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The Special Baconiana edition commemorating the 400 Year Anniversary of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio On this day on 8 November 1623 the greatest secular book in the history of the world was entered on the Stationers' Register as the Shakespeare First Folio written and produced by Francis Bacon, the greatest poet and dramatist of all time. To commemorate this incredible book The Francis Bacon Society (est. 1886) have published online a special edition of their journal Baconiana with 12 contributors providing 26 articles and videos drawn from different parts of the world - a truly international Baconian collaboration to celebrate this incomparable work and the greatest man who ever lived. Read the Anniversary Baconiana Journal: https://francisbaconsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Baconiana-11.pdf The Francis Bacon Society est. 1886 - become a member: https://francisbaconsociety.co.uk/

I should just like to add that a 78-page issue of Baconiana is a wonderful tribute and a marvellous achievement by Team Phoenix. Their initial vision of a significant commemorative issue was bold and unstoppable. They secretly and industriously combined our words in a form that everyone can see and read for as long as there is an Internet. And then they nonchalantly 'drop' this giant electronic tome into our metaphorical laps. Hey presto! I cannot begin to imagine the long hours of labour and love that were spent in the production of this magnificent tribute to Lord Bacon. (Which he thoroughly deserves.) As a resource, the Special Baconiana edition is so packed with knowledge about Sir Francis Bacon that it would take a decade to read if you followed all the links. Once more, congratulations to all involved, and thank you too to Lawrence Gerald for hosting this space.

In a word - exciting! The new layout is restrained without being boring, classy but composed. The Editorial, The New Rise of a Worldwide Baconian Movement, was a much needed wake-up call. A challenge, even, and a must read. The Revels reports on the gathering of Baconians in Piccadilly at the beginning of the year to commemorate Lord Verulam's 462 birthday. It then plunges into the archives in a nostalgic look back on past Francis Bacon Society events. Three fantastic book reviews follow, topped off by a plug for Jono's latest video performance. A modest meal, perhaps, but perfectly cooked with love in service to humankind. Next year's Baconiana is sure to feature a wide selection of new writing on Francis Bacon's life and work.

Constance Pott Archive https://encore.libraries.london.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rx1625017__SFrancis Bacon SOCIETY__P0%2C1__Orightresult__U__X4?lang=eng&suite=shl Durning-Lawrence Archive https://encore.libraries.london.ac.uk/iii/encore/search/C__Sdurning-lawrence__Orightresult__U?lang=eng&suite=shl&fromMain=yes Can't find the main FBS Library database https://www.london.ac.uk/about/services/senate-house-library/collections/printed-special-collections/francis-bacon-society-library

I just posted a comment to the Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable Facebook page, Nov. 13, 2023, where they posted a link to an 8-year-old TED talk on youtube. I wrote, "On stylometrics, I believe it would be appropriate to mention Dr. Barry R. Clarke's 2019 book, "Francis Bacon's Contribution to Shakespeare: A New Attribution Method" (New York: Routledge, 2019). Clarke has a Ph.D. in Shakespeare authorship studies from Brunel University. His Ph.D. thesis can be read online as well. Here is his website. https://barryispuzzled.wordpress.com/. He was interviewed by Steve Sable on "Don't Quill the Messenger" in Sept. 2023. https://dontquillthemessenger.libsyn.com/the-physics-of... at Dragon Wagon Radio ("The Physics of Bacon")." I had missed this before. I was just at the SAR website. There are still some factual inaccuracies in their blurb on Bacon. They had changed some of their errors (like saying Bacon had a law degree from the University of Cambridge), but they (anachronistically) still say he obtained a law degree when Gray's Inn did not award law degrees in 1582. Studying law at Gray's Inn then was different from what law school is like today. The accurate statement would be that he was admitted to the bar as an utter barrister in 1582. Being admitted to the bar is not at all the same thing as "graduating from law school." Also anachronistically, the SAR website calls Bacon a "lecturer" at Gray's Inn, but studying law at Gray's Inn was not like law school today. "Reader" at Gray's Inn in 1587 did not mean "lecturer" in common British academic parlance. It meant he had given a "reading," which was a special event, a lecture on a legal statute, followed by a sumptuous banquet the reader hosted for the Queen and other dignitaries, at great personal expense. Bacon gave his reading in 1587 (not 1588, the date the SAR gave for when he was made lecturer) and his second in 1600. The reading was made during the Lent Vacation. There was no one who wanted to do a reading during the 1600 Lent Vacation, so Bacon did a second one. (See my book, Francis Bacon's Hidden Hand in Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice' (New York: Algora Publishing, 2018), 109, 111 (citing Margaret McGlynn, The Royal Perogative and the Learning of the Inns of Court" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 17, 25, 22-23). Also, the SAR blurb says Bacon first became a member of Parliament in 1584. However, he sat in Parliament for Bossing in Cornwall in 1581. (Daniel R. Coquillette, appendix 1, (from the Dictionary of National Biography), Francis Bacon (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), pp. 311-312, 314. Worse, they dismiss the significance of the Northumberland Manuscript. "In 1867, a document that was to become one of the most valuable regarding the authorship riddle was discovered. The “Northumberland Manuscript”, found in the house of the Duke of Northumberland contains 22 sheets of notes from 1596, where Bacon’s name is listed along with Shakespeare’s, several times." https://www.shakespeareauthorship.org/francis-bacon. And that is all they had to say about the Northumberland Manuscript. There is plenty of good reading material on the Northumberland Manuscript to be found by doing a search for it here at this SirBacon website. I wrote to them about these things in December, 2022, and received a rather haughty email back from Rima Lyn, Treasurer and Webmaster on Dec. 18, 2022, refusing to make further changes. And yet, they claim to be unbiased. If someone points you to documentation that what you have written is factually in error, do you not have an obligation to address it and correct your errors? We need to care about inaccuracies in the record. They contribute to the problem, not the solution, of the authorship controversy. As we know, Francis Bacon said we have to get the foundation right in order to build properly. He was building the foundation for the future of learning. It is okay to make mistakes. That is how we learn. But we should be willing to admit our errors and fix them. Did you know the SAR bookclub read Winkler's book as its fall selection? The book that treats the case for Bacon largely as if it were of historical interest only?

I'd just like to share my PhD thesis 'A Linguistic Analysis of Francis Bacon's Contribution to Three Shakespeare Plays: The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labour's Lost, and The Tempest'. I was awarded the degree in 2014 after a 90 minutes grilling! Bacon and Shakespeare.pdf

Thank you for sharing on the SirBacon.org B'Hive Forum! Perhaps we need to add the PDF to your Barry R. Clarke page too. I remember being excited and thoroughly enjoying your chapter about Bacon and the Virginia Company which is a particular interest of mine. Have you read Christie's review of your book which I assume is based on this work? https://sirbacon.org/review-of-barry-r-clarke-francis-bacons-contribution-to-shakespeare-a-new-attribution/

This is one of the richest Promus folios for Bacon-Shakespeare allusions. I had it photographed at the British Library in 2004. (If anyone wants an even higher definition photograph, contact me). Francis Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies, folio 112 recto (British Library, Harley MS 7017, ff.83r-129v). The following five entries can be found on it. I'm sure you can find others. (1) Diluculo surgere saluberrimum est [it is healthy to rise early] (2) Stulte quid est somnus gelidae nisi mortis imago [sleep is the image of cold death] (3) Albada; golden sleepe (4) The wings of ye mornyng (5) The yowth & spring of ye day — Diluculo surgere — Sir Toby Belch ... Diluculo surgere thou knowest (Twelfth Night. 2.3.1-2) — Cold death — In order to avoid a marriage to Count Paris, Friar Lawrence gives Juliet a potion that simulates death. Friar … Each part deprived of supple government, Shall stiff and starke, and cold appeare like death, … and then awake, as from a pleasant sleepe. (Romeo and Juliet, 4.1.102-6) — Gold and albada — In Spanish, “alba” means “dawn” and “albada” was serenading music played at the break of day. Shakespeare has several references to “Albada; golden sleepe.” Steward. Good dawning to thee Friend, art of this house? (King Lear, 2.2.1) Father Capulet … good Father, ‘tis day Play Musicke (Romeo and Juliet, 4.4.22) Friar. … there, golden sleepe doth raigne; (Romeo and Juliet, 2.3.38) — Wings and time — Juliet … For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night (Romeo and Juliet, 3.2.21) — Spring of day — King. ... As Flawes congealed in the Spring of day. (Henry IV, Pt 2, 4.4.35) Promus_112r.tif

A rebuttal to the fraudulent claims of BBC’s latest docudrama - Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius. Jono on top iconclastic form!!!🤣🤣

The Play That Solves the Shakespeare Authorship Mystery A book by Don Elfenbein One reader of www.sirbacon.org, Don Elfenbein of Morgantown, West Virginia, has recently published, through Lulu Press, a book entitled The Play That Solves the Shakespeare Authorship Mystery: The Allegory of Francis Bacon's Natural Philosophy in The Tempest available here: https://www.lulu.com/shop/donald-elfenbein/the-play-that-solves-the-shakespeare-authorship-mystery/paperback/product-q9v5j2.html?q=shakespeare+authorship&page=1&pageSize=4 Click here to read the PDF version: https://sirbacon.org/downloads/TempestElfenbein22lulu.pdf This work gathers together and documents a number of incontrovertible but little-noticed facts that speak Shakespeare’s true name loudly and clearly. Written for general readers and scholars alike, the work systematizes and extends the investigations of the pioneering researchers who first published, more than a century ago, the provocative contention that The Tempest allegorizes a body of Baconian thought. It demonstrates that fourteen elements of this play having to do with the magus Prospero, the spirit Ariel, and the witch Sycorax resemble and represent fourteen of Bacon’s natural-philosophical ideas, several of which are peculiar to him. Those ideas include not only the general methodological prescriptions for which Bacon is famous but also his unique and largely forgotten conjectures about the inner workings of nature. These numerous and striking parallels between elements of the play and elements of Bacon’s philosophy, the author argues, together constitute persuasive proof that Bacon wrote this celebrated drama. Don is a Researcher and former Law Professor who has been interested in the Baconian theory since the 1970s. He is eager to discuss his study with anyone who is interested in examining it and perhaps offering him comments or reviews. This fascinating work covers the allegory of Bacon's natural philosophy expressed in Shakespeare's The Tempest and explores the themes of art, magic, spirits - all things of great interest to us here on B'Hive. Don’s email address is don.elfenbein@gmail.com if you have any questions for the author.

THE SHAKESPEARE FIRST FOLIO DEDICATED TO THE GRAND MASTER OF ENGLAND

I continue writing custom computer programs to analyze the groundbreaking Monographs from Riverbank Laboratories from 120+ years ago...brought into focus here is the 1931 decoding by a woman in West Virginia, of the ornate first letter of the first play of the First Folio, the Tempest...is the name Francis Bacon actually hidden there? https://gorhambury.org/public/experiments/experiment-fourteen/

Wow, two! Thanks Rob! As you can see from the last image in this video, it is quite a weighty tome! I shocked myself as to just how big it is in width. Very grateful for all the support and encouragement from the Baconians. Kx Final Publicity Video.mp4

Yeah, I like ER's writing style and choice of his collections book designs. I was able to score a photo(?) of Reed with one of his books. Enjoy my collection.

Hi everyone, The day before yesterday, I watched a video by an Oxfordian about the Epilogue of "Henry IV". In his video, he claims that his findings prove that De Vere was Shakespeare and disqualifie all the other candidates. It reminded me the great video posted by Barry R. Clarke last Sunday, and I decided to make a very short video to share my "Baconian" point of view. 😊 Epilogue.mp4

Thanking you A.P. for Spear-Shaking at another snake in the grass. Nothing truer than truth when a relative to Eddie de Vere, Charles Beauclerk, Earl of Burford, can only obfuscate the Baconian position with ignorance while conveniently pushing for the nepotism of his family tree. And what a freaky tale that tree beholds. An Amazon reader review of "Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom : The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth" stated it best : "At a time when Edward de Vere needs carefully composed support, Lost Kingdom is an entertaining and annoying concoction of scholarship and flimflam." The flimflam may be referring to the evidence free conjecture that Oxford is Elizabeth's son from an affair she had around the age of 16 and besides being Elizabeth's illegitimate son, her lover and father of a joint child, the Earl of Southampton. Personally I can't tell if this is the 'annoying concoction' or the 'flimflam?' Somebody please pass the salt and help me out here ! Well I guess that 'carefully composed' support flies out the proverbial yonder window quicker than you can say Nothing truer than truth. The irony remains that this cult is still bound to a man named Looney. That's all folks.

Attached is a photograph (downloadable) I had made at the British Library of a letter that Francis Bacon wrote in his own hand to Lord Burghley (1598). It shows that Bacon organized masques for the four Inns of Court (Gray's Inn, Middle Temple, Inner Temple, Lincoln's Inn) and so had an active interest in drama. Enjoy! Yt may please your good Lordship I am sory the joynt maske from the fowr Innes of Cowrt faileth. Wherin I conceyue thear is no other grownd of that euent but impossibility. Neuerthelesse bycause it falleth owt that at this tyme Graies Inne is well furnyshed, of gallant yowng gentlemen, your lordship may be pleased to know, that rather then this occasion shall passe withowt some demonstration of affection from the Innes of Cowrt, Thear are a dozen gentlemen of Graies Inne that owt of the honour which they bear to your lordship, and my lord Chamberlayne to whome at theyre last maske they were so much bownden, will be ready to furnysh a maske wyshing it were in their powers to performe it according to theyr myndes. And so for the present I humbly take my leaue resting. [Burghley Papers, Landsdowne MS 107, f.13] P.S. I also have photos of four Promus sheets if anyone is interested: 85r, 92r, 103r, 112r. Burghley Bacon.tif

Hi everyone, Today is the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio. I initialy plan.ned to share with you a very special video to mark this occasion. Sadly, I realised that I could not finish the one I had in mind within established timeframes. So here is a short video, a small part of the big one that I hope to be able to finish in the next few weeks. HAPPY FIRST FOLIO DAY !!!🎇 CODEX33.mp4

In response to a certain Oxfordian 'finding' de Vere's name in the First Folio dedications at the recent SAT conference, international puzzle author Dr Barry R. Clarke demonstrates how Bacon's name can also be found. So isn't this certain Oxfordian engaged in pseudoscience?

Little AI and Photoshop doodling art below to help me relax tonight. When I wake up tomorrow morning it will be November 8, 2023 the 400 year Anniversary of Bacon's First Folio. Happy 400 Years of being Shakespeare, Sir Francis Bacon.

How interesting is it that the logo for the Riverbank Press is a statue of a dog named "BACON F"?

View the Riverbank monographs here, which I believe to be the only public source for all six of them.

Thanks for being the first to notice this feature, I had to update a license just now but now it is all working correctly: View The idea here is to "psychically tune-in to Old Gorhambury, and by extension, FB." There is a comparable thing for Riverbank Laboratories in Illinois, USA, where the nation's first privately funded research institute flourished in the 1890's, and where the groundbreaking cryptology monographs were created. View On one map, a large circle is seen, that is the Fermilab cyclotron, the largest in the US apparently, which shows how this area has been a hot-spot for invention and innovation, a bit like Old Gorhambury. The campus of Riverbank Laboratories was park-like, with a Japanese style garden allegedly tended by the gardener for the Emperor of Japan himself (well, maybe). They owned land on both side of the Fox River and the pavilion-island which still exists. The business still remains to a small degree, selling just one product from their online shopping cart, ultra-high price and ultra-high price Tuning Forks

I have been induced to think, that if there were a Beam of Knowledge derived from God upon any man in these modern times, it was upon him (Bacon): for though he was a great reader of books, yet he had not his knowledge from books, but from some grounds and notions within himself. --Dr. William Rawley , Bacon's Chaplain, Secretary & Confidant 8 N O V E M B E R 2 0 2 3 8+13+14+20+5+12+2+5+17 + 2+0+2+3 = 103 SHAKESPEARE IN SIMPLE CIPHER We are all proud of the Plus Ultra A. Phoenix Spear-Shaker Team for this great achievement and completing their vision on this day the 400th anniversary of Francis Bacon's Shakespeare First Folio. You have brought honor to Francis Bacon and Ben Jonson and all their Knights of the Helmet that masterminded the Greatest Literary Mystery of All time. More so for the last 3 years the A.Phoenix team has been dedicated to righting wrongs, dropping truth revelations while exposing the conventional memes of tyranny from the Shakespeare Industrial Complex influencers that manipulate and collude with the media, academia and publishers whose sole interest is to make $ off their deceptions while relegating truth irrelevant and blasphemous. However there is a cure for the Shakespeare dementia and cognitive dissonance that exists. Despite all this and all our confused adversaries from other camps, we've been long standing in making a difference as hundreds of newcomers and students visit sirbacon.org daily with a passion for historical truth seeing through the many distinctions that have been brought to light by the A. Phoenix team and all the other insightful Baconian contributors for the last 150 years. I raise my glass in appreciation and gratitude to their tremendous and ongoing contributions and to the Francis Bacon Society for making this very special issue of Baconiana available to the public. Lawrence Gerald November 8th, 2023 😀

Hi Yann, I have just watched your stunning, groundbreaking, transcendent video. An absolute MASTERCLASS. Everywhere you look you see things inserted there by FB and his Rosicrcucian Brotherhood that have gone unnoticed for centuries. The reason for this is plain enough to me. It requires a certain kind of superior mind, one which possesses high intelligence, combined with an extremely rare knowledge of esoteric teachings and texts, close reading, attention to the smallest of details, someone who is able to identify and discern subtle differences and nuances, and then able to readily comprehend all the patterns and complexities before you, that is way beyond the limitations of ordinary minds. AWESOME!

AWESOME !!! Congrats A PHOENIX for this monumental Work ! Thank you for including my research in this Special Baconiana Edition, but must of all THANK YOU for your invaluable dedication to Francis Bacon and his legacy. TAKE A BOW !❤️ I am looking forward to discovering the work of all the contributors 😊. Great and Happy First Folio day !🎇

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S. To All Contributors - especially to our tireless editors, the remarkable Phoenixes - for a suitably commemorative "bumper" issue on the occasion of the F F Quatercentenary. Thank you for taking such good care of our texts.

Fantastic and beautiful work, A. Phoenix! Thank you for bringing Francis Bacon to the attention of the world on this 400 year anniversary of his First Folio. Imagine the thoughts, wishes, and dreams for the future that Bacon was sharing with Jonson and his inner circle of friends on this day 400 years ago. They would all be so proud of you and your work, as we all are today.

🎉 🎈🎊 Happy First Folio day! Well done AP. Another fabulous effort for posterity. Thanks for including me, and congratulations on the launch of Spearshaker Productions. x

Hi Eric, This is the catalogue of The Francis Bacon Society held at The Senate House Library, University of London - 1314 items - some incredible works here: https://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/search~S1/?searchtype=m&searcharg=b%2Fs

Hi all, There are a couple of guys on X who I became friendly with earlier this year over our shared love of the authorship question. Early on, one of them kindly asked me to go on their new podcast. It is really not my thing unfortunately. I'm fine with scripted videos, but interviews or off the cuff chat brings me out in a cold sweat, and instant memory loss! Anyway they are now on Episode 6. The podcast is 30 mins (or 33!) and is called Much Ado about the AQ . Episode 7 will have Elizabeth Winkler and Episode 8, Ros Barber. I have already asked Peter Dawkins if he might like to be a guest, but he's currently unavailable/swamped so suggested I ask around. These guys are very open to both sides but currently favouring De Vere. Their reach is not great at this time, but these things stay on the Internet forever and I have no doubt they will pick up listeners with the upcoming guests. It's important for listeners to hear both sides as many get confused/bamboozled by competing narratives and some are easily swayed by the 'authority' of authors with big publishing houses or videos that are big budget with super slick graphics! It's not a competition but it is important that interested listeners hear both sides. These two guys are great like that. Thoroughly nice guys. Let me know if you'd like to do it or please pass this message on to someone who may. Latest Podcast: Episode 5 - Earl of Oxford Part 2 | Much Ado About the AQ

Yes, I thought Christina Waldman's review was perceptive and fair. 🙂 I should add that the 17th Earl of Oxford has too little data in EEBO (just a few poems) and some letters outside EEBO that, to my sensibility, are rhetorically insignificant. So not only has he insufficient data to be tested but it looks like rare phrases were not his province anyway. If he cannot be tested, stylistic evidence is missing for him. So someone might believe he contributed to a particular play but internal evidence cannot be found to support it. It's the same for Neville. Marlowe has 7 works in EEBO so he can be tested but not with as much confidence as Bacon can. With 27 works in EEBO Bacon can be ruled in or out with reasonable confidence. Bacon is particularly strong with The Tempest and Love's Labour's Lost. That's the advantage Bacon has over Oxford and if we want to make progress we should push that point to them as hard as we can. Biographical allusions can be found for any single-author candidate as can decoded names. So those methods are not decisive. The traditional method of authorship attribution is stylistic analysis. Using that Oxford cannot be shown to have contributed to any Shakespeare play ... Bacon can.

FRANCIS BACON, THE SHAKESPEARE FIRST FOLIO, AND FREEMASONRY On 1733 Sixteenth Street NW Washington DC is the House of the Temple, headquarters of The Supreme (Mother Council of the World) of the Inspectors General, Knights Commander of the House of the Temple of Solomon, of the Thirty-Third and last degree of the Ancient and Accepted Rite of Freemasonry for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America. The Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree regulates recognized Supreme Councils and their Subordinate Bodies around the world operating a world-wide network of Freemasons in the most powerful positions in various key professions including US and UK intelligence, the international press, leading professors and academics, universities and university presses, and prestigious publishing houses operating in the most important theatres around the globe. The emblem of the Supreme Mother Council of the World is a Double Headed Eagle. Resting on the top of the two-headed eagle is a royal crown which has for its peak a triangle (comprising 3 straight lines and 3 angles) within which appears the number 33 (simple cipher for Bacon) an allusion to the secret Founding Father of the Speculative Freemasonry Francis Bacon whose concealed authorship of the Shakespeare First Folio was known to some of his contemporary Masonic Brethren and the sanctum sanctorum of the first Grand Lodge of England then and all the way down to the present day.

FRANCIS BACON, THE SHAKESPEARE FIRST FOLIO, AND FREEMASONRY The 1623 Baconian-Shakespeare First Folio is saturated with Freemasonic language, imagery, and symbolism throughout the canon from the earliest plays dating from the 1580s to the last written, revised and enlarged up to the early 1620s, over a period of some four decades. Here are some of the references and allusions to Freemasonry in the Shakespeare First Folio: I wil visit thee at the Lodge. That’s hereby. I know where it is situate. Lord, how wise you are! Come Iaquenetta, away. [Love’s Labour’s Lost] Your oathes are past, and now subscribe your names: That this owne hand may strike honour downe, That violates the smallest branch heerein: If you are arm’d to doe, as sworn to do, Subscribe to your deepe oathes and keepe it to. [Love’s Labour’s Lost] But this is a worshipfull society, And fits the mounting spirit like my selfe; [King John] And whisper one another in the eare. And he that speakes, doth gripe the hearers wrist, [King John] Here Robin, and if I dye, I giue thee my Aporne [Apron]; And Will thou shall haue my Hammer… And God in Iustice hath reueal’d to vs The truth and innocence of this poore fellow, [2 Henry VI] The Nobilitie thinke scorne to goe in Leather Aprons. [2 Henry VI] What my old worshipfull master? [The Taming of a Shrew] And from the Crosse-row pluckes the letter G: [Richard III] Doth any particular name particular belong Vnto the Lodging, where I first did swoon’d? ‘Tis called Ierusalem, my Noble Lord. [2 Henry IV] Put on two leather Jerkins, and Aprons, [2 Henry IV] Hee is not his Crafts-master. [2 Henry IV] I thanke thee good Tuball. [The Merchant of Venice] Who is this companion now? He hath euery month a new sworne brother. Is there no young squarer now that will make a voyage with him…? [Much Ado About Nothing] The singing Masons building roofes of Gold [Henry V] Where is thy Leather Apron, and thy Rule? [Julius Caesar] I will finde Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeede Within the centre. [Hamlet] Who builds stronger than a Mason…? [Hamlet] Like to the Garters-Compass, in a ring, [The Merry Wives of Windsor] I shall stay here the fore-horse to a smocke, Creeking my shooes on the plaine Masonry, [All’s Well That Ends Well] I am a brother Of gracious Order, late come from the Sea, [Measure for Measure] I will, as ’twere a brother of your Order, Visit both Prince, and People: [Measure for Measure] His necke shall come to your waist, a Cord Sir. [Measure for Measure] Come guard the doore without, let him not passe, But kill him rather. [Othello] I haue not kept my square, but that to come Shall all be done by th’ Rule: [Antony and Cleopatra] You have made good worke, You and your Apron Men: [Coriolanus] O that euer haue I had squar’d me to thy Councell: [The Winter’s Tale] being then appointed Master of this designe. [The Tempest] And set it downe With gold on lasting Pillers. [The Tempest]

HI Perhaps you can move this post Rob as not sure where to put it. I just came across a couple of things in the Calendar of Patent Rolls. These are great records on Archive.org to skim through to get a feel for who was in her Court at that time and what was going on. One observation is that Gorhambury was also known by several other names that perhaps we should be on the lookout for. These are Goram, Gorham, Gorhams. The other is this entry. This backs up what we know that QE1 had particular interest in FB. I was looking to see what entries there were for around Jan 1561 but thinking about it maybe I should be looking at 1560? What dating system were they using in these records?

Thanks A P You don't miss a thing. I didn't even notice the eyes. As you point out both Hilliard's blue-eyed teenage Bacon and Steven van der Mullen's blue-eyed Dudley are anomalies. I'm inclined to trust Paul Van Somer who painted at least six portraits of Francis - all with hazel-to-dark-brown eyes Van der Mullen is also thought to have been responsible for the Hampden Portrait of Elizabeth I: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_van_der_Meulen Speaking of QEI, if anyone is curious about her association with snake symbolism, this might be of interest: https://omeka.library.american.edu/s/hardwickportrait/page/snakes#:~:text=In the 1600-02 Rainbow,to symbolize wisdom and prudence.

Hello everyone, I'm excited to share some news in this announcements section. My book is now available in paperback. The Secret Work of an Age was written to help people "pierce the veil". Galileo once said: Philosophy is written in this grand book — the universe — which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language in which it is written. In my book readers will learn this language; the language of allegory, number codes and symbolism. Once that is 'cracked', life never looks the same again. It's liberating. One begins to see artwork, poetry, plays, music, names, books, and even our history and future, through a different lens. I do hope you'll consider purchasing a copy - I believe this book has the power to help people better understand Sir Francis Bacon's secret work, and to profoundly shift how one views the world. Final Publicity Video.mp4 Amazon link to purchase

Thank you A Phoenix for sharing the information. Most of all, thank you to Don Elfenbein for sharing the fruit of his research with sirbacon.org and the B'Hive Community !🙏 I certainly will study his work in the next few weeks.

Richard Wagner, a Freemason, has an easy to read chapter in his book, "The Lost Secret of William Shakespeare". Website: http://thelostsecretofwilliamshakespeare.com/ PDF Book: /downloads/The LOST SECRET of William Shakespeare.pdf Here is the first page of the chapter:

How did I miss this thread. It’s amazing!

Some ideas based on the work of J.C.

Not sure if this qualifies as "cipher" per se' , but definitely something more in this bust. And apologies if this topic has already been in discussion, just could not find in forum search. Please direct me to the topic, or lets discuss the image(s). Whats the story, and who created the bust? Bottom line, its easy to see two separate faces when you cover each vertical half.

...tucked away in the Google book edition of 'Francis Bacon and Muse of Tragedy' by Edwin Reed. I have yet to transpire the cursive text but wanted to share here anyway.

MICHAEL BLANDING NORTH BY SHAKESPEARE A ROGUE SCHOLAR’S QUEST FOR THE TRUTH BEHIND THE BARD’S WORK In the last few years the self-taught scholar Dennis McCarthy has received an enormous amount of publicity through his work recently republished in paperback with the dubious title Thomas North: The Original Author of Shakespeare's Plays which ‘has garnered worldwide attention (including coverage in The New York Times, The Guardian, Time Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe Magazine, U.S. News, etc).’. The central contention of his celebrated book is that Thomas North (1535-1603), the supposed translator of Plutarch’s Lives, wrote more than thirty plays largely for the Earl of Leicester’s acting company, which were later adapted and reworked by William Shakespeare (i.e., William Shakspere of Stratford) in the 1590s and early 1600s. In addition to all the world-wide publicity McCarthy has also received the accolade of a supporting full-length work by the acclaimed and prize-winning author and journalist Michael Blanding in a book also bearing a somewhat misleading and disingenuous title North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar’s Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard’s Works winner (under a slightly different title) of the 2021 International Book Award in Narrative Non-Fiction. On its side sleeve we are informed that its author Blanding: presents the twinning narratives of renegade scholar Dennis McCarthy, called “the Steve Job of the Shakespeare community,” and Sir Thomas North, an Elizabethan courtier whom McCarthy believes to be the undiscovered source for Shakespeare’s plays. For the last fifteen years, McCarthy has obsessively pursued the true origin of Shakespeare’s works. Using plagiarism software, he has found direct links between Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and other plays and North’s published and unpublished writings-as well as Shakespearean plotlines seemingly lifted straight from North’s colourful life. Unlike those who believe someone else secretly wrote Shakespeare’s works, McCarthy proposes a wholly original explanation: Shakespeare wrote the plays, but he adapted them from sources written by North decades before. Many of them, he believes, were penned on behalf of North’s patron Robert Dudley in his efforts to woo Queen Elizabeth. For the purposes of facilitating the fundamentally flawed twinning narratives of his progenitor Dennis McCarthy and his own good self, Blanding in briefly and superficially addressing the long-held conviction that Bacon wrote the Shakespeare works, inadvertently and embarrassingly exposed his own limitations. Blanding commences the story of how he says the first doubts about the authorship started in the mid-1800s via the writings of Delia Bacon.1 This should have immediately alerted and alarmed any reasonably well-informed Shakespeare authorship scholar. The doubts about the authorship of the Shakespeare poems and plays began almost immediately after the publication of Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594), perhaps most notably by writer and satirist Joseph Hall, (later Bishop of Norwich) and the poet and playwright John Martson, who through a series of satiric works published from 1597 to 1599 identify Bacon as the secret author of the Shakespeare poems.2 As Blanding tells it, when Delia Bacon died the baton was taken up in The Great Cryptogram (1888) by Ignatius Donnelly, a work debunked by the Friedmans.3 His two-volume work was followed by ‘a stampede of other writers sleuthing out increasingly more fantastical messages hidden in the plays’.4 Now adopting a more sarcastic and disparaging tone he tells how the American Dr Orville Ward Owen created a machine with two reels over which he stretched the text of Shakespeare. Using the word cipher system referred to by Bacon in The Advancement of Learning and De Augmentis Scientiarum it revealed a ‘sordid tale’ that Bacon was the concealed son of Queen Elizabeth and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and the heir to the throne, but the Elizabeth was strangled to death by Sir Robert Cecil before she could reveal the truth.5 Blanding then undercuts and misrepresents the endeavours of William Stone Booth who identified anagrammatic and acrostic signatures spelling out the name of Francis Bacon and then came along Mark Twain who in 1909 published Is Shakespeare Dead? ‘peppered with Twain’s trademark sarcasm.’6 Self-satisfied with his truncated deprecating two page history of Baconian scholarship which for some inexplicable reason went no further than 1909 he mistakenly states that ‘by now, Francis Bacon was already falling out of favor as a Ghost writer for Shakespeare.’7 By way of a grandstanding conclusion for the purposes of summarily dismissing Bacon, Blanding hands down what he believes are three decisive facts and reasons why Bacon could never and did not write the Shakespeare poems and plays, which I here quote in full: Despite his obvious talents, he had never been to Italy, wrote with a ponderous prose style, and was insanely busy with all his other duties.8 His triple lock cruelly revealed that Blanding was clearly unfamiliar with Bacon’s life and writings and knew even less about the mountainous and irrefutable evidence that Bacon is Shakespeare. As a starting point, he might have done well to familiarise himself with Spedding’s standard fourteen volume edition of The Life and Writings of Francis Bacon, and to arrive at a better informed understanding of his authorship of the Shakespeare works, the scores of Baconian full-length works and hundreds of articles written to that effect. 1] Bacon never went to Italy. For four hundred years orthodox Bacon biographers have continued to insist that Bacon only travelled abroad to France for three years from 1576 to 1579 and nowhere else. The main reason this lie/falsehood has been maintained to the present day is because of the secrecy surrounding his life and in particular his authorship of the Shakespeare works. Especially regarding whether Bacon ever travelled to Italy because self-evidently the author of the Shakespeare works had a profound fascination with the country, its history, its language and its people. Twelve or thirteen of the Shakespeare plays are set or partly located in Italy: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, Othello, All’s Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest. His mother Lady Anne Cooke Bacon was an Italophile, lover all things Italian and fluent in the Italian language from which she translated the sermons of the Sienese preacher Bernardino Ochino.9 His mother passed on her love of Italy and taught Bacon the Italian language which he put to good effect in reading the many Italian sources for his Shakespeare plays. He also travelled to the country for which he so clearly had such a love and an all-consuming passion. How do we know this? Because we are told so by his first biographer Pierre Amboise who given the intimacy of his account must have known Bacon (some have suggested that it was even written by Bacon himself): Bacon himself wished to acquire that knowledge which in former times made Ulysses so commendable, and earned for him the name of Wise; by the study of the manners of many different countries. I wish to state that he employed some years of his youth in travel in order to polish his mind and to mould his opinion by intercourse with all kinds of foreigners. France, Italy, and Spain, as the most civilised of the whole world, were those whither his desire for knowledge (curiosite) carried him.10 1. Michael Blanding, North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholars Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard’s Works (New York: Hachette Books, 2021), p. 134. 2. See W. Begley, Is It Shakespeare? The Great Question Of Elizabethan Literature. Answered In The Light Of New Revelations And Important Contemporary Evidence Hitherto Unnoticed (London: John Murray, 1903), pp. 1-31 and Basil E. Lawrence, Notes On the Authorship Of The Shakespeare Poems And Plays (London: Gay and Hancock, 1925), pp. 76-107. 3. Michael Blanding, North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholars Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard’s Works (New York: Hachette Books, 2021), pp. 134-35. See A. Phoenix, The Fraudulent Friedmans: The Bacon Ciphers in the Shakespeare Works (2022) for a detailed and thorough account of how the Friedmans secretly knew Bacon wrote the Shakespeare poems and plays and lied to the world about the presence of Baconian ciphers in the Shakespeare works. 4. Michael Blanding, North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholars Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard’s Works (New York: Hachette Books, 2021), p. 135. 5. Ibid., p. 135. 6. Ibid., p. 135. 7. Ibid., p. 136. 8. Ibid., p. 136. 9. Anne Cooke, trans. Sermons of Barnandine Ochino of Sena, Godlye, frutefull, and very necessarye for all true Christians translated out of Italian into Englishe (London: R. Car for W. Reddell, 1548); Anne Cooke, trans. Fouretene sermons of Barnardine Ochyne, concernynge the predestinacion and eleccion of god: very expediente to the settynge forth of hys glory among hys creatures. Translated out of Italian in to oure natyue tounge by A. C. (London: John Day and William Seres 1550-1?); Anne Cooke, and Argentine, Richard, trans. Certayne Sermons of the ryghte famous and excellent clerk. B. Ochine (London: John Day 1551?);Anne Cooke, trans. Sermons of Bernardine Ochine (to the number of 25) Concerning the Predestination and Election of God… Translated out of the Italian in to oure natyue tounge by A. C. (London: John Day, 1570?) 10. Pierre Amboise, Histoire Natvrelle De Mre Francois Bacon, Baron de Verulam, Vicomtede sainct Alban, & Chancelier d’ Angleterre (A Paris, Chez Antoine De Sommaville & Andre Sovbron, affociez, au Palais dans la petite Salle, 1631), pp. 1-26; Granville C. Cunningham, trans., ‘A New Life Of Lord Bacon’, Baconiana, Vol. IV, No. 14 (Third Series), April, 1906, p. 74. 2] Bacon was insanely busy with all his other duties. 3] Despite his obvious talents Bacon wrote with a ponderous prose style thus he was not Shakespeare

But if you try sometime, you'll find You get what you need. 🙂

BACONIANA CONTRIBUTORS ROBIN BROWNE First Folio Fobia By Robin Browne '(A literary ailment which haunts the academic world. It is a fear that the Folio may contain evidence that Francis Bacon could have encrypted secret messages within the text). Two years ago, a thought came to me that, perhaps, I could make a small contribution towards the four hundredth anniversary celebrations of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio by proposing an impressive exhibition, entitled: “The Most Encrypted Book in the English Language” A number of international venues were approached, Bletchley Park, the British Library and the Cryptologic Museum, affiliated with the National Security Agency in America. The idea was to bring to public awareness via a number of selected libraries, museums and universities the hidden history that had been recorded in the Sonnets, The King James Bible and in Shakespeare Quartos and, more importantly, in the First Folio. A detailed three-page letter outlining the aims of such an exhibition was mailed to a number of potential venues. The intention was to expose a substantial amount of ciphers within the works of William Shakespeare, which have laid hidden for centuries. The centrepiece would be the First Folio, which cryptically identifies Francis Bacon as the author, from the very first page to the last play ever written: ‘Let thy indulgence set ME FREE’ (The Tempest). . .' Continue reading Robin Browne's fascinating exploration of First Folio Fobia no. XXII in the special Baconiana Journal: https://francisbaconsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Baconiana-11.pdf The Francis Bacon Society est. 1886 - become a member: https://francisbaconsociety.co.uk/

Hi FB Decipherer, By making the Riverbank Publications publicly available for the first time and all the other material you are now publishing on your groundbreaking website, you are providing an important and invaluable contribution to Bacon-Shakespeare scholarship which will benefit all interested scholars and students in perpetuity.

8 N O V E M B E R 2 0 2 3 8+13+14+20+5+12+2+5+17 + 2+0+2+3 = 103 SHAKESPEARE IN SIMPLE CIPHER We are all proud of the Plus Ultra A. Phoenix Spear-Shaker Team for this great achievement and completing their vision on this day the 400th anniversary of Francis Bacon's Shakespeare First Folio. You have brought honor to Francis Bacon and Ben Jonson and all their Knights of the Helmet that masterminded the Greatest Literary Mystery of All time. More so for the last 3 years the A.Phoenix team has been dedicated to righting wrongs, dropping truth revelations while exposing the conventional memes of tyranny from the Shakespeare Industrial Complex influencers that manipulate and collude with the media, academia and publishers whose sole interest is to make $ off their deceptions while relegating truth irrelevant and blasphemous. However there is a cure for the Shakespeare dementia and cognitive dissonance that exists. Despite all this and all our confused adversaries from other camps, we've been long standing in making a difference as hundreds of newcomers and students visit sirbacon.org daily with a passion for historical truth seeing through the many distinctions that have been brought to light by the A. Phoenix team and all the other insightful Baconian contributors for the last 150 years. I raise my glass in appreciation and gratitude to their tremendous and ongoing contributions and to the Francis Bacon Society for making this very special issue of Baconiana available to the public. Lawrence Gerald November 8th, 2023 😀 FOLIO 400 have 17 essays on their website relating to the FF. Only 4 of these were written in the last 12 months. https://folio400.com/folio-phernalia/2/ SBT have a special tour (£25 a head or £60 family pass) https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/visit/plan-your-visit/house-ticket-prices/ There is Searching for Shakespeare on at the Folger https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/programs/searching-for-shakespeare/ Lots of other FF related events around the world, but I see no conventional commemorative publication that comes close to the FBS / Sir Bacon / Phoenix Team's Tribute to Lord Bacon.

CONTRIBUTORS TO THE SPECIAL BACONIANA COMMEMORATING THE 1623 SHAKESPEARE FIRST FOLIO ROB FOWLER From an early age Treasure Hunting has been in the blood of Baconian Rob Fowler growing up with his parents in the wide-open public lands of Colorado wandering around the vast expanses of wilderness collecting crystals, agates, petrified wood and dinosaur bones, and any other treasure he came across. Thereafter the noble pursuit of all kinds of tangible and spiritual treasures, akin to his own personal Baconian journey of the advancement of knowledge and enlightenment, has proved the guiding light of his life. With divine synchronicity this all crystallized after he attended a gathering at a beautiful home in California in late 1996 where he noticed a striking portrait in the hallway of the house which immediately arrested his attention. He asked someone about the “Shakespeare” portrait, and they said “Oh, you need to ask Lawrence about that. It is not Shakespeare; it is Francis Bacon.” He was subsequently introduced to Lawrence Gerald, who provided him with a two-hour introduction on all things Francis Bacon, was handed a stack of Xeroxed pages from Alfred Dodd, Peter Dawkins, et al, and various articles from Baconiana many of them based on his curiosity about ciphers. SirBacon.org was not then a reality but it soon would be when it was launched by Lawrence in October 1997 from which time it has grown into the largest Baconian website in the world. This eventually gave birth on 31 January 2022 to the B’Hive Forum, a platform created by Rob (in conjunction with Lawrence) who by profession is a techno expert, which in next to no time has already become the most visited Baconian Forum around the Globe. By his own account, learning about Francis Bacon is the biggest treasure he ever stumbled upon. His dear friend Lawrence satisfied his insatiable desire to learn all he could about Lord Bacon with Baconian articles and artwork. Early in his Baconian passion Peter Dawkins set him on a Baconian “treasure hunt” and to this day it is still the all-consuming passion of his life. Rob wants to thank Lawrence Gerald and Peter Dawkins for sharing the Keys when he was ready 25 years ago. Also A. Phoenix for rising from the Baconian ashes and doing all of the critically important research and Baconian work that they do today. Special thanks and recognition to Yann Le Merlus who has taken most of the weight off Rob’s shoulders as he was worried he was sadly one of the last Baconian Treasure Hunters. Rob wants to thank all of our amazing Sirbacon.org B’Hive members, The Francis Bacon Society, and all Baconians past, present, and future who work so hard to bring Bacon’s Truth to Light! Read the Anniversary Baconiana Journal: https://francisbaconsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Baconiana-11.pdf The Francis Bacon Society est. 1886 - become a member: https://francisbaconsociety.co.uk/

Thank you Lawrence and all our fellow contributors on B'Hive for your love and support. We truly appreciate it and it makes all the hard work so much more worthwhile and rewarding on this our collective Baconian quest for Truth and Justice for the Great One. The Phoenixes.