The Bacon-Shakespeare Manuscript (formerly known as the Northumberland Manuscript)

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The Secret Triangular Royal Relationship Between Queen Elizabeth, Francis Bacon and Robert Devereux

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Monuments of Wit Outlive the Monuments of Power

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[Eric Roberts]

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The Secret Triangular Royal Relationship Between Queen Elizabeth, Francis Bacon and Robert Devereux

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The Elizabethan Court Day by Day - 17 November, 1595

Earl of Essex’s Accession Day entertainment

Rowland Whyte’s description of the entertainment in a letter clarifies the sequence of events (see November 22).

Several speeches are in Francis Bacon’s hand, but Henry Wotton later praised Essex’s ‘darling piece of love and self-love’. A few extracts are given here.

The opening speech: the ‘Speech of the Squire in the Tilt-yard’:

‘Most excellent and glorious Queen, give me leave, I beseech your Majesty, to offer my master’s complaint and petition. Complaint - that coming hither to your Majesty’s most happy day he is tormented with the importunity of a melancholy dreaming Hermit, a mutinous brain-sick Soldier, and a busy tedious Secretary. His petition is that he may be as free as the rest, and at least whilst he is here be troubled with nothing but with care how to please and honour you’. ‘The Hermit’s first speech’ comprised a few lines asking the Queen ‘to assign us a time when we may before you speak for ourselves, and
so will it appear whether this complaint is just’.

The Squire also presented another tilter in the guise of a blind Indian Prince, whose own attendant then addressed the Queen. They had come to seek her, and to obtain his cure, inspired by an Oracle, whose prophecy began:

             ‘Seated between the Old World and the New,
              A land there is no other land may touch,
              Where reigns a Queen in peace and honour true;
              Stories or fables do describe no such’.

After the Tilt, and after supper, Essex’s entertainment continued with speeches in the Presence Chamber before the Queen.

A copy of the speeches in Francis Bacon’s hand has an introductory note:
‘The persons to be three: one dressed like a Hermit or Philosopher, representing Contemplation; the second like a Captain, representing Fame; and the third like a Councillor of State, representing Experience’.

The speeches are described elsewhere as ‘The Hermit’s Speech’; ‘The Soldier’s Speech’; and ‘The Statesman’s Speech’ or ‘The Secretary’s Speech’, which alludes to ‘Philautia’ (goddess of self-love) and her attempts to beguile ‘Erophilus’ (lover of love). Modern edition: Nichols, Progresses (2014), iii.862-877.

‘The Reply of the Squire’ concludes: ‘Erophilus’s resolution is fixed: he renounceth Philautia and all her enchantments. He expecteth nothing and all things from his mistress. For her recreation he will confer with the Muses; for her defence and honour he will sacrifice his life in the wars, hoping to be embalmed in the sweet odours of her remembrance; to her service he will consecrate all his watchful endeavours, and will ever bear in his heart the picture of her beauty, in his actions of her will, and in his fortune of her grace and favour’.

 

Court news. Nov 22, Rowland Whyte to Sir Robert Sidney:

‘My Lord of Essex’s device is much commended in these late triumphs.
Some pretty while before he came in himself to the tilt, he sent his Page
with some speech to the Queen, who returned with her Majesty’s glove. And when he came himself he was met with an old Hermit, a Secretary of State, a brave Soldier, and an Esquire’.

‘The first presented him with a book of meditations; the second with political discourses; the third with orations of brave fought battles; the fourth was but his own follower, to whom the other three imparted much of their purpose, before his coming in. Another devised [spoke] with him, persuading him to this and that course of life, according to their inclinations’.

‘Comes into the Tilt-yard unthought upon the ordinary Post-boy of London, a ragged villain all bemired, upon a poor lean jade, galloping and blowing for life, and delivered the Secretary a packet of letters, which he presently offered my Lord of Essex. And with this dumb-show our eyes were fed for that time’.

‘In the after-supper, before the Queen, they first delivered a well-penned speech to move this worthy Knight to leave his vain following of love, and to betake him to heavenly meditation: the Secretary’s all tending to have him follow matters of state, the Soldier’s persuading him to the war; but the Esquire answered them all, and concluded with an excellent, but too plain English, that this Knight would never forsake his Mistress’s love, whose virtue made all his thoughts divine, whose wisdom taught him all true policy, whose beauty and worth were at all times able to make him fit to command armies.

He showed all the defects and imperfections of all their times, and therefore thought his course of life to be best in serving his Mistress’.

‘The old man was he that in Cambridge [1 March 1595] played Giraldy, Morley played the Secretary, and he that played Pedantiq was the Soldier, and Toby Matthew [Bishop of Durham’s son] acted the Squire’s part’.

‘The world makes many untrue constructions of these speeches, comparing the Hermit and the Secretary to two of the lords [of the Council, Burghley and Cecil], and the Soldier to Sir Roger Williams. But the Queen said that if she had thought there had been so much said of her she would not have been there that night, and so went to bed’.

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The Immortal Sonnet 55

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Edited December 13, 2022 by A Phoenix

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Of Love and Self Love Echoed in a Series of Shakespeare Plays

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The Speech for the Earl of Sussex on the Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's Accession

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[Eric Roberts]

3 hours ago, A Phoenix said:

The Immortal Sonnet 55

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"You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes". Broils: early 16th century: from obsolete broil ‘to muddle’. Compare with embroil.

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Of Love and Self Love Echoed in a Series of Shakespeare Plays

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When Lord Bacon departed in 1626, his former servant, Thomas Bushell, lived as a hermit for 3 years on the Calf of Man.

[Eric Roberts]

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The Speech for the Earl of Sussex on the Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's Accession

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https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/mediawiki/media/images_pedia_folgerpedia_mw/archive/c/c4/20170608213746!ECDbD_1596.pdf

[Eric Roberts]

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The Speech for the Earl of Sussex on the Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's Accession

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https://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/radcliffe5.htm

https://collections.royalarmouries.org/object/rac-object-29470

Edited December 13, 2022 by Eric Roberts

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The Speech for the Earl of Sussex at the Tilt Composed by Lord Bacon

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The Letter to Queen Elizabeth Presented in the Name of Sir Philp Sidney

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The Letter to Queen Elizabeth written by Lord Bacon

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Leicester's Commonwealth - The Most Politically Scandalous & Explosive Tract of the Elizabeth Era

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The Abominable Life of the Earl of Leicester

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The Anonymous Author of Leicester's Commonwealth

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The Anonymous Author of Leicester's Commonwealth

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Whoever wrote it certainly seems to have wanted to "discredit and destroy" Robert Dudley. Perhaps with good reason.

I believe that you (A Phoenix) have written elsewhere about the suspicious death of Sir Nicholas Bacon in the context of Hamlet. If young Francis Bacon was an agent of Walsingham's he may have been privy to evidence of the dark side of his father.

[Eric Roberts]

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The Abominable Life of the Earl of Leicester

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As we would say today, the author of Leicester's Commonwealth leaked it to the foreign press first, presumably to make it harder to trace the scandalous tract back to its source in England.

[Eric Roberts]

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Leicester's Commonwealth - The Most Politically Scandalous & Explosive Tract of the Elizabeth Era

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Full transcript of Leicester's Commonwealth:

http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Leicester/Leicesters_Commonwealth_1584.pdf

 

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An Operation by the English Secret Service

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The Concealed Secret Author of Leicester's Commonwealth

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The Murderous Earl of Leicester

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[Eric Roberts]

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An Operation by the English Secret Service

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Do you believe the story of how the Earl of Leicester died? It seems somewhat incredible that he accidentally drank from the cup of poison he had prepared for his wife. Poetic justice, but seems too much like a Poirot episode for me to believe. Given your conclusion that Leicester's Commonwealth was part of a clandestine operation by Elizabeth's secret service, it wouldn't seem too far fetched to wonder if Leicester's death was a hit job made to look like an accident. Plausible?

[Eric Roberts]

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The Concealed Secret Author of Leicester's Commonwealth

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How bizarre! Did Francis hate his biological father enough to write a such a slanderous diatribe designed to reduce his dad to a laughing stock and probable execution if any of Leicester's alleged murders were proved in court?

[Eric Roberts]

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The Murderous Earl of Leicester

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He was also a generous patron of the Arts and numerous institutions. Imagine the headlines if this "Bad Boy" was alive today!