Renaissance Review . . .
BACON: UNRECOGNIZED
OF THE TUDOR LINE
By J.E. Styles, Surrey, British Columbia,
Canada
Evidence supports the idea that Sir
Francis Bacon was not only the son of Queen Elizabeth
the First but used the pen name 'William Shakespeare'
as well. The most intriguing support comes through
study of cyphers found in works by Shakespeare, Bacon
and others of that time.
According to E.M. Gallop in her book,
Francis Bacon's Biliteral Cypher, one cypher reveals
the following story set on September 20, 1576, Queen
Elizabeth's birthday.
Francis Bacon, 15-years-old at the
time, had dared stop the Queen from beating Lady
Scales, a Lady-in-Waiting of the court. Scales was
guilty of jesting about Bacon being a Bastard of
the Queen -- a fact the Queen had mostly been successful
in keeping secret, even from Bacon.
Lady Scales lay half conscious on the
floor as the Queen pummelled her with angry fists.
Bacon pleaded for her life, further angering the
Queen.
"You are my own born son, but
because you have taken sides against your mother
to champion a graceless wench, I bar you forever
from the Succession," were the words of rage
and revenge spewed from the lips of Queen Elizabeth
as she confronted Bacon.
He left the room confused, hurt and
shamed because till then he had believed himself
the son of Lady Ann Bacon and Sir Nicholas . . .
.
Confirmation for Gallup's discovery
of this cypher comes from such noted specialists
as: Major Stevenson, Col. Fabyan, and General Cartier,
heads of the British, American, and French Aecret
Service during the Great War (see page 79, Alfred
Dodd, Francis Bacon's Personal Life Story.)
Bacon recalls feelings as a result
of this experience and includes them in his secret
sonnet-diary found locked up in an old oak coffer;
published years later as Shakespeare's sonnets. His
frustration can be felt as one reads through the
first seventeen sonnets. One can see how injurious
it would have been for him if the Queen had seen
these expression of his innermost thoughts. It can
only be presumed she never did, because it was certain
death, imprisonment or mutilation to speak slander
of the so-called Virgin Queen.
Bacon cries out to his mother in verse,
describing her as 'beauty's Rose' who should have
a 'tender hair.' Instead there is a selfishness,
a 'niggarding,' a wasting of her abundance: 'But
thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes/ Feeds
thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,' Making
a famine where abundance lies --' The wasted abundance
is her 'own bud' or her own son who is not known
to the world. Each of the first seventeen sonnets
are an unproclaimed prince's plea for recognition.
The second sonnet tells his mother
that it would be more praise-worthy if she, in her
old age, could proudly say, 'This fair child of mine
shall sum my count and make my old excuse --' and
be her natural successor to the throne, 'proving
his beauty by succession thine.'
The third and the fourth sonnets decry
his mother as a 'beauteous niggard' who 'disdains'
what nature has given her. His statement is somewhat
prophetic for it foretells the outcome of her proud
and selfish ways: 'Die single and thine image dies
with thee.'
He repeats that image again in the
ninth sonnet: "The world will wail thee like
a makeless wife/ The world will be thy widow and
still weep/ That thou no form of thee hast left behind.'
In sonnet thirteen his plea to her is: 'Dear my love, you know/ You had
a father, let your son say so.' When Queen Elizabeth died in 1603 she had
not acknowledged any offspring. She was the last officially acknowledged
descendent of the Tudor line.
Francis Bacon has long been associated
with controversy and mystery surrounding not only
his birth but his writings. He was well-versed in
the intricacies of cypher -- how to communicate through
purposeful misprints, watermarks, hieroglyphics,
symbolic pictures, and the use of the science of
numbers.
Shakespeare's First Folio has approximately
20,000 errors: '. . . there are printers' errors
on every page, lines are jumped or run together,
letters are dropped, there are whole sentences which
make no sense at all.' (R. Payne, By Me, William
Shakespeare, page 429). Could those who 'laboured
to provide a perfect text' have been involved in
providing a precise message in cypher? For what reason
are scholars so reticent to recognize the value of
the cypher messages? Why is there reluctance to encourage
search for further cyphers? Francis Bacon, who played
such a dynamic role in the birth of the English Renaissance,
deserves his just due -- His time has come -- '.
. . let the concealed by revealed.'
Originally published in Tickled
by Thunder fiction magazine,
Vol.
1, No. 1, Spring 1990.
Copyright (c) 1990 for
J.E. Styles, all rights reserved (see below).
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