Independent researcher publishing current work on Francis Bacon's authorship of the Shakespeare canon, drawing on legal history, documentary record, naming patterns, and simple-cipher numerology. Has granted the school permission to include the full body of this work here. The record below is a working file — exhibits are added in batches as they're prepared, not all at once.
Papers arguing individual plays back to Bacon through documented biography, legal history, and the circumstances of their composition and first performance.
Reconstructs Bacon's role as organizer behind the 1594–5 Christmas Gray's Inn Revels, arguing that Bacon — cast in the only surviving account (the 1688 Gesta Grayorum) as the mysterious "Sorcerer" blamed for the chaotic "Night of Errors" — both directed the festivities and was the concealed author of The Comedy of Errors, which premiered there. Draws on the documented overlap between Bacon's own legal writing against "snaring statutes" and the play's central plot device, his real, separately-documented involvement in the contemporaneous Slade v. Morley contract case echoed in the play's chain dispute, and numerical patterns (33, 100) the paper reads as simple-cipher signatures for "Bacon."
Download PDF → (pending upload to server)Argues that The Troublesome Raigne of King John (1591) — which predates William Shakspere's documented arrival in London — was Bacon's earliest Shakespeare play, and that its central invented character, the illegitimate "Bastard" Philip Falconbridge, is a coded self-portrait: the name is read as containing an anagram of "F. Bacon," and the character's disputed, concealed royal parentage is read as mirroring Bacon's own claimed secret birth. Traces extensive verbal and legal parallels between the play and Bacon's later prose History of King Henry VII, and situates the play's papal-authority scenes against Bacon's real, documented work examining Catholic prisoners for the Elizabethan Privy Council.
Papers arguing the authorship case from the physical printed record itself — naming patterns, anagrams, cipher numerology, and the emblematic title pages Bacon's own circle produced.
A wide-ranging survey of naming patterns, anagrams, and simple-cipher numerology across more than a dozen First Folio plays — including The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, the Henry IV plays, and Hamlet — arguing each encodes references to Bacon, his brother Anthony, and members of the extended Cooke-Bacon-Cecil family circle.
Presents six title pages and frontispieces from Bacon's own Rosicrucian-Freemasonic circle, published 1641–45, read as encoding the authorship secret: the 1641 La Saggesse Mysterieuse frontispiece (Pallas Athena "shaking a spear," read as the source of the Shakespeare pen name), matching 1641–42 Latin engravings for Bacon's Essays and History of Henry VII by Cornelius van Dalen (read as depicting Bacon alongside a masked actor-figure), a 1644 pamphlet on Archbishop Laud (read as showing a financial "pact" between Bacon and the actor William Shakspere), the 1645 satire The Great Assises Holden in Parnassus (which places "Lord Verulam" — Bacon's title — first among poets while separately listing "William Shakespeare" among tradesmen as a "writer of weekly accounts"), and the 1645 De Augmentis Scientiarum title page.
Download PDF → (pending upload to server)The authorship question is where this school's premise is settled. Bacon's broader role in the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic tradition — including its claimed imprint on the founding of the United States itself — is a further, larger thesis argued within the wider tradition, resting on its own separate body of evidence. Read it as its own case, not as an extension of the case already made above.
Argues that Washington, D.C. itself is a Rosicrucian-Freemasonic monument to Bacon — that George Washington was installed in "Bacon's Chair" (Solomon's Chair) as Worshipful Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Virginia before his presidential inauguration, that the city's 100-square-mile diamond layout and the name "Columbia" encode the same Pallas Athena / "Shaker of the Spear" symbolism behind the Shakespeare pen name, and that the Capitol's Statue of Freedom, the Apotheosis of Washington fresco, and the documented genealogy of Presidents William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison trace a symbolic and bloodline inheritance back to Bacon.
Download PDF → (pending upload to server)Reads the Great Seal of the United States and the reverse of the one-dollar bill — the unfinished pyramid, the all-seeing eye, the motto Novus Ordo Seclorum ("a new order of the ages") — as Rosicrucian symbolism tracing to Bacon's New Atlantis and Solomon's House, arguing the Seal encodes the same authorship signature found on Bacon's own Continental title pages, and drawing on established esoteric historians (Manly P. Hall, Nicholas Hagger) who have separately linked Great Seal symbolism to the Rosicrucian tradition generally, though not to the Shakespeare authorship question specifically.
Download PDF → (pending upload to server)Traces Bacon's Cambridge years (1573-76) and his time at the English embassy in Paris (1576-79), arguing that his lifelong fascination with codes and ciphers began under Dr John Dee and the cryptographer Thomas Phelippes, that he founded the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross as a teenager, and that this secret founding is encoded in the 1575-76 Kenilworth and Woodstock entertainments — specifically in the frontispiece and sonnet of "The Tale of Hemetes the Hermit," read here as Baconian-Rosicrucian symbolism (the muzzled sphinx, the "half-off" cloak, the Tudor rose monogram altered to read "F").
Read Full Text → Download PDF → (pending upload to server)Featured as the contemporary voice in the authorship tradition in the Reading Packet Core for the Upper School's Tempest unit, alongside Delia Bacon (the tradition's 1857 origin point) and the Promus (Bacon's own notebook, read as a primary artifact of the case).
The Tempest unit's Reading Packet is built at the content level; its link into a dedicated room in the Bacon Cabinet is still pending.