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ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES.
Danes without the barres of the newe temple of London in the county of Middlesex, glasyer;
Thomas Reve of the paryssh of Seint Sepulchre without Newgate of London, glasyer; and James
Nicholson of Seint Thomas Spyteil or Hospitalle in Southwerke, glasyer, on that other partye."
The latter bind themselves to glase and set up, " at their owne propre costs and charges, well,
surely, clenely, workmanly, substantially, curiously, and sufficiently, eightene wyndowes of the
upper story, whereof the wyndowe in the este end to be oon, and the windowe in the west ende
to be another"—" with good, clene, sure and perfyte glasse and oryent colors, and imagery."
These to be equal to the windows of the King's new chapel at Westminster :—Six of the windows
to be finished within 12 months, and the other 12 windows within four years.—To bind all the
windows " with double bands of leade for defence of great wyndes and outragious wetherings, after
the rate of twopence evry ftbotte :" the glass to be 16 pence per foot: The above named glaziers
to furnish Ffraunces Williamson and Symond Symondes, glaziers, " true patterns otherwyse called
a vidimus for to forme glasse and make by other foure wyndowes"—according to the condition of
the former indenture—Williamson and Symonds to pay as much ready money for the said vidi-
mus, " as shall be thought reasonable by the said masters" Holgylle and Larke—the glaziers
bound to perform the conditions of this Indenture under a penalty of 500 " markes sterlinges."
Cemples ant! &ounti Cljurdjes.
In a state of savage nature, the human mind is but little superior to brutal instinct;
yet, even in that degraded condition, there appears a consciousness of some superior
and awful power. That man, in every state of society and civilized life, is inspired
with, or possesses, some peculiar notions of a Deity, is the general opinion of
philosophers ; and according to the advancement of civilization and refinement, so
is the proportionate rationality of their modes of worship. The early annals of
every country furnish evidences of this, and further inform us, that either some
manufactured idol, or other more impressive object, was worshipped with servile
veneration. As the eye of the ignorant is more susceptible than the ear, and as
impressions on that organ are more powerful than those conveyed to the mind by
hearing, the most sagacious class of men, in the primitive ages, adopted certain
symbolical figures to personify metaphysical subjects. Among these, the circle is
described by different authors, as the most ancient, the most mystical, and con-
ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES.
Danes without the barres of the newe temple of London in the county of Middlesex, glasyer;
Thomas Reve of the paryssh of Seint Sepulchre without Newgate of London, glasyer; and James
Nicholson of Seint Thomas Spyteil or Hospitalle in Southwerke, glasyer, on that other partye."
The latter bind themselves to glase and set up, " at their owne propre costs and charges, well,
surely, clenely, workmanly, substantially, curiously, and sufficiently, eightene wyndowes of the
upper story, whereof the wyndowe in the este end to be oon, and the windowe in the west ende
to be another"—" with good, clene, sure and perfyte glasse and oryent colors, and imagery."
These to be equal to the windows of the King's new chapel at Westminster :—Six of the windows
to be finished within 12 months, and the other 12 windows within four years.—To bind all the
windows " with double bands of leade for defence of great wyndes and outragious wetherings, after
the rate of twopence evry ftbotte :" the glass to be 16 pence per foot: The above named glaziers
to furnish Ffraunces Williamson and Symond Symondes, glaziers, " true patterns otherwyse called
a vidimus for to forme glasse and make by other foure wyndowes"—according to the condition of
the former indenture—Williamson and Symonds to pay as much ready money for the said vidi-
mus, " as shall be thought reasonable by the said masters" Holgylle and Larke—the glaziers
bound to perform the conditions of this Indenture under a penalty of 500 " markes sterlinges."
Cemples ant! &ounti Cljurdjes.
In a state of savage nature, the human mind is but little superior to brutal instinct;
yet, even in that degraded condition, there appears a consciousness of some superior
and awful power. That man, in every state of society and civilized life, is inspired
with, or possesses, some peculiar notions of a Deity, is the general opinion of
philosophers ; and according to the advancement of civilization and refinement, so
is the proportionate rationality of their modes of worship. The early annals of
every country furnish evidences of this, and further inform us, that either some
manufactured idol, or other more impressive object, was worshipped with servile
veneration. As the eye of the ignorant is more susceptible than the ear, and as
impressions on that organ are more powerful than those conveyed to the mind by
hearing, the most sagacious class of men, in the primitive ages, adopted certain
symbolical figures to personify metaphysical subjects. Among these, the circle is
described by different authors, as the most ancient, the most mystical, and con-