Masonic Facts.

MASONIC FACTS .

( Continued frompageZ 7 % ) 205 . 1358 . —Johanni Hendachet , sementaris operant ! super dictum murum per iiij dies et dimidium cap' die iiijd = xviijd . —Fabric Boll of Works at the JNew Castle on Tyne .

206 . The following are entries in the Eabrie Eoll of Durham Abbey Kitchen , A . D . 1368 , ( see 180 ) : — " In operacione xxx petrarum ferri in xxiij secures cementariorum , xxv ponsones cum chisills , iiij hakkis , ij pikkis , et xix weggis , petra ad iiijd , xs . Et in operacione iiij petrarum et dimidia * in calibem , pro

dictis securibus , ponsones , cbissils , pikkis , et kevellis faciendis , reparandis et emendandis ad eeiam pro iiij petris operatis in uno gavelok ijs . Etin acuacione MDCCC securium cementariorum per diversas vices , ad xjd xvjs vjd . Et in una serara pro hostio domus eementarii ijd .

Erom the above it appears that in 1368 , the charge for working 30 stones of iron into 23 masons' axes , 25 ponsones with cbissils , 4 hakkis , 2 pikkis , and 19 weggis was 10 s ., or at the rate of 4 < i per stone . Eor working 4 J stones into steel ( in calibem ) , for making and repairing the said axes , ponsones , cbissils , pikkis ,

and kevellis , and for making 4 stones into a gavelock , the charge was only 2 s . Eor sharpening 1800 masons ' axes at lid . per 100 , 16 * . 6 < r / . A lock for the mason ' s house cost 2 d . —Hist . Lunelon ,, ]} . 132 . 207 . It appears from the Eabrie Eolls of Exeter Cathedral , for 1396-97 , that the plumbers , carpenters ,

and tylers , had 5 d . a day , and the " Ereemasons " Qd . a day . The names of William Eoundyng aucl William Gervys , " Ereemasons " often occur , the former had a salary of 26 s . 8 d . In 1405-6 , " one rennyng ban- for the door of the

logge , 5 d . In 1412-13 , John Tilney , Mason , was paid 12 c ? . for examining the ruins of the Chapter House , — " ad videndum ruinam in dormo capitulari . " Bishop Lacy -completed the upper part of the Chapter House . In 1427 , John Wolston and John Harry , " Ereemasons , " were sent to Bere to provide stone .

208 . The tower and spire of St . Michael , Coventry , 272 ft . high , occupied 22 years in building , from 1372 to 1393 , and cost £ 2100 . —Dugdale . 209 . John of Gaunt obtained a warrant from Eicbard 2 nd , in 1392 , directed to Eobert de Skillington , Master Mason , ancl supervisor of his building at —¦

KenilAVorfch , to impress 20 masons , carpenters , & c . Dugdale tot sup , 210 . In 50 Edw . 3 ( 137 G ) , a commission was issued to John de Multon de Manton , and John atte Hyde de Egelton , constituting tbem conjointly and separately , overseers of the houses , edifices , and Avails of the castle of Oakham , to the same amount of expenditure authorized in the preceding year . —Arch . Jour , vol . 5 , p . 134 .

211 . Eot . Pat . 4 Eicbard 2 nd , ( 1381 ) , gives power to the authorities at Beverley , to preserve order amongst tbe Avorkmen who Avere then employed finishing the Cathedral . 212 . 1377 . The Cathedral of Ulm , built from the designs of Matthew Ensinger . —See Leede ' s notes to Mailer's German Gtoiltic Architecture , p . p . 78 , 79 .

213 . The foundation stone of New College , Oxford , ivas laid on the 5 fch March , 1380 , at 8 o'clock in the morning , by William of Wykeham , in presence of his scholars and others . The buildings were finished in about 6 years ; the Wardens and Eellows , made their solemn entrance into them , on the 14 th April , 1386 , at 9 A . M ., marching in procession , chanting litanies , and with the cross borne before them . —Loioth ' s Life , of Wylceliam .

214 . Copy of a Mason ' s receipt , Cowling Castle , Kent , 29 th Sept ., 1385 . —" Noverint universi per presentes me Thomam Crompe , Masoun , recepisse die confeccionis presencium , de domino Johanne de Cobeham , domino de Cobebam , sex libras tres decim solidos et quator denarios sterlingorum in partem

solucionis operis mei apud Castrum de Coulyng de quibus vero sex libris tresdecem solidis et quator denariis , in partem solucionis , ut premittitur michi solutis , fateor meo solutum prefatumqtie dominum de Cobeham , heredes et executores , inde esse quietos per presentes sigillo meo signatos . Datum in festo saneti Michaelis anno regni Eegis Anglie Eicardi secundi post conquestum nono . — Rev . L . JB . Larlcing , Surrenden Collection .

215 . The foundation-stone of St . Marie's College , Winchester , laid on March 26 th , 1387 , at 9 A . M . ; it took six years in building , and the Warden and the Society made their solemn entrance into it , chanting in procession at 9 o ' clock in the morning on March 28 th , 1393 . —Bishop's Loioth's Life of Wyheham ,

p . 190 . 216 . William de Croyland was Master of the Works at Croyland Abbey from 1392 to 142 V' . —Biblioilieca Topograpliica , vol . hi ., p . 51 . During Croyland ' s time the two transepts , the nave , and its aisles , the south aisle of the cloister , the Abbot's Hall , and the refectory were completed .

217 . In 14 Eicbard 2 nd ( 1390 ) Geoffrey Chaucer was appointed by the King , Clerk of the Works , at St . George ' s , Windsor . Chaucer was empowered to "impress carpenters , stone-cutters , and other workmen for the necessary operations of the said chapel , and Avas allowed 2 s . daywith the privilege of

per , having a deputy . " He held the office about eighteen or twenty months . 218 . John Boterel was Clerk of the Works , at Westminster Hall in 1395 . —Stow ' s Survey of London , edit . 1618 , p . 887 .

219 . At the election of an Abbot for Whitby Abbey in 1393 , the chapter consisted of the folloAving officers and other monks , viz .: — John Allerton , Prior . Thomas de HaAvkesgarth , Prior of Middlesburgh . Peter de Hertilpole ( elected Abbot ) Bursar .

Eeginald de Esyngton , Sacrist . Eobert de Boynton , Sub-Sacrist . William de Ormesby , Almoner . William de Yarme , William de . BoJcyngham , Master Builder (?) ister operi

Mag . Eobert de Middillesburgh , Kitchen Cellarer . Thomas de Hakeness , Chamberlain . William de Dalton , Cellarer . Thomas cle Bolton , ( afterwards Abbot . ) Thomas cle Elyngton , Precentor .