Morris tribune., 1888-06-13

Lord Cardinal, the kings further pleasure is.
Because all those things you have done OF late
By your power legatine within this kingdom
Fall into the compass Of prsemunire,
That therefore such o writ be sued against you:
To forfeit all your goods, lands, tenements,
Chattels and whatsoever, and to be
Out OF the kings protection. This is my charge.
Stranger stiI, when case lie disputed in
any Of the plays, the dramatist lays down the
law as 1t was in the last preceding reports Of
the higher courts, even when that had
changed the previous law or the popular con-
ception Of It Thus the grave digger 10
"Hamiet,," though discoursing clumsily that
Ophelia might be buried in consecrated
ground, lays down the law as it had been
laid down in "Plowden's Reports" In the
case Of Sir James Hales, who commit.
ted suicide. II the Shakespeare preconcep-
ton were not 30 strong, tho modern lawyer
would say that this passage was written by q
man In practice and keeping up with Che
decisions.n s
4 The author Of Shakespeare was fairly
well informed in botany. zoology and such
science rs then existed.
MINOR INTERNAL xv1prNcra
= The foregoing are only the most salient
proofs; but many more are cited. Thus the
dramAfist never refers 70 Stratford -on-Avon,
Tho homo Of the Ehaxper or Shakspere fam
lyi but there are twenty three references 20
81 Adams. the homs Of Bacon. Warwick
shire Is nowhere praised; but Kent:and other
districts in the south ara The fauna and
nora lof the plays are not those Of War
wickshire; neither Is the geography, the
nobility or the dialect. When s'Shakspeare's"
clowns talk dialect, the only Warwickshire
words are those common to that county and
the south Of England Neither the politics,
nor the religion, nor the social life Of the
plays are those Of Stratford-on-Avon. BY
al reasonable superstition the Shaxperes
were democrats; the dramatfss Il an aristo-
crat who only mentions the common peopls
10 ridicnle them. The dramatiss lived
through the life and death struggle Of
Catholicism and Professionalism In England;
Jet &c b fmpoa1ible 70 decide which party he
favored, and both have claimed him, Hs
plainly ridiculed the popes claim 20
sovereignty In England; but he rid
tculed the other partyss extrsme
view 3nst as keenly, and as soon as Queen
Eizabsth was dead he put forth play q
wbich her' mother, Anne Bolsyn, q merci.
le9ly dissected and held mp to our contempe
We have presented but q 1.-THE OF the
Bde0nianS evidences; the Ehakespearians
msst fhsm with weighty facts. First and
probably strongest ON their side is what
logtcisns call the universal testimony. An
tho world believed from the start that WIN
lam 6hakspere was the author; and how
could al the world be deceived They add
tothis the written testimony Of three con.
temporary writer's The Baconians easily
dispoAe Of two, one Of whom attacks Shaks-
pere as pretender and the other only re-
fers TO him as o witty, easy writer; but the
testimony of BEN Jonson IL too direct and
explicit to be thus got over. He was very
intimate with Shakspere and for q time
acted as secretary to Bacon; he outlived them
both and received pension from Charles I;
be survived to time when the political d.
visions Of Elizabeth's and James courts were
obsolete, and as far as can now be seen. he
was perfectly free to tell what he knew. He
knew the universal attribution Of the plays
to Ehakspere and never contradicted It. If
he knsH thaf recon uas their antl,or why
was 4 fleaH g Il Sas 4 fact and Is did did
not 4 4 IN ca i Is dscslssd1 Mr..
VI. VI y si ,sss ~ : 90 l''tsd pace
u DonnsI1y'k cipher We flonot as yet at
tempt to mat{er ~ 1lrst view it appears to
us very CON Iceted; hut Of the few who
have works OF sections Of it, some insist
that It is d{cl1ife For explanation we
need in this o61r NE i familiar form
Suppose thai n 81 rent writing we find
that the ten va sonr, = the twentieth
father til 6hirti9gh awho,n the fortieth
"art," and 90 through the Lords
Is tho resa n design HI. Donnelly's
cipher, hoN> procseds Oh fax more
col natsd plzE;ssIt Is Il one shouIi take
the ~ 4ord, the tenth, til ff4ieth the
hr 56e LIN 1red ard Aftleth, and
thu "a o 155W tI26 return through q
By dividing, IS s1s piscs i beginning e and ID
then proceed on q new series Of which the
50 20 h1lSfsb Inc previously
OBJ 81 ezie<'k q courne, this b not
Nh In vs. ystem, but it gives some idea
Of 1, and to- who maintain that it is the
trusSbId1ibn SdmH that many deys labor,
Of tedious counting, are necessary TO evolve
even one paragraph Of the concealed story.
But when evolved, they insist, IL gives the
tnDide history of Queen Elixabeth,s reign and
shows Why the authorship had to Be con-
With this cautionto tisrsadsr We present
: few q The paFssz 1phzf ormad bzfh6 wQrds