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Hampton Court , Windsor Castle , Marlborough House , St . James ' s Palace , Pembroke Chapel , and Trinity College Library , all contributed their quota towards earning for Wren the title of the " English Vitruvius . " Such was the scantiness of his remuneration , that Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough , complains of the sums charged her
by an architect in her employ , comparing him with Wren , " who , she observes , " was content to be dragged up in a basket three or four times a week to the top of St . Paul's , and at great hazard , for £ 200 a year . " Her Grace drew no distinction between the zeal of the great architect and the mercenary spirit of the hired surveyor of Blenheim .
In 1672 Wren received the honour of knighthood ; and in 1674 married a daughter of Sir John Coghill , after whose decease he took for his second wife a daughter of Viscount Eitzwilliam , an Irish peer . After the death of Anne , the last of his royal patrons , little to the credit of George I ., Wren was dispossessed of his office of Surveyor-General , which he had held for forty-nine years , and which proved rather a welcome release than otherwise to Wren himself , who was
verging towards ninety , and whose worldly ambition must have been previously amply gratified . In the close of his career he was not so much to be pitied as envied , for if he passed the last five years of his life in retirement and comparative obscurity , they were spent in serenity and contentment . He was found dead in his chair after
dinner , February 25 th , 1723 , in the ninety-first year of his age . His remains were deposited in the Crypt of St . Paul ' s ; on his tomb was inscribed , " 'Si monwmentum quceris , circumspice " Sir Christopher Wren was W . M . of the Lodge of Antiquity , and Grand Master of the Masons of JEngland .
Masonic Curiosities.
MASONIC CURIOSITIES .
A Paper read in the United Lodge of Instruction and Improvement , No . 425 , Oxford , on Wednesday , March 7 , 1855 , BY BRO . THE REV . J . S . SIDEBOTHAM , B . A ., NEW COLLEGE . ( Continued from j ) . 153 . ) " 1 . To be true to the king .
" 2 . To the master they serve , to love well together , to be true one to another , fellows not servants , nor miscall one another , as knave , & c . " 3 . To do their work truly , that they may duly deserve their wages . " 4 i . To ordain the wisest to be master of work , whereby their lord may not be evill served , nor their master ashamed . " 5 . To call the governour of their work Master , and to have such competent and reasonable wages that the workmen may live ; and
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Hampton Court , Windsor Castle , Marlborough House , St . James ' s Palace , Pembroke Chapel , and Trinity College Library , all contributed their quota towards earning for Wren the title of the " English Vitruvius . " Such was the scantiness of his remuneration , that Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough , complains of the sums charged her
by an architect in her employ , comparing him with Wren , " who , she observes , " was content to be dragged up in a basket three or four times a week to the top of St . Paul's , and at great hazard , for £ 200 a year . " Her Grace drew no distinction between the zeal of the great architect and the mercenary spirit of the hired surveyor of Blenheim .
In 1672 Wren received the honour of knighthood ; and in 1674 married a daughter of Sir John Coghill , after whose decease he took for his second wife a daughter of Viscount Eitzwilliam , an Irish peer . After the death of Anne , the last of his royal patrons , little to the credit of George I ., Wren was dispossessed of his office of Surveyor-General , which he had held for forty-nine years , and which proved rather a welcome release than otherwise to Wren himself , who was
verging towards ninety , and whose worldly ambition must have been previously amply gratified . In the close of his career he was not so much to be pitied as envied , for if he passed the last five years of his life in retirement and comparative obscurity , they were spent in serenity and contentment . He was found dead in his chair after
dinner , February 25 th , 1723 , in the ninety-first year of his age . His remains were deposited in the Crypt of St . Paul ' s ; on his tomb was inscribed , " 'Si monwmentum quceris , circumspice " Sir Christopher Wren was W . M . of the Lodge of Antiquity , and Grand Master of the Masons of JEngland .
Masonic Curiosities.
MASONIC CURIOSITIES .
A Paper read in the United Lodge of Instruction and Improvement , No . 425 , Oxford , on Wednesday , March 7 , 1855 , BY BRO . THE REV . J . S . SIDEBOTHAM , B . A ., NEW COLLEGE . ( Continued from j ) . 153 . ) " 1 . To be true to the king .
" 2 . To the master they serve , to love well together , to be true one to another , fellows not servants , nor miscall one another , as knave , & c . " 3 . To do their work truly , that they may duly deserve their wages . " 4 i . To ordain the wisest to be master of work , whereby their lord may not be evill served , nor their master ashamed . " 5 . To call the governour of their work Master , and to have such competent and reasonable wages that the workmen may live ; and