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Documenta Latomica Inedita.
seems extraordinary . There is also a kind of workmen called leyes ; these are perhaps the same as those named as " iathomos vocatos ligiers " in the license dated 1396 for the employment of masons Avhich I printed in the Masonic Magazine for February last . The word "ligement" occurs in the present deed of agreement .
The Ledger , or Ligger , Avas an oblong flat stone , or piece of timber . Britton derives Ledgment or Liggement from the Saxon word leger ( a layer ) , and states that it appears to have formerly meant a horizontal course of stone or mouldings in a building . The Avord Ley are , occurs according to Halliwell , * with the meaning
of a stonemason in the " Promptorium Parvulorum" A . D . 1440 . Ligger from its various meanings , appears to denote anything laid down , and by the Avords leyes and ligiers , Ave are doubtless to understand those masons— " layers " in courses of rough stone the foundations of buildings ; f builders , as distinguished from those Avho prepared the stones . W . H . R .
This endenture maad bitwix Will . Wolston sqwier , Thomas Pecham clerke , commissaris for the hy and mighty prince , and my right redouthid lord , the due of Yorke on the too part ; X and Will . Hor-Avod free-mason , dAvellyng in Fodringhey on the tother part : Avytnessith , that the same Will . Horwod hath granthid and
undretaken , and by thise same has indenthid , graunts , and undertakes to mak up a new body of a kirk joyning to the quire , of the college of Fodringhey of the same hight and brede that the said quire is of ; and in lenght iiij f fete fro the said quere don ward Avithyn the walles a metyerd § of England accounthid ahvey for iij fete . And in this cuvenant the said Will . Horwod shal also wel make all the groundwork of the said body , and take hit and void || hit at his own cost , as
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Documenta Latomica Inedita.
seems extraordinary . There is also a kind of workmen called leyes ; these are perhaps the same as those named as " iathomos vocatos ligiers " in the license dated 1396 for the employment of masons Avhich I printed in the Masonic Magazine for February last . The word "ligement" occurs in the present deed of agreement .
The Ledger , or Ligger , Avas an oblong flat stone , or piece of timber . Britton derives Ledgment or Liggement from the Saxon word leger ( a layer ) , and states that it appears to have formerly meant a horizontal course of stone or mouldings in a building . The Avord Ley are , occurs according to Halliwell , * with the meaning
of a stonemason in the " Promptorium Parvulorum" A . D . 1440 . Ligger from its various meanings , appears to denote anything laid down , and by the Avords leyes and ligiers , Ave are doubtless to understand those masons— " layers " in courses of rough stone the foundations of buildings ; f builders , as distinguished from those Avho prepared the stones . W . H . R .
This endenture maad bitwix Will . Wolston sqwier , Thomas Pecham clerke , commissaris for the hy and mighty prince , and my right redouthid lord , the due of Yorke on the too part ; X and Will . Hor-Avod free-mason , dAvellyng in Fodringhey on the tother part : Avytnessith , that the same Will . Horwod hath granthid and
undretaken , and by thise same has indenthid , graunts , and undertakes to mak up a new body of a kirk joyning to the quire , of the college of Fodringhey of the same hight and brede that the said quire is of ; and in lenght iiij f fete fro the said quere don ward Avithyn the walles a metyerd § of England accounthid ahvey for iij fete . And in this cuvenant the said Will . Horwod shal also wel make all the groundwork of the said body , and take hit and void || hit at his own cost , as