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wrote Shakespeare's plays. (Putnam's Mag. 1856.) Bacon, ROGER, ab.1214-1294. English Francis can of genius and rare scientific attainments, who endured much persecution and was in prison as a magician from ab. 1278; so far beyond his age that his memory has been encumbered with legends. and he appears a figure of romance rather than reality. He devoted much attention to physics and chemistry. His Opus Majus , ab. 1266, was pub. 1733, and some of his treatises 1859.