In the News today : What-shakespeare-really-looked-like-the-only-portrait-painted-during-his-lifetime

[Eric Roberts]

1 hour ago, A Phoenix said:

Hi Eric and Rob,

As you both know the so-called Northumberland Manuscript which originally contained Lord Bacon's two Shakespeare plays Richard II and Richard III was found at Northumberland House in the middle of the nineteenth century. This collection of manuscripts which orginally belonged to Lord Bacon has still not yet yielded up all its secrets. I am at the moment in the process of completing a long work on this unique historical document which I have re-named the Bacon-Shakespeare Manuscript. When I have completed it (within the next couple of weeks) I will send you both a copy of it with two accompany videos brilliantly titled by me Part 1 and Part 2! 😁

"Bacon-Shakespeare Manuscript" - brilliant. Exactly what is should be called. Can't wait to read it and watch the videos.

Edited November 18, 2022 by Eric Roberts

[A Phoenix]

Hi Eric,

There is a very interesting chapter 'The Original Meeting Place Of Freemasons' in the little known work by George V. Tudhope entitled Bacon-Masonry in which its author claims that at the Priory of St John Jerusalem Lord Bacon directed plays, presumably including some of his early Shakespeare plays, which was/is possibly linked by subterranean passages to Canonbury Tower, also an early Rosicucian-Freemasonic Lodge.

See SirBacon.org links on the Tudhope Work  : https://sirbacon.org/tudhope.htm    https://sirbacon.org/imtitlepageparis.htm

The relevant chapter is reproduced below:

 

[Eric Roberts]

4 hours ago, A Phoenix said:

Hi Eric,

There is a very interesting chapter 'The Original Meeting Place Of Freemasons' in the little known work by George V. Tudhope entitled Bacon-Masonry in which its author claims that at the Priory of St John Jerusalem Lord Bacon directed plays, presumably including some of his early Shakespeare plays, which was/is possibly linked by subterranean passages to Canonbury Tower, also an early Rosicucian-Freemasonic Lodge.

See SirBacon.org links on the Tudhope Work  : https://sirbacon.org/tudhope.htm    https://sirbacon.org/imtitlepageparis.htm

The relevant chapter is reproduced below:

 

Hi A. P. - So kind and good of you to share this exciting information, which I can hardly take in on first reading! It illuminates something I have never been able to understand: how Francis (& Co.) may have managed to direct the pre-production process of the plays in relative secrecy. These pages bring those far off days sufficiently back to life to glimpse the means whereby a great clandestine literary/theatrical enterprise (the Plays) could have been achieved. They also reveal the links between the Knights of the Helmet, the Priory of Jerusalem and Canonbury Tower, subjects I know too little about. Rosicrucianism and Freemasonary are impregnable castles to me, but I shall persevere as an outsider filled with wonder. Thank you for all your loving help.

 

[A Phoenix]

Hi Eric,

You are right there are so many concealed and hidden layers of secrecy surrounding the production & rehearsals of the Shakespeare plays (and other plays written by Bacon put forward in the names of others-not least behind his literary masks of Lyly and Marlowe) which in the fullness of time will be revealed to us. 

[Light-of-Truth]

10 hours ago, Eric Roberts said:

"Bacon-Shakespeare Manuscript" - brilliant. Exactly what is should be called. Can't wait to read it and watch the videos.

A. Phoenix said (bold and italic mine😞

"When I have completed it (within the next couple of weeks) I will send you both a copy of it with two accompany videos brilliantly titled by me Part 1 and Part 2!"

My thought was the brilliantly titled parts were naming Parts 1 and 2. 😁

Seriously though, in my own loose Google bouncing around looking for who is the latest Fake red-bearded Shakespeare yesterday, a few things came up that I never knew and didn't mentioned, even when I had a dozen or more windows open in case I wanted to link. Everything was interlinked, mostly starting with people born in 1564, then following threads where everyone knew each other. Makes sense to me. We know who they were, they did too.

John Lumley and his collection of Art which lead to Henry Percy, Northumberland (in various forms), the Priory of St John, early Shakespeare plays, Bacon and his friends, so on and so on.

This is very VERY important for us. 🙂

To to me, in our bantering we uncovered an artifact, a 430 or so year old "Arrowhead", or a "Spearhead". During Sonnet 136 of the Sonnets to boot! 😉

The Fake Shakespeare painting is definitely worth a lot more than it was before they decided to claim it is Shakespeare. A genius greedy scheme! A lie, not Truth, but they are laughing enjoying the publicity and $$$.

Flip side of the coin:

We Baconians have brought to Light a mostly forgotten Key to Bacon's history. And maybe weakened yet another untruth that has nothing to offer for a Universal Reformation of the Whole Wide World. Or, did it ultimately help by what we do?

UNIVERSAL REFORMATION OF THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD is 188 Short cipher. That is exciting to me! Not only because it is the Kaye cipher of JOHN DEE!

🙂

 

 

[Light-of-Truth]

6 hours ago, Eric Roberts said:

Rosicrucianism and Freemasonary are impregnable castles to me, but I shall persevere as an outsider filled with wonder.

I understand, not being an initiate in any form to any organization. But to be honest, the castles are wide open for anyone with eyes to see or Will to perceive.

Never forget this invitation to Bacon's Castles:

😉

 

[Light-of-Truth]

Mather Walker:

https://sirbacon.org/mcompeer.htm

In "Bacon-Masonry" George Tudhope points out that while there is absolutely no evidence to indicate Freemasonry came from the Lodge of the Holy Saint John at Jerusalem, there is evidence to connect it with a lodge not at, but of Saint John at Jerusalem. It is known, points out Tudhope (and also Fuller in her biography "Sir Francis Bacon") that Bacon held a lease on Canonbury Tower from 1616 to 1625, and this was in a complex of buildings known as the Priory of St. John of Jerusalem. If the evidence for Bacon's authorship of the Shakespeare plays is accepted, a wide field of very strong evidence for Bacon's connection with Freemasonry is opened up, so my next step is to examine some of this evidence.

A few lines down:

There is first a reference to the "Lodge". Next the capital letters running down the beginning of the lines, spell out "WIL is A FC", i.e. - "Will is a Fellowcraft." Dodd adds that the phonetic sound of the first two syllables of Jaquenetta is "Jachin", the password for the Fellowcraft. (Many Baconians believe the clown parodied in Love's Labor Lost was actually William Shakspere of Stratford on Avon.)

As Dodd says, the body of evidence cited in his book "proves incontestably these works were saturated in Masonry." The problem is, and has always been, dual. In the first place scholars do not realize that Bacon wrote the plays. And in the second place, in addition to this lamentable ignorance, the scholars who have studied the plays have had no familiarity with Freemasonry. When they encounter something, such as the knocking at the gate scene with the porter in Macbeth, it registers no more than light on the eyes of a blind man. But the repeated three knocks at the door, especially in connection with the association of King James with Scottish Freemasonry, almost certainly alludes to the ritual of Freemasonry. But enough of this scattered and sporadic evidence. What I want to do now is to provide an overview of the Masonic matter in The Tempest.

 

[Light-of-Truth]

In my news today:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/metal-detectorist-medieval-ring-intl-scli-gbr/index.html

In part...

The ring is in "almost perfect condition," Nigel Mills, a consultant in coins and antiquities at Noonans, said in the release. The jewelery has a golden hoop of two entwined bands to symbolize marital union and an inverted diamond set into it.

Inside the band is a medieval French inscription that reads, "Ieo vos tien foi tenes le moy," translating as, "I hold your faith, hold mine," according to the auction house.
Due to the location of the find and the quality of the ring, Noonans' experts surmised that it's the wedding ring of Joan Brook, given to her by her husband, Thomas Brook.

Their marriage in 1388 brought great wealth to the Brook family, the release said, as Joan was the widow of Robert Cheddar, a wealthy cloth merchant and twice mayor of Bristol -- a city in western England. It was at a time when medieval notions of chivalry and courtly love were at their zenith, concepts which the ring reflects, Noonans said.

Now known as The Lady Brook Medieval diamond ring, the item will be auctioned on November 29.

I like how it says, "Due to the location of the find and the quality of the ring, Noonans' experts surmised that it's the wedding ring of Joan Brook..." How Stratfordian is that?! OMG. "Hey, my Grandma has an old painting from 1608 of someone in our family born in 1564, but we are selling as Shakespeare even though nobody wise would fall for it!"

Did I post about the 600 year old coin someone found in Newfoundland that surmisers now say is "proof" that someone was there and lost it when that coin was freshly made. LOL

I have a 1625 edition of Bacon's Sonnets, so I surmise  "Francis Bacon must have been here in my home in 1625 and left it on my kitchen table., as a gift." Of course! What other possible explanation could there be??

I wonder what it would grab in an auction with a good Press Release...

 

 

 

Edited November 19, 2022 by Light-of-Truth

[Eric Roberts]

6 hours ago, Light-of-Truth said:

Mather Walker:

https://sirbacon.org/mcompeer.htm

In "Bacon-Masonry" George Tudhope points out that while there is absolutely no evidence to indicate Freemasonry came from the Lodge of the Holy Saint John at Jerusalem, there is evidence to connect it with a lodge not at, but of Saint John at Jerusalem. It is known, points out Tudhope (and also Fuller in her biography "Sir Francis Bacon") that Bacon held a lease on Canonbury Tower from 1616 to 1625, and this was in a complex of buildings known as the Priory of St. John of Jerusalem. If the evidence for Bacon's authorship of the Shakespeare plays is accepted, a wide field of very strong evidence for Bacon's connection with Freemasonry is opened up, so my next step is to examine some of this evidence.

A few lines down:

There is first a reference to the "Lodge". Next the capital letters running down the beginning of the lines, spell out "WIL is A FC", i.e. - "Will is a Fellowcraft." Dodd adds that the phonetic sound of the first two syllables of Jaquenetta is "Jachin", the password for the Fellowcraft. (Many Baconians believe the clown parodied in Love's Labor Lost was actually William Shakspere of Stratford on Avon.)

As Dodd says, the body of evidence cited in his book "proves incontestably these works were saturated in Masonry." The problem is, and has always been, dual. In the first place scholars do not realize that Bacon wrote the plays. And in the second place, in addition to this lamentable ignorance, the scholars who have studied the plays have had no familiarity with Freemasonry. When they encounter something, such as the knocking at the gate scene with the porter in Macbeth, it registers no more than light on the eyes of a blind man. But the repeated three knocks at the door, especially in connection with the association of King James with Scottish Freemasonry, almost certainly alludes to the ritual of Freemasonry. But enough of this scattered and sporadic evidence. What I want to do now is to provide an overview of the Masonic matter in The Tempest.

 

Thank you, Light-of-Truth. I've put "Compeers by Night" on my reading list... much appreciated.

[Eric Roberts]

On 11/18/2022 at 9:23 PM, A Phoenix said:

author claims that at the Priory of St John Jerusalem Lord Bacon directed plays, presumably including some of his early Shakespeare plays, which was/is possibly linked by subterranean passages to Canonbury Tower,

 

Unless I'm mistaken, the distance between the two sites is about 4 klm (2.5 miles)... quite a walk, even above ground.

 

A nice collection of archival images of Canonbury Tower:

Islington History.pdf

[A Phoenix]

These are great Eric, not seen many of these images before - thanks for posting.👍

[Eric Roberts]

3 hours ago, A Phoenix said:

These are great Eric, not seen many of these images before - thanks for posting.👍

RE: Priory of St John and the Knights of the Helmet

So far, I haven't been able to find a list of the names of Francis Bacon's Knights of the Helmet, so I've made a tentative start. Could anyone please add, subtract or correct the following list of possible candidates? With your help, I'd like to put together a portrait "gallery" of Francis secret companions ('those who share bread'). 

THE HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE HELMET

ANTHONY BACON (1558-1601)

SIR TOBIE MATTHEW (1577-1655)

ROBERT DEVEREUX, 2ND EARL OF ESSEX (1565-1601)

BEN JONSON (1572-1637)

HENRY WRIOTHESLEY, 3RD EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON (1573-1624)

HENRY PERCY, 9TH EARL NORTHUMBERLAND (1564-1632)

WILLIAM HERBERT, 3RD EARL OF PEMBROKE (1580-1630)

PHILIP HERBERT, 1ST EARL OF MONTGOMERY AND 4TH EARL OF PEMBROKE (1584-1650)

EDWARD de VERE, 17th EARL OF OXFORD (1550-1604)

WILLIAM STANLEY, THE 6TH EARL OF DERBY (1561-1642)

SIR WALTER RALEIGH (C.1552-1618) 

THOMAS HOWARD, 14TH EARL OF ARUNDEL

 

Later:

DR. WILLIAM RAWLEY (C. 1588–1667) 

SIR THOMAS MEAUTYS (1592–1649) 

[Eric Roberts]

On 11/18/2022 at 7:28 PM, A Phoenix said:

Hi Eric and Rob,

As you both know the so-called Northumberland Manuscript which originally contained Lord Bacon's two Shakespeare plays Richard II and Richard III was found at Northumberland House in the middle of the nineteenth century. This collection of manuscripts which originally belonged to Lord Bacon has still not yet yielded up all its secrets. I am at the moment in the process of completing a long work on this unique historical document which I have re-named the Bacon-Shakespeare Manuscript. When I have completed it (within the next couple of weeks) I will send you both a copy of it with two accompanying videos brilliantly titled by me Part 1 and Part 2! 😁

Three views of Northumberland House, the Strand. Do we know how the collection of manuscripts came to be in Northumberland House? Did Francis ever reside there?

 

[Eric Roberts]

3 minutes ago, Eric Roberts said:

Three views of Northumberland House, the Strand. Do we know how the collection of manuscripts came to be in Northumberland House? Did Francis ever reside there?

 

"Equally interesting is the fact that Northumberland House stood next door to York House, where Francis Bacon lived during the years he was Lord Keeper."

https://politicworm.com/oxford-shakespeare/the-big-six-candidates/oxford-versus-bacon/bacon-nashe-and-the-northumberland-manuscript/

The link is to the article I took the quote from. I only give it as a reference, not to be read, as it is rather opinionated and biased. Don't bother. But the close proximity of York House to Northumberland House is interesting.

[Eric Roberts]

On 11/18/2022 at 9:23 PM, A Phoenix said:

Hi Eric,

There is a very interesting chapter 'The Original Meeting Place Of Freemasons' in the little known work by George V. Tudhope entitled Bacon-Masonry in which its author claims that at the Priory of St John Jerusalem Lord Bacon directed plays, presumably including some of his early Shakespeare plays, which was/is possibly linked by subterranean passages to Canonbury Tower, also an early Rosicucian-Freemasonic Lodge.

See SirBacon.org links on the Tudhope Work  : https://sirbacon.org/tudhope.htm    https://sirbacon.org/imtitlepageparis.htm

The relevant chapter is reproduced below:

 

Hi A. Phoenix

I've been trying to see if there's any historical evidence for underground passages running beneath Clerkenwell, as mentioned in the chapter you kindly scanned for us.

I followed the link to the Baconiana article cited and found the following interesting extract:

But there, to date, the trail runs cold. It looks as if no one has ever mapped the Elizabethan underground network.

Meanwhile, I found this map which shows the huge extent of the original Priory of St John of Jerusalem.

I'll keep digging...

 

[Eric Roberts]

Canonbury Tower was originally the property of the Priory of St John of Jerusalem. 

Below: from 1953_Baconian, No 145

[A Phoenix]

Hi Eric,

It is not known how FB's collection of Manuscripts (hitherto known as The Northumberland Manuscript) ending up at Northumberland House.

[Christie Waldman]

From Eric, 16 hrs. ago, this thread: "Equally interesting is the fact that Northumberland House stood next door to York House, where Francis Bacon lived during the years he was Lord Keeper."

York House, also known as Bacon House, on Noble Street, in Aldersgate, was where the King's printer, Christopher Barker and son Robert, printers, lived and printed. "Noble Street," https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/NOBL1.htm/. Foster Lane, labelled here as Forster Lane, https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/FOST1.htm. Here is Fleetwood residence, "of Bacon House, Foster Lane and Noble Street," https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/fleetwood-william-i-1525-94. Foster Lane--I've seen a convoluted definition for why it was called Foster Lane. It couldn't have had anything to do with Bacon being a foster parent, could it.

"It has revealed to us also: first, that the
Barkers' printing house was in St. Martin's Lane, off
Aldersgate Street, and was known as Northumberland
House, and that it served as the King's Printing House
until Bonham Norton removed the office to Hunsdon
House, Blackfriars." Henry R. Plomer, "The King's Printing House under the Stuarts,"The Library, Volume s2-II, Issue 8, October 1901, Pages 353–375, 374, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/s2-II.8.353.

In this paper, I cited a Paul Kocher article which gave a wrong citation as to Fleetwood's account of Bacon's speech. I believe I gave the correct one. I certainly intended to. Essay, “Bacon’s Maiden Speech to Parliament and His Royal Birth,” June 15, 2020. https://sirbacon.org/archives/Bacons%20Maiden%20Speech%20to%20Parliament%20&%20His%20Royal%20Birth%20June%2015%202020-1.pdf.

See the entry for "Coachmakers' Hall, Coach Harness Maker's Hall" at  https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/dictionary-of-london/coach-and-horses-inn-cock#h2-0001.

The house had been bought by Charles Bostock, a Scrivener, in 1628 and used as Scriveners Hall, with ownership transferred to the Scriveners by Bostock in 1631. The Scriveners rebuilt the hall and eventually sold it to the Coachmakers. It was Scriveners Hall 1628-1720 (destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and rebuilt). After 1720, it was called Coachmaker's Hall. They rebuilt it in 1843 and 1870.

 

It was destroyed by bombs in WW II and there is a plaque there now, at Noble St. near Oates St., not far from the graveyard where the St. Mary Staining church burned down in the Great Fire and was not rebuilt.

 

I had this in my notes. I don't have any other references handy, but I can tell you that I found out a lot more searching Coachmaker's Hall or Scrivener's Hall than I did searching for Bacon House or York House.

Edited November 21, 2022 by Christie Waldman
adding info.

[A Phoenix]

CANONBURY TOWER THE OLDEST SURVIVING ROSICRUCIAN-FREEMASONIC LODGE IN THE WORLD.

Hi Eric,

It is one of the best kept secrets that Canonbury Tower once leased by Lord Bacon is the oldest surviving Rosicrucian-Freemasonic Lodge in the world which was once home to the Francis Bacon Society and until recently home to the Canonbury Masonic Research Centre. Its interior is replete with Rosicrucian-Freemasonic signs, symbols and emblems, which are discussed by Peter Dawkins in his article 'The Brotherhood Sign', Baconiana, Vol. LX, No. 177, November 1977,  pp. 54-62 and by Jean Overton Fuller in Sir Francis Bacon A Biography (Maidstone, George Mann, 1994), pp. 241-51 (esp. pp. 241-44 see below).

A second article by Peter Dawkins, 'Canonbury Tower', Baconiana, Vol I. LIX, October 1976, pp. 41-48 discusses the subterranean passages beneath Canonbury Tower and Gray's Inn, St Bartholomew's Priory and elsewhere (see ppages 46-47). 

 https://francisbaconsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/1976_Baconiana_No.176.pdf

https://francisbaconsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/1977_Baconiana_No.177.pdf

 

 

[Light-of-Truth]

Everybody has me so excited! I dreamed of pulling arrowheads out of sand last night! I woke up and knew Bacon would be a theme today, but it was a busy day. Now I am admiring shiny arrowheads found by others in the B'Hive! Eric, Christie, A Phoenix, just today!

A Phoenix states:

CANONBURY TOWER THE OLDEST SURVIVING ROSICRUCIAN-FREEMASONIC LODGE IN THE WORLD.

I am sharing some Simple cipher Simplicite, Simple Truth, for what it is worth.

CANONBURY TOWER Is 182 Simple cipher. That is huge, especially when we talk about the RC and/or Bacon.

The oldest surviving RC/FREE Lodge in the World? 182 Simple cipher??

ONE EIGHTY TWO is 157 Simple and 287 Kaye ciphers. And we are talking about the "oldest surviving Lodge in the World"? Sealed with 157 and 287?

For real? I'm dreaming, right?

Too much fun!

EDIT:

Above reading; Peter Dawkins is Great. He is one of us for sure! 🙂

 

Edited November 22, 2022 by Light-of-Truth

[Light-of-Truth]

Peter Dawkins from A Phoenix post:

"In 1616, Francis leased Canonbury Manor, usually known from its most conspicuous feature as the Canonbury Tower."

Line 1616 of the Sonnets? In Sonnet 116 (mis-numbered 119)

O no,it is an euer fixed marke

Edited November 22, 2022 by Light-of-Truth

[Eric Roberts]

17 hours ago, Christie Waldman said:

From Eric, 16 hrs. ago, this thread: "Equally interesting is the fact that Northumberland House stood next door to York House, where Francis Bacon lived during the years he was Lord Keeper."

York House, also known as Bacon House, on Noble Street, in Aldersgate, was where the King's printer, Christopher Barker and son Robert, printers, lived and printed. "Noble Street," https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/NOBL1.htm/. Foster Lane, labelled here as Forster Lane, https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/FOST1.htm. Here is Fleetwood residence, "of Bacon House, Foster Lane and Noble Street," https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/fleetwood-william-i-1525-94. Foster Lane--I've seen a convoluted definition for why it was called Foster Lane. It couldn't have had anything to do with Bacon being a foster parent, could it.

"It has revealed to us also: first, that the
Barkers' printing house was in St. Martin's Lane, off
Aldersgate Street, and was known as Northumberland
House, and that it served as the King's Printing House
until Bonham Norton removed the office to Hunsdon
House, Blackfriars." Henry R. Plomer, "The King's Printing House under the Stuarts,"The Library, Volume s2-II, Issue 8, October 1901, Pages 353–375, 374, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/s2-II.8.353.

In this paper, I cited a Paul Kocher article which gave a wrong citation as to Fleetwood's account of Bacon's speech. I believe I gave the correct one. I certainly intended to. Essay, “Bacon’s Maiden Speech to Parliament and His Royal Birth,” June 15, 2020. https://sirbacon.org/archives/Bacons%20Maiden%20Speech%20to%20Parliament%20&%20His%20Royal%20Birth%20June%2015%202020-1.pdf.

See the entry for "Coachmakers' Hall, Coach Harness Maker's Hall" at  https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/dictionary-of-london/coach-and-horses-inn-cock#h2-0001.

The house had been bought by Charles Bostock, a Scrivener, in 1628 and used as Scriveners Hall, with ownership transferred to the Scriveners by Bostock in 1631. The Scriveners rebuilt the hall and eventually sold it to the Coachmakers. It was Scriveners Hall 1628-1720 (destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and rebuilt). After 1720, it was called Coachmaker's Hall. They rebuilt it in 1843 and 1870.

 

It was destroyed by bombs in WW II and there is a plaque there now, at Noble St. near Oates St., not far from the graveyard where the St. Mary Staining church burned down in the Great Fire and was not rebuilt.

 

I had this in my notes. I don't have any other references handy, but I can tell you that I found out a lot more searching Coachmaker's Hall or Scrivener's Hall than I did searching for Bacon House or York House.

 

 

Hi Christie. Thanks to you, I found this interesting essay, with illustrations about "The Construction of Northumberland House" by M Guerci. It confirms that Northumberland House in the Strand was built next door to York House, where Francis was born (or was it York Place?). Given that every Londoner in those times would know that the Houses of York and Northumberland in the Strand were side by side, I wonder if the Barker's printing house in Aldersgate became known locally as "Northumberland House" as joking reference to the two great houses in the centre of London.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248732297_The_Construction_of_Northumberland_House_and_the_Patronage_of_its_Original_Builder_Lord_Henry_Howard_1603-14

York:Northampton maps.pdf

Thanks for telling me about Bacon House in Noble St. Aldersgate, built or bought by Sir Nicholas Bacon. It would be good to have some more information about its history!

Edited November 22, 2022 by Eric Roberts

[Eric Roberts]

11 hours ago, A Phoenix said:

CANONBURY TOWER THE OLDEST SURVIVING ROSICRUCIAN-FREEMASONIC LODGE IN THE WORLD.

Hi Eric,

It is one of the best kept secrets that Canonbury Tower once leased by Lord Bacon is the oldest surviving Rosicrucian-Freemasonic Lodge in the world which was once home to the Francis Bacon Society and until recently home to the Canonbury Masonic Research Centre. Its interior is replete with Rosicrucian-Freemasonic signs, symbols and emblems, which are discussed by Peter Dawkins in his article 'The Brotherhood Sign', Baconiana, Vol. LX, No. 177, November 1977,  pp. 54-62 and by Jean Overton Fuller in Sir Francis Bacon A Biography (Maidstone, George Mann, 1994), pp. 241-51 (esp. pp. 241-44 see below).

A second article by Peter Dawkins, 'Canonbury Tower', Baconiana, Vol I. LIX, October 1976, pp. 41-48 discusses the subterranean passages beneath Canonbury Tower and Gray's Inn, St Bartholomew's Priory and elsewhere (see ppages 46-47). 

 https://francisbaconsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/1976_Baconiana_No.176.pdf

https://francisbaconsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/1977_Baconiana_No.177.pdf

 

 

Hi A.P.  Just got around to reading Peter Dawkins' "Canonbury Tower, Islington" in Baconiana 1976. As you pointed out, he has lots to say about the tunnels running under London. He specifically mentions the Priory of St John as being joined by a subterranean passage with Canonbury Tower. Furthermore, he refers to old maps of the Tower which trace a number of these passages. All evidence considered, the existence of underground access to and from the Revels Office (Priory of St John) and Canonbury Tower could have enabled the Plays to be rehearsed and the Knights of the Temple to meet in total secrecy. Thanks so much for all the great information!

[Light-of-Truth]

Funny this Canonbury Tower thread is on at least three forums! That's fine, but I wanted to try to post in the best place for this 1925/1926 Baconiana article that may possibly even be up already! I've been busy, hard to keep track! 🙂

https://sirbacon.org/archives/baconiana/1925-1926 Baconiana No 68-71.pdf

Be sure to scroll down and read "Sketch of Canonbury Tower".

Page 34 is below in the PDF. If you go there, look at page 33 and the message as well before you finish. About a 100 years ago, where are the "Verulam Treasures" now?

 

Edited November 22, 2022 by Light-of-Truth

[Light-of-Truth]

This is how I ended up here; page 43 in PDF:

Just inside is a curious Latin inscription painted in black Roman letters, near the ceiling, well out of reach. It purports to be a record of the abbreviated names of the Kings and Queens of England from William the Conqueror to Charles I., and reads thus:

Will. Con. Will. Rvfvs. Hen Stephanvs. Henq.
  Secvndvs |
Ri Iohn. Hen Tertivs Ed. tres. Ri Secvndvs
  Hen. tres. Ed. bini : Ri. tertivs : Septimvs :
Henry |
Octavvs post hvnc Ed. Sext. Reg Mar :
EliZABETHA SOROR : SVCCEDIT F ------- IaCOBVS 1
SVBSEQVITVR CHAROlvS QVI loNGO TEMPO
    Mors Tva, Mors Christi, Fravs Mvndi GIoria
      CoeIi
    Et DoIor Inferni, Sint Meditanda Tibi.

The image I see on my PC posted above, it looks likes an "E" to me, there is a base line! Unless this line was skecthed in, which is possible, I see an "E". I'm fine with that, FRANCIS ain't going to fit! Their printer letter blocks are wide.

Page 33;

William the Conqueror being the "First" in a list of English Kings leading to or hinting at Bacon is not only in the inscription at Canonbury Tower. 😉

 

Edited November 23, 2022 by Light-of-Truth