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During Lully's residence in England, he became the friend of Roger Bacon.

— Household Words, No. 273; quoted by Manly P. Hall view

Raymond had apartments assigned him in the Tower, and there he tells us he transmuted fifty thousand pounds weight of quicksilver, lead, and tin into pure gold, which was coined at the mint into six million of nobles, each worth about three pounds sterling at the present day. Some of the pieces said to have been coined out of this gold are still to be found in antiquarian collections.

— Household Words, No. 273; quoted by Manly P. Hall view