Masonic Facts.

MASONIC FACTS .

( Continued from page 285 . ) 176 . Extracts from the Account Bolls of Golding-Jiam J ? riory , preserved among the muniments of the Dean and Chapter of Durham , and published by the Surtees Society .

1 S 33 (?) . Expensaj factae per fratrem STicholaum Thokerington circa reparacionem cancelli de Edenham . Willielmo cementario per tres Septimas , pro tabula et ins . \ jd . Item , eidem emendanti duo gabula cancelli , per quatuor diesxviijcJ .

, Cuidam mulieri operant ! per septem dies , xiiijcZ . TJni cementario daubanti fenestras et gabula cancelli per j diem iiij <_? . Moll without date , early in 14 th century . Willielmo pro stipendo ad equo ad festum Apostoli , per xiij . Septimanas , xxjs . Yuid .

Eabro pro reparaeione instrumentorum cementarii , Yjd . In ducentis et lx . Estlandbordis emptis inBerwico ,

xivs . Soil of William de Insula , Sacristan of Coldingham , 1354 . Item in stipendio cementarii et pro mensa sua , viijs . Holt , 136-1 ' . Eratrem Simon de Levyngthorp , Sacristan . Item . Joltanni Lewynecementario laboranti a

, Dunelmo , in Coldingham et retro , et alii cementaris a- Jedworth in Coldingham et retro , pro dicta ecclesia videnda , viijs . Item in cccc dimid 'Estlandborde cum cariagia per batellos a Berwico in Coldingham , precium de c xxxjs . vi ] -.. ob .

Roll 1365 . Item in construccione unius novi stabuli infra abbathiam in omnibus expensis ut patetperparticulas , ixs . iiijc ? . ob . Item , in reparaeione unius gabelli in Cruce boriali eeeleshe de Coldingham , cum argento solute magistro cementario , vide licet in cxs .

Boll , 1366 . Et de vijZ . xvs . vjc ? . mutuatis de "Willielmo Burthy burgense de Hadington . Johanne TDi jdinsale latamo , et aliis creditoribus . Item in reparaeione gabelli borialis in ecclesia de Coldingham cum gabello Australi , et argento soluto magistro cementario vide licet , xl . xs .

177 . Pension of William Hoton , Senr ., Master ; Mason at York Cathedral . j To all children of our Holy Mother Church , to j whom these presents shall come , the Chapter , & c . i ( the Dean thereof being absent ) , everlasting health in the Lorcl . Know ye all that weon account of the ' ¦

, skilful industry and labour of William do Hoton , i mason , son . of Master William de Hoton , mason , cm- ! ployed and hereafter to be employed about the fabric of our Church of York , have given , granted , and : assigned to him ten pounds of silver as a yearl y pen- \ sion , together with a dwelling within tlie close of tlie

Church of York aforesaid , ivhich Master Thomas de j Pacenham , occupied while he lived , which we assign to the aforesaid William , after the decease of the aforesaid William his father , for the term of his natural life , in whatsover state it shall be provided , only that he do not superintend any other works , whereby our work might be omitted , neglected , or in anywise

delayed ; to be received yearly by two equal portions , at the two terms of the year , namely , at the Eeast of Pentecost , and of Saint Martin , in the winter , atthe hands of the keeper of the Eabric ; to which the said William , the son of the aforesaid William , assents and agreesthat if it should happenthat he should be

, , hindered by blindness or any other calamitous disease , from working , or from directing the said work in a fitting manner , from that time he shall pay yearly to the under mason , who is the second master of tlie mason ' s work , one half of the salary of the aforesaid under mason , out of his pension aforesaid of ten

pounds , while this hindrance shall continue . And if it shall happen , through theneligence of the said William , son of William , while able to work and superintend the said fabric , or through his voluntary omission , or through his occupation in other matters , that the work of our church shall be neglectedomitted

, , or in any other manner delayed , frorfi thenceforth , the aforesaid pension shall cease altogether , for which we do not intend to be further bound to him in any wise , and the present writing shall be wholly without force and effect . In witness whereof our seal has been appended to

the part of this indenture in the possession of the said William ; and to the other part remaining in our possession the seal of the said William has been appended . Given at York , the first day of the month of October , A . n . 1351 . —York Fairie Bolls .

17 S . Issue Boll of Thomas de Brantingham , Bishop of Exeter and Lord High Treasurer . 45 Edward III . ( 1371 ) . —To Peter Maceon , of Nottingham , 300 marks , ivhich the King owed him for a table of alabaster made by him , and placed upon the hig h altar , in St . George ' s Eree Chapel of

Windsor . 44 Edward III . ( 1370 . )—To Henry de Yeveley , mason , sent to various parts to retain divers masons to be sent over in the retinue of the Lord the King beyond seas . In money delivered to him , by his own hands , for the wages of twenty-five masons , coming

to London , there dwelling and awaiting the passage and Avill of the King for nine days , each of them receiving 6 c .. per day , "by command of the Chancellor , Treasurer , and others of the Council , by a general writ of Privy Seal , amongst the mandates of Michaelmas Term , last past , £ 5 12 s . Qd . A precisely similar entry follows the above , substituting the name of William de Wynneford , for that of Henry de Yeveley .

179 . In 50 Edward , III . ( 1376 ) , a commission was issued to John de Multon or Manton , and John Atte Hyde do Eglefcon , constituting them conjointly and separately , overseers of the houses , edifices , and walls of the Castle of Oakham , to the same amount of expenditure authorised in the preceding year . —Arelueological Journal , vol . v ., p . 134 .

ISO . It appears from the rolls for building the kitchen to Durham Abbey that the work lasted one and a half years , and was commenced in 1368 . The names of the masons aud other workmen are mentioned weekly . The wages to masons varied from 3 s . Sd . to Is . per week . Johannes Lewyne , . Magister cementariorum , had 66-s . Sd . for each quarter , and a robe of the value of ; 13 * . M . The paviours had 4