Chapter III: Friar Bacon 36

Of the Parents and Birth of Fryer Bacon, and
how he addicted himself to Learning, 39. How
Fryer Bacon made a Brazen Head to speak, by
the which he would have walled England about
with Brass, 41. How Fryer Bacon by his Art
took a Town, when the King had lain before it
three Months, without doing it any Hurt, 45.
How Fryer Bacon burnt his Books of Magic
and gave himself to the Study of Divinity
only; and how he turned Anchorite, 49. How
Virgilius was set to School, 53. Howe the
Emperor asked Counsel of Virgilius, how the
Night Runners and Ill Doers might be rid-out
of the Streets, 55. How Virgilius made a
Lamp that at all Times burned, 56.