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The Feigned Death of Lord Bacon


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2 hours ago, A Phoenix said:

Hi A.Phoenix. I wonder who was Lady Delaware?

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Hi Eric,

We don't know for certain the identity of Lady Delaware, but as a provisional possibilty, she might be the wife of Thomas West, third Baron De La Warr (pronounced DEL-ə-wair) Lady Cecily Delaware (d. 1662). In addition to his family history which is suggestive Thomas West was heavily involved with Lord Bacon and the Virginia Company in the first settlements in the USA and the US state of Delaware is named after him. He and his wife Lady Delaware must have moved in the same private and social circles of Lord Bacon and may well be the Lady Delaware that helped him escape abroad. 

The following opening paragraph is taken from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004-23):

'West, Thomas, third Baron De La Warr (1577–1618), colonial governor, was born on 9 July 1577 and baptized at Wherwell, Hampshire, the third child and second son of Thomas West, second Baron De La Warr (c.1550–1602), and Anne, daughter of Sir Francis Knollys and cousin of Elizabeth I. He matriculated from Queen's College, Oxford, in March 1592, and toured Italy in 1596–7 following the death of his elder brother, Robert, in 1594. On 25 November 1602 he married Cecily or Cecilia (d. 1662), daughter of his godfather Sir Thomas Shirley of Wiston, Sussex, at St Dunstan-in-the-West, London. He served in parliament as member for Lymington, Hampshire, in 1597–8 before campaigning in Ireland and perhaps the Low Countries. West was knighted by the earl of Essex in Dublin on 12 July 1599, and his association with the condemned lord lieutenant resulted in his temporary imprisonment in 1601. Essex's declaration that West was unacquainted with any rebellion cleared him of treason. Soon after his release West enjoyed considerable political influence. He became third Baron De La Warr upon his father's death in March 1602, served as a privy councillor to both Elizabeth I and James I, and was created MA at Oxford in 1605.'

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I wonder if Bacon was aware of tetrodotoxin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrodotoxin

History

The therapeutic uses of puffer fish (tetraodon) eggs were mentioned in the first Chinese pharmacopoeia Pen-T’so Ching (The Book of Herbs, allegedly 2838–2698 BC by Shennong; but a later date is more likely), where they were classified as having "medium" toxicity, but could have a tonic effect when used at the correct dose. The principal use was "to arrest convulsive diseases".[27] In the Pen-T’so Kang Mu (Index Herbacea or The Great Herbal by Li Shih-Chen, 1596) some types of the fish Ho-Tun (the current Chinese name for tetraodon) were also recognized as both toxic yet, at the right dose, useful as part of a tonic. Increased toxicity in Ho-Tun was noted in fish caught at sea (rather than river) after the month of March.

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Popular culture

Tetrodotoxin serves as a plot device for characters to fake death, as in the films Hello Again (1987), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), The A-Team (2010) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), War (2019), and in episodes of "Jane the Virgin", Miami Vice (1985),[70] Nikita, MacGyver Season 7, Episode 6, where the antidote is Datura stramonium leaf, CSI: NY (Season 4, episode 9 "Boo") and Chuck. In Law Abiding Citizen (2009) and Alex Cross (2012), its paralysis is presented as a method of assisting torture. The toxin was also referenced in "synthetic form" in the S1E2 of the series "FBI". The toxin is used as a weapon in both the second season of Archer, in Covert Affairs and in the Inside No. 9 episode "The Riddle of the Sphinx".[71][72]

Based on the presumption that tetrodotoxin is not always fatal, but at near-lethal doses can leave a person extremely unwell with the person remaining conscious,[50] tetrodotoxin has been alleged to result in zombieism, and has been suggested as an ingredient in Haitian Vodou preparations.[73] This idea first appeared in the 1938 non-fiction book Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston in which there were multiple accounts of purported tetrodotoxin poisoning in Haiti by a voodoo sorcerer called the Bokor.[74] These stories were later popularized by Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis[73] in his 1985 book and Wes Craven's 1988 film, both titled The Serpent and the Rainbow. James Ellroy includes "blowfish toxin" as an ingredient in Haitian Vodou preparations to produce zombieism and poisoning deaths in his dark, disturbing, violent novel Blood's a Rover. But this theory has been questioned by the scientific community since the 1990s based on analytical chemistry-based tests of multiple preparations and review of earlier reports (see above).[58][59][60]

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On 3/15/2023 at 9:14 PM, A Phoenix said:

Hi Eric,

We don't know for certain the identity of Lady Delaware, but as a provisional possibilty, she might be the wife of Thomas West, third Baron De La Warr (pronounced DEL-ə-wair) Lady Cecily Delaware (d. 1662). In addition to his family history which is suggestive Thomas West was heavily involved with Lord Bacon and the Virginia Company in the first settlements in the USA and the US state of Delaware is named after him. He and his wife Lady Delaware must have moved in the same private and social circles of Lord Bacon and may well be the Lady Delaware that helped him escape abroad. 

The following opening paragraph is taken from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004-23):

'West, Thomas, third Baron De La Warr (1577–1618), colonial governor, was born on 9 July 1577 and baptized at Wherwell, Hampshire, the third child and second son of Thomas West, second Baron De La Warr (c.1550–1602), and Anne, daughter of Sir Francis Knollys and cousin of Elizabeth I. He matriculated from Queen's College, Oxford, in March 1592, and toured Italy in 1596–7 following the death of his elder brother, Robert, in 1594. On 25 November 1602 he married Cecily or Cecilia (d. 1662), daughter of his godfather Sir Thomas Shirley of Wiston, Sussex, at St Dunstan-in-the-West, London. He served in parliament as member for Lymington, Hampshire, in 1597–8 before campaigning in Ireland and perhaps the Low Countries. West was knighted by the earl of Essex in Dublin on 12 July 1599, and his association with the condemned lord lieutenant resulted in his temporary imprisonment in 1601. Essex's declaration that West was unacquainted with any rebellion cleared him of treason. Soon after his release West enjoyed considerable political influence. He became third Baron De La Warr upon his father's death in March 1602, served as a privy councillor to both Elizabeth I and James I, and was created MA at Oxford in 1605.'

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LTS6-DZ8/lady-cecily-shirley-1581-1662

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On 3/15/2023 at 9:14 PM, A Phoenix said:

Hi Eric,

We don't know for certain the identity of Lady Delaware, but as a provisional possibilty, she might be the wife of Thomas West, third Baron De La Warr (pronounced DEL-ə-wair) Lady Cecily Delaware (d. 1662). In addition to his family history which is suggestive Thomas West was heavily involved with Lord Bacon and the Virginia Company in the first settlements in the USA and the US state of Delaware is named after him. He and his wife Lady Delaware must have moved in the same private and social circles of Lord Bacon and may well be the Lady Delaware that helped him escape abroad. 

The following opening paragraph is taken from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004-23):

'West, Thomas, third Baron De La Warr (1577–1618), colonial governor, was born on 9 July 1577 and baptized at Wherwell, Hampshire, the third child and second son of Thomas West, second Baron De La Warr (c.1550–1602), and Anne, daughter of Sir Francis Knollys and cousin of Elizabeth I. He matriculated from Queen's College, Oxford, in March 1592, and toured Italy in 1596–7 following the death of his elder brother, Robert, in 1594. On 25 November 1602 he married Cecily or Cecilia (d. 1662), daughter of his godfather Sir Thomas Shirley of Wiston, Sussex, at St Dunstan-in-the-West, London. He served in parliament as member for Lymington, Hampshire, in 1597–8 before campaigning in Ireland and perhaps the Low Countries. West was knighted by the earl of Essex in Dublin on 12 July 1599, and his association with the condemned lord lieutenant resulted in his temporary imprisonment in 1601. Essex's declaration that West was unacquainted with any rebellion cleared him of treason. Soon after his release West enjoyed considerable political influence. He became third Baron De La Warr upon his father's death in March 1602, served as a privy councillor to both Elizabeth I and James I, and was created MA at Oxford in 1605.'

In the Autumn of 1616, Baron De La Warr and his wife Cecilia Shirley West, introduced John Rolfe and his wife, Pocahontas, into English society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_West,_3rd_Baron_De_La_Warr

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50 minutes ago, A Phoenix said:

Hi A. Phoenix. "There is no mention of his funeral in any contemporary works..." This is a very remarkable fact. You would think that Gray's Inn or the King's Court would have recorded the event. Bizarre!

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Hi Eric,

It certainly is truly remarkable that there is not a single referenece in an official document or a casual entry in a diary or a letter, or anything!

As we know, the life of Lord Bacon from 1561-1626 is shrouded in secrecy and mystery, and what is more, the years following his feigned death there is only virtual silence. We would love to know about his 'second' life, perhaps one day his Rosicrucian-Freemasonry Brotherhood who carefully watch over the legacy of his secret life and writings, will reveal the truth of to the world. Now that would be a revelation! 

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