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Article FREEMASONRY IN ENGLAND. ← Page 6 of 6
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Freemasonry In England.
provided for the comfort of the citizens and ornament of Ms city , remitted their taxes and referred the petition of the magistrates and inhabitants to parliament , who immediately passed an act that public works should be restored to greater beauty with public money , to be raised by an impost on coals ; that churches , and the cathedral of Saint Paul ' s , should be rebuilt from their foundations , with all magnificence : that the
bridges , gates , and prisons , should be new made , and sewers cleansed , the streets made strai ght , and regular : such as were steep , levelled , and those too narroAV , to be made wider ; and tliat . tbe markets and shambles should be removed to separate places . They also enacted that every house should be built with party walls , and all in front raised of equal height , and those walls all of squared stone or bricks ; and that no man should
delay building beyond the space of seven years . Moreover , care was taken by law to prevent all suits about their bounds . Also anniversary prayers were enjoined , and , to perpetuate the memory hereof to posterity , they caused this column to be erected . The work was carried on wii . li diligence , and , London is restored , but whether Avith greater speed or beauty may be made a question . At three years time the world saw that finished , which was supposed to be the business of an age . " The inscription ' on the east side is in English thus : —
"This pillar was begun , Sir Richard Ford , Knight , being Lord Mayor ' of London , in the year 1671 . Carried on in the Mayoralties of Sir George Waterman , Knt . "A Sir Robert Hanson , Knt . / Sir William Hooker , Knt . V Lord Mayors ; Sir Robert Nine , Knt . i Sir Joseph Sheldon , Knt . j % U .. '\ . ' and finished ,
Sir Thomas Davis being Lord Mayor , in the year 1 C 77 . The prevailing opinion of the citizens of London and of the generality of protestants , of all denominations , was , that if it had been occasioned b y the contrivances of the papists , for ivhich reason the following inscription was engraved round the pedestal : — " This pillar was set up in perpetual remembrance of the most dreadful
burning of this protestant city , begun and carried on by the treachery and malice of the popish faction , in the beginning of September , in the year of our Lord 1666 , in order to carrying on then- horrid plot for extirpating the protestant religion and old English liberty , and introducing popery and slavery . " This inscription was expunged in the time of James IIbut restored
, in the next reign . . The cornice of the pedestal is adorned with the King ' s aims , the sword , mace , cap of maintenance , & c , enriched ivith trophies ; and at each angle are winged dragons , the supporters of the city arms . ( To l / e continued . )
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Freemasonry In England.
provided for the comfort of the citizens and ornament of Ms city , remitted their taxes and referred the petition of the magistrates and inhabitants to parliament , who immediately passed an act that public works should be restored to greater beauty with public money , to be raised by an impost on coals ; that churches , and the cathedral of Saint Paul ' s , should be rebuilt from their foundations , with all magnificence : that the
bridges , gates , and prisons , should be new made , and sewers cleansed , the streets made strai ght , and regular : such as were steep , levelled , and those too narroAV , to be made wider ; and tliat . tbe markets and shambles should be removed to separate places . They also enacted that every house should be built with party walls , and all in front raised of equal height , and those walls all of squared stone or bricks ; and that no man should
delay building beyond the space of seven years . Moreover , care was taken by law to prevent all suits about their bounds . Also anniversary prayers were enjoined , and , to perpetuate the memory hereof to posterity , they caused this column to be erected . The work was carried on wii . li diligence , and , London is restored , but whether Avith greater speed or beauty may be made a question . At three years time the world saw that finished , which was supposed to be the business of an age . " The inscription ' on the east side is in English thus : —
"This pillar was begun , Sir Richard Ford , Knight , being Lord Mayor ' of London , in the year 1671 . Carried on in the Mayoralties of Sir George Waterman , Knt . "A Sir Robert Hanson , Knt . / Sir William Hooker , Knt . V Lord Mayors ; Sir Robert Nine , Knt . i Sir Joseph Sheldon , Knt . j % U .. '\ . ' and finished ,
Sir Thomas Davis being Lord Mayor , in the year 1 C 77 . The prevailing opinion of the citizens of London and of the generality of protestants , of all denominations , was , that if it had been occasioned b y the contrivances of the papists , for ivhich reason the following inscription was engraved round the pedestal : — " This pillar was set up in perpetual remembrance of the most dreadful
burning of this protestant city , begun and carried on by the treachery and malice of the popish faction , in the beginning of September , in the year of our Lord 1666 , in order to carrying on then- horrid plot for extirpating the protestant religion and old English liberty , and introducing popery and slavery . " This inscription was expunged in the time of James IIbut restored
, in the next reign . . The cornice of the pedestal is adorned with the King ' s aims , the sword , mace , cap of maintenance , & c , enriched ivith trophies ; and at each angle are winged dragons , the supporters of the city arms . ( To l / e continued . )