The Mountain In Labour.

powers to the Board of General Purposes it will also ifix . a jperiod within which it should make its report ; ' iav if . that be not done we have no hopes of its igeeino- the light until long after every existing Freemason has passed to that "bourne from which no fetyeller returns . " The present state of things is

¦ ( disgraceful to the Craft and unjust to our tenants , and if the Board of General Purposes cannot perform vfche work entrusted to them within a reasonable period It ought at once to be taken out of their Jiands and placed in those of a Committee , which , feaving nothing else to do , would soon cut the

€ rordian knot , and give to the Craft a local habitation worthy of the Order , whilst our other property Branld also be placed in a condition to g ive us a fair return for our outlay . At the present rate of work

She business appears to be progressing as follows : — 1 S-58 . Powers given . 1882 . Asked for additional powers . 1866 . Additional powers taken into consideration . X & 70- Ask for further powers . 1 S 74 . Board again meet and adjourn .

"A 87 S . Board decided to report at an early date . . 1882 . Grand Lodge property burned down , and the Craft determine to take the matter out of the hands of the Board of General Purposes . 3 L 8 S 3 . Building agreed upon and begun . £ 884 . Hew building opened , no tickets being sent to

the Board of General Purposes . ' 5 } he Craft have a home , a library , and a museum , ; snd only wonder what their forefathers could have 'Ibeea thinking s about .

Masonic Facts.

MASONIC FACTS .

( Goniinued from page 14-1 . ) " 105 . Maistre Jean de Chelles built the South Porch of Notre Dame , Paris , in 1257 . —Dallcnoay , p . 411 . 106 . The Church of St . Etienne , at CMlons-sur-Marne , was built by Papelart , who died in 1258 . On Ms tomb he is represented with the model of a church

, Which he supports against his breast , next to his heart . — -Fidron's Christian lcnor / raphy , p . 354 . 107 . In the Cottonian Library there is a MS . marked Nero D . 1 . It is a life of King Offa the 2 nd , written by Matthew Paris , who died 1259 , and contains several drawings illustrative of incidents in the

Iung \ s life . Paris says that an angel revealed to King < 3 ffa the place where the bones of St . Albans were ¦ deposited , who made a search for them , and found them In a wooden chest ; he then crossed the sea to Borne and did homage to the Pope , and afterwards returned home and built the Abbey of St . Albans . An . ike annexed drawing ( Fig . 27 ) -the King is

repre-, aeafcaias giving instructions to the Master Mason of tfcrxe Abbey , who has the square and compass in his left 3 ; and . There are two Masons at work under the ssrehes , 'knocking off the superfluous parts from the atoaesj und two setters on the walls , one of them is

p lacing a stone m its proper position , and the other trying a perpendicular with a p lumb ride . Two labourers below are hoisting up stones by means of a windlass . This drawing is an extremely valuable one , as illustrating the working tools and implements of the Mediawal Masons .

108 . The following extracts from the Liberate Eolls preserved in the Tower of London , and a few from the Close Eolls , were made and translated b y the late T . Hudson Turner , Esq ., they are of great importance , and throw some light on architectural proceedings during the reign of Henry III . Liberate Boll 17 Henry 3 rd ( 1233 ) . " The Sheriff

, of Southamption is commanded to cause windows to be made in the King ' s painted chamber , within the Castle of "Winchester , which is too dark , according to the plan * of Master Flias of FereJiam , and to cause the wainscote of the same chamber to be painted with green colour . Woodstock , June 21 .

Liberate Eoll 23 Henry 3 rd ' ( 1239 ) . The King to the constable of the Tower of London . "We order you to cause the walls of our Queen ' s chamber , which is within our chamber , at the aforesaid Tower to be whitewashed and pointed , and within those pointings to be painted with flowers ; and cause

the drain of our private chamber to be made in the fashion of a hollow column , as . our well-beloved servant John of Ely shall more fully tell thee . — - Woodstoeh , November 23 . Liberate Eoll , 28 th Henry 3 rd ( 1244 ) . The King to his Treasurer and Edward Fitz Otho . We command you strictly enjoining , and ever as you wish our love towards you to be continued , that you omit in no wise but that the chamber which we ordered to be made at "Westminster , for the use of the knights , be finished

on this side of Easter , even though it should be necessary to hire a thousand workmen a day for it , and make the same chamber of two stories , and in the same manner without couples , as the privychamber of our great exchequer , & c . Woodstock , May 17 . The same day the King ordered Ms Treasurer to pay unto Edward of "Westminster 1949 Z 13

54-, which had been-expended in the construction " of our new chamber besides our hall at "Westminster , and of our conduit and in our other work , those which we enjoined him to do . " Liberate Eoll of 36 Henry 3 rd ( 1252 ) . The Kingto the Wardens of his works at "Woodstock . "We

command yon to roof with lead our bell-turret at "Woodstock , the pent house over the door of the great hall , and the other pent-house over the doorway of our old chapel , and to make a pent-house from * our kitchen to the stable at the head of the said hail , and another pent-house from the queen ' s kitchen to the

door of her chamber ; and a chamber , with a privychamber and a chimney , between our chamber and the wine cellar , & c . Liberate Eoll 41 Henry 3 rd . The King ordered the Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex to build a certain stone gateway and a certain solar above the gateway

, of the length of thirty two feet , within the wails , and of the width of ei ghteen feet ; and wainscote chambers ; and make glass windows , & c , at Guildford , "and do all these works b y the view and council of Master John of Gloucester , our Mason , and Master Alei-