244 .-- Rashdall also mentions that in the sixteenth century at Oxford there is an instance of a scholar admitted to practice astrology.

l.c., Vol.

II, p.

458.
Roger Bacon himself was a warm believer in judicial astrology and in the influence of the planets, stars and comets on generation, disease and death.
Many of the stronger minds of the Renaissance broke away from the follies of the subject.

Thus Cornelius Agrippa in reply to the request of a friar to consult the stars on his behalf says:( 29) "Judicial astrology is nothing more than the fallacious guess of superstitious men, who have founded a science on uncertain things and are deceived by it: so think nearly all the wise; as such it is ridiculed by some most noble philosophers; Christian theologians reject it, and it is condemned by sacred councils of the Church.