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"Ars Quatcor Coronatorum."*

According to the "Breviarum secundum consuetudinem domus Hospitalis Hierosolymitanus Sancti Johaimis , Spirse , " 1495 , the bodies were raised after five days and secretly interred in the Via Lavitana by St . Sebastian . In the "Breviarum Ultrajectense . Venet ., " 1497 , we find the Legend much the same as in the " Brev . Romanum , " but considerably more briefly narrated . Lampadius executes the five martyrs and dies suddenly . Forty days

afterwards Nioodemus raises the coffins and buries them in his house . Then follows :- — LECTIO II . Eleven months afterwards Diocletian ordered a temple to be erected to Asclepius in the Thermis Trnjaiii , and a statue of the god to be made of Proconnesian stone . As all the people were commanded to sacrifice , there were present several tribunes ( cornicularii ) . When their opposition was made known to the Emperor Diocletian , he ordered them to be slain with leaden scourges before the statue of the god . After they had been scourged for a long time they gave up the ghost .

The third and last Lectio agrees with the 6 th of the "Brev . Spirense . " According to the "Legenda Sanctorum Jacobi de Voraigne , " 1470 , Severus , Severiamis , Carpophorus , and Victoriaiuis were scourged to death , but their offence is not stated . Two years afterwards ( so also in the "Brev . Orel . Hierosob , " 1495 ) , about the year 287 , the five other Christians were executed because they would not consent to sacrifice to the gods . The leaden coffins were thrown

into the sea , and not again recovered . The Pope Melchiades ordered that they should be designated as the four crowned martyrs , their names not being then , known , and althoug h , subsequently revealed , yet the custom was retained of denoting the five personages as the " Vier Gekronten " or " quatuor coronati . " The precise date of their martyrdom is specified in the " Modus orandi secundum ecclesiam Herbipolensem , " 1450 , which states that "These holy

martyrs suffered for the name of God , in the year 287 , on the Sth November ( sexto ydtts Novembris ) . The reader will observe that there is much confusion in the breviaries concerning this Legend , two separate groups of personages and 'two distinct occurrences being curiously confounded . It is probable that there actually was a historical basis for the original Legend , and that this Legend was subsequently elaborated , aud perhaps confounded with others .

The York Fabric Rolls.

THE YORK FABRIC ROLLS .

( Continued from page 28 . J INJUXCTIOKES DAT .-K QUESTOlllBUS P 110 FAURICA EBOR . * Injunctum est nobis presbiteris a superioribus nostris in virtute Sanctis obediential , ut nos exponamus parochianis nostris distincte et aperte omnibus diebus domiuicis et interim festivis , infra missariim . sofemunia , iuclulgencias omnibus heuefactoribus matris ecclesiic Ebor .

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THE OLD MASTER MASONS. Article 1
ROLL OF EXTINCT LODGES UNDER THE GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND, WARRANTED FROM 1736 TO 1836.* Article 5
A FRENCH MASONIC ADDRESS IN 1880. Article 8
A ROYAL ARCH SONG. Article 11
A STRANGE STORY OF EASTWELL Article 12
OLD RECORDS OF THE LODGE OF PEEBLES. Article 15
TIME WAS, TIME IS. Article 17
FRENCH FREEMASONRY. Article 18
"ARS QUATCOR CORONATORUM."* Article 21
THE YORK FABRIC ROLLS. Article 23
THE MEANING OF " COWAN." Article 25
GOING HOME. Article 26
GOLDEN DREAMS. Article 27
LITERARY AND ANTIQUARIAN GOSSIP. Article 28
H.M.S. EURYDICE. Article 32
H.M.S. ATALANTA. Article 33
HISTORY OF RINGS. Article 34
HOLIDAY HOURS. Article 37
IN MEMORIAM. Article 38
THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES. Article 40
TEMPORA MUTANTUR. Article 44
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"Ars Quatcor Coronatorum."*

According to the "Breviarum secundum consuetudinem domus Hospitalis Hierosolymitanus Sancti Johaimis , Spirse , " 1495 , the bodies were raised after five days and secretly interred in the Via Lavitana by St . Sebastian . In the "Breviarum Ultrajectense . Venet ., " 1497 , we find the Legend much the same as in the " Brev . Romanum , " but considerably more briefly narrated . Lampadius executes the five martyrs and dies suddenly . Forty days

afterwards Nioodemus raises the coffins and buries them in his house . Then follows :- — LECTIO II . Eleven months afterwards Diocletian ordered a temple to be erected to Asclepius in the Thermis Trnjaiii , and a statue of the god to be made of Proconnesian stone . As all the people were commanded to sacrifice , there were present several tribunes ( cornicularii ) . When their opposition was made known to the Emperor Diocletian , he ordered them to be slain with leaden scourges before the statue of the god . After they had been scourged for a long time they gave up the ghost .

The third and last Lectio agrees with the 6 th of the "Brev . Spirense . " According to the "Legenda Sanctorum Jacobi de Voraigne , " 1470 , Severus , Severiamis , Carpophorus , and Victoriaiuis were scourged to death , but their offence is not stated . Two years afterwards ( so also in the "Brev . Orel . Hierosob , " 1495 ) , about the year 287 , the five other Christians were executed because they would not consent to sacrifice to the gods . The leaden coffins were thrown

into the sea , and not again recovered . The Pope Melchiades ordered that they should be designated as the four crowned martyrs , their names not being then , known , and althoug h , subsequently revealed , yet the custom was retained of denoting the five personages as the " Vier Gekronten " or " quatuor coronati . " The precise date of their martyrdom is specified in the " Modus orandi secundum ecclesiam Herbipolensem , " 1450 , which states that "These holy

martyrs suffered for the name of God , in the year 287 , on the Sth November ( sexto ydtts Novembris ) . The reader will observe that there is much confusion in the breviaries concerning this Legend , two separate groups of personages and 'two distinct occurrences being curiously confounded . It is probable that there actually was a historical basis for the original Legend , and that this Legend was subsequently elaborated , aud perhaps confounded with others .

The York Fabric Rolls.

THE YORK FABRIC ROLLS .

( Continued from page 28 . J INJUXCTIOKES DAT .-K QUESTOlllBUS P 110 FAURICA EBOR . * Injunctum est nobis presbiteris a superioribus nostris in virtute Sanctis obediential , ut nos exponamus parochianis nostris distincte et aperte omnibus diebus domiuicis et interim festivis , infra missariim . sofemunia , iuclulgencias omnibus heuefactoribus matris ecclesiic Ebor .

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