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Masonic Facts.
Walcott says that the spire was begun in 1335 , by Nicholas de Portland , and completed in 1375 , by Eichard de Parleigh , the Architect the Abbeys of Bath and Beading . In the archives of the cathedral there are two documents relating to one Nicholas de Ely ( who is
mentioned in the charters of William the Dean as a cementarius ) conveying to him a piece of land outside the close , which he vcas to hold on payment of two wax tapers of 21 bs . weight each , for the use of the Virgin . Nicholas is also mentioned in a Charter of Bishop Poore .- — -Gentlemen ' s Magazine , Sept . 1858 , p . 262 .
92 . The ; foundation stone of Amiens Cathedral , laid on the 4 th Kalends of May , 1220 ; dedicated in 1256 . The Masters of Works were Eobert de Lusarche , Thomas de Cormont , and Eegnault de Cormont . —Felibien , iv ., p . 206 . . Cormont caused the following inscription to be
placed in the middle of the nave , where they are all three represented with Bishop Evrard . En Ten de grace Mil Deux Cents Et Vingt , fu 1 ' euvre de cheens Premierement encommenchies Adont y est de chest Eveschies Everard Evesque benis
Et Eoy de France Loys Qui fu fis Philippe le Sage . Chil qui Maistre de l ' ouvrage Maistre Eobert estoit nomine Et de Lusarohes surnomme Maistre Thomas fu apres lui De Cormont et apres ceslui
Se fis Maistre Eegnault qui mettre Pit a ohest point ohi cette Lettre Que l'incarnation valiot Treize cent ans douze en failloit . 93 . The foundation stone of the Abbey of St . Nicaise at Ehems , laid by Henry cle Braine , Archbishop of Eheims , on the Second Eeast after Easter , 1229 .
Hugh Libergier , who died in 1263 , built the west end , its portal ancl towers , and a considerable portion of the nave . Eobert de Coucy succeeded him , and huilt the choir , with its surrounding chapels and the transepts . Coucy died in 1311 ( see 85 ) . Libergier lies under a AAchite tomb , near the entrance of the church ; he is represented bearing a model of the
church in his left hand , and a rule and compass in his right . This epitaph is round the edge of the monument , " Cy gis Maistre Hugue Libergier qui commence cette Eglise l'an cle l'incarnation 1229 , Mercredy d'apres Paques et morutl ' an 1263 le Vendredy d ' apres Paques . "—Wliittingion , p . 172 .
94 . Gilbert de Sisseverne , Prior of Eedburn , was entrusted by John and William , Abbots of St . Alhan ' s , with the rebuilding of the Abbey front , and he superintended the works for the first thirty years of the 13 th century . —Matthew Paris , p . 103 . 95 . The Church of St .
AntonioPaduacom-, , menced in 1931 by Nicola da Pisa . —Gunn ' s Architecture . 96 . The Abbey Church of St . Germain des Prez rebuilt in 1227 , a neAV refectory commenced in 1236 , and in 1244 the great chapel of the Virgin , from the designs of Pierre de Montereauand are remarkable
, examples of his extraordinary taste and skill . He died in 1266 . —Hist , de VAUaye Boyale de St . Germains des Free , par Dom Jacques Bouillart , vol . 3 , pp . 48 , 54 .
Masonic Oration.
MASONIC ORATION .
The following oration was delivered at the recent consecration of the Leigh Lodge of Eifle Volunteers ( No . 1180 ) , Birmingham , by the W . Bro . the Eev . W . E . K . Bedford , Grand Chaplain . BEETHBEN : —There has been , from time immemorial , a laudable and useful custom among Masons to deliver
, on special occasions , addresses , or Orations , as they are called , on some pressing subject of Masonic interest , orsome prevailing truth of Masonic teaching . It is , then , with great pleasure that , in essaying the task which the command of the Consecrating Officer ( Bro . Charles W . Elkington ) has imposed upon me , I give utterance to accents of hearty congratulation
regarding that good work which has brought us together this day , and venture to express something more than hope that the lodge now to be numbered among those of the Province of Warwickshire will not occupy the least honourable place in the Masonic roll of the province . To this end it is necessary that three things , above all ,, should ever be kept in Adew—firstthe convenience
, , comeliness , and decency of our place of meeting ; secondly , the maintenance of a truly [ regular and Masonic equality in all our proceedings Avhile assembled in lodge : and , above all , the perfect interpretation of our lives and conversation with the true principles of Masonry , so as to produce not only a speculative and barren admiration of virtue , but likewise an active
practical illustration of the beneficial effects of that noble and exalted system of morality of which Ave are the representatives . On each of these heads I will briefly enlarge . Tour place of meeting , brethren , should be carefully and diligently selected , replete ivith those conveniences ^ Avhich our ancient ritual requires for its due and impressive performance , adorned and beautified Avith thoseemblems inseparably connected Avith the secrets which ¦ we tnat
so nigniy prize , ana , aoove an , so proportioned , Avithout the solemnity of any ceremony being impaired , the foot of no brother need ever be turned away from , the threshold . Eemember , brethren , that Masons ever have heen , and , by the constitutions of the Craft ,, ever will be , lovers of order . It is the very business of our institution to reduce rude matter into perfect form . Every detail of our lod and their furniture has its
ges significance , and should declare the end of our coming together , symbolizing the disposition wherewith we ought to meet , and tthe manner Jof our behaviour Avhen assembled . The three great lights should be the charter of our dependance on the aid of the G . A . O . T . U . ; the three lesser lights should embody the principle of our self-government . Let methenAvhile viewing with hih
, , g satisfaction the truly Masonic taste Avhich has presided over the present place of our meeting , say , in the recently-published Avords of a distinguished brother , * " Much were it to be Avished that all our Lodge-rooms were thus duly and decently arrayed—were thus set apart from common and profane uses , for the display , both in the letter and the spiritof those traditional
, observances of which Ave often make ( and justly so ) our boast , and at the same time for the furtherance , in just proportion , of a reverential yet intellectual study of our history , our lectures , and our ritual . " But Avhen we thus assemble , brethren , shall those who by choice have enrolled their names in this most ancient and honourable societyand are thus distinguished from
, the mass of mankind , be found wanting in loyality to the principles of the Order ? Shall those who are handed and cemented together by the strictest ties of amity , omit the practice of forbearance and brotherly love ? Shall the passions of those persons ever become ungovernable Avho assemble purposely to subdue them ? We are , let it be remembered , the successors of those
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Masonic Facts.
Walcott says that the spire was begun in 1335 , by Nicholas de Portland , and completed in 1375 , by Eichard de Parleigh , the Architect the Abbeys of Bath and Beading . In the archives of the cathedral there are two documents relating to one Nicholas de Ely ( who is
mentioned in the charters of William the Dean as a cementarius ) conveying to him a piece of land outside the close , which he vcas to hold on payment of two wax tapers of 21 bs . weight each , for the use of the Virgin . Nicholas is also mentioned in a Charter of Bishop Poore .- — -Gentlemen ' s Magazine , Sept . 1858 , p . 262 .
92 . The ; foundation stone of Amiens Cathedral , laid on the 4 th Kalends of May , 1220 ; dedicated in 1256 . The Masters of Works were Eobert de Lusarche , Thomas de Cormont , and Eegnault de Cormont . —Felibien , iv ., p . 206 . . Cormont caused the following inscription to be
placed in the middle of the nave , where they are all three represented with Bishop Evrard . En Ten de grace Mil Deux Cents Et Vingt , fu 1 ' euvre de cheens Premierement encommenchies Adont y est de chest Eveschies Everard Evesque benis
Et Eoy de France Loys Qui fu fis Philippe le Sage . Chil qui Maistre de l ' ouvrage Maistre Eobert estoit nomine Et de Lusarohes surnomme Maistre Thomas fu apres lui De Cormont et apres ceslui
Se fis Maistre Eegnault qui mettre Pit a ohest point ohi cette Lettre Que l'incarnation valiot Treize cent ans douze en failloit . 93 . The foundation stone of the Abbey of St . Nicaise at Ehems , laid by Henry cle Braine , Archbishop of Eheims , on the Second Eeast after Easter , 1229 .
Hugh Libergier , who died in 1263 , built the west end , its portal ancl towers , and a considerable portion of the nave . Eobert de Coucy succeeded him , and huilt the choir , with its surrounding chapels and the transepts . Coucy died in 1311 ( see 85 ) . Libergier lies under a AAchite tomb , near the entrance of the church ; he is represented bearing a model of the
church in his left hand , and a rule and compass in his right . This epitaph is round the edge of the monument , " Cy gis Maistre Hugue Libergier qui commence cette Eglise l'an cle l'incarnation 1229 , Mercredy d'apres Paques et morutl ' an 1263 le Vendredy d ' apres Paques . "—Wliittingion , p . 172 .
94 . Gilbert de Sisseverne , Prior of Eedburn , was entrusted by John and William , Abbots of St . Alhan ' s , with the rebuilding of the Abbey front , and he superintended the works for the first thirty years of the 13 th century . —Matthew Paris , p . 103 . 95 . The Church of St .
AntonioPaduacom-, , menced in 1931 by Nicola da Pisa . —Gunn ' s Architecture . 96 . The Abbey Church of St . Germain des Prez rebuilt in 1227 , a neAV refectory commenced in 1236 , and in 1244 the great chapel of the Virgin , from the designs of Pierre de Montereauand are remarkable
, examples of his extraordinary taste and skill . He died in 1266 . —Hist , de VAUaye Boyale de St . Germains des Free , par Dom Jacques Bouillart , vol . 3 , pp . 48 , 54 .
Masonic Oration.
MASONIC ORATION .
The following oration was delivered at the recent consecration of the Leigh Lodge of Eifle Volunteers ( No . 1180 ) , Birmingham , by the W . Bro . the Eev . W . E . K . Bedford , Grand Chaplain . BEETHBEN : —There has been , from time immemorial , a laudable and useful custom among Masons to deliver
, on special occasions , addresses , or Orations , as they are called , on some pressing subject of Masonic interest , orsome prevailing truth of Masonic teaching . It is , then , with great pleasure that , in essaying the task which the command of the Consecrating Officer ( Bro . Charles W . Elkington ) has imposed upon me , I give utterance to accents of hearty congratulation
regarding that good work which has brought us together this day , and venture to express something more than hope that the lodge now to be numbered among those of the Province of Warwickshire will not occupy the least honourable place in the Masonic roll of the province . To this end it is necessary that three things , above all ,, should ever be kept in Adew—firstthe convenience
, , comeliness , and decency of our place of meeting ; secondly , the maintenance of a truly [ regular and Masonic equality in all our proceedings Avhile assembled in lodge : and , above all , the perfect interpretation of our lives and conversation with the true principles of Masonry , so as to produce not only a speculative and barren admiration of virtue , but likewise an active
practical illustration of the beneficial effects of that noble and exalted system of morality of which Ave are the representatives . On each of these heads I will briefly enlarge . Tour place of meeting , brethren , should be carefully and diligently selected , replete ivith those conveniences ^ Avhich our ancient ritual requires for its due and impressive performance , adorned and beautified Avith thoseemblems inseparably connected Avith the secrets which ¦ we tnat
so nigniy prize , ana , aoove an , so proportioned , Avithout the solemnity of any ceremony being impaired , the foot of no brother need ever be turned away from , the threshold . Eemember , brethren , that Masons ever have heen , and , by the constitutions of the Craft ,, ever will be , lovers of order . It is the very business of our institution to reduce rude matter into perfect form . Every detail of our lod and their furniture has its
ges significance , and should declare the end of our coming together , symbolizing the disposition wherewith we ought to meet , and tthe manner Jof our behaviour Avhen assembled . The three great lights should be the charter of our dependance on the aid of the G . A . O . T . U . ; the three lesser lights should embody the principle of our self-government . Let methenAvhile viewing with hih
, , g satisfaction the truly Masonic taste Avhich has presided over the present place of our meeting , say , in the recently-published Avords of a distinguished brother , * " Much were it to be Avished that all our Lodge-rooms were thus duly and decently arrayed—were thus set apart from common and profane uses , for the display , both in the letter and the spiritof those traditional
, observances of which Ave often make ( and justly so ) our boast , and at the same time for the furtherance , in just proportion , of a reverential yet intellectual study of our history , our lectures , and our ritual . " But Avhen we thus assemble , brethren , shall those who by choice have enrolled their names in this most ancient and honourable societyand are thus distinguished from
, the mass of mankind , be found wanting in loyality to the principles of the Order ? Shall those who are handed and cemented together by the strictest ties of amity , omit the practice of forbearance and brotherly love ? Shall the passions of those persons ever become ungovernable Avho assemble purposely to subdue them ? We are , let it be remembered , the successors of those