Masonic Facts.

FOUNTAIN'S ABBEY .

FIG . 37 . —CKAXTXB HOUSE , A . D . 1105 .

. . .. FIG . 39 . —Cloisters , A . D . 1220 .

FIG . 40 . —Mark on a FIG . 39 . —Buttery . Coffin Slab .

FIG . 41 . —AVest Front , outside , 1150 . BOLTON ABBEY .

FIG . 43 . —Choir and Transept , A . D . 1325 . servants it is ordained that the makers of ' mortar and the carriers , as well for masons as for plasterers , or for tilers and makers of earthen Avails , and who go unto their work shall take between St . Michael ancl the Feast of St . Martin , and between Candlemas and

Easter , each 2 d . for all things , and between Easter and St . Michael 3 d . for all things . II . Paviours are to take at all seasons for making the toise of the pavement well and lawfully— -that is to say Tift , long , and 1 ft . of St . Paul in breadth , 2 d . and no more . HI . As to the carters who bring sand and argil

and gravel , they shall take for each cart 1 c ? . and no more . And the cart ought to be of one quarter , full and heaped up , and if it be less let it be forfeited . And if any man of the city give more to any workman than is here written and commanded , let him be amerced to the city in 40 * . ivithout having any pardon

or any release from the time that he is attainted . — Idler Ciistamaritm Muniinenta Gildhallae , Londoniensis , vol . 2 , pt . 2 , p . 541 . The following is the oath made by a mason to do his dut y in all matters in reference to his trade : —¦ Saeramentum Camientariornm . ad Custodiendnm

Officium . Die Lunse proxima ante festum Conversionis Sancti Pauli anno regni Begis Edwardi , fill regis :

FIG . 43 . —Tower , about A . D . 1520—1540 . Henrici xxix ° . coram Ely a Russel , tune Majore Londoniarum et Aldermannis , Bicardus de AVytham , cajmentarius , juratus est justam considerationem facere omnibus hominibus de civitate et suburbio Londoniarumde Muris lapideis inter vicinosdivisibus et

, , indivisibilibus , ruinosis et ceteris officium suum tangentibus , etc , quotiens fuerifc requisitus , etc . —Ibid , vol . 2 , pt . 1 , p . 100 . 128 . In the Cathedral of Lincoln , is a curious gravestone , of a Master Mason of that church ; the date of his death is obliterated , on each side of him is his

troivel and square , and bears the following inscription -. — " Hie jacet Eicardus de Gaynisburgh olym Cementarius hujus ecclesie qui obitt duodecim . Kalendarum Junii . Anno Domini MCCC . [ Tlie stone is at present in the South Cloister , and

is in a very dilapidated state . As the memorials of oar Mediceval Master Masons are so scarce in England , will not some of our Lincolnshire brethren take steps for its preservation and due care . —F- W . S . j 129 . The Compotus of Bolton Abbey is preserved , and consitsof a folio of about 1000 pages . It

commences in 1290 and ends in 1325 , the language is a mixture of Byzantine , Greek , Italian , old French , and Latinized English .