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invaluable , as bearing upon parochial history ) ; he supposes they are " Irish manuscripts ; " and expecting another question , calculated to betray his ignorance , hastily departs .
It would never do to leave Winchester cathedral without visiting the slab of old Isaac Walton , In the chapel where the vicars-choral put on their surplices . Do all the members of celebrated fishing clubs , who kill salmon in the Tweed , and whip patiently for trout in the Thames , know that the great fisherman , the author of " The Complete Angler , " the " Lives , " and other works , lies buried here ?
It was not long ago that two American bishops ( Dr . M'Crosky and Dr . Lancey ) wer & invited over to join in the celebration of the S . 'P . Gr . Society . Both visited "Winchester cathedral , and their first request was that they might be shown the spot where lies all that is mortal of Isaac Walton ; nor did anything in the great and noble church seem to please and interest them more than his plain slaban unostentatious monument .
We trust we have clearly shown that Winchester cathedral is at least one proof of what Freemasonry has done . That cathedrals do not answer all the purposes for which they were founded , and which is now required of them , casts no stigma upon the skilful mason . Some persons know not Truth ; and are their falsities on that account to be laid at Truth ' s door ? Ear from it ; in both cases we perceive that it is not the use , but the abuse of good things , which becomes the source of the very worst of evils .
CHAPTER VIII . MASOKRY A . 15 D EMIJSTEOT MASONS . We failed to mention many things in Winchester cathedral in our last chapter , which we will briefly notice now , as they are well worthy of the attention both of the architect and antiquary . The ceiling of the tower , a copy of the one in the chapel of New College , Oxford ,
is the work of Inigo Jones , architect and Freemason , whose other works we will hereafter mention , in giving a list of those eminent Masons , by whom Winchester , and other great churches and public ? buildings , were erected . In the centre is an emblem of the Holy Trinity , and the following chronomatical inscription , giving as its date . 1634 : —
S / NT BOM US HUJU 8 VII REOES NUT 1 UTII , BEGIN M NUTRICES PLZE . Inigo Jones also erected a choir composite screen , but , though well executed , it did not harmonize with the surrounding stonework , and was removed for the present perpendicular one by Grarbett , in which are two niches containing the two old bronze effigies of King James and Charles , which adorned the former screen .
The chantry of Bishop Fox in the south aisle vies in beauty and perfection with that of William of Wykeham . The roof of every canopy , says Mr . Buckler ( see Gentleman ' s Magazine , 1816 ) , differs in design , as also the animals in their positions , which are attached
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invaluable , as bearing upon parochial history ) ; he supposes they are " Irish manuscripts ; " and expecting another question , calculated to betray his ignorance , hastily departs .
It would never do to leave Winchester cathedral without visiting the slab of old Isaac Walton , In the chapel where the vicars-choral put on their surplices . Do all the members of celebrated fishing clubs , who kill salmon in the Tweed , and whip patiently for trout in the Thames , know that the great fisherman , the author of " The Complete Angler , " the " Lives , " and other works , lies buried here ?
It was not long ago that two American bishops ( Dr . M'Crosky and Dr . Lancey ) wer & invited over to join in the celebration of the S . 'P . Gr . Society . Both visited "Winchester cathedral , and their first request was that they might be shown the spot where lies all that is mortal of Isaac Walton ; nor did anything in the great and noble church seem to please and interest them more than his plain slaban unostentatious monument .
We trust we have clearly shown that Winchester cathedral is at least one proof of what Freemasonry has done . That cathedrals do not answer all the purposes for which they were founded , and which is now required of them , casts no stigma upon the skilful mason . Some persons know not Truth ; and are their falsities on that account to be laid at Truth ' s door ? Ear from it ; in both cases we perceive that it is not the use , but the abuse of good things , which becomes the source of the very worst of evils .
CHAPTER VIII . MASOKRY A . 15 D EMIJSTEOT MASONS . We failed to mention many things in Winchester cathedral in our last chapter , which we will briefly notice now , as they are well worthy of the attention both of the architect and antiquary . The ceiling of the tower , a copy of the one in the chapel of New College , Oxford ,
is the work of Inigo Jones , architect and Freemason , whose other works we will hereafter mention , in giving a list of those eminent Masons , by whom Winchester , and other great churches and public ? buildings , were erected . In the centre is an emblem of the Holy Trinity , and the following chronomatical inscription , giving as its date . 1634 : —
S / NT BOM US HUJU 8 VII REOES NUT 1 UTII , BEGIN M NUTRICES PLZE . Inigo Jones also erected a choir composite screen , but , though well executed , it did not harmonize with the surrounding stonework , and was removed for the present perpendicular one by Grarbett , in which are two niches containing the two old bronze effigies of King James and Charles , which adorned the former screen .
The chantry of Bishop Fox in the south aisle vies in beauty and perfection with that of William of Wykeham . The roof of every canopy , says Mr . Buckler ( see Gentleman ' s Magazine , 1816 ) , differs in design , as also the animals in their positions , which are attached