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Article CRAFT CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT STONEHEWERS, MASONS, AND CARPENTERS. ← Page 11 of 11 Article THE EARLY BUILDERS. Page 1 of 4 →
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Craft Customs Of The Ancient Stonehewers, Masons, And Carpenters.
industriously , quietly , peacefully , and honestly , as behoves every craftsman , and this we attest and therefore desire to pray our fellow masters in all places to employ this fellow-craft according to Craft usage .
As witness our signatures and Craft seal affixed hereto , Hanover 13 th November , Anno . 1790 . S . X . M . 18 , 1790 . ( Signed ) J . M . SCHILLING , Old Master .
JOH . GEO . TANTZEL , Young Master . ( By whom also above fellow was employed ) . e—4-V- ' ° * ° " ^ ' t- —©
The Early Builders.
THE EARLY BUILDERS .
BY A . P . A . W . ly / TY excellent friend , Bro . Rylands , found fault with my statements - " - about the early builders , but the truth is , that in one sense ours is a logomachy , in that the difference between us is infinitesimal . We
both agree as to this point , that the earliest date to which the Legend of the Gilds in respect of St . Alban , & c , can so far be carried back is the additional MS . about 1415 . There is no trace of St . Alban in the Masonic Poem , according to Mr . Bond , about 1415 , though Casley puts it earlier , and makes it a fourteenth century MS . Whence did the old
legend come from ? There may be a printed book about the end of the fifteenth century , which has so far escaped remark , and which would supply the answer we are now seeking . It is quite clear , I think , that Anderson saw MSS . we have not hitherto succeeded in identifying , and there may be somewhere an
older Constitution existing , as I have just said , which will supply the " missing link " as before 1415 . Some years ago , when I set to work to study Masonic history carefully and critically " ab origine " and "de novo , " I was struck with the fact , patent in Anderson and reproduced in Preston even more
distinctly , that the history of the Craft , according to them , was a history of the building art practically in England , especially the ecclesiastical development , and that it divided itself almost naturally into four parts . First : The history of the same up to the departure of the Romans ; Second : During the period between the Roman departure and the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Craft Customs Of The Ancient Stonehewers, Masons, And Carpenters.
industriously , quietly , peacefully , and honestly , as behoves every craftsman , and this we attest and therefore desire to pray our fellow masters in all places to employ this fellow-craft according to Craft usage .
As witness our signatures and Craft seal affixed hereto , Hanover 13 th November , Anno . 1790 . S . X . M . 18 , 1790 . ( Signed ) J . M . SCHILLING , Old Master .
JOH . GEO . TANTZEL , Young Master . ( By whom also above fellow was employed ) . e—4-V- ' ° * ° " ^ ' t- —©
The Early Builders.
THE EARLY BUILDERS .
BY A . P . A . W . ly / TY excellent friend , Bro . Rylands , found fault with my statements - " - about the early builders , but the truth is , that in one sense ours is a logomachy , in that the difference between us is infinitesimal . We
both agree as to this point , that the earliest date to which the Legend of the Gilds in respect of St . Alban , & c , can so far be carried back is the additional MS . about 1415 . There is no trace of St . Alban in the Masonic Poem , according to Mr . Bond , about 1415 , though Casley puts it earlier , and makes it a fourteenth century MS . Whence did the old
legend come from ? There may be a printed book about the end of the fifteenth century , which has so far escaped remark , and which would supply the answer we are now seeking . It is quite clear , I think , that Anderson saw MSS . we have not hitherto succeeded in identifying , and there may be somewhere an
older Constitution existing , as I have just said , which will supply the " missing link " as before 1415 . Some years ago , when I set to work to study Masonic history carefully and critically " ab origine " and "de novo , " I was struck with the fact , patent in Anderson and reproduced in Preston even more
distinctly , that the history of the Craft , according to them , was a history of the building art practically in England , especially the ecclesiastical development , and that it divided itself almost naturally into four parts . First : The history of the same up to the departure of the Romans ; Second : During the period between the Roman departure and the