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| Keywords: FamHis055init.png Roger Bacon and Thomas Bungay at work over a furnace forging their Brazen Head <br> <br> Fryer Bacon reading one day of the many conquests of England bethought himselfe how he might keepe it hereafter from the like conquests and so make himselfe famous hereafter to all posteries This after great study hee found could be no way so well done as one; which was to make a head of brasse and if he ould make this head to speake and here it when it speakes then might hee be able to wall all England about with brasse To this purpose he got one Fryer Bungey to assist him who was a great scholler and a magician but not to be compared to Fryer Bacon these two with great study and paines so framed a head of brasse that in the inward parts thereof there was all things like as in a naturall mans head this being done they were as farre from perfection of the worke as they were before p 55 1904 See FamHis055 png See FamHis055 png other versions <gallery> FamHis055 png full page </gallery> PD-1996 PD-1923 PD-EU-no author disclosure LlywelynII Harold Nelson The Famous Historie of Fryer Bacon Roger Bacon Thomas Bungay F as an initial Historiated initials Decorative letters Fire in art Monks in art Flame Cassocks | ||||
