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Jardine and Stewart's book would have have been more aptly titled, "Hostage to Truth"

De-Coding the Portrait For the first time Peter Dawkins produced an enlarged image of the painting which made clearly visible a framed miniature suspended on a chain from shoulders of a baby Francis that is completely central to its secret symbolic meaning and obscured message. In the portrait Francis is depicted holding an apple in his right hand carefully situated just below two framed miniatures: one of them larger, that is concealing a smaller framed miniature. The apple is a universal symbol of knowledge and immortality and appears in several religious traditions as a mystical or forbidden fruit. It is the fruit growing in the Garden of Eden which God commands mankind not to eat (i.e., it is forbidden or disallowed by divine or royal authority which derives directly from the will of God). Adam and Eve eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge and are punished for it by being exiled from Eden. In Greek mythology it shares similarities with Pandora’s Box which contains hidden treasure or knowledge that when opened reveals secrets hidden from the rest of mankind, which in this instance will bring down the wrath of divine royal authority and punishment, if uttered out loud: #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA

Would have been great if Mark Twain had a follow up book entitled, "Is Francis Bacon Dead?"

Bunten suggests that the monument in St Michael's wasn't erected until 15 years or so after Lord Bacon's supposed death. She also mentions that Sir Thomas Meautys was buried in St Michael's Church, St Albans. Alice Chambers Bunten's biography of Meautys (page 8):

SirThomasMeautysSecretarytoLordBaconandHisFriends_10296762-2.pdf Said to be by Paul Van Somer, it had to have been painted before 1621 when the artist died. Private collection.

Lady Dudley, Amy Robsart died on the 8th September 1560, about 5 months before Francis was born.

Letter at The Lambeth Palace Library #FrancisBacon #Shakespeare #Rosicrucians #Freemasonry #KingJames #Buckingham Paper: https://www.academia.edu/51468107/Did_Francis_Bacon_die_in_1626_Or_did_he_Feign_his_Death_with_the_Help_of_his_Rosicrucian_Freemasonry_Brotherhood Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTnZDpMy8uM&t=217s

'When I was Alive' #FrancisBacon #Shakespeare #Rosicrucians #Freemasonry #KingJames #Buckingham Paper: https://www.academia.edu/51468107/Did_Francis_Bacon_die_in_1626_Or_did_he_Feign_his_Death_with_the_Help_of_his_Rosicrucian_Freemasonry_Brotherhood Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTnZDpMy8uM&t=217s

Tobie Matthew #FrancisBacon #Shakespeare #Rosicrucians #Freemasonry #KingJames #Buckingham Paper: https://www.academia.edu/51468107/Did_Francis_Bacon_die_in_1626_Or_did_he_Feign_his_Death_with_the_Help_of_his_Rosicrucian_Freemasonry_Brotherhood Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTnZDpMy8uM&t=217s

Wouldn't you love to know who the artist was? https://sirbacon.org/francis-bacons-portraits-from-life/#!enviragallery4980-4987 Perhaps the portrait was commissioned by Her Majesty, the child's mother?

Secret Discussion What exactly passed between Elizabeth and Ascham is not known but whatever it was resulted in him being unable to sleep that night and likely for a few nights after. It is distinctly possible given his reaction that some secret was discussed which prompted him to write The Schoolmaster a treatise on the teaching of Latin ‘specially prepared for the private bringing up of youth in gentlemen and noblemens houses’, such as, of course, a young Francis, son of Queen Elizabeth, now being raised in the households of Sir Nicholas and Lady Anne Bacon. It appears the writing of the work was protracted and delayed for a variety of reasons. The preface to the printed edition was apparently written shortly before Ascham’s death in 1568 in which he thanked Cecil for giving him the hope that enabled him to finish it. Nearly two years passed before it was first printed by John Day, who had a long history and relationship (some of it secret) with the Cooke-Bacon-Cecils, who in the same year printed Lady Anne Cooke Bacon’s translation of Ochino’s Sermons. #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA

Roger Ascham Around the time Sir Nicholas and Lady Anne Bacon commissioned the oil painting of a young Francis his royal mother Queen Elizabeth instructed Roger Ascham one of the greatest scholars of his time to write his famous book The Schoolmaster. He had in the previous decades tutored and studied with Elizabeth at the Chelsea home of her step-mother Queen Catherine Parr and during the Marian reign at Hatfield. When Elizabeth ascended the throne she appointed Ascham her Latin secretary a post he held for the remainder of his life which meant he attended upon her almost daily and after dinner most evenings they studied their favourite Greek and Latin works. It was during one of these congenial occasions when Ascham dined at Windsor Castle with Cecil and other members of the Privy Council it was suggested to him he should write a work that became The Schoolmaster. #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA

Francis Bacon as a Young Child At Gorhambury House located on the Bacon family estate built originally built by Sir Nicholas Bacon there hangs on display a unique oil painting of Francis Bacon as a young child aged between one to two years old by an unknown artist. The oil painting was presumably commissioned by Sir Nicholas and Lady Anne Bacon (c. 1562) and it has very quietly passed down the descendents of the Bacon family during the last five centuries, overlooked by his orthodox editors and biographers. The existence of the painting became known to a small number of Baconian scholars in the second half of the twentieth century, a number of whom reproduced it without providing any further commentary. It first received a detailed examination by Peter Dawkins in his Dedication to the Light published by the Francis Bacon Research Trust in 1984, a work very little known outside of Baconian circles. #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA

Thank you Eric ! 🙏 ❤️ You should like the video which I am in the process of preparing for the 400th Anniversary. It will be almost all about Art! 😉 And well spotted !!! Great finding ❤️ I totally missed the date of the engraving yesterday. I was most interested in the quote by Hugo Grotius because he is involved in my video 😅. He was a contemporary of Francis Bacon, and a Child prodigy like him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Grotius He is mentionned in The Great Assises holden in Parnassus (1645) https://sirbacon.org/apollo.htm And here is another interesting article from Baconiana talking about his escape from Loevestein Castle in 1621. https://sirbacon.org/archives/baconiana/1919-1921 Baconiana No 61-63.pdf (Hugo Grotius and the Merry Wives of Windsor - page 62) Have a good day !

Greetings Yannus the Great! Just wondering why the frontispiece of your remarkable find is dated 1778, whereas the portrait of Abrahamus Gorlaeus (or Van Goorle), c. 1549 – 1608, is inscribed MDCI / 1601? It must be a posthumous copy from a contemporary engraving (see below). We can't wait for your First Folio project to appear... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Gorlaeus The more you look the more there is to see.

First Folio would be Mr. FRANCIS BACONS...

Royal Birth For four hundred years this rare Life of Bacon has been systematically suppressed by his orthodox editors and biographers for reasons that are about to become only all too clear. What is it then about the earliest Life of Bacon (aside from the ignorance of ordinary biographers and commentators) that has apparently motivated his major editors and biographers to effectively suppress certain lines and passages within it for the last four hundred years? Why on earth, and for what reason, would they go to such lengths to obscure and conceal them? What were they trying to hide and withhold from the rest of the world for nearly half a millennium? Answer: the first secret of Bacon’s life, the secret of his royal birth. For the literal and superficial It begins with a reference to his father being the Lord Keeper before intermingling striking and unmistakable allusions, to his secret royal birth, born of the very regal and royal monarch, Queen Elizabeth. #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA

York Place - Whitehall The York House mansion was set within grounds adjacent to those of the royal palace York Place (now known as the Palace of Whitehall comprising government buildings including the Cabinet Office and Ministry of Defence), Queen Elizabeth’s Palace, the main residence of English monarchs from the early sixteenth century. Interestingly Bacon refers to this change of name in his Shakespeare’s Act IV Scene I from Henry VIII: “You must no more call it York Place—that is past: For since the Cardinal fell that title's lost; 'Tis now the King's, and called Whitehall”. Dr Rawley who lived and spent several years with Bacon at York House when he was Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor of England knew the difference between York House and York Place, the royal residence of Queen Elizabeth, and was privy to the secret of his royal birth. He had gone as close to the heels of the truth as he might dare by directly suggesting their was some kind of mystery regarding his birth by pointing to York Place, the royal palace of Queen Elizabeth, secret royal mother of Francis Bacon. #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA

York Place It will be observed that curiously Dr Rawley pointedly says that Bacon was born at York House or York Place, which are two separate buildings, and as he was perfectly aware carried absolutely different meanings and implications for the filial antecedents concerning the secret life of the man who had entrusted him with them. In Elizabethan England the mansion York House on the Strand was the official residence of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England the office first held in the Elizabethan reign by Sir Nicholas Bacon who occupied it for some twenty years from 1559 until his death in 1579 and then the official residence of Francis as Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor with whom Dr Rawley resided. #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA

No Account of Funeral or Burial #FrancisBacon #Shakespeare #Rosicrucians #Freemasonry #KingJames #Buckingham Paper: https://www.academia.edu/51468107/Did_Francis_Bacon_die_in_1626_Or_did_he_Feign_his_Death_with_the_Help_of_his_Rosicrucian_Freemasonry_Brotherhood Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTnZDpMy8uM&t=217s