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On The Symbolical Character Of Medilæval Heraldry, And Its Connection With Freemasonry .
men of strength and beauty combined , by the force of wisdom , as thc grandly elaborate roof of Westminster Hall ? But these are only two great instances out of a thousand ; wc leave it for others to chronicle the glories which the Freemasons of the middle ages attained by their handiwork ; and as we view with admiration the glorious fabrics which
silently bespeak the skill and perseverance of those who erected them , let us remember that they , like us , were Brethren linked together by solemn ties , and though , as their successors , we can no longer show to the world such ostensible results of our labour and our skill as these monuments of the past , we may , if we act up to our profession , emulate , if not eclipse their glory , and raise more lasting ,
and , to the speculative mind , equally beauteous structures which may hand down our fame to remote posterity , in our Masonic Charities . William Wykeham was , doubtless , as a Freemason , acquainted with the art and mystery of the carpentrarius , and whether he actually- borrowed his arms from the
Company of Carpenters , which we think very improbable , or whether he adopted the chevron as a badge alike of both professions , there can be little doubt , but that he received the distinction for his skill in both , that the chevron was considered as the peculiar badge of both , and that they were so intimately connected one with another as sometimes to be practised by the same person . E . A . I-I . L .
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On The Symbolical Character Of Medilæval Heraldry, And Its Connection With Freemasonry .
men of strength and beauty combined , by the force of wisdom , as thc grandly elaborate roof of Westminster Hall ? But these are only two great instances out of a thousand ; wc leave it for others to chronicle the glories which the Freemasons of the middle ages attained by their handiwork ; and as we view with admiration the glorious fabrics which
silently bespeak the skill and perseverance of those who erected them , let us remember that they , like us , were Brethren linked together by solemn ties , and though , as their successors , we can no longer show to the world such ostensible results of our labour and our skill as these monuments of the past , we may , if we act up to our profession , emulate , if not eclipse their glory , and raise more lasting ,
and , to the speculative mind , equally beauteous structures which may hand down our fame to remote posterity , in our Masonic Charities . William Wykeham was , doubtless , as a Freemason , acquainted with the art and mystery of the carpentrarius , and whether he actually- borrowed his arms from the
Company of Carpenters , which we think very improbable , or whether he adopted the chevron as a badge alike of both professions , there can be little doubt , but that he received the distinction for his skill in both , that the chevron was considered as the peculiar badge of both , and that they were so intimately connected one with another as sometimes to be practised by the same person . E . A . I-I . L .