Gould, Robert Freke, 1836-1915 · New York : Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co. · leaf 59
ssible that somewhere about the twelfth cen-tury, the skilled masons of the monasteries amalgamatedwith the craft builders in the towns, and together formedthe society afterw^ards kno\\Ti throughout Germany as theSteinmetzen. By German \witers the exodus from the convents isplaced at about this… … DIFFERr.XT GR.ADnS OF WORKMIiX. century the stonemasons are certainly met with as adistinct fraternity, and the evidence points in the direc-tion of their having had their origin neither in the citiesnor the convents exclusively, but, with greater pro-bability, in both concurrently. All trades were…
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