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On Freemasonry.
They were the poets , architects , and instructors of their country . " Carausius might have been the patron of Albanus ; and that distinguished person might have established the first Grand Lodge in Britain ; but we suspect that by the bards alone , the beautiful system of Freemasonry was established and regulated in that happy country . On some future occasion
we shall return to this interesting subject . The Romans continued to interfere in the affairs of Britain during a period of 486 years , if we reckon from the landing of Ca-sar to the departure of the last legion under Gallio , A . D . 430 . The northern nations hearing that the Romans were never to return , ravaged and invaded the south
, and committed great ravages—preying upon the country till all traces of the civilization introduced by their former masters became extinct . After this period it was that the Order of Bards was established ; or , as some have surmised , revived in England . The Saxons , who , under Hengist , arrived in great force to assist Vortigern , drove the Scots and Picts beyond the Hnmber ; and settled themselves , after many battles with the natives , in this country founding the heptarchy . The earliest specimen of the skill
of the Craft in the island were the Saxon churches ; they appear to have been constructed after tlie models of the Roman temples ; their style was called Roman—the term Gothic , as we have shown , being of later date . The style is easily recognised by its semicircular arches and massy pillars , which were either polygonal , square , or circular , and the three tiej stories which
-. s or decorated the side aisles . Mr . Britton has thus classed the several styles : —1 . Ano * l 0-Saxon . 2 . Anglo-Norman . 3 . English . 4 . Decorated English . . 5 . Hi ghly decorated Eng * lish . The first will embrace all buildings erected between the periods of the conversion of the Saxons and the Norman conquest . The secondthe order which
, prevailed during the reio-ns of William the Conqueror , William Rufus , Henry I ., Stephen , and Henry II . ; during which time the arch , from beiiu ' r circular became sli ghtly pointed , and the heavy pillars formed into pilastered clusters . The third period , from 11 S 9 to 127-2 including the rei of Richard IJoh
, gns ., n , and Henry III ., is distinguished by the pointed and circular arches mixing frequentl y in the same building , the taste for pointed architecture becoming more genera ] f uniformi ty , proportion , and elegance began to prevail ; the buttresses were formed into stages , diminishing towards tlie
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry.
They were the poets , architects , and instructors of their country . " Carausius might have been the patron of Albanus ; and that distinguished person might have established the first Grand Lodge in Britain ; but we suspect that by the bards alone , the beautiful system of Freemasonry was established and regulated in that happy country . On some future occasion
we shall return to this interesting subject . The Romans continued to interfere in the affairs of Britain during a period of 486 years , if we reckon from the landing of Ca-sar to the departure of the last legion under Gallio , A . D . 430 . The northern nations hearing that the Romans were never to return , ravaged and invaded the south
, and committed great ravages—preying upon the country till all traces of the civilization introduced by their former masters became extinct . After this period it was that the Order of Bards was established ; or , as some have surmised , revived in England . The Saxons , who , under Hengist , arrived in great force to assist Vortigern , drove the Scots and Picts beyond the Hnmber ; and settled themselves , after many battles with the natives , in this country founding the heptarchy . The earliest specimen of the skill
of the Craft in the island were the Saxon churches ; they appear to have been constructed after tlie models of the Roman temples ; their style was called Roman—the term Gothic , as we have shown , being of later date . The style is easily recognised by its semicircular arches and massy pillars , which were either polygonal , square , or circular , and the three tiej stories which
-. s or decorated the side aisles . Mr . Britton has thus classed the several styles : —1 . Ano * l 0-Saxon . 2 . Anglo-Norman . 3 . English . 4 . Decorated English . . 5 . Hi ghly decorated Eng * lish . The first will embrace all buildings erected between the periods of the conversion of the Saxons and the Norman conquest . The secondthe order which
, prevailed during the reio-ns of William the Conqueror , William Rufus , Henry I ., Stephen , and Henry II . ; during which time the arch , from beiiu ' r circular became sli ghtly pointed , and the heavy pillars formed into pilastered clusters . The third period , from 11 S 9 to 127-2 including the rei of Richard IJoh
, gns ., n , and Henry III ., is distinguished by the pointed and circular arches mixing frequentl y in the same building , the taste for pointed architecture becoming more genera ] f uniformi ty , proportion , and elegance began to prevail ; the buttresses were formed into stages , diminishing towards tlie