The "Inigo Jones" Ms.

Continual warn and Troubles he hath had ; for he never took rest before he Either defeated his Enemies , or made them tributaries unto him . FOR mine own part I thank GOD for the peace which I possess ; And for that , by the means thereof , I have opportunity ( according to mine Own desire ) to Build a Temple unto GOD ; for he it is that Foretold my Father , that his House should be Builded during my ReigneFOR which CauseI Pray yousend me

, , , some one of yo' Skilfullest men with my Servants to the wood Libanus , to Hew down Trees in that place ; for the MACEDONIANS are more Skilfull in Hewing and preparing Timber , than our People are ; And I will pay the Cleavers of wood according to your Direction .

HIRAM UNTO KING SOLOMON . THOU hast Cause to thank GOD ; in y' he had delivered thy Father ' s Kingdom into thy hands ; TO thee I say , who art a Man , wise & full of Vertue ; for which cause , Since no news can come unto me more gracious , nor Office of Love more esteemed than this , I will accomplish all that thou requestest : for after I have caused a great quantity of Caedar & Cyprus wood to be cut

down , I will send it thee by sea , by my servants ; whom I will command ( and furnish with Convenient Vessells of Burthen ) to the end they may deliver the same in what place of thy King-dome it shall best please thee ; that afterwards , thy Subjects may Transport them to Jerusalem . YOU shall provide to finish us with CORNE , whereof we stand in need , because we Inhabit an Island . SOLOMON King David ' s Son to finish the TEMPLE that his Father had begun , sent for MASONS' into clivers Countries , and gathered them tosrather , so that he had Fourscore thousand Workmen that were workers of

STONE , and were all named MASONS , and he chose three THOUSAD of them to bo Masters & Govern ours of his work . AND HIRAM King of Tyre sent his servants unto SOLOMON , for he was ever a Lover of King David ; And he sent Solomon Timber and workmen * f t f Kino- to ^ e ' P fc , 1 , will'd the Buiklig of the Temple ; And he sent one " viAiv ™ ^ lat was Earned HIRAM * ABIF a widows Son of the Line

. of Nephtali ; He was a Master of Geometry , and was of all his Masons , Carvers , Ingravers and workmen , and Casters of Brass and all other Metalls that -were used about the Temple . KING SOLOMON confirmed both the Charges and manners , that his Father had given to MASONS , thus was the worthy woiic of MASONRY Confirmed in Jerusalemand many other Kingdoms . And he finished "

, y Temple Anno Muncli MMM . CURIOUS Craftsmen walked about full wide in divers Countries ; some to Learn more Craft and Cunning , others to teach them that had but little # A M r Cunning . IiMsicccoxxxi AND at the Destruction * of the FIRST Temple by NEBUCHADNEZARafter it had stood ccccxxx

, years . THE SECOND Temple Began in the Reign of SYRUS LXX Years after the Destruction , it being hindred ; It was XL-VI Years in * MMMDXXII Building and was finished in Darius his rei gn * MMMDCCCXIII . IN the Reign of Ptolmie and Cleopatra , ONIAS built a Iewish Temple in Egypt , in the place Called Bubastiss , and Called after his own Name .

* MJDIDCCCCXUI ^ THE Tower of Straton ( alias Ocesaria )* built by HEROD in Palistine , and many other curious works of Marble , As the Temple of Gcesar Agrippa to his Memory , in the Country called Zenodoras , near to a place called Pmiion . - MMMDCCCCXLVI . ^ HE also pulled * down the second Temple , that was finished in DARIUS his reign , and appointed one Thousand Carriages to draw ston ° to f inace ; And chose out Ten Thousand