Summary of
Baconian Evidence
for Shakespeare Authorship


There is always a need for fresh enquirers, anxious to learn about the Shakespeare authorship problem, about Bacon's life, so far as it is revealed by his more reliable and just biographers, and to undertake research among contemporary documents, many of which remain in obscurity in such archives as those of The Public Record Office, Lambeth Palace, Cambridge University, and in the many chests of unexamined documents in private libraries. The literary-minded may take up such a study as the comparison between the thoughts, opinions, prejudices, choice of expression and use of vocabulary of Shakespeare and Bacon, by which it can become manifest that the philosophical poet and the poetical philosopher were one and the same. The beginner may not realize that he is embarking on the study of a lifetime, which never loses its fascination as new facts are frequently brought to life. From my own experience, confirmed by others whom I have questioned, one becomes a Baconian after losing faith in the Stratford man.--Roderick Eagle, from Bacon or Shakespere : A Guide to the Problem 1955

1. The only Shakespeare notebook, a collection of expressions, phrases, and sentences, many of which appear in the Shakespeare plays. This is the Promus, written by Francis Bacon. This notebook has not been mentioned by a single Shakespeare biographer.

2. Bacon's royal parentage, the reason for his anonymity as author. Also, one of the six rules imposed on members of the Rosicrucian order, was anonymity for a hundred years. See The Marriage of Elizabeth Tudor.

3. The Manes Verulamiani, a collection of obituary poems written in honor of Bacon by his friends, in Latin, some of which quote the expressions used on the Shakespeare monument in the Stratford church. One of these poems praises Bacon for his comedies and tragedies.

4. The St.Albans Mural, in the White Hart Inn, dated 1600 showing scenes from Venus and Adonis. At least six details have been found which link this large painting with Bacon, his nearby house at Gorhambury, the Rosicrucians, led by Bacon, and the Shakespeare plays. If this mural had been discovered in Stratford, or Bankside, it would have been mentioned in all books on the life of Shakespeare since its discovery in 1985. It has not been mentioned once.

5. Northumberland Manuscript. The only contemporary document bearing the names of Shakespeare and Bacon and the titles of two Shakespeare plays, Richard II and Richard III, listed under the words, 'by Francis William Shakespeare'. In the line above, 'essaies by the same author'. The long word in Love's Labour's Lost also appears in the Northumberland Manuscript. Above the word 'Francis' can been seen, upside down, 'your soveraign.'

6. Bacon's knowledge of Hermetic, Rosicrucian, Neoplatonic and Kabbalistic teaching. Rosicrucian themes are found in:

Bacon's New Atlantis
As You Like It
Love's Labour's Lost
Venus and Adonis
The Sonnets

7. That Bacon was known as a poet by his contemporaries is validated by their tributes.(Yet this prodigious writer left hardly any poetry printed under his own name.) Perhaps the most important proof of the esteem in which he was held is exhibited in the "Great Assizes Holden in Parnassus" published in 1645.

8. The nonsense word in Love's Labour's Lost, honorificabilitudinitatibus. This is a Latin anagram: hi ludi F.Baconis nati tuiti orbi, these plays born of F.Bacon are preserved for the world.

9. Letter from Bacon to King James,Nov.1622:
"...for my pen,if contemplative,going on with The Historie of Henry the Eighth."

Letter from Bacon to the Duke of Buckingham, 21 February 1623:
...Prince Charles "who, I hope, ere long will make me leave King Henry VIII and set me on work in relation to His Majesty's adventures."

Letter from Bacon to the Duke of Buckingham, 26 June 1623:
"...since you say the Prince hath not forgot his commandment touching my history of Henry VIII."

January 1623. Bacon applied to the records office for the loan of archive documents relating to the reign of Henry VIII.

December 1623 ' The Historie of King Henry VIII' printed for the first time in the Shakespeare First Folio.

A brief,30-line summary of Henry's reign was printed after Bacon's death under his own name.

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