Marlowe Tragical History of Dr Faustus Author:Christopher Marlowe General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1901 Original Publisher: The Clarendon press Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you... more » can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE HONOURABLE HISTORY OF FRIAR BACON AND FRIAR BUNGAY. Dramatis Personae. King Henry the Third. Of King Henry III (1216-1273) it may be noticed, in connexion with our play, that he was through life a warm friend and patron of the monks, and that his friendly bearing towards Friar Bacon is therefore quite in character. For the University of Oxford his reign is of signal importance; it is indeed the first reign from which any royal charter or other letter relating to the University has ever been produced. His name was accordingly commemorated as that ' bonae memoriae Henrici quondam regis Angliae' in the annual recitement of the benefactors of the University, referred to in a document of the year 1293. See Introduction to Anstey's Munimenta Acadetnica. He is stated to have introduced large numbers of Parisian students into the University of Oxford, whose members in this reign are said to have at one time numbered 15,000, or, according to another altogether incredible account, 30,000. The turbulence of the students was very great; and together with the claims of the ecclesiastics gave rise to the most serious town-and-gown conflicts known in the history of the English Universities. Several visits of the King to Oxford are chronicled in Anthony Wood's History and Antiquities of the University, bk. i. -- It may be added that Henry Ill's love of the chase (see jeii. 8a) is historical. Edward Prince of Wales, his son. Edward (afterwards King Edvrard I) was born in 1239, an was married to Eleanor of Castile in 1254, sixteen years before he went on the crusade alluded...« less