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A Few Parting Words.

anxieties and cheered their labours by their literary efforts and their genial patronage , and in bidding them farewell in these monthly pages hope , and would ask to continue to forward their valuable and pleasant papers to the always friendly pages of the " Freemason . " There is no cessation of active Masonic literary life ; its " venue" alone is changed , in that it is only transferred to more numerously circulated and more widely read columns .

The Roman Collegia.

THE ROMAN COLLEGIA .

No . IV . BY MASONIC STUDENT . IN reference to this subject , and concerning which this is my last , think it ht to remind readers that several distinct

paper , I rig my inscriptions at any rate refer lo the Coll . Fabrorum or Fabrum . Two of these stand out markedly from the others ; the one is the Bath inscription , recorded by Hearne , Musgrave and Dodwell ; the other is the Chichester one , mentioned first , I believe , by Gale . There is also a

curious inscription in the "Archasologia , " which seems to point to the fact apparently that the Companies , or Collegia , or centuriag of masons or builders , were divided into certain " centurias , " or sections , or divisions , over which was a centurio . But there is a little uncertainty about the exact date of this inscription , and as it is rather held , if I

remember rightly , to refer even to monastic builders , I leave it out of our present consideration . The inscription in Musgrave ' s " Antiquitates Religiose , " vol . iii ., is to the following effect : —

JULIUS VITA LIS . FABRIC , ES IS . LEG XX V . V . STIPEN DIOR UM , IX ANNOR XX IX NATIONEBE LGA EXCOLEGO FABRICE ELATU

S . USE . Julius Vitalis Fabricensis Legio XX Valenis Victrix Stipendiorum IX . Annorum XXIX Natipne Belga . Ex Collegio Fabricee Elatus . Hie situs est . The English translation would thus read :

" Here is placed Julius Vitalis , departed this life from the College of the Building of the Fabricenses ( builders or masons ) of the XX . Legio Valens Victrix , having served nine years in the army , in the XXIX year of his age . Of the nation of the Belgee . "

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A FEW PARTING WORDS. Article 1
THE ROMAN COLLEGIA. Article 2
THE LEGEND OF THE INTRODUCTION OF MASONS INTO ENGLAND. Article 5
A MAIDEN. Article 16
THE LECHMERE MS. Article 17
AN OLD SOCIETY. Article 22
Untitled Ad 23
AESTHETICAL. Article 25
A MASONIC ADDRESS. Article 26
CURIOUS BOOKS. Article 30
THE RUINED CITIES IN CENTRAL AMERICA. Article 31
THE HAMILTON MANUSCRIPTS. Article 37
THE GRANGE. Article 42
REVIEW. Article 44
EARLY HAUNTS OF FREEMASONRY. Article 47
MASONIC PROCEEDINGS IN SPAIN. Article 53
LODGE LIBRARIES. Article 58
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A Few Parting Words.

anxieties and cheered their labours by their literary efforts and their genial patronage , and in bidding them farewell in these monthly pages hope , and would ask to continue to forward their valuable and pleasant papers to the always friendly pages of the " Freemason . " There is no cessation of active Masonic literary life ; its " venue" alone is changed , in that it is only transferred to more numerously circulated and more widely read columns .

The Roman Collegia.

THE ROMAN COLLEGIA .

No . IV . BY MASONIC STUDENT . IN reference to this subject , and concerning which this is my last , think it ht to remind readers that several distinct

paper , I rig my inscriptions at any rate refer lo the Coll . Fabrorum or Fabrum . Two of these stand out markedly from the others ; the one is the Bath inscription , recorded by Hearne , Musgrave and Dodwell ; the other is the Chichester one , mentioned first , I believe , by Gale . There is also a

curious inscription in the "Archasologia , " which seems to point to the fact apparently that the Companies , or Collegia , or centuriag of masons or builders , were divided into certain " centurias , " or sections , or divisions , over which was a centurio . But there is a little uncertainty about the exact date of this inscription , and as it is rather held , if I

remember rightly , to refer even to monastic builders , I leave it out of our present consideration . The inscription in Musgrave ' s " Antiquitates Religiose , " vol . iii ., is to the following effect : —

JULIUS VITA LIS . FABRIC , ES IS . LEG XX V . V . STIPEN DIOR UM , IX ANNOR XX IX NATIONEBE LGA EXCOLEGO FABRICE ELATU

S . USE . Julius Vitalis Fabricensis Legio XX Valenis Victrix Stipendiorum IX . Annorum XXIX Natipne Belga . Ex Collegio Fabricee Elatus . Hie situs est . The English translation would thus read :

" Here is placed Julius Vitalis , departed this life from the College of the Building of the Fabricenses ( builders or masons ) of the XX . Legio Valens Victrix , having served nine years in the army , in the XXIX year of his age . Of the nation of the Belgee . "

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