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Quarterly Communication.
KNIGHTS TEMPLARS , & C . September 19 r /( . —The E . C . Baumer presided at the encampment No . 20 , Avhich was ivell attended , and the customary ceremony of installation gone through . A collection was made in favour of the sister of a deceased member , Avhose decease occurred under very distressing circumstances , and ive trust , should this notice meet the attention of the liberal members of the Sister encampment at the Thatched House , they will afford some assistance . We
can assure them that the object Ave plead for is deserving their bounty . We have the satisfaction to announce that the degrees of " Malta and Med . P . Avill be conferred on Friday the 27 th of November , upon all AVIIO are entitled as candidates , upon proper notice being given to the Recorder of the Cross of Christ Encampment . As a chapter in these degrees bas not been held for many years , a full meeting is expected , particularly from those members of Oxford and Cambridge Avho have been installed as Templars .
Masonic Chit Chat.
MASONIC CHIT CHAT .
MASONS AND FREEMASONS IN THE MIDDLE AGE . —In former times the German builders , particularl y those Avorkmen of the loAver classes who Avere called masons , or in German , Steinmelzen , ivere generally accustomed to put some mark or sign of their OAVII invention as a sort of stamp , or instead of a monogram ( like the painters ) upon those stones which they had cut or hewn for a public building , for a palace or castle , ancl especially for churches of the Gothic style , the origin of Avhich is
not yet exactly knoAvn . I have examined many of these churches in Germany , and I have found a great number of these monograms cut in the . stone . They are to be found only since the 12 th or 13 th century , but not on churches built in an earlier period : besides this , it might appear that these marks are to be found merely in Germany , but not in France , and probably neither in Great Britain . HaA'ing examined several churches of the ancient true Gothic style in Franceand
par-, ticularly at Paris , it Avas almost impossible to find out any marks of the genuine German character , except in the famous Cathedrals of Strasburg and Pdieims , and onl y one trace of a mark at Notre Dame , in Paris . But in England they seem to be almost entirel y ivanliug , at least in Canterbury and in London , Avhere I examined particularly the aAvful columns of Westminster Abbey ; but although I spent both time and labour , it
Avas in vain , I could not discover any such marks of the masons of the middle age . Onl y at St . Dimstan ' s-m-the East , at London , I have found some letters or characters at the entrance ( II and a H ); but these , and another mark of a geometrical form , appear to be of a more modern date , and I suppose they have perhaps nothing to do ivith the marks of those ancient masons or Steinmelzen , St . Dunstan ' s-in-the-East being a building of a posterior age , and built by the Avell-knoivn British architect Christopher Wren . The marks seem not to be genuine . Now it
Avould be A'ery interesting to ascertain , ivhether there are some marks of the above said description at any other Gothic church of the middle age in England , or if there occur any in Scotland or Ireland , either at any palace or ancient castle , or at any ancient Gothic church . It Avould be the more curious and interesting , as it is Avell known in Germany that those marks or signs of the Steinmelzen ( AVIIO have cut the stones ) are in close connexion Avith the signs of the ancient Freemasons ( oi
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Quarterly Communication.
KNIGHTS TEMPLARS , & C . September 19 r /( . —The E . C . Baumer presided at the encampment No . 20 , Avhich was ivell attended , and the customary ceremony of installation gone through . A collection was made in favour of the sister of a deceased member , Avhose decease occurred under very distressing circumstances , and ive trust , should this notice meet the attention of the liberal members of the Sister encampment at the Thatched House , they will afford some assistance . We
can assure them that the object Ave plead for is deserving their bounty . We have the satisfaction to announce that the degrees of " Malta and Med . P . Avill be conferred on Friday the 27 th of November , upon all AVIIO are entitled as candidates , upon proper notice being given to the Recorder of the Cross of Christ Encampment . As a chapter in these degrees bas not been held for many years , a full meeting is expected , particularly from those members of Oxford and Cambridge Avho have been installed as Templars .
Masonic Chit Chat.
MASONIC CHIT CHAT .
MASONS AND FREEMASONS IN THE MIDDLE AGE . —In former times the German builders , particularl y those Avorkmen of the loAver classes who Avere called masons , or in German , Steinmelzen , ivere generally accustomed to put some mark or sign of their OAVII invention as a sort of stamp , or instead of a monogram ( like the painters ) upon those stones which they had cut or hewn for a public building , for a palace or castle , ancl especially for churches of the Gothic style , the origin of Avhich is
not yet exactly knoAvn . I have examined many of these churches in Germany , and I have found a great number of these monograms cut in the . stone . They are to be found only since the 12 th or 13 th century , but not on churches built in an earlier period : besides this , it might appear that these marks are to be found merely in Germany , but not in France , and probably neither in Great Britain . HaA'ing examined several churches of the ancient true Gothic style in Franceand
par-, ticularly at Paris , it Avas almost impossible to find out any marks of the genuine German character , except in the famous Cathedrals of Strasburg and Pdieims , and onl y one trace of a mark at Notre Dame , in Paris . But in England they seem to be almost entirel y ivanliug , at least in Canterbury and in London , Avhere I examined particularly the aAvful columns of Westminster Abbey ; but although I spent both time and labour , it
Avas in vain , I could not discover any such marks of the masons of the middle age . Onl y at St . Dimstan ' s-m-the East , at London , I have found some letters or characters at the entrance ( II and a H ); but these , and another mark of a geometrical form , appear to be of a more modern date , and I suppose they have perhaps nothing to do ivith the marks of those ancient masons or Steinmelzen , St . Dunstan ' s-in-the-East being a building of a posterior age , and built by the Avell-knoivn British architect Christopher Wren . The marks seem not to be genuine . Now it
Avould be A'ery interesting to ascertain , ivhether there are some marks of the above said description at any other Gothic church of the middle age in England , or if there occur any in Scotland or Ireland , either at any palace or ancient castle , or at any ancient Gothic church . It Avould be the more curious and interesting , as it is Avell known in Germany that those marks or signs of the Steinmelzen ( AVIIO have cut the stones ) are in close connexion Avith the signs of the ancient Freemasons ( oi