Masonic Facts.

• was consecrated on 27 th April , 1248 , by the Cardinal Bishop of Erascati . —Whittington , p . 200 . 102 . The Cathedral of Clermont begun in 1248 from the design of John des Champs ( a campis . )—" Bourasse Catliedrales de France .

103 . A Eabric roll of Westminster was discovered about two years ago by Mr . Burt , of the Eecord Office , entitled " A Eoll of Payments of Wages , and of Purchases for the Works at Westminster , 37 , Henry HI ., " and recently published by Mr . G . G . Scott , in his interesting and valuable book called Qleaninys from Westminster JJbley . Professor Willis

, who has examined the roll , says that it contains the entire accounts of the building works during thirtytwo continuous weeks , beginning Avith the first Aveek after Easter , which in the year 1253 fell on . April 20 th ; consequently the works in question began on Monday , April 28 th , and the last week of the roll

ended with Saturday , Dee . 6 th . The first six weeks are indicated as first , second , & c , after Easter . The seventh Aveek was Whitsun AA'eek , and was evidently kept as a holiday ; the Aveek next folloAving the sixth after Easter being termed the first after Pentecost is thus actually the eighth week from the beginning of the account roll . This enumeration continues to the fifteenth Aveek , which is termed the ei ghth after Pentecost . The sixteenth week begins a new series

termed the first , second , & c , " after the agreement for wages for eight Aveeks . " This enumeration continues through twelve weeks and carries us to the end of ihe twenty-seventh Aveek of the roll . The twentyeighth is termed the first week after the Eeast of All Saints , and the succeeding the second , third , < fec . At the head of each week one or more Saint ' s days are

mentioned in a peculiar manner . Thus to begin the complete title of the first Aveek is— " Eirst week after Easter , containing the Eeast of the Apostles Phili p and James on Thursday , which belongs to the King , and the Eeast of the InA'ention of the Cross on Saturday , which belongs to the Masons . " WhateA'er

feasts are mentioned , are assigned alternately to the King and to the Masons—with one exception , in the twenty-seventh Aveek , Avhere the Eeasts of St . Simon and St . Jude ought to haA'e been given to the Masons , but it is assigned to the King , because that it is the first day of his regnal year . The masons worked

, and were paid for , on the King ' s Saints days , butkept their own as holidays . The following is a list of the feast-days assigned alternately to the King and the masons : —

THE KINQ- ' S . THE AIASON ' S . Phillip and James . Inven . S . Crucis . John ad port . Lat . Ascension . John the Baptist . Thomas—Martyr . Magdalen . James . Peter ad Vine . Assumption . Decollatio . Nativity of B . Af . Michael . Translation of b . Edward .

Luke . Omn . S' co'm . Simon and Jude . Edmund . Martin . Nicholas . Katerina . The nature of the payments to the Masons will be best understood b y giving extracts from one Aveek , viz .: — "Second week after Eastercontainingon

, , Tuesday , the feast of St . John , ante portam Latinam , which belongs to the king : — "To wages of 39 Avhite stone cutters , of 15 marblers , 26 stonelayers , 32 carpenters , with John

and his partner at St . Albans , two painters , with an assistant , 13 polishers , 14 glaziers , with 4 plumbers , 15 U . 10 s . Id . " To wages of 176 inferior workmen , with OA'erseers and clerks , and two two-horse carts daily , 91 . lis . 2 d . Sum of wages 251 . 7 s . 3 d . Emptions . To Master Alberieus for arrears of form

pieces 66 s . ; 53 feet of parpents , id . per foot ; 59 feet of voussoirs with fillets , at 2 d . per foot ; 1221 Jfeet at Sd . per foot ; 50 assises , at 5 d . each assise ; 42 chamberauds ; 22 feet of maignans ; 243 feet cerches ; 9 feet of bosses ; and seven stepis cut by task work . £ 7 13 s . Id .

Item , for 9 capitals , 68 feet of escus , 1591 feet of cerches , 54 s . M . Item , for 25 hundred and a half quartern of chalk for the vaidts , 8 s . 7 d . Item , for 22 hundred and 3 quarterns of freestone , £ 6 16 s . Qd . To Eoger of Eeygate for 8 hundred and a quartern

of freestone , 53 s . 7 id . To Eiehard the lime-burner for 3 hundred of lime , 15 s . To Agnes for two hundred-and-a-half of lime , 12 s . Gd ., & c . The following table shoAVS the number of masons employed each week : —• Stone M .,.,, i „ ,. Stone Cutters Millt ) , els layers

1 st after Easter ( April 20 th , 1253 ) 39 14 20 2 nd „ „ 39 15 26 3 rd „ „ 39 15 26 4 th „ „ 41 16 31 Sth „ „ 41 16 31 6 th „ „ 41 16 35 1 st week after Pentecost 42 IS 28

2 nd „ „ 54 49 28 3 rd „ „ 56 49 28 4 th „ „ 60 49 14 5 th „ „ 60 49 14 6 th „ „ 66 49 14 7 th „ „ 68 4-9 14 Sth „ „ 78 49 14 1 st week after agreement for wages for 8 weeks 78 49 14

2 nd „ „ 78 49 14 3 rd „ „ 49 31 13 4 th „ „ 49 31 13 5 th „ „ 49 15 13 6 th „ „ 56 15 23 7 th „ „ 58 14 25 Sth „ „ 60 14 31 9 th „ „ 42 14 31 10 th „ „ 58 26 33 11 th „ „ 58 15 34 12 th „ „ 58 15 34 1 st week after Eeast of All Saints 58 11 11

2 nd „ „ 34 7 — 3 rd „ „ 35 7 5 4 th „ „ 35 7 4 5 th „ „ 35 7 9

Total of the Stipends £ 696 8 7 „ Emptiones 891 9 5 £ £ 1857 18 0 | On the back of the Eoll it is recorded that on Tuesday of the 4 th week after Pentecost , on the morroAV of the blessed Thomas the Martyr , Mayister

Alberieus , vrith three associates , began the taskwork of three windows . It is not ImoAvn with certainty Avhat part of the Abbey ivas in progress during this year , but Professor Willis thinks that in the 15 th week , there is taskwork for the entrance of the Chapter House ; and from the 19 th to the 26 th and 31 st Aveeks , charges occur in nearl y every week foE nails for the church and belfry .