A historiated initial i, featuring a medieval french city in flames. "in the morning fryer bacon went up to the mount and set his glasses, and other instruments up: in the meane time the king ordered his army, and stood in a readinesse for to give the assaults: when the signal was given, which was the waving of a flagge: ere nine of the clocke fryer bacon had burnt the state-house of the towne, with other houses only by his mathematicall glasses, which made the whole towne in an uprore, for none did know how it came: whilest that they were quenching of the same fryer bacon did wave his flagge: upon which signall given, the kinge set upon the towne, and tooke it with little or no resistance. " (pp. 64-65). Date: 1904.
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