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( Entries for Robynson's salary of £ 1 6 s . Sd . occur in the Rolls for 146 S and 1469 . In 14-70 he had £ 2 , whereas in 1471 and 1472 he only received £ 1 6 s . Sd . In 1475 and 76 , John Saunderson was the Master Mason , receiving a salary of £ 2 per annum . William Blith ' was Master Mason in 1477-78 and 79 , at the same salary as Saunderson ) . -

In 1465 the east end of Giggleswick Church , near Settle ( which was appropriated to Pinchale Priory , as well as the Church at Middleham ) was . rebuilt . There is an entry of the cost of the same , and of the window , -in the Roll . Et in solucione facta pro nova factura unius gabuli

• orientalis ecclesiae parochialis de Gigelswyke Ixvs ., una cum vitracione magniB fenistrse in eadem iiijZ . — vijZ . vs . In 1467 Hobynson was fortunate .- —Efc in solvit pro j pipa vini rubii empta Johanne Robynson lxs . 1480 . Et Roberto Mason de Hertilpole , Roberto Androwson , et Johanni Mo . ryson , pro . reparacione et emendacione canipanilis et les buteresse apud Pynkall , sues . xc ? . -

1478 . Et solvit Willielmo Blyth , et Roberto Battes , latamis , " operantibus - apud Eynkhall per tempus compo . ti , xxijs . viijcL Et solvit Willielmo Smyth , waller , operant ! apud Eynkhall ; -et super diversa tenementa in Dunelm , per tempus , compoti xvjs . xd . 14 S 8 . Et solvit'Willielmo Blyfch , Willielmo Smyth

, Roberto Kay , Johanni Colyne et Willielmo Galaway , operantibus in factura mm-orum dormus vaccarum per decern dies , eapientibus inter se per diem xxd ., xvjs . viiyl . Et solvit Willielmo Adthe , Thomae Dalton , Thomae Dykson , et Cuthberto de Carleile servientibus eisdem- per idem -tempus , ad v ' ujd . inter se per diem ,

vjs . viijc ? . ' -. -. 1495 . Et solvit Willielmo Blyth cum famulo sus operantibus in exaltacione . iiij fenestrarum in claustro per ' xvj dies , eapientibus-inter se per diem vtf . —vjs . ™

y . 1528 . Spanish iron in request . Et solvit pro xl . petris ferri Hispanici ad viij- / . xxvjs . viijc ? . 235 . - Mr : Essex'in his Observations on C'royland

Alley , published in 1783 , in the 4 th vol . of Bibliotheea Topoyrapluca , says that "The foundations were laid on large oak planks ; for the Ereemasons in those daj's knew what foundations were proper for every soil , and how to proportion the" depthand breadth of afoundatipn , to the weight of its . superstructure , " & c . ;

jand . in writing of the west-end of the south aisle , observes that ' The Ereemasons who were employed in building this end of the aisle , rudely cut upon the face of-it a pair of compasses , and some other instrument , probably a Lewis , witli two circular figures ; one of them I suppose was intended for the Sun , with

flames'bursting from its circumference , the other may be designed to represent a Moon ou a Star . These never could be meant as ornaments to the work , and if the 3 ' have any meaning at all , they seem to relate to the mysteries of Ereemasonry , and might be intended as emblems or signs of something known by

the Ereemasons only ; " and in a note says " If the societies who call themselves Ereemasons , had any relation to those who were properly called Masons from their skill in the arts of ; bxrilding , Ave might suppose that . these marks were the signs of the lodge ,

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which the Masons who worked there belonged to and the degree which the Master held in the lod ge might be distinguished by the two great luminaries of the Sun and Moon . " 236 . The following are extracts from the Chamberlain ' s Rolls at York : —

1392 . ( Circa . ) Hucjoni Grantham cementario , pro reparacione novi chori ecclesiae S . Andreae , xiijZi . Thomas Setter pro reparacione de iiij suderiis , 5 s . 2 d . 1396 . Cementariis ecclesiae , precepto Capituli , ex cnrialitate , 6 s . Sd . 237 . On the 22 nd March 1393 Master John de

, Clyfford bequeathed to the Eabric of the church at York 100 shillings in order that one Mason mi ght be added for one year after his decease , and if it was not sufficient that he be supplied by his executors . Testamenta JEloracensia , p 169 . 238 . Will of John Kexby of YorkMasonEeb .

, , 4 , 1389 . Ego Johannes de Kexby , de Ebor , lego Willielmo iilio mes duo terebra ferrea , duas trowels ferreas , zunam onam de corio , cum uno powche , uuum baslard , unum seeurim , unum stanhamyr de ferro . Alicial filiaa mese unum par bedes ancl unum cofyr . Testamenta "Eloracensia , p . 130 .

239 . OR the 14 th May 1397 , John de Swetman "cementarie" gave his body to be buried without the North-door of the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Peter of York , near the new Chapter House of the same Church . 240 . Will of "Magistri" Thomas Sampson , Canon of the Church of York , dated Tuesday next after the Eeast of the Holy Trinity , 1348 . Lego iabricoe novi chori ecelesiaj Cath . Ebor . xxl

sterl , ita quod incipiant opus infra ' annum eftectualiter , prout saepius dixi Domini Thomie de Loudham ancl Thomas de Patenham . * Ibid p . 54 : J 241 The Cathedral of Milan , the most remarkable , as well as the largest and richest of all churches erected in the middle ages , was commenced in 1385 , by order of John GaleazzoDuke of Milan ; and

con-, secrated in 1418 . It is supposed that the designs were furnished by Henry Arlez , of Geimmden called by the Italians de Gamodia or Zamodia . 'The central spire was not finished until 1440 b y Brunellesehi . The Church covers an area of 107 , 782 feet , and is built entirely of white marble ; the facade was built

from the designs of Amati , by order of Napoleon . In Carlo Torre ' s Pitratto di . Milano , 2 nd edition , Milan , 1714 , it is stated that Casa Omodea was the designer of the Cathedral , because there is a portrait of him in a marble bas-relief over the choir , - with his name nhder it , a circumstance which has never

happened in the case of any other , though a multitude were , from time to time , employed on the building in its progress , such as Simone de ITrsinigo , Bramante Bramantorio , Cesare Cesarino , Vicenzo Levegno , Guisep ' pi Meda , " Angelo Sicilian ! , and others . ¦ Seroux de Agincourt , in his History of Art , states

that the Cathedrals of Milan and Bologna were built on the proportions of an equilateral triangle , he gives a section of the latter cathedral to illustrate the principle , Cassar Ciesarinus , one of the . architects of the Cathedral , and the translator of Vitruvius , published ¦ a work in 1521 containing plans and sections of the Cathedral , shewing the application of the triangle .