Le Chevalier de Henri Duc de Mont- Jaques de Callot Augufte de Thou Lemerius Biron D. 1622 Prefident Jeannin 1536-1604 Theodore d'Aubigné 1550-1630 Theodoric de }1583-1632 D. 1602 Schomberg Seigneur de Beau- D. 1614 1544-1624 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 applied himfelf VOL. I. B |