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Conning and expert workmen , to hew , and mould Stone ; And One Thousand he chose out and Cloathed , and made them Masters and Rulers of the work ; And built a New * * JDIJIDCCCCXSVII Temple on the Foundation , which SOLOMON had laid , not inferior to ye first ; And was finished Nine years before the * mnrDcecLvn birth of our SAVIOR . *

AFTER the birth of our Saviour , Aururiagus being King of Britain , Claudius the Emperor came over with au Army ; and fearing to be overthrow , made a League with him ; and gave him his Daughter in marriage ; and that he should hold his Kingdom of Romans , nno CIaristl XXIII and so the Emperor the returned . IN the Year XLIII after the birth of CHRISTMasons came into Englandand built a goodlMonastry

, , y near unto Glassenbury , with many CASTLES and TOWERS . THIS sumptious Art of GEOMETRY ; it being profest b y Emperors , Kings , Popes , Cardinals and Princes innumerable , who have all of them left us the Permanient Monuments of it in their several places of their Dominions ; Nor will this I presume be denyed , when ° clu'istl well considered , that Renowned Example the TRAJAN

COLLUM ; it being one of the most superb Remainders of the Romans Magnificence , to be now seen standing ; And which has more Inmiortallizecl the Emperor TRAJAN , than all the PENS of Historians , it was erected to him , by the Senate and People of Rome ; In memory of those Great services he had rendred the Country , and to the end , the memory of it might remain to all succeeding Ages ; and continue so long as the very Empire it selfe .

AND in Saint ALBANES time , the King of England Anno Christi ccc that was a Pagan , Did wall y ° Town that was called Verulum ; And Saint ALBAN was a worth y Knight , and Steward of the King ' s Houshold ; and had got the Government of y ° Realm , and also the Town walls , and Loved Jfasons well and cherished them much , and he made their Pay Right good , standing as the Realm then did ; for he gave them two Shillings per week , and three pence to their Chear—For before that time through all the Land , a MASON had but a Penny a day and his meat , untill Saint ALBAN mended it .

And he got them a CHARTER of y King for to hold a Councell Yearly , and gave it the Name of an Assembl y ; and was thereat himsell ' e , and helped to make MASON , and gave them charges as yea shall have afterwards . IT happened presently after the Martyrdo of St . Alban , who is truly termed England ' s P rofo-Martyr ; that a Certan King Invaded the Land and

destroyed most of the Natives b y fire and sword That the SCIENCES of Masotinj , was much decayed , untill the Reign of ETHELBERT King of Kent , Gregory the First Surnamed Magnus , sent into the Isle of Brikdne a Monk with other Learned Men , to Preach the Christian Faith , for this Natio as yet , had not full y Auno 0 oraini received it . this said Ethelbert , built a Church in Canterbury DXCVI " and Dedicated it to St . Peter , and St . Paul ; and is supposed to have built , or restored the Church of St . Paul ' s in London : he also built the Church of St . Andrews in Rochester .

SIBERT King of the East Saxons by perswasions of ATflELBERT King of Kent , having received the Chris- * Anno Domini tain faith ; built the Monastry at Westminster , to the DCXXX Honour of God , and St . Peter . * SIGEBERT King of the East Angles began to Erect * DCXCXCV the University of Cambridge .

ATHELSTANE began his Reign he was a Man beloved of all Men , he had great devotion towards the Churches , as appeared in the Building , adorning and Endowing of Monasterys . He built one at Wilton in the Diocess