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Documenta Latomica Inedita.
DOCUMENTA LATOMICA INEDITA .
CONTRACT FOR BUILDING THE NAYE OF FOTHERINGHAY CHURCH . 22 September , 1434 . ' rilHIS interesting deed , so often mentioned , is printed in Dugdale ' s - * - Monasticon , London , 1812 , vol . vi ., part iii ., page 1414 . He
thus describes it : " Conventiones de Nova Structura hujusmodi Ecclesiae , " that is of Fotheringhay Church . His copy was taken from the deed itself in the possession of Will . Pierpont of Thoresby , Co . Nott ., Gent ., in the year 1669 . This copy is here reproduced from Dugdale , and all the additions
Avhich I have made in order to render the text more easily understood are given in square brackets . Notes are added at the foot of the page for the same purpose . A few points are worthy of notice . In the first place , William Horwood dwelling at Fotheringhay is called a free-mason ; with him the
contract for the work to be done is made , to the extent of £ 300 , in 1434 . That the work is to be done by oversight of masters of the same craft . He is only to set upon the work the number of free-masons , rough setters , and leye [ r ] s , as shall be arranged by those who " haA'e the governaunce and oversig ht" of the work , under the Duke of York .
The clerke of the vjerke Avas to pay HorAVOod . It is stated that if 'iny of the workmen shall not be paid by Horwood in full , then the Olerk of the Works , is to stop from the amount due to Horwood , and in his presence pay the workman what is owing .
The setters are to be " chosen and taken by such [ persons ] as shall have the governaunce and oversight of the said Avork , " and are to be paid by HorAvood , but if he complains , and says that the "two said setters or any of them be not profitable nor good enough workmen for the profit of the Lord " then they are to be judged by
oversight of master-masons " of the country , " and if they are found to be faulty then others are to be employed in their place , by those who have the governing of the work . We have here governors and overseers appointed by the Duke , masters of the same craft as Horwood , to oversee the work , a Clerk of
the Works , a Freemason contracting for the work , freemasons employed there , master masons acting as judges as to the fitness of workmen ; rough setters , employed , of Avhich there Avere apparently two , which
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Documenta Latomica Inedita.
DOCUMENTA LATOMICA INEDITA .
CONTRACT FOR BUILDING THE NAYE OF FOTHERINGHAY CHURCH . 22 September , 1434 . ' rilHIS interesting deed , so often mentioned , is printed in Dugdale ' s - * - Monasticon , London , 1812 , vol . vi ., part iii ., page 1414 . He
thus describes it : " Conventiones de Nova Structura hujusmodi Ecclesiae , " that is of Fotheringhay Church . His copy was taken from the deed itself in the possession of Will . Pierpont of Thoresby , Co . Nott ., Gent ., in the year 1669 . This copy is here reproduced from Dugdale , and all the additions
Avhich I have made in order to render the text more easily understood are given in square brackets . Notes are added at the foot of the page for the same purpose . A few points are worthy of notice . In the first place , William Horwood dwelling at Fotheringhay is called a free-mason ; with him the
contract for the work to be done is made , to the extent of £ 300 , in 1434 . That the work is to be done by oversight of masters of the same craft . He is only to set upon the work the number of free-masons , rough setters , and leye [ r ] s , as shall be arranged by those who " haA'e the governaunce and oversig ht" of the work , under the Duke of York .
The clerke of the vjerke Avas to pay HorAVOod . It is stated that if 'iny of the workmen shall not be paid by Horwood in full , then the Olerk of the Works , is to stop from the amount due to Horwood , and in his presence pay the workman what is owing .
The setters are to be " chosen and taken by such [ persons ] as shall have the governaunce and oversight of the said Avork , " and are to be paid by HorAvood , but if he complains , and says that the "two said setters or any of them be not profitable nor good enough workmen for the profit of the Lord " then they are to be judged by
oversight of master-masons " of the country , " and if they are found to be faulty then others are to be employed in their place , by those who have the governing of the work . We have here governors and overseers appointed by the Duke , masters of the same craft as Horwood , to oversee the work , a Clerk of
the Works , a Freemason contracting for the work , freemasons employed there , master masons acting as judges as to the fitness of workmen ; rough setters , employed , of Avhich there Avere apparently two , which