Ashton, John, b. 1834 · London, Chatto and Windus · leaf 74
THE HISTORY Of the Learned FRIAR BACON. … Printed and Sold in Aldf.rmary Church Yard,London, 54 Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century. Roger Bacon was born at Ilchester, Somersetshire, in 1214,and was educated at Oxford and Paris, where he was madeD.D. He seems to have settled at Oxford about 1240, andentered the order of St. Francis. He…
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