This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...was ready, and that it still wanted its mosaics and other adornments. 'Macaulay, followed by others, speaks merely of (lie "opening"; the prayer I have quoted from Dugdale shows that the opening was a consecration service. I am unaware that the rest of the cathedral has ever been consecrated; and if not, it resembles ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...was ready, and that it still wanted its mosaics and other adornments. 'Macaulay, followed by others, speaks merely of (lie "opening"; the prayer I have quoted from Dugdale shows that the opening was a consecration service. I am unaware that the rest of the cathedral has ever been consecrated; and if not, it resembles Lincoln and many another medieval church (Freeman's " Wells," p. 77).-June 27, 1706; December 31, 1706; May i, 1707 (for the Union); August in., 1708. Under Wren as Surveyor-General we have already mentioned the master-mason Edward Strong and his son Edward. John Oliver was Assistant-Surveyor and Purveyor, with a salary of 100; Lawrence Spencer was Clerk of the Works and Paymaster at a like salary; Thomas Russell was Clerk of the Cheque at a salary of,50, and called over the roll of workmen at six in the morning, one in the afternoon, and six in the evening.1 It has to be added that Wren and the royal commissioners did not agree; and that about the time of the consecration of the choir, an Act was passed with a clause suspending "a moiety of the Surveyor's Salary until the said Chunk should be finished, thereby the better to encourage him to finish the same with the utmost Diligence and Expedition." His salary of 200 was thus reduced temporarily to 100, and the arrears, in accordance with the terms of this Act, were not made good until the completion. And worse than this was the charge brought against him that he deliberately delayed the building so that his pittance of two hundred a year might be continued. The commissioners knew nothing of building, and, like many people of to-day, may have thought that the old cathedrals were finished in a few years. Fortunately, Wren was an enthusiast in his great work, and the...
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