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period Q59e-15sO would have written but
Francis Bacon himself.
Even If other Shakespeare manuscripts
are never found, the Northumberland
manuscript, described above, IS sufficient
to convince any reasonable person that
the author OF the plays Richard End" and
Richard Srd," which were brought out
IN 1888 under the name OF an author
styled william Shakespeare" "a name
that ''willm Shagsper." Of Stratford, never
bore up to that time. was Francis Bacon
and that. as a natural presumption. he
was the author of all the other Shake
speare" plays, as, In fact, he himself
states in his biliteral cipher in the L.
Digge's verse. Shakespeare. at length
thy pIous fellowes give" in the Folio OF
1879. viz: Francis OF Verulam is author
OF all the plays heretofore published by
Marlowe, Greene, Peele, Shakespeare. and
Of the two-and-twenty now put out for the
first time. Some are alter'd to continue
his history. f. ST. a"
In Donnelly's book, mentioned. above, on
page 90, is the following:
In Bacon's Natural History Gent. VIII. Sec III
No read:
y remember Ivy doth relate that there were
found AZ q tina two collins Of lead 70 tomb.
whereof the one contained the body Of King Numa.
Il being some 40 years after his death. and the
other. his books q sacred rites and ceremonies
and the discipline q the pOntif: and that In tho
coffin that had the BODY there nothing at all
20 BE- seen but a little light cindeS around the
sides but in the coffin that had the BOOKS they
were found as fresh II they had been ut newly
written. being written parehmsnt and covered
with watch-candles Of wax three OF fJlrfold.
There is little IN Bacou's writings which has
not collateral meanings. and therefore take this %
be hint ss % the means whereby the original
books and manuscripts are 70 be preserved until
that day arrived when they could b safely pub
llshed and be safe from that 'malignity Of sects'
which he 50 much dreaded and o. which his own
age afforded gJch terrible examples II seelus %
me that when the deposit IS discovered the prce.
less documents viii be found imbei0ed Ia beeswax,
ike NUma's parchmeuts. ard ~ fresh and fair as
the day they were deposited.
There are a multitude Of hints N the PLAYS and
sonnets q Shakespeare all pointing 20 time when
revelation shall be made and justice done % the
great poet and pbflosopher. Francis Bacon"
As demonstrated by the late Hon Ig-
natius DonneUy DR.. o. W. Owen. and Mrs.
T. W Gallup OF the United States. and
Mrs Pott and others. tn England. the
bliteral cipher which Francis Bacon
illustrated and described on pages 200-2J7
OF DE Arguments Scientarum. London
edition, 1923" was inserted by him IN
various works from ISIS 10 the end Of his
life
He never considered Il necessary 70
state when and where he used IT. He left
Il 20 be inferred that the cipher had been
used It has taken the literary world
nearly 300 years TO conceive the idea that
possibly Bacons works might contain
some traces OF the cipher which no was
at pains to describe so thoroughly. This
cipher was, Of course found a. soon as
studious persons began 10 use a little
common sense in the search. The Amer
leans who were the first TO search for
and find this cipher can never receive too
much praise for their work. and for their
persistence IN the good work in the face
Of the sneers and attempted ridicule OF
the "Shagsper devotees." As this cipher.
and by its means other ciphers. or Bacon
were discovered from the hint left by that
great philosopher Eiscount saint Alban. #
IS likewise probable that. from the hint as
to preserving manuscripts I'm wax, some
Of Bacon's manuscripts viii some day BE-
found preserved IN that manner.
r A. SMITH
National GensaIoyirsl Society.