Roger Bacon(1214-1294).

[321]Roger Bacon, friar ordinis :—Memorandum, in Mr. Selden's learned verses before Hopton'sConcordance of yeares, he speakes of friar Bacon, and sayes that he was a Dorsetshire gentleman. There are yet of that name in that countie, and some of pretty good estate. I find by ... (which booke I have) that he understood the making of optique glasses; where he also gives a perfect account of the making of gunpowder, vide pag ... ejusdem libri.

[322]Friar Roger Bacon:—Dr. Gerard Langbain had a Catalogue[AO]of all his workes, which Catalogue Dr. Gale, schoolmaster of Paule's, haz now.

Note.[AO]The reference is probably to a list of pieces by Roger Bacon which were found among Thomas Allen's MSS. Langbaine's draft of it is found in MS. Langbaine 7, p. 393: see Clark's Wood'sLife and Times, iv. 253.

[AO]The reference is probably to a list of pieces by Roger Bacon which were found among Thomas Allen's MSS. Langbaine's draft of it is found in MS. Langbaine 7, p. 393: see Clark's Wood'sLife and Times, iv. 253.

[AO]The reference is probably to a list of pieces by Roger Bacon which were found among Thomas Allen's MSS. Langbaine's draft of it is found in MS. Langbaine 7, p. 393: see Clark's Wood'sLife and Times, iv. 253.

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