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The Legend Of The Introduction Of Masons Into England.
tions of such castles as had been broken down , and erected them where there had been none before , who is sufficiently adorned with polished eloquence as to declare with praising lips ! " He was a builder likewise of monasteries—" a very fair one "—at Athelney , where also " a
wellfortified castle was constructed by the command and execution of the said king . " In the account of the attack of York , in 867 , Simeon repeats what had been stated by former historians when he says that " the city had not strong and secure walls . " * It will be remembered that Asser , as
already quoted , explains " that it was without fortifications , except such as were erected after our fashion . " During the same trouble with the Pao-ans the Christians are unable to break down the wall of
Nottingham , during the attack of that place in 868 . f In 871 , the Pagans marched to Reading , and after remaining there three days a portion of the army went out to plunder " while the rest were constructing a wall between the two rivers , Thames and Kennet , on the right side of that royal vill . "J
A . D . 899 Elfred , King of the Anglo-Saxons , son of Athelwulf ,. "built many cities and towns , and rebuilt some which had been destroyed . " § In this general manner monasteries are said to have been built from their foundations , castles fortified , walls of cities built or pulled down by an enemy , the record of these events being
copied , often almost word for word from the previous chroniclers . Many of these I have already given in the former articles , and as they convey no information to the present purpose it is needless to repeat them here .
In 10411 | we have , however , something a little more definite , for in recording some of the troubles of the time , Simeon gives a slightly different account of the hiding-place of the two men at the monastery of Worcester . He says , they " fled for concealment to a chamber of a certain turret " in the monastery .
Writing of the desolation of the country through famine and other causes , in 1069-70 , Simeon states that the Church of St . Paul at Jarrow , was destroyed by fire ; f and again , in 1074 , we learn of this celebrated monastery , built by Biscop , ** " where were to be seen many buildings of the monks with half-ruined churches , of which the
remains scarcely indicated what their original condition had been . " Under the same year Simeon thus sums up the misery caused by the Danes : " But indeed the most cruel devastation of the pagans had .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Legend Of The Introduction Of Masons Into England.
tions of such castles as had been broken down , and erected them where there had been none before , who is sufficiently adorned with polished eloquence as to declare with praising lips ! " He was a builder likewise of monasteries—" a very fair one "—at Athelney , where also " a
wellfortified castle was constructed by the command and execution of the said king . " In the account of the attack of York , in 867 , Simeon repeats what had been stated by former historians when he says that " the city had not strong and secure walls . " * It will be remembered that Asser , as
already quoted , explains " that it was without fortifications , except such as were erected after our fashion . " During the same trouble with the Pao-ans the Christians are unable to break down the wall of
Nottingham , during the attack of that place in 868 . f In 871 , the Pagans marched to Reading , and after remaining there three days a portion of the army went out to plunder " while the rest were constructing a wall between the two rivers , Thames and Kennet , on the right side of that royal vill . "J
A . D . 899 Elfred , King of the Anglo-Saxons , son of Athelwulf ,. "built many cities and towns , and rebuilt some which had been destroyed . " § In this general manner monasteries are said to have been built from their foundations , castles fortified , walls of cities built or pulled down by an enemy , the record of these events being
copied , often almost word for word from the previous chroniclers . Many of these I have already given in the former articles , and as they convey no information to the present purpose it is needless to repeat them here .
In 10411 | we have , however , something a little more definite , for in recording some of the troubles of the time , Simeon gives a slightly different account of the hiding-place of the two men at the monastery of Worcester . He says , they " fled for concealment to a chamber of a certain turret " in the monastery .
Writing of the desolation of the country through famine and other causes , in 1069-70 , Simeon states that the Church of St . Paul at Jarrow , was destroyed by fire ; f and again , in 1074 , we learn of this celebrated monastery , built by Biscop , ** " where were to be seen many buildings of the monks with half-ruined churches , of which the
remains scarcely indicated what their original condition had been . " Under the same year Simeon thus sums up the misery caused by the Danes : " But indeed the most cruel devastation of the pagans had .