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The Legend Of The Introduction Of Masons Into England.
necessary to have a church for the celebration of holy rites , " a church was prepared with boughs . " * When Ban-thorough is attacked by the Mercians , King Penda " not being able to enter it by force , or by siege , he endeavoured to burn it ; and having broken up the cottages which he found in the neighbourhood of the city , he brought to it an
immense quantity of beams , planks , wattles from the walls , and thatch from the roofs , wherewith he encompassed the city on the land side , etc . "f The "lofty buildings " of a monastery are spoken of in 679 % ; and in 685 , a " certain building ( mansio ) in a retired situation , and
enclosed by a narrow wood and a trench , " not far from the church of Hexham , § is mentioned . In the same year orders are given for " a little cottage , " or hut , to be constructed within the enclosure of the above dwelling . || In Bede ' s Life of St . Cuthbert we read of shealings , which then ,
as now , were roughly put together in summer , and thatched . - ^ St . Cuthbert , when he retires to the island of Fame , prepares for himself " a city suitable to his empire , and erected houses ( domos ) therein equally suitable to his city . " The following is the description given by Bede of these buildings : **
" Now this dwelling house ( Eedificium ) was nearly circular ; m measure from wall to wall about four or five perches . The wall itself externally was higher than the stature of a man ; but inwardly , by cutting the living rock , f f the pious inhabitant thereof made it much higher , in order by this means to curb the petulance of his eyes as
well as of his thoughts , and to raise up the whole bent of his mind to heavenly desires , since he could behold nothing from his mansion ( mansione ) except Heaven . He constructed this wall not of hewn stone , nor of brick and mortar , but of unwrought stones and turf , which he dug out of the centre of the place . JJ Of these stones some
were of such a size that it seemed scarcely possible for four men to lift them ; nevertheless , it was discovered that he had brought them from another place and put them on the wall , assisted by heavenly
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Legend Of The Introduction Of Masons Into England.
necessary to have a church for the celebration of holy rites , " a church was prepared with boughs . " * When Ban-thorough is attacked by the Mercians , King Penda " not being able to enter it by force , or by siege , he endeavoured to burn it ; and having broken up the cottages which he found in the neighbourhood of the city , he brought to it an
immense quantity of beams , planks , wattles from the walls , and thatch from the roofs , wherewith he encompassed the city on the land side , etc . "f The "lofty buildings " of a monastery are spoken of in 679 % ; and in 685 , a " certain building ( mansio ) in a retired situation , and
enclosed by a narrow wood and a trench , " not far from the church of Hexham , § is mentioned . In the same year orders are given for " a little cottage , " or hut , to be constructed within the enclosure of the above dwelling . || In Bede ' s Life of St . Cuthbert we read of shealings , which then ,
as now , were roughly put together in summer , and thatched . - ^ St . Cuthbert , when he retires to the island of Fame , prepares for himself " a city suitable to his empire , and erected houses ( domos ) therein equally suitable to his city . " The following is the description given by Bede of these buildings : **
" Now this dwelling house ( Eedificium ) was nearly circular ; m measure from wall to wall about four or five perches . The wall itself externally was higher than the stature of a man ; but inwardly , by cutting the living rock , f f the pious inhabitant thereof made it much higher , in order by this means to curb the petulance of his eyes as
well as of his thoughts , and to raise up the whole bent of his mind to heavenly desires , since he could behold nothing from his mansion ( mansione ) except Heaven . He constructed this wall not of hewn stone , nor of brick and mortar , but of unwrought stones and turf , which he dug out of the centre of the place . JJ Of these stones some
were of such a size that it seemed scarcely possible for four men to lift them ; nevertheless , it was discovered that he had brought them from another place and put them on the wall , assisted by heavenly