"The Greatest of Literary Problems, James Finney Baxter by 1915 there were 10,000 volumes written about Shakespeare"
W.S. shrewdly secures an agreement to indemnify him from loss in his old investment in the tithes. Is left 5 pounds by John A. Combe
W.S. conspires to acquire certain common land in the purlieus of Stratford by enclosure. Correspondence and notes in Greene's diary reveal the actor's interest in this unjust proceeding.
April 26 1615 W.S. a petitioner with others to Chancellor Egerton to compel Mathew Bacon to deliver up certain papers relative to title of the Blackfriars property.
1615 Villiers supplants Somerset as the Favourite and becomes acquainted with Francis Bacon.
1615 A great dispute between the Count of Chancery presided over by Francis Bacon, and the Court of King's Bench presided over by Sir Edward Coke, ending in Coke's disgrace.
1615 Bacon prepares two cases of prosecution for "treason" -- sedition was synonymous to treason in King's eyes.
1616 -- Overbury affair comes to trial -- prosecution of the Old Favourite and his wife for the murder of Overbury.
April 23 -- W.Shaksper dies in Stratford after an illness super induced by having "drank too hard," leaving will covering his minutest belongings. (Rumor that Ben Jonson poisoned him.) He dies "Unwept, unhonoured and unsung."
On the same day in Spain, Cervantes dies.
November -- Charles invested as Prince of Wales
The Continent stirred by a series of Rosicrucian pamphlets advocating an Ethical Brotherhood for the amelioration of the social, political and religious ills that were afflicting mankind.
1617 James travels to Scotland.
March 7 -- (March 3, says du Maurier) Bacon, now 57 is made Lord Keeper of the Seal (the same office held by Sir Nicholas B.) Bacon was left in almost complete charge of the government of England. (Regent in King's absence).
May 7 -- Francis took his seat in the Court of Chancery and delivered his first speech of office dressed in his purple satin! with many attendants. He was the defacto head of the government in the absence of the King. He vowed to clear the courts of cases. (As in the past, this advancement was followed by indisposition.)
Altercation between Edward Coke and Lady Hatton over their 2nd daughter Frances. Coke wanted her to marry John, brother of George Villiers. Mother and daughter wouldn't agree. She left in secret with her daughter. Coke demanded a warrant to fetch his daughter from the Council. Francis refused to sign, but eventually Secretary of State, Sir Ralph Winwood obliged and signed the warrant. Lady Hatton "fabricated" another suitor for her daughter.
According to Dodd, Coke and Lady Compton (Buckingham's mother) to be revenged on F.B. for supplanting him the Privy Council, etc.
King and his favourite Villiers not pleased with Francis' refusing to sign the warrant. He "lost points" with them.
When King returned, "Steenie," (George Villiers) became the all-powerful Duke of Buckingham.
Francis later managed to make amends with King and "Steenie" and the marriage finally took place
Raleigh released from the tower to make a voyage to South America
1618 January 7 -- (January 4, says du Maurier) Made Lord High Chancellor
July 12 -- received the title of Baron Verulam. Francis is now a peer.
October 28 -- Raleigh sentenced to death. (During his voyage to Orinoco he had offended the Spanish, who accused him of piracy. The King was negotiating for a marriage of his son with the Infanta. Raleigh's actions threatened this delicate alliance.
1619 January 12 -- Fire at Whitehall. Many Council papers lost. No lives lost.
March -- Queen died. Both King and Francis had a stone. Queen's body lay at Denmark House in the Strand for 2+ months
Burbage died.
The Wisdom of the Ancients, first English edition.
King grants him a pension of 1200 per annum.
F.B. dismisses dishonest registrar from the Chancery named John Churchil.
Habsburg King Ferdinand (disliked by his subjects) had been deposed and his throne offered to James' son-in-law, a Protestant. The Elector Palatine set off for Prague. Ex-King Ferdinand's cousin (the German Emperor) declared war on Frederick, and the latter hoped for help from Great Britain. But the King held back, not wanting to offend the King of Spain who was an ally of the German Emperor. Francis favored support of Frederick and Elizabeth. The King temporized (procrastinated): was Frederick's accession legally valid?
1620-1626 Bacon now at the peak of his authority
Bacon at last felt safe to publish under his own name. Spring - Francis concerned with the Government of the country and sets forth his suggestions for better organization through various commissions (like our "departments" today) and establishment of routines. Nothing came of his suggestions. He was ahead of his time.
Publishes Novum Organum.
F.B. recommends a new parliament to be called. Writs go out. Churchil has furnished Coke with a "Black List" of discontented suitors in the Chancery which can be used in a charge of bribery and corruption.
1621 January -- His 60th birthday celebration -- at the pinnacle of his career.
27 January (New Year's) -- Created Viscount St. Albans. Splended ceremony of investiture at Theobalds, the former home of the Cecils, near Bacon's own home of Gorhambury in Hertfordshire. Once again wore purple, and King James did not object.
30 January New Parliament meets. Coke is leader of the Commons.
12 Feb: The Commons appoint committees to inquire into abuses and grievances amid great excitement.
14 March: Sir Lionel Cranfield denounces "abuses" in the Chancery Court and attacks Francis Bacon, saying he has two witnesses prepared to testify along with others compiled by J. Churchil. Francis Bacon writes to the Lords denying the charges and asks for the privileges of a High Court action. He announces his intention three times to defend himself.
16 April: The King sends for Francis Bacon and Commands him to desert his defence.
21 April -- offered to surrender the Seals. Refused the right to defend himself
24 April: The Prince of Wales announces to the Lords that he is the bearer of a "Submission" from the Lord Chancellor announcing his intention to desert his defence. The Lords demand that he pleads "Guilty" to each item, twenty-three cases in all. He sees the detailed charges for the first time in the evening.
30 April: The Chancellor returns Coke's "Black List" with the word "Guilty" written to each charge.
1 May -- Four Peers wait upon Francis Bacon to receive the Great Seal of England as he is too ill to go to the Bar of the House of Lords to surrender it. This event greatly parallels the scene from Henry VIII in which Woolsey surrenders his seals. In the evening he composes a wonderful prayer, found in his papers after his death, which, says Addison, sounds more like an angel than a man.
3 May -- sentenced by the House of Lords. Francis is too ill to attend. He is fined forty thousand pounds (fine was never paid) Sentenced to the Tower of London (spent four days there), May 31 - June 4.
Prohibited from holding office for the state
Prohibited from sitting in Parliament.
Prohibited from entering the city of London. Later exceptions were made, and he was permitted to return. He eventually took up his old lodging at Gay's Inn.
31 May -- Imprisoned in the Tower, writes a peremptory letter to the King and Buckingham demanding instant release. The necessary warrant was sent immediately to the Governor of the Tower.
The title of Chancellor was not taken from him
Later that same year, the King sent for him to ask his advice on the reform of the courts.
"I have done with all vanities."
1 Dec: A petition to the House of Lords: "I am old, weak, ruined, in want, a very subject of pity."
Argenis published in Latin in Paris, shortly after the death of the alleged author. An elaborate, allegorical history of 483 pages in large quarto, and is stated to have been edited by the dead author's friend Peireskius. Had Bacon managed to "conceal and yet reveal" his own personal history. Adventure novel. Nicopompous writes sonnets and little poems for other people that should redound to their fame. "For I bind not myself religiously to the writing of a true history, and take this liberty that the vices, and not the men, be struck."
1622
Buckingham, at last obtains York House.
Decision to gather plays together for publication.
Timon of Athen
The History of Henry VII
Publishes Historia Ventorum and Historia Vitae et Mortis
December -- Tobie Matthew, his good friend returns from exile.
1623-24 January 20 -- Francis restored to King's favor. Still seeks a full pardon. Ben Jonson, the Poet Laureate, lives and works with Francis Bacon at Gorhambury.
Francis moves once more to Gray's Inn.
November -- The Great Shakespeare Folio of 1623 , edited by Ben Jonson, consisting of thirty-six plays, many never heard of before, is published. In Henry VIII Francis Bacon tells the story of his own fall and his parentage. It was never before written or played up to this time. (The Tempest has the name Francis Bacon entwined around the initial letter B from Boteswaine in the 1623 Folio)
Compare the bookband from Henry V (1608) with the folio version (1623). Fifteen years have passed, and the young, life-enjoying Bacon-Perseus is now the aging and overthrown Lord Chancellor. Also the Face of the Pan head has two different eyes, one weeping, one laughing, giving a strange, whimsical expression!
The Shakespeare bust is placed in the Stratford Church. Who placed it there?
Publishes De Augmentis Scientarium. In this treatise Bacon describes the method of ciphering used in the biliteral cipher. (Omnia per omnia.) This was the second mention of cipher in his works.
Jonson enters English translation of Argenis in the Stationers' Hall, but this translation was never published.
1624 Prepares for the press Sylva Sylvarum and The New Atlantis or The Land of the Rosicrosse (as indicated by the Brethren in later years).
July & August -- Publishes Apothegems -- dictated by memory from sickbed. Many betray a pungent sense of humor. Were these published because he owed the printer money?
Cryptomenytices appears in Germany by Gustavus Selenus-- Text appeared in Latin. The frontispiece is elaborate and telling. Upper picture: "Tempest" bordered by masks of tragedy. Middle left picture: Man wearing a tall hat giving a wallet with bank note and MSS to a peasant who holds a spear. He carries them to the Globe theatre, London. An eagle in the skies takes to his keeping Shakespeare's immortal works. Middle right picture: The Stratfordian, now rich, on his high horse goes hunting like a gentleman.
1625 Arranges into themes his private diary of sonnets; carefully disarranges them to destroy personal meanings; prints them by the private press of the Rosicrosse; and distributes the book to the heads of the Rosicrosse-Masons as a secret document in the Christmas New Year Lodges. This book was the "1609" Quarto entitled Shakespeare's Sonnets and was kept concealed as a Masonic secret until George Steevens, a Shakespearean Freemason, reprinted the book in 1766.
58 plays had been published under Shake-speare's name.
March 5 -- King became ill after hunting at Theobalds.
March 27 -- King James died. A great funeral is held. Son Charles I becomes king.
Summer -- plague and sickness raged in London. People swarmed out of the city, spreading the infection.
Francis writes his last will. Later revised and revoked his wife's part in the former will.
Final edition of the Essays.
First English translation of Argenis by Kingsmill Long.
1626 Feb 6 -- Parliament meets. Francis not included. He is still trying to procure a complete pardon from the King, which would enable him to hold office.
Before Easter, 1626, Francis Bacon had seen all the persons who had taken part in the plot against him struck down in ruin and disgrace. They fell like rotten apples, all save Buckingham. He alone was reserved to die under the hand of an avenger, to the joy of the nation. At the age of sixty six Francis Bacon "died to the world" but there is conjecture that he fled to the Continent and lived to a very old age.
The story goes that while experimenting with the effect of cold on the decay of meat he catches a cold and develops bronchitis.
April 9 (Easter Sunday morning) -- dies at Lord Arundel's house Highgate , 66 years old.
11 days after F.B. dies, his widow marries Sir. John Underhill, "the gentleman usher" of their household.
Dr. Peter Boener: (domestic apothecary and secretary) "I never saw him changed or disturbed towards anyone, he was ever the same in sorrow and in joy, a noteworthy example for everyone of all virtue, gentleness, peacefulness and patience."
When Bacon died, after 1626 the Elizabethan music faded out as though Bacon had been the leader of the national choir.
1626 Manes Verulamiani -- poems on the death of the Lord Chancellor printed as extracts in 1640. In 1730 printed in full form. (Found in 1896)
1627 New Atlantis and Sylva Sylvarum published together for 9 editions.
New Atlantis published a few months after he died with emblem "In time the hidden truth shall be revealed."
1629 Sir Robert le Greys and Thomas May published a second translation of Argenis and to this was added a Clavis or Key at the special command of Charles 1st to explain the characters in the Argenis, who were confessedly concealed under feigned names. The King was therefore fully aware of the truth of the Royal Secrets the book contained.
1631 Pierre Amboise -- early writer on Bacon, states Bacon was "born to the purple and brought up with the expectation of a great career. . . . " (Yet there had been a law in England for over 100 years that only royalty could wear purple.) "He saw himself destined one day to hold in his hand the helm of the kingdom."
1632 June 12 -- Bacon's estate finally settled. Judge sells the lands and estates to Lord Dunsmore for 6,000, on condition that he should pay Lady Underhill 530 pounds per year for her lifetime
1635 Three more of Bacon's books published by Rawley.
1636 A further edition of Argenis appeared with illustrations and a more elaborate Key to unlock the mystery of the allegory. The author of Argenis says his object was to wrap up some important historical truths in a tangle of imaginative fiction and that under certain fanciful names, well known persons and places are intended. The Key tells us who these fanciful names represent. Argenis is Margaret Valois; Hyanisbe Queen Elizabeth; Archombrotos or Hiempsall is her son who employs himself in writing Sonnets for various festive occasions at the Court. Nicopompus is the author, Mauretania is England, etc. The fable relates how the Queen was privately married "to a man of must eminent qualitie next to the King's, how she had a secret son, how she fought with Philip of Spain, how she posed as a Virgin to the world the better to discomfit her foreign enemies, how she forbade her son to marry Argenis, etc.
The first publication of any of Shake-speares Sonnets (apart from two published in 1599) was given to the open world in a book entitled Poems written by Wil. Shakespeare Gent. They were published by the Rosicrosse Literary Society, Francis Bacon's literary executors. The Poems continued to be printed in the "1640 form" (known as Benson's Medley because the "Unknown Sonnets" were printed in odd groups between well-known poems and songs of Shakespeare) and no one suspects that their impersonal captions masked a Biographical Diary of tempestuous emotions.
1641 Sir Thomas Meautys succeeds Francis as owner of Gorhambury. Thomas marries Anne Bacon, the daughter of Sir Nathaniel Bacon of Culford, Francis' nephew and well-known portrait painter of his day. (Meautys also erected a fine monument to his former friend and employer in St. Michael's church, St. Albans. date unknown)
1642 The Theatres around London closed by Parliament.
1644 Sermones Fideles, Leyden
1645 Theodor Haak, resident of the Palitinate, with friends at Oxford and Cambridge founded a society for carrying out the experiments of "Solomon's House (from Bacon's New Atlantis.) This was an Invisible Society out of which sprang the Royal Society under King Charles II, (see 1660).
Historia Vitae et Mortis published in Dilinger.
1653 Scripta Naturali et Universali -- Bacon shown on frontispiece next to Columbus and Copernicus.
1657 In Memory of Elizabeth by F. Bacon.(posthumous) Like Alexander and Julius Caesar, Eliz left no legitimate issue, but had natural children.
1660 Royal Society Founded under Charles II. (Science) (Francis Bacon acknowledged as primary influence).
Bacon also praised by Cowley as being the greatest poet of the day, after Milton.
1671 The last of the Biliteral cipher appears in print.
1679 Bishop Thomas Tenison -- early writer on Bacon, pointedly declared that F. Bacon led a concealed life. Tenison quotes Dr. Rawley: "He (Dr. Rawley) judged some papers, touching Matters of Estate (relating to Francis Bacon) to tread too near upon the Heels of Truth, and to the Times of the Persons concerned, to be published openly."
1693 Dowdall, researching Shaksper conversed with an old clerk who was then over 80 (he would have been born in 1610's and might have known Shaksper). He said Shaksper was a butcher's apprentice and ran away from his master to London.
1707 In Van der Werff's portrait of Elizabeth she is with 3 children. (Who was Van der Werff? He seemed to know the whole story, says J.O. Fuller)
1709 Rowe's Life of Shakespeare
1725 Alexander Pope's edition of Shakespeare
1730 Poems on the death of the Lord Chancellor printed in full form (Manes Verulamiani).
1726 Wilmot born at Warwick, a fellow of Trinity College
1740-41 Statue of "The Bard" placed in Westminster Abbey, same year anonymous pamphlet The Life and Adventures of Common Sense, which states that W.S. was a profligate and a thief ...
1746 The Stratford monument (which may have been placed there by Bacon himself, or his close associates as a joke when the first folio was printed) was replaced. (The image of "Shakespeare" with pen and paper on cushion replaces the figure with a tradesman's sack.)
1761 Roger Ascham's preface Divae Elizabethae, published. See 1566. It indicates that he knew why he was commanded by Queen Elizabeth to do the work The Schoolmaster.
1765 Samuel Johnson writes that Shakspere held horses at the door of the play-house, and in time "found higher employment."
1766 George Steevens, a famous Shakespearean scholar, and a member of the Rosicrosse, reprints openly for the first time, a copy of the hitherto secret book held by the Literary Fraternity, the "1609 Quarto." No one takes any notice of it.
1769 Stratford Jubilee. David Garrick deserves the credit for starting the trend of upgrading Stratford into a proper memorial for the supposed author in his own home town. Almost everything about the life of Shakespeare is mere fabrication, starting with the place where he was born, the school, Anne Hathaway's cottage, the mulberry tree, etc.
Herbert Lawrence, The Life and Adventures of Commonsense the first to raise the Shakespeare authorship question.
1777 Mrs. Hornby arranged an exhibition of objects said to have belonged to Shaksper. It was an outrageous hoax.
1780 An Irish Lawyer named Malone, a Shakespeare scholar, reprints the "1609 Quarto," and alters the text.
1785 James Wilmot formulates thesis that Shakespeare did not write the plays, because upon firsthand investigation in Stratford and environs, he could find almost nothing about him, and nothing which supported him being the author of anything. Wilmot concluded that Francis Bacon was the most likely candidate for the authorship based upon the circumstantial evidence he found. He based his theory on knowledge of law, circulation of blood, designations of three characters in Love's Labour's Lost -- Biron, Dumain, and Longaville which coincide with names of three ministers at the Court of Navarre where Anthony Bacon resided. Wilmot theorized that Bacon destroyed his manuscripts in order to conceal the fact that so exalted a personage had descended to the base art of play writing. Arrived at his conclusion diffidently, but firmly held it. Also found additional confirmation in the numerous extraordinary likenesses of style between the two Elizabethans. But Wilmot did not publish his theory or his findings
1786 The Story of the Learned Pig. One of the pig's friends was Will Shakspear "falsely-fathered" with plays not belonging to him.
1790 Malone writes bitterly that none of the various Editors of Shakespeare "have taken the trouble to compare" the "1609 Quarto Text" with the Benson Medley which they continue to reprint.
1793 George Steevens acts the part of agent provocateur by denouncing the Sonnets. His scathing attack resulted -- as was intended -- in bringing the Sonnets to the notice of the world. Malone rushed in to defend the literary beauty of the Sonnets and the "Sonnet Controversy" began.
1805 James Corton Cowell, Quaker of Ipswich was informed of the Baconian theory.
1806 Cowell gives two addresses before the Ipswich Philosophic Society, which passed into the possession of the University of London Library, ad was there discovered by Professor Allardyce Nicoll. (See 1932)
1837 Lord Macaulay -- wrote on Bacon. Tendency to judge with extreme harshness. "Take Macaulay with a grain of salt." -Winston Churchill
1848 Joseph Hart, first anti-Stratfordian standard bearer, New York lawyer -- not a Baconian. He didn't venture a guess who wrote the Shakespearean works.
1857-1861 Spedding's work on Bacon.
1856-57 Delia Bacon makes her hypothesis public and goes on lecture tour declaring the revolutionary idea that Bacon wrote Shakespeare.
1856 William Henry Smith's book Bacon and Shakespeare
1859 Delia Bacon dies at 48.
1880 "We do not know half enough about Lord Bacon -- let the critics go to Hell." Nietzsche
1883 The Bacon-Shakespeare Craze in Atlantic Monthly Mrs. Pott publishes the Promus, Bacon's notebooks, with many parallel quotes and ideas found in the plays. Very strong argument for Bacon's authorship.
1884 By this time the authorship controversy had stirred France, Germany, and India, as well as England and the U.S. and had produced over 250 books, pamphlets, and articles.
1885-6 The Bacon Society founded by Constance Pott, and Baconiana Anthology started.
1887-88 Ignatius Donnelly The Great Cryptogram. Donnelly Tribunal of Literary Criticism to try the case. Articles in The Arena.
1893 Dr. Owen wrote a pamphlet of rebuttal to above: Request to Reopen Brief for Plaintiff. (request was ignored).
1893-98 Various volumes of Dr. Orville Owen appeared under the title Sir Francis Bacon's Cipher Story, published by Howard Publishing Company, Detroit, Michigan. Includes Mary, Queen of Scots, 1894
1896 George Cantor finds "The Harleian Miscellany" in the British Museum -- the source of 32 elegiac poems on the death of the Lord Chancellor (Manes Verulamiani). These had been printed as extracts in 1640, and in full form in 1730.
1899-1900 Elizabeth Wells Gallup publishes The Biliteral Cypher of Sir Francis Bacon
1909 Eight Shakespeare Quartos (from early 1600's) found in Francis Bacon's library inside the new Gorhambury estate.
1909 Is Shakespeare Dead? Mark Twain's book comes out and he presents his life long interest on the authorship issue by refuting the Stratford Myth and backing Bacon as the Shakespeare author.
1910 Bacon is Shakespeare by Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
Gallup says: That the cipher message is enclosed in the works I have deciphered I know, from years of hard and exhaustive study. There is no more doubt of the existence of the cipher and its message than there is of the Morse alphabet and its use at the present day. The study has been of thousands of pages, comparison and classification of hundreds of thousands of the italic letters, and I have the right to claim, and insist, that I know.
1915 The Greatest of Literary Problems, James Finney Baxter by 1915 there were 10,000 volumes written about Shakespeare.
1917 Mrs. Bunten discovered Anthony Bacon's passports were signed with the names Biron, Dumain, Longaville and Boyesse. All were characters in Love's Labors Lost, set in Navarre.
1922 Walter Conrad Arensberg -- with passion for anagrams began with the Cryptography of Dante. This led him to Shakespeare. He endowed the Francis Bacon Foundation on the campus of Pomona college in Claremont.
1931 March 31. Shakespeare's Diary of the Personal Poems of Francis Bacon first published, in which, according to Alfred Dodd," the Sonnets were arranged in their correct numerical (sonnet 23 is first) and chronological order under their Themes and captioned as in the original MS. All the hitherto Secret Themes are openly declared for the first time."
1932 Professor Allardyce Nicoll discovers Cowell's addresses, (based upon Wilmot's researches and theories) which postulate that Bacon wrote Shakespeare, and publishes them in the N.Y. Times Literary Supplement, giving Wilmot his due.
1934 Death of Elizabeth Wells Gallup
1937 The Sixth Edition of Shakespeare's Sonnet-Diary. The long-drawn plan, extending over three hundred years, has been brought to a successful conclusion. The Poet-Prince can now speak openly in his own words to his countrymen of the emotions which swept his soul. (Dodd)
1954 Francis Bacon Foundation endowed on the Pomona College campus in Claremont, California.
1958 The Poacher from Stratford -- Frank Wadsworth (lacks documentation)
Shakespeare and his Betters -- R.C. Churchill
1959-60 Journal of the American Bar Association: Shakespeare Cross-Examined.
1961 400th anniversary of Bacon's birth celebrated by the Bacon Society at Gray's Inn.
1962 Shakespeare and his Rivals -- George McMichael & E.M. Glenn, eds.
The Shakespeare Claimants -- H.N. Gibson
1965 Reply by Milward W. Martin in Was Shakespeare Shakespeare? A Lawyer Reviews the Evidence.
1973 Margaret Barsi-Green I, Prince Tudor Wrote Shakespeare.
1975-6 Dame Daphne Du Maurier writes The Golden Lads and The Winding Stair. Books about the lives of Francis, Anthony and Essex.
1985 Discovery of a Rosicrucian Mural in St. Albans (Bacon's hometown) from 1600 that depicts a Shakespeare scene from Venus and Adonis.
1989 Cosmic Eggs and Quantum Bacon a full-length metaphysical comedy by Tom Mellett is produced at University of Texas at Austin. The plot involves Leonardo da Vinci and Francis Bacon reincarnating as twins into a modern family to re-unite with Will Shakspur. Niels Bohr, Einstein and God appear, with Bohr playing Cupid in a way inspired by Bacon's 1609 essay on "Cupid and the Atom."
1992 Discovery of partial manuscript from Elizabethan time that contains 50 lines from Henry IV, handwriting verified to be Bacon's by Maureen Ward Gandy, leading graphologist of England. British newspapers publish the story.
1994 BBC Program -- A Battle of Wills: Who Wrote Shakespeare? Bacon, Oxford, Marlowe?
1997 Penn Leary, Paul Dupuy, Francis Carr, establish first Baconian web-sites.
"Anne Boleyn", a cipher play, considered for production at the Globe Theatre in London. Project of Mark Rylance, artistic director and actor who has a very high regard for Bacon as the author of the Bard's plays.
1997 Elizabeth Wrigley--curator of Francis Bacon Library in Claremont, CA. for over 50 years, dies.
October, Launching of SIRBACON website.
1998 Baconiana, issue 195, published by the Francis Bacon Society
The Bacon-Shakespeare Question book by Nigel Cockburn
1999 June, issue 196 of Baconiana. This issue is largely devoted to the cross references between Don Quixote and the entries found in Bacon's notebook the Promus 177pages[/quote]
W.S. conspires to acquire certain common land in the purlieus of Stratford by enclosure. Correspondence and notes in Greene's diary reveal the actor's interest in this unjust proceeding.
April 26 1615 W.S. a petitioner with others to Chancellor Egerton to compel Mathew Bacon to deliver up certain papers relative to title of the Blackfriars property.
1615 Villiers supplants Somerset as the Favourite and becomes acquainted with Francis Bacon.
1615 A great dispute between the Count of Chancery presided over by Francis Bacon, and the Court of King's Bench presided over by Sir Edward Coke, ending in Coke's disgrace.
1615 Bacon prepares two cases of prosecution for "treason" -- sedition was synonymous to treason in King's eyes.
1616 -- Overbury affair comes to trial -- prosecution of the Old Favourite and his wife for the murder of Overbury.
April 23 -- W.Shaksper dies in Stratford after an illness super induced by having "drank too hard," leaving will covering his minutest belongings. (Rumor that Ben Jonson poisoned him.) He dies "Unwept, unhonoured and unsung."
On the same day in Spain, Cervantes dies.
November -- Charles invested as Prince of Wales
The Continent stirred by a series of Rosicrucian pamphlets advocating an Ethical Brotherhood for the amelioration of the social, political and religious ills that were afflicting mankind.
1617 James travels to Scotland.
March 7 -- (March 3, says du Maurier) Bacon, now 57 is made Lord Keeper of the Seal (the same office held by Sir Nicholas B.) Bacon was left in almost complete charge of the government of England. (Regent in King's absence).
May 7 -- Francis took his seat in the Court of Chancery and delivered his first speech of office dressed in his purple satin! with many attendants. He was the defacto head of the government in the absence of the King. He vowed to clear the courts of cases. (As in the past, this advancement was followed by indisposition.)
Altercation between Edward Coke and Lady Hatton over their 2nd daughter Frances. Coke wanted her to marry John, brother of George Villiers. Mother and daughter wouldn't agree. She left in secret with her daughter. Coke demanded a warrant to fetch his daughter from the Council. Francis refused to sign, but eventually Secretary of State, Sir Ralph Winwood obliged and signed the warrant. Lady Hatton "fabricated" another suitor for her daughter.
According to Dodd, Coke and Lady Compton (Buckingham's mother) to be revenged on F.B. for supplanting him the Privy Council, etc.
King and his favourite Villiers not pleased with Francis' refusing to sign the warrant. He "lost points" with them.
When King returned, "Steenie," (George Villiers) became the all-powerful Duke of Buckingham.
Francis later managed to make amends with King and "Steenie" and the marriage finally took place
Raleigh released from the tower to make a voyage to South America
1618 January 7 -- (January 4, says du Maurier) Made Lord High Chancellor
July 12 -- received the title of Baron Verulam. Francis is now a peer.
October 28 -- Raleigh sentenced to death. (During his voyage to Orinoco he had offended the Spanish, who accused him of piracy. The King was negotiating for a marriage of his son with the Infanta. Raleigh's actions threatened this delicate alliance.
1619 January 12 -- Fire at Whitehall. Many Council papers lost. No lives lost.
March -- Queen died. Both King and Francis had a stone. Queen's body lay at Denmark House in the Strand for 2+ months
Burbage died.
The Wisdom of the Ancients, first English edition.
King grants him a pension of 1200 per annum.
F.B. dismisses dishonest registrar from the Chancery named John Churchil.
Habsburg King Ferdinand (disliked by his subjects) had been deposed and his throne offered to James' son-in-law, a Protestant. The Elector Palatine set off for Prague. Ex-King Ferdinand's cousin (the German Emperor) declared war on Frederick, and the latter hoped for help from Great Britain. But the King held back, not wanting to offend the King of Spain who was an ally of the German Emperor. Francis favored support of Frederick and Elizabeth. The King temporized (procrastinated): was Frederick's accession legally valid?
1620-1626 Bacon now at the peak of his authority
Bacon at last felt safe to publish under his own name. Spring - Francis concerned with the Government of the country and sets forth his suggestions for better organization through various commissions (like our "departments" today) and establishment of routines. Nothing came of his suggestions. He was ahead of his time.
Publishes Novum Organum.
F.B. recommends a new parliament to be called. Writs go out. Churchil has furnished Coke with a "Black List" of discontented suitors in the Chancery which can be used in a charge of bribery and corruption.
1621 January -- His 60th birthday celebration -- at the pinnacle of his career.
27 January (New Year's) -- Created Viscount St. Albans. Splended ceremony of investiture at Theobalds, the former home of the Cecils, near Bacon's own home of Gorhambury in Hertfordshire. Once again wore purple, and King James did not object.
30 January New Parliament meets. Coke is leader of the Commons.
12 Feb: The Commons appoint committees to inquire into abuses and grievances amid great excitement.
14 March: Sir Lionel Cranfield denounces "abuses" in the Chancery Court and attacks Francis Bacon, saying he has two witnesses prepared to testify along with others compiled by J. Churchil. Francis Bacon writes to the Lords denying the charges and asks for the privileges of a High Court action. He announces his intention three times to defend himself.
16 April: The King sends for Francis Bacon and Commands him to desert his defence.
21 April -- offered to surrender the Seals. Refused the right to defend himself
24 April: The Prince of Wales announces to the Lords that he is the bearer of a "Submission" from the Lord Chancellor announcing his intention to desert his defence. The Lords demand that he pleads "Guilty" to each item, twenty-three cases in all. He sees the detailed charges for the first time in the evening.
30 April: The Chancellor returns Coke's "Black List" with the word "Guilty" written to each charge.
1 May -- Four Peers wait upon Francis Bacon to receive the Great Seal of England as he is too ill to go to the Bar of the House of Lords to surrender it. This event greatly parallels the scene from Henry VIII in which Woolsey surrenders his seals. In the evening he composes a wonderful prayer, found in his papers after his death, which, says Addison, sounds more like an angel than a man.
3 May -- sentenced by the House of Lords. Francis is too ill to attend. He is fined forty thousand pounds (fine was never paid) Sentenced to the Tower of London (spent four days there), May 31 - June 4.
Prohibited from holding office for the state
Prohibited from sitting in Parliament.
Prohibited from entering the city of London. Later exceptions were made, and he was permitted to return. He eventually took up his old lodging at Gay's Inn.
31 May -- Imprisoned in the Tower, writes a peremptory letter to the King and Buckingham demanding instant release. The necessary warrant was sent immediately to the Governor of the Tower.
The title of Chancellor was not taken from him
Later that same year, the King sent for him to ask his advice on the reform of the courts.
"I have done with all vanities."
1 Dec: A petition to the House of Lords: "I am old, weak, ruined, in want, a very subject of pity."
Argenis published in Latin in Paris, shortly after the death of the alleged author. An elaborate, allegorical history of 483 pages in large quarto, and is stated to have been edited by the dead author's friend Peireskius. Had Bacon managed to "conceal and yet reveal" his own personal history. Adventure novel. Nicopompous writes sonnets and little poems for other people that should redound to their fame. "For I bind not myself religiously to the writing of a true history, and take this liberty that the vices, and not the men, be struck."
1622
Buckingham, at last obtains York House.
Decision to gather plays together for publication.
Timon of Athen
The History of Henry VII
Publishes Historia Ventorum and Historia Vitae et Mortis
December -- Tobie Matthew, his good friend returns from exile.
1623-24 January 20 -- Francis restored to King's favor. Still seeks a full pardon. Ben Jonson, the Poet Laureate, lives and works with Francis Bacon at Gorhambury.
Francis moves once more to Gray's Inn.
November -- The Great Shakespeare Folio of 1623 , edited by Ben Jonson, consisting of thirty-six plays, many never heard of before, is published. In Henry VIII Francis Bacon tells the story of his own fall and his parentage. It was never before written or played up to this time. (The Tempest has the name Francis Bacon entwined around the initial letter B from Boteswaine in the 1623 Folio)
Compare the bookband from Henry V (1608) with the folio version (1623). Fifteen years have passed, and the young, life-enjoying Bacon-Perseus is now the aging and overthrown Lord Chancellor. Also the Face of the Pan head has two different eyes, one weeping, one laughing, giving a strange, whimsical expression!
The Shakespeare bust is placed in the Stratford Church. Who placed it there?
Publishes De Augmentis Scientarium. In this treatise Bacon describes the method of ciphering used in the biliteral cipher. (Omnia per omnia.) This was the second mention of cipher in his works.
Jonson enters English translation of Argenis in the Stationers' Hall, but this translation was never published.
1624 Prepares for the press Sylva Sylvarum and The New Atlantis or The Land of the Rosicrosse (as indicated by the Brethren in later years).
July & August -- Publishes Apothegems -- dictated by memory from sickbed. Many betray a pungent sense of humor. Were these published because he owed the printer money?
Cryptomenytices appears in Germany by Gustavus Selenus-- Text appeared in Latin. The frontispiece is elaborate and telling. Upper picture: "Tempest" bordered by masks of tragedy. Middle left picture: Man wearing a tall hat giving a wallet with bank note and MSS to a peasant who holds a spear. He carries them to the Globe theatre, London. An eagle in the skies takes to his keeping Shakespeare's immortal works. Middle right picture: The Stratfordian, now rich, on his high horse goes hunting like a gentleman.
1625 Arranges into themes his private diary of sonnets; carefully disarranges them to destroy personal meanings; prints them by the private press of the Rosicrosse; and distributes the book to the heads of the Rosicrosse-Masons as a secret document in the Christmas New Year Lodges. This book was the "1609" Quarto entitled Shakespeare's Sonnets and was kept concealed as a Masonic secret until George Steevens, a Shakespearean Freemason, reprinted the book in 1766.
58 plays had been published under Shake-speare's name.
March 5 -- King became ill after hunting at Theobalds.
March 27 -- King James died. A great funeral is held. Son Charles I becomes king.
Summer -- plague and sickness raged in London. People swarmed out of the city, spreading the infection.
Francis writes his last will. Later revised and revoked his wife's part in the former will.
Final edition of the Essays.
First English translation of Argenis by Kingsmill Long.
1626 Feb 6 -- Parliament meets. Francis not included. He is still trying to procure a complete pardon from the King, which would enable him to hold office.
Before Easter, 1626, Francis Bacon had seen all the persons who had taken part in the plot against him struck down in ruin and disgrace. They fell like rotten apples, all save Buckingham. He alone was reserved to die under the hand of an avenger, to the joy of the nation. At the age of sixty six Francis Bacon "died to the world" but there is conjecture that he fled to the Continent and lived to a very old age.
The story goes that while experimenting with the effect of cold on the decay of meat he catches a cold and develops bronchitis.
April 9 (Easter Sunday morning) -- dies at Lord Arundel's house Highgate , 66 years old.
11 days after F.B. dies, his widow marries Sir. John Underhill, "the gentleman usher" of their household.
Dr. Peter Boener: (domestic apothecary and secretary) "I never saw him changed or disturbed towards anyone, he was ever the same in sorrow and in joy, a noteworthy example for everyone of all virtue, gentleness, peacefulness and patience."
When Bacon died, after 1626 the Elizabethan music faded out as though Bacon had been the leader of the national choir.
1626 Manes Verulamiani -- poems on the death of the Lord Chancellor printed as extracts in 1640. In 1730 printed in full form. (Found in 1896)
1627 New Atlantis and Sylva Sylvarum published together for 9 editions.
New Atlantis published a few months after he died with emblem "In time the hidden truth shall be revealed."
1629 Sir Robert le Greys and Thomas May published a second translation of Argenis and to this was added a Clavis or Key at the special command of Charles 1st to explain the characters in the Argenis, who were confessedly concealed under feigned names. The King was therefore fully aware of the truth of the Royal Secrets the book contained.
1631 Pierre Amboise -- early writer on Bacon, states Bacon was "born to the purple and brought up with the expectation of a great career. . . . " (Yet there had been a law in England for over 100 years that only royalty could wear purple.) "He saw himself destined one day to hold in his hand the helm of the kingdom."
1632 June 12 -- Bacon's estate finally settled. Judge sells the lands and estates to Lord Dunsmore for 6,000, on condition that he should pay Lady Underhill 530 pounds per year for her lifetime
1635 Three more of Bacon's books published by Rawley.
1636 A further edition of Argenis appeared with illustrations and a more elaborate Key to unlock the mystery of the allegory. The author of Argenis says his object was to wrap up some important historical truths in a tangle of imaginative fiction and that under certain fanciful names, well known persons and places are intended. The Key tells us who these fanciful names represent. Argenis is Margaret Valois; Hyanisbe Queen Elizabeth; Archombrotos or Hiempsall is her son who employs himself in writing Sonnets for various festive occasions at the Court. Nicopompus is the author, Mauretania is England, etc. The fable relates how the Queen was privately married "to a man of must eminent qualitie next to the King's, how she had a secret son, how she fought with Philip of Spain, how she posed as a Virgin to the world the better to discomfit her foreign enemies, how she forbade her son to marry Argenis, etc.
The first publication of any of Shake-speares Sonnets (apart from two published in 1599) was given to the open world in a book entitled Poems written by Wil. Shakespeare Gent. They were published by the Rosicrosse Literary Society, Francis Bacon's literary executors. The Poems continued to be printed in the "1640 form" (known as Benson's Medley because the "Unknown Sonnets" were printed in odd groups between well-known poems and songs of Shakespeare) and no one suspects that their impersonal captions masked a Biographical Diary of tempestuous emotions.
1641 Sir Thomas Meautys succeeds Francis as owner of Gorhambury. Thomas marries Anne Bacon, the daughter of Sir Nathaniel Bacon of Culford, Francis' nephew and well-known portrait painter of his day. (Meautys also erected a fine monument to his former friend and employer in St. Michael's church, St. Albans. date unknown)
1642 The Theatres around London closed by Parliament.
1644 Sermones Fideles, Leyden
1645 Theodor Haak, resident of the Palitinate, with friends at Oxford and Cambridge founded a society for carrying out the experiments of "Solomon's House (from Bacon's New Atlantis.) This was an Invisible Society out of which sprang the Royal Society under King Charles II, (see 1660).
Historia Vitae et Mortis published in Dilinger.
1653 Scripta Naturali et Universali -- Bacon shown on frontispiece next to Columbus and Copernicus.
1657 In Memory of Elizabeth by F. Bacon.(posthumous) Like Alexander and Julius Caesar, Eliz left no legitimate issue, but had natural children.
1660 Royal Society Founded under Charles II. (Science) (Francis Bacon acknowledged as primary influence).
Bacon also praised by Cowley as being the greatest poet of the day, after Milton.
1671 The last of the Biliteral cipher appears in print.
1679 Bishop Thomas Tenison -- early writer on Bacon, pointedly declared that F. Bacon led a concealed life. Tenison quotes Dr. Rawley: "He (Dr. Rawley) judged some papers, touching Matters of Estate (relating to Francis Bacon) to tread too near upon the Heels of Truth, and to the Times of the Persons concerned, to be published openly."
1693 Dowdall, researching Shaksper conversed with an old clerk who was then over 80 (he would have been born in 1610's and might have known Shaksper). He said Shaksper was a butcher's apprentice and ran away from his master to London.
1707 In Van der Werff's portrait of Elizabeth she is with 3 children. (Who was Van der Werff? He seemed to know the whole story, says J.O. Fuller)
1709 Rowe's Life of Shakespeare
1725 Alexander Pope's edition of Shakespeare
1730 Poems on the death of the Lord Chancellor printed in full form (Manes Verulamiani).
1726 Wilmot born at Warwick, a fellow of Trinity College
1740-41 Statue of "The Bard" placed in Westminster Abbey, same year anonymous pamphlet The Life and Adventures of Common Sense, which states that W.S. was a profligate and a thief ...
1746 The Stratford monument (which may have been placed there by Bacon himself, or his close associates as a joke when the first folio was printed) was replaced. (The image of "Shakespeare" with pen and paper on cushion replaces the figure with a tradesman's sack.)
1761 Roger Ascham's preface Divae Elizabethae, published. See 1566. It indicates that he knew why he was commanded by Queen Elizabeth to do the work The Schoolmaster.
1765 Samuel Johnson writes that Shakspere held horses at the door of the play-house, and in time "found higher employment."
1766 George Steevens, a famous Shakespearean scholar, and a member of the Rosicrosse, reprints openly for the first time, a copy of the hitherto secret book held by the Literary Fraternity, the "1609 Quarto." No one takes any notice of it.
1769 Stratford Jubilee. David Garrick deserves the credit for starting the trend of upgrading Stratford into a proper memorial for the supposed author in his own home town. Almost everything about the life of Shakespeare is mere fabrication, starting with the place where he was born, the school, Anne Hathaway's cottage, the mulberry tree, etc.
Herbert Lawrence, The Life and Adventures of Commonsense the first to raise the Shakespeare authorship question.
1777 Mrs. Hornby arranged an exhibition of objects said to have belonged to Shaksper. It was an outrageous hoax.
1780 An Irish Lawyer named Malone, a Shakespeare scholar, reprints the "1609 Quarto," and alters the text.
1785 James Wilmot formulates thesis that Shakespeare did not write the plays, because upon firsthand investigation in Stratford and environs, he could find almost nothing about him, and nothing which supported him being the author of anything. Wilmot concluded that Francis Bacon was the most likely candidate for the authorship based upon the circumstantial evidence he found. He based his theory on knowledge of law, circulation of blood, designations of three characters in Love's Labour's Lost -- Biron, Dumain, and Longaville which coincide with names of three ministers at the Court of Navarre where Anthony Bacon resided. Wilmot theorized that Bacon destroyed his manuscripts in order to conceal the fact that so exalted a personage had descended to the base art of play writing. Arrived at his conclusion diffidently, but firmly held it. Also found additional confirmation in the numerous extraordinary likenesses of style between the two Elizabethans. But Wilmot did not publish his theory or his findings
1786 The Story of the Learned Pig. One of the pig's friends was Will Shakspear "falsely-fathered" with plays not belonging to him.
1790 Malone writes bitterly that none of the various Editors of Shakespeare "have taken the trouble to compare" the "1609 Quarto Text" with the Benson Medley which they continue to reprint.
1793 George Steevens acts the part of agent provocateur by denouncing the Sonnets. His scathing attack resulted -- as was intended -- in bringing the Sonnets to the notice of the world. Malone rushed in to defend the literary beauty of the Sonnets and the "Sonnet Controversy" began.
1805 James Corton Cowell, Quaker of Ipswich was informed of the Baconian theory.
1806 Cowell gives two addresses before the Ipswich Philosophic Society, which passed into the possession of the University of London Library, ad was there discovered by Professor Allardyce Nicoll. (See 1932)
1837 Lord Macaulay -- wrote on Bacon. Tendency to judge with extreme harshness. "Take Macaulay with a grain of salt." -Winston Churchill
1848 Joseph Hart, first anti-Stratfordian standard bearer, New York lawyer -- not a Baconian. He didn't venture a guess who wrote the Shakespearean works.
1857-1861 Spedding's work on Bacon.
1856-57 Delia Bacon makes her hypothesis public and goes on lecture tour declaring the revolutionary idea that Bacon wrote Shakespeare.
1856 William Henry Smith's book Bacon and Shakespeare
1859 Delia Bacon dies at 48.
1880 "We do not know half enough about Lord Bacon -- let the critics go to Hell." Nietzsche
1883 The Bacon-Shakespeare Craze in Atlantic Monthly Mrs. Pott publishes the Promus, Bacon's notebooks, with many parallel quotes and ideas found in the plays. Very strong argument for Bacon's authorship.
1884 By this time the authorship controversy had stirred France, Germany, and India, as well as England and the U.S. and had produced over 250 books, pamphlets, and articles.
1885-6 The Bacon Society founded by Constance Pott, and Baconiana Anthology started.
1887-88 Ignatius Donnelly The Great Cryptogram. Donnelly Tribunal of Literary Criticism to try the case. Articles in The Arena.
1893 Dr. Owen wrote a pamphlet of rebuttal to above: Request to Reopen Brief for Plaintiff. (request was ignored).
1893-98 Various volumes of Dr. Orville Owen appeared under the title Sir Francis Bacon's Cipher Story, published by Howard Publishing Company, Detroit, Michigan. Includes Mary, Queen of Scots, 1894
1896 George Cantor finds "The Harleian Miscellany" in the British Museum -- the source of 32 elegiac poems on the death of the Lord Chancellor (Manes Verulamiani). These had been printed as extracts in 1640, and in full form in 1730.
1899-1900 Elizabeth Wells Gallup publishes The Biliteral Cypher of Sir Francis Bacon
1909 Eight Shakespeare Quartos (from early 1600's) found in Francis Bacon's library inside the new Gorhambury estate.
1909 Is Shakespeare Dead? Mark Twain's book comes out and he presents his life long interest on the authorship issue by refuting the Stratford Myth and backing Bacon as the Shakespeare author.
1910 Bacon is Shakespeare by Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
Gallup says: That the cipher message is enclosed in the works I have deciphered I know, from years of hard and exhaustive study. There is no more doubt of the existence of the cipher and its message than there is of the Morse alphabet and its use at the present day. The study has been of thousands of pages, comparison and classification of hundreds of thousands of the italic letters, and I have the right to claim, and insist, that I know.
1915 The Greatest of Literary Problems, James Finney Baxter by 1915 there were 10,000 volumes written about Shakespeare.
1917 Mrs. Bunten discovered Anthony Bacon's passports were signed with the names Biron, Dumain, Longaville and Boyesse. All were characters in Love's Labors Lost, set in Navarre.
1922 Walter Conrad Arensberg -- with passion for anagrams began with the Cryptography of Dante. This led him to Shakespeare. He endowed the Francis Bacon Foundation on the campus of Pomona college in Claremont.
1931 March 31. Shakespeare's Diary of the Personal Poems of Francis Bacon first published, in which, according to Alfred Dodd," the Sonnets were arranged in their correct numerical (sonnet 23 is first) and chronological order under their Themes and captioned as in the original MS. All the hitherto Secret Themes are openly declared for the first time."
1932 Professor Allardyce Nicoll discovers Cowell's addresses, (based upon Wilmot's researches and theories) which postulate that Bacon wrote Shakespeare, and publishes them in the N.Y. Times Literary Supplement, giving Wilmot his due.
1934 Death of Elizabeth Wells Gallup
1937 The Sixth Edition of Shakespeare's Sonnet-Diary. The long-drawn plan, extending over three hundred years, has been brought to a successful conclusion. The Poet-Prince can now speak openly in his own words to his countrymen of the emotions which swept his soul. (Dodd)
1954 Francis Bacon Foundation endowed on the Pomona College campus in Claremont, California.
1958 The Poacher from Stratford -- Frank Wadsworth (lacks documentation)
Shakespeare and his Betters -- R.C. Churchill
1959-60 Journal of the American Bar Association: Shakespeare Cross-Examined.
1961 400th anniversary of Bacon's birth celebrated by the Bacon Society at Gray's Inn.
1962 Shakespeare and his Rivals -- George McMichael & E.M. Glenn, eds.
The Shakespeare Claimants -- H.N. Gibson
1965 Reply by Milward W. Martin in Was Shakespeare Shakespeare? A Lawyer Reviews the Evidence.
1973 Margaret Barsi-Green I, Prince Tudor Wrote Shakespeare.
1975-6 Dame Daphne Du Maurier writes The Golden Lads and The Winding Stair. Books about the lives of Francis, Anthony and Essex.
1985 Discovery of a Rosicrucian Mural in St. Albans (Bacon's hometown) from 1600 that depicts a Shakespeare scene from Venus and Adonis.
1989 Cosmic Eggs and Quantum Bacon a full-length metaphysical comedy by Tom Mellett is produced at University of Texas at Austin. The plot involves Leonardo da Vinci and Francis Bacon reincarnating as twins into a modern family to re-unite with Will Shakspur. Niels Bohr, Einstein and God appear, with Bohr playing Cupid in a way inspired by Bacon's 1609 essay on "Cupid and the Atom."
1992 Discovery of partial manuscript from Elizabethan time that contains 50 lines from Henry IV, handwriting verified to be Bacon's by Maureen Ward Gandy, leading graphologist of England. British newspapers publish the story.
1994 BBC Program -- A Battle of Wills: Who Wrote Shakespeare? Bacon, Oxford, Marlowe?
1997 Penn Leary, Paul Dupuy, Francis Carr, establish first Baconian web-sites.
"Anne Boleyn", a cipher play, considered for production at the Globe Theatre in London. Project of Mark Rylance, artistic director and actor who has a very high regard for Bacon as the author of the Bard's plays.
1997 Elizabeth Wrigley--curator of Francis Bacon Library in Claremont, CA. for over 50 years, dies.
October, Launching of SIRBACON website.
1998 Baconiana, issue 195, published by the Francis Bacon Society
The Bacon-Shakespeare Question book by Nigel Cockburn
1999 June, issue 196 of Baconiana. This issue is largely devoted to the cross references between Don Quixote and the entries found in Bacon's notebook the Promus 177pages[/quote]
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