such "marks" behind them of their
geometrical science aud constructive skill . But for various reasons they are , to a great extent at any rate , shrouded from our anxious gaze , not only by the " mist of oblivion " but by the " silence of the grave . " We know very little indeed of them , certainly , though now and then in a chance chronicle or a stray jiassage a name occurs , and we hear , if very little indeed of them personally , something , but only a something , that is unsatisfactory mostly at the best , of the labours they directed and the work they achieved . We propose then , in the following article , as others have clone before us , to try and lay before Masonic
students and readers a connected and chronological list of those worthies of operative Masonry who have so adorned civil and ecclesiastical architecture , so benefitted mankind , so advanced art and civilization , and were jirobably all members of the Masonic guild or sodality or "Loge Latomorum" ( like Mapylton was at Canterbury ) of that "limitt . " Dallaway , as it is known , tried to do something of the same kind many years ago in his "Discourses on Architecture" in 1833 though he was notwe believea Freemason . Our old friend
, , , and fellow-labourer , Bro . E . W . Shaw , developed his idea , by his own untiringenergy , industry , and archaeological energy , some twenty years later in the old Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror . We think , if we remember rightly , a similar attempt has been made since then in America , though we have lost the reference . But we believe we are correct in stating that the present is the first attempt , in its exact form , to bring the matter formall y to
the attention of Masonic and archceological students . For the object of the writer to-day , bo it noted and remembered , is not to assert dogmatically that " this" is " that , " and that " so and so are so and so , " but simply to draw a " sketchy" outline , which others must fill up and fill iu for themselves , as inclination prompts or information directs . Just now there seems a sort of mistrust of the old statement of monkish and ecclesiastical builders ; but I would beg to observe that there is scarcel y il