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The Legend Of The Introduction Of Masons Into England.
Peter and Paul " from the foundation . " In A . D . 640 , * Ethelberga having died when the church which she had begun to build in her monastery was only " advanced half-way ; " owing to the brothers being occupied with other things , " this structure Avas intermitted for seven years , " and was left unfinished "by reason of the greatness
of the work . " A " most noble monastery " is mentioned ! under the dates A . D . 603 , 613 , and 709 . Bede Avrites of Bishop Acca that he " made it his business , and does so still , to procure relics .... to place them on altars , dividing the same by arches in the walls of the church . " {
In the Freemason § I printed the record from Matthew Paris of Naitan , King of the Picts , sending for architects . \\ Bede says , under A . D . 710 , || that the letter was sent to Ceolfrid , Abbot of Jarrow ^ f " to have architects sent to him to build a church [ of stone ] in his nation after the Roman manner . " " Sed et
architectos sibi mitti petiit , qui juxta morem Romanorum ecclesiam de lapide in gente ipsius facerent . " ** The architects ( architectos ) were sent as desired , but it does not appear if the church was built .
Ceadda , Bishop of "Litchfield , " " built himself a habitation [ mansionem ] not far from the church wherein he Avas Avont to pray and read with seven or eight of the brethren ; "ff and St . Cuthbert , in A . D . 664 , " with the assistance of the brethren , built himself a small dwelling with a trench about it , and the necessary cells and an
oratory . " XX In A . D . 704-9 , §§ a monk , who "lived ignobly , " and was " much addicted to drunkenness , and other pleasures of a lawless life " had been " long and patiently borne Avith on account of his usefulness in temporal things , for he was an excellent carpenter . " " Erat enim fabrili arte singularis . "
Writing of Severus , A . D . 189 , Bede says : || || "he thought fit to divide that part of the island , which he had recovered from the other unconquered nations , not with a wall , as some imagine , but with a rampart . For a wall is made of stones , but a rampart , with which camps are fortified to repel the assaults of enemies , is made of sods ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Legend Of The Introduction Of Masons Into England.
Peter and Paul " from the foundation . " In A . D . 640 , * Ethelberga having died when the church which she had begun to build in her monastery was only " advanced half-way ; " owing to the brothers being occupied with other things , " this structure Avas intermitted for seven years , " and was left unfinished "by reason of the greatness
of the work . " A " most noble monastery " is mentioned ! under the dates A . D . 603 , 613 , and 709 . Bede Avrites of Bishop Acca that he " made it his business , and does so still , to procure relics .... to place them on altars , dividing the same by arches in the walls of the church . " {
In the Freemason § I printed the record from Matthew Paris of Naitan , King of the Picts , sending for architects . \\ Bede says , under A . D . 710 , || that the letter was sent to Ceolfrid , Abbot of Jarrow ^ f " to have architects sent to him to build a church [ of stone ] in his nation after the Roman manner . " " Sed et
architectos sibi mitti petiit , qui juxta morem Romanorum ecclesiam de lapide in gente ipsius facerent . " ** The architects ( architectos ) were sent as desired , but it does not appear if the church was built .
Ceadda , Bishop of "Litchfield , " " built himself a habitation [ mansionem ] not far from the church wherein he Avas Avont to pray and read with seven or eight of the brethren ; "ff and St . Cuthbert , in A . D . 664 , " with the assistance of the brethren , built himself a small dwelling with a trench about it , and the necessary cells and an
oratory . " XX In A . D . 704-9 , §§ a monk , who "lived ignobly , " and was " much addicted to drunkenness , and other pleasures of a lawless life " had been " long and patiently borne Avith on account of his usefulness in temporal things , for he was an excellent carpenter . " " Erat enim fabrili arte singularis . "
Writing of Severus , A . D . 189 , Bede says : || || "he thought fit to divide that part of the island , which he had recovered from the other unconquered nations , not with a wall , as some imagine , but with a rampart . For a wall is made of stones , but a rampart , with which camps are fortified to repel the assaults of enemies , is made of sods ,