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work at once putting windows into the side aisles of Winchester Cathedral , refacing the arches in the nave ; ably completing , in fact , what Bishop Edington had begun . Nor was this all that Wykeham did , for he founded , at his own expense , two noble colleges , —New College , Oxford [ Seinte Marie College of Wynchester in Oxenford ] ,
and the venerable College of Winchester , only second to the cathedral in the beauty and perfect proportion of its architectural arrangements . The latter was intended to be a college at which the youth of England should be prepared , by lectures , and books , and his . " parental solicitude , " for the harder studies of the latter .
Science is the soul of art , and Wykeham was a man of science , loving it not because it was the foundation of his fortune and success in the world , but because it was his life . The Grand Master of the Freemasons , though high in position and intellect , frankly acknowledged oftentimes his lowly origin , and handed down to us in his motto an eternal lesson , that it is not aristocratic birth and money which ennobles a person , but that ' JHanner * roaftgtff / jRfltatn
Thus C .. B . Cockerell , Esq ., writes : " As a financier alone , Wykeham ' s career ( could it be correctly ascertained ) would be in the highest degree interesting and instructive . In his own works we have an expenditure of at least 500 , 000 Z . of present money , to say nothing of the cost of his endowments : in government works he could not have expended less . " The exact calculation of means to ends must have been one of
the great sources of his credit with the king and the public . The completeness of all works undertaken by him is a very remarkable trait of his character ; as indeed generally may be said of that of his countrymen also ; especially as contrasted with our generous and
tasteful neighbours on the continent , whose designs ( more particularly ecclesiastical ) unquestionably more magnificent than our own , yet are subject ever to the reproach , ' This man began to build , but was not able to finish . '
" William of Wykeham lived to the good old age of eighty years , and continued , it is said , in discharge of his onerous duties until within four days of his death , which took place September 27 , 1404 . His effigy reposes in his chantry , situated , as we mentioned before , on the south side of the nave of the cathedral : it is built on the spot where stood once an altar to his patroness the Blessed Virgin . Thus
have we attempted to sketch briefly the character and some of the deeds of a great man , who strove , in all that he said and did , to illustrate those sacred words which should be ever dear to Freemasons—1 rich and poor meet together : the Loed is the maker of them all . "
Inigo Jones , Grand Master of England , was born in the neighbourhood of St . Paul ' s , London , in the year 1573 . For some time he travelled on the Continent on behalf of the Earl of Pembroke , who in 1618 succeeded him in office . From Italy , Inigo Jones obtained
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work at once putting windows into the side aisles of Winchester Cathedral , refacing the arches in the nave ; ably completing , in fact , what Bishop Edington had begun . Nor was this all that Wykeham did , for he founded , at his own expense , two noble colleges , —New College , Oxford [ Seinte Marie College of Wynchester in Oxenford ] ,
and the venerable College of Winchester , only second to the cathedral in the beauty and perfect proportion of its architectural arrangements . The latter was intended to be a college at which the youth of England should be prepared , by lectures , and books , and his . " parental solicitude , " for the harder studies of the latter .
Science is the soul of art , and Wykeham was a man of science , loving it not because it was the foundation of his fortune and success in the world , but because it was his life . The Grand Master of the Freemasons , though high in position and intellect , frankly acknowledged oftentimes his lowly origin , and handed down to us in his motto an eternal lesson , that it is not aristocratic birth and money which ennobles a person , but that ' JHanner * roaftgtff / jRfltatn
Thus C .. B . Cockerell , Esq ., writes : " As a financier alone , Wykeham ' s career ( could it be correctly ascertained ) would be in the highest degree interesting and instructive . In his own works we have an expenditure of at least 500 , 000 Z . of present money , to say nothing of the cost of his endowments : in government works he could not have expended less . " The exact calculation of means to ends must have been one of
the great sources of his credit with the king and the public . The completeness of all works undertaken by him is a very remarkable trait of his character ; as indeed generally may be said of that of his countrymen also ; especially as contrasted with our generous and
tasteful neighbours on the continent , whose designs ( more particularly ecclesiastical ) unquestionably more magnificent than our own , yet are subject ever to the reproach , ' This man began to build , but was not able to finish . '
" William of Wykeham lived to the good old age of eighty years , and continued , it is said , in discharge of his onerous duties until within four days of his death , which took place September 27 , 1404 . His effigy reposes in his chantry , situated , as we mentioned before , on the south side of the nave of the cathedral : it is built on the spot where stood once an altar to his patroness the Blessed Virgin . Thus
have we attempted to sketch briefly the character and some of the deeds of a great man , who strove , in all that he said and did , to illustrate those sacred words which should be ever dear to Freemasons—1 rich and poor meet together : the Loed is the maker of them all . "
Inigo Jones , Grand Master of England , was born in the neighbourhood of St . Paul ' s , London , in the year 1573 . For some time he travelled on the Continent on behalf of the Earl of Pembroke , who in 1618 succeeded him in office . From Italy , Inigo Jones obtained