He isn't missing, he is performing acts of buffoonery on location. I have heard it from the man who is the brother of the guy who works for the third cousin of a guy who owns a local pub, and this very reliable source tells that sir Francis married a donkey on a dare, but cannot yet get divorced, as there is a substantial dowry coming from the donkey's side, as he was led to believe by some local swine herd masquerading as the town's wise woman. Sir Francis has also taken upon himself the task of saving the village from its baffling village idiot deficit, as the village only had two real idiots living in it in the span of last 50 years. Nobody knows for sure where the idiots of old have wandered off, but the village mayor's wife's mother's aunt says most if not all had moved to the city to dabble in politics and run banks.