ANECDOTES

OF

DISTINGUISHED PERSONS.

BRITISH.

EDWARD THE FIRST.

[1272-1307.]

ROGER BACON.

THIS acute and learned Francifcan Monk was, according to Mr. Selden, of a gentleman's family in Dorsetshire, and was born in 1214. He began his ftudies very early at Oxford, and then went to Paris, where he purfued mathematics and phyfic; and, as Mr. Selden relates, was made Profeffor of Divinity in the University of that city. He returned to Oxford foon afterwards, and appliedhimself

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