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The Legend Of The Introduction Of Masons Into England.
had routed all his enemies he summoned the consuls and princes to York , and gave orders for the restoration of the Churches destroyed "b y the Saxons , and " after fifteen days , when he had settled AVorkmen in several places , he Avent to London . " * In his journey through the country he restores the city of Winchester ; and when at Salisbury ,
Avhere lay buried many of the nobles murdered by Hengist , he conceived the idea of perpetuating their memory by some important monument . "For this purpose he summoned togetherf several carpenters and masons , X and commanded them to employ the utmost of their art in contriving some new structure for a lasting monument of
those great men . " But they being uncertain of their own skill refused , and Merlin , the Prince of Enchanters , is recommended by an archbishop as being better skilled than all others "in mechanical contrivances . ' ^ He being- requested to undertake the Avork , advises the removal of the Giant ' s Dance , and upon this is introduced the legend
of the removal of Stonehenge from Ireland to its present site . || Cables are prepared , with other arangements , to move the monument , but all of no avail , and it is not until Merlin places in order the machinery required that the stones are removed , with " astounding facility . "T [ To Merlin is given the honour of again erecting the stones on Salisbury Plain . ** It may then be fairly concluded that the Prince of Enchanters was an admirable member of his craft !
The next in order of the Chroniclers is the Venerable Bede , whose " Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum , " became , from its great value , so justly the source from which succeeding chroniclers gleaned much of the information . Bede Avas the author of several works written during a lifetime of sixty-three years , i . e ., from 672 to 735 .
When Caesar , at his second landing in Britain attacks the Britons for the second time , they posted themselves on the banks of the Thames , under the command of Cassibellaun , f f " and fenced the banks
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The Legend Of The Introduction Of Masons Into England.
had routed all his enemies he summoned the consuls and princes to York , and gave orders for the restoration of the Churches destroyed "b y the Saxons , and " after fifteen days , when he had settled AVorkmen in several places , he Avent to London . " * In his journey through the country he restores the city of Winchester ; and when at Salisbury ,
Avhere lay buried many of the nobles murdered by Hengist , he conceived the idea of perpetuating their memory by some important monument . "For this purpose he summoned togetherf several carpenters and masons , X and commanded them to employ the utmost of their art in contriving some new structure for a lasting monument of
those great men . " But they being uncertain of their own skill refused , and Merlin , the Prince of Enchanters , is recommended by an archbishop as being better skilled than all others "in mechanical contrivances . ' ^ He being- requested to undertake the Avork , advises the removal of the Giant ' s Dance , and upon this is introduced the legend
of the removal of Stonehenge from Ireland to its present site . || Cables are prepared , with other arangements , to move the monument , but all of no avail , and it is not until Merlin places in order the machinery required that the stones are removed , with " astounding facility . "T [ To Merlin is given the honour of again erecting the stones on Salisbury Plain . ** It may then be fairly concluded that the Prince of Enchanters was an admirable member of his craft !
The next in order of the Chroniclers is the Venerable Bede , whose " Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum , " became , from its great value , so justly the source from which succeeding chroniclers gleaned much of the information . Bede Avas the author of several works written during a lifetime of sixty-three years , i . e ., from 672 to 735 .
When Caesar , at his second landing in Britain attacks the Britons for the second time , they posted themselves on the banks of the Thames , under the command of Cassibellaun , f f " and fenced the banks