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32 REV. J. BENTlIAli's
the Roman manner (as it is there called), and
brought them over with him for that purpose.
1 le prosecuted this work with extraordinary
zeal and diligence; insomuch that within the
compass of a year after the foundations were
laid, he caused the roof to be put on, and
divine service to be performed in it. After-
wards, when the building was nearly [21]
finished, he sent over to France for artificers
skilled in the mystery of making glass (an art
till that time' unknown to the inhabitants of
Britain), to glaze the windows both of the
porticos and the principal parts of the church;
which work they not only executed, but taught
the English nation that most useful art.
We have still more certain and explicit ac-
counts of churches built in the northern parts
of the kingdom during this century, in which
both pillars and arches are expressly nien-
1 What Bcde here affirms of nbbat Benedict, that he first
introduced the art of making glass into this kingdom, is by no
means inconsistent with Eddius's account of bishop Wumcls
glazing the windows of St. Peter's church at York, about
the year 669, i- e. seven or eight years before this time, t'oi
glass might have been imported from abroad by Wilfrid; Iw
Benedict first brought over the artists, who taught the Saxons
the art of making glass. -That the windows in churches were
usually glazed in that age abroad, as well as in these parts, w
learn from Bede; who, speaking of the church on nioun
Olivet, about a mile from Jerusalem, says, in thewestlront o
it were eight windows, which on some occasions used to
illuminated with lamps, which shone so bright through
glass, that the mount seemed in a blaze. Bedee Lib. de U>
Sanctis, cap. (},
the Roman manner (as it is there called), and
brought them over with him for that purpose.
1 le prosecuted this work with extraordinary
zeal and diligence; insomuch that within the
compass of a year after the foundations were
laid, he caused the roof to be put on, and
divine service to be performed in it. After-
wards, when the building was nearly [21]
finished, he sent over to France for artificers
skilled in the mystery of making glass (an art
till that time' unknown to the inhabitants of
Britain), to glaze the windows both of the
porticos and the principal parts of the church;
which work they not only executed, but taught
the English nation that most useful art.
We have still more certain and explicit ac-
counts of churches built in the northern parts
of the kingdom during this century, in which
both pillars and arches are expressly nien-
1 What Bcde here affirms of nbbat Benedict, that he first
introduced the art of making glass into this kingdom, is by no
means inconsistent with Eddius's account of bishop Wumcls
glazing the windows of St. Peter's church at York, about
the year 669, i- e. seven or eight years before this time, t'oi
glass might have been imported from abroad by Wilfrid; Iw
Benedict first brought over the artists, who taught the Saxons
the art of making glass. -That the windows in churches were
usually glazed in that age abroad, as well as in these parts, w
learn from Bede; who, speaking of the church on nioun
Olivet, about a mile from Jerusalem, says, in thewestlront o
it were eight windows, which on some occasions used to
illuminated with lamps, which shone so bright through
glass, that the mount seemed in a blaze. Bedee Lib. de U>
Sanctis, cap. (},