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The Roman Collegia.
The old word caamentarius , used in the early Fabric rolls , is properly so used , as csementum really originally meant rough unhewn stones ; pieces cut off from large stones ; and so it came from " casdendo , ' and " caadentum . " It was used aftewards for cement , but it also
meant small stones and rubbish of which walls were built . Ca 3 mentitiiparietes , ' are walls made of rough stones . Caamentitum saxum " is opposed to " saxum quadratum . " Caamentarius was a builder of walls , a mason , " qui caamenta componit et muros struit . " In very early times we find agricolae , farmers ; caementarii , macons ;
fabri mettallarum , workers in metal ; and lignorumque csesores , cutters of wood , all classed together ; and the magister csementarius of some of the Fabric rolls , long after classic times , undoubtedly signifies the
same , as Maitre Macon , Magister Latomorum , Master Mason . There are , in Facciolati especially , mimerous expressions which serve to show how much the Collegia , the Corpora , the Consortia , the Sodalitates , had entered into the common custom of Roman daily life , and thought . Thus , for instance , " recipere aliquem in Collegium ''
meant to receive any one into the college ; " collegium coit , " the college meets together ; " constituere collegium" to constitute a college ; " illicitum collegium usurpare , " to meet for unlawful purposes ; " celebrare collegium , to celebrate the anniversary of the college ; and from collegium , the college , and collega the member of a college , came the
words collegatarius , collegialis , collegiatus , collegiarius ,. And here I stop to-day , in my humble attempt to tiy and threw a little more light on a somewhat recondite and hazy subject , but one which has great
attractions , as it has great importance , for all Masonic Students .
The Legend Of The Introduction Of Masons Into England.
THE LEGEND OF THE INTRODUCTION OF MASONS INTO ENGLAND .
BY BRO . HARRY RYLANDS , F . S . A . PART IV . nnHE " Chronicon ex Chronicis" of Florence of Worcester extends to ~^ - 1118 , in which year the author died . It is based upon the works of
Marianus Scotus , Bede , the Saxon Chronicle , Asser ' s Life of Alfred , with a few extracts from the Lives of English Saints . Mr . Stevenson * "writes : " It is valuable historically , as a record of events , and critically as contributing to a knowledge of the condition of the Saxon Chronicle at the time when that document supplied the Monk of Worcester with the the basis of the history which passes under his name . "
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The Roman Collegia.
The old word caamentarius , used in the early Fabric rolls , is properly so used , as csementum really originally meant rough unhewn stones ; pieces cut off from large stones ; and so it came from " casdendo , ' and " caadentum . " It was used aftewards for cement , but it also
meant small stones and rubbish of which walls were built . Ca 3 mentitiiparietes , ' are walls made of rough stones . Caamentitum saxum " is opposed to " saxum quadratum . " Caamentarius was a builder of walls , a mason , " qui caamenta componit et muros struit . " In very early times we find agricolae , farmers ; caementarii , macons ;
fabri mettallarum , workers in metal ; and lignorumque csesores , cutters of wood , all classed together ; and the magister csementarius of some of the Fabric rolls , long after classic times , undoubtedly signifies the
same , as Maitre Macon , Magister Latomorum , Master Mason . There are , in Facciolati especially , mimerous expressions which serve to show how much the Collegia , the Corpora , the Consortia , the Sodalitates , had entered into the common custom of Roman daily life , and thought . Thus , for instance , " recipere aliquem in Collegium ''
meant to receive any one into the college ; " collegium coit , " the college meets together ; " constituere collegium" to constitute a college ; " illicitum collegium usurpare , " to meet for unlawful purposes ; " celebrare collegium , to celebrate the anniversary of the college ; and from collegium , the college , and collega the member of a college , came the
words collegatarius , collegialis , collegiatus , collegiarius ,. And here I stop to-day , in my humble attempt to tiy and threw a little more light on a somewhat recondite and hazy subject , but one which has great
attractions , as it has great importance , for all Masonic Students .
The Legend Of The Introduction Of Masons Into England.
THE LEGEND OF THE INTRODUCTION OF MASONS INTO ENGLAND .
BY BRO . HARRY RYLANDS , F . S . A . PART IV . nnHE " Chronicon ex Chronicis" of Florence of Worcester extends to ~^ - 1118 , in which year the author died . It is based upon the works of
Marianus Scotus , Bede , the Saxon Chronicle , Asser ' s Life of Alfred , with a few extracts from the Lives of English Saints . Mr . Stevenson * "writes : " It is valuable historically , as a record of events , and critically as contributing to a knowledge of the condition of the Saxon Chronicle at the time when that document supplied the Monk of Worcester with the the basis of the history which passes under his name . "