Masonic Facts.

BIG . 4 . —COPT OV A SAXON DEAWING ( A . D . 620 ) IIOTSTBATIITG S . GUTHXAC BUILDING ms CHAPEL , THE OEIGINAL IN LEE COTTOXIAN COLLECTION IN THE BEITISE MUSEUM .

above takes hold of ; his trowel lying behind him . The altar , with its covering and hangings over it , are shown . Behind St . Guthlac is another workman hewing stone . —( Fig . 4 , ) 13 . According to William of Malmeshury , Wilfrid , in 674 or 675 founded Ri and Hexham . He

, , pon was eminent for his knowledge and skill in the science of architecture , and was himself the principal director in these works , in concert with those excellent Masters who came from Rome and elsewhere . Some of the most skilful builders and artificers were procured bhim from Canterbury . Other eminent

y builders and artists he invited , or brought over with him , from Rome , Italy , France , and other countries . "Under his care , the conventual church of Ely , erected in 674 , was supposed to have been built . —Bentham's joref , Essays on Gothic Arch ., pp . 38 and 39 .

14 . Naiton , King of the Picts , having , in 710 , conceived an intention of building a church in stone , sent messengers to Ceolfrid , Abbot of St . Peter and St . Paul , at Wernmouth , requesting that architectsmight be sent to him , who coidd build a church according to the Roman manner of large stonesand

archi-; tects were sent accordingly . The words of Bede are , " Et architectos sibi mitti petitt , qui juxta morem Romanorum ecclesiam de lapide ingente ipsius faeerent . "—Bedce ecclesiastica Historia Gentis Anylorum , lib . v ., cap . 22 . 15 . Monogram in Church of St . Clementat Rome

, , erected in the 5 th century . It is repeated five times amongst the ornaments of the Dado , and is believed to be one of the Popes who restored this church in the 9 th century : Nicholas I . or John VIII ., according to Vignoli , who , in the Eeceiteil des Monnories Pontifi-