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Friar Bungay

is an historical character overlaid with legends. It is said that he “raised mists and vapours which befriended Edward IV. at the battle of Barnet.”

“[Friar Bungay is] the personification of the charlatan of science in the 15th century.”—Lord Lytton [Bulwer Lytton]: The Last of the Barons.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Friar
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Friar Bungay
Friar Dominic
Friar Gerund
Friar John
Friar Laurence
Friar Rush
Friar Tuck
Friar’s Heel
Friar’s Lanthorn
Friars [brothers]
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