True or Vaults?

[Charlotte]

The Masonic Shakespeare Vault in William sburg, Virginia

The few people who read my stuff know that I began writing about Sir Francis Bacon ca five years ago at Ma'at, inspired by E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web" and animated movie by Paramount Pictures of the same title, to which Fern pointed her finger, but most of all by Fern herself, who mentored me concerning Francis and his New Atlantis, which Francis, like Plato before him, left unfinished for future generations to pluck out his writ and finish it in due time.

At Ma'at, the thread "Charlotte's Web and Francis Bacon" was to be relegated to the "Coffee Shop" which I could not tolerate, as "The Most Masculine Birth of Time", the Fraternity of Freemasonry and the Rosicrucian Order, should have taken front and center stage, methought. More to the point, in Francis' time, it was a revival of a Brotherhood that existed since time immemorial under different names, all of which Francis knew.

For some time I thought of continuing here, Don apparently entertaining the same and suggested one day I should do so, and since I do everything Don says , I did. By then I knew quite a bit about "The Secret Destiny of America" and a "Treasure Vault", as Fern called it, in Williamsburg, Virginia, but

"Tarrying fate said no, it must not yet be so"

Much has transpired since aside from the National Treasure's, a book written by Daniel Rivera, pointed out to me, and I suspect other material I'm not aware of , to, in Fern's words "lawfully" write about the "pending (of) America's honorable claim for lawful release and designated world family distribution" with the same total love, affection, and devotion for Francis she transfered to me.

According to Fern, the Treasure in the Vault consists of manu scripts with instructions for 'World Family Enlightenment', diffused from America, involving I think, in the greater scheme of things, our next President Barack Obama. Surely, the world-wide love and admiration accorded the Gentleman is an invaluable support for the change he seeks to bring about, and surely also, the time is at hand to turn a page in our history.

May be, that the Treasure is the "life altering" information on page 47 Ben knows, but hasn't yet told the President, because, methinks, it will take another year or two for the telling to proceed orderly so people are ready to hear it. Said Jon Turteltaub, that what's on page 47 "is the biggest secret in America today: the plot of Star Treck." It's true and shown clearly in the episode "In search of Spock", desperate to get back to Vulcan every 7 years to renew himself in agonizing pain or die. We're betwixt the 6th and 7th year. There have been and are many other indicators and events running concurrent and seemingly unrelated to bring about the New Atlantis, or whatever one wants to call it, the collective eye is now fixed on, but hear Francis' own words, again, as an introduction of things to come:

"For this unchangable way I have proposed to errect the Academic fabric of this Island's Solomon's House (Masonry) modeled in my "New Atlantis"...in this benevolent, yea magnificent affair my ends are only to make the World my heir, the learned Fathers of Solomon's House the successive and sworn Trusteesin this dispensation of this Service to God's glory, my Prince's magnificence, our countrie's general good and the propagation of my own memory; which done, I shall not then doubt the happy issue of my undertakings in this design, whereby concealed Treasure, which now seems utterly lost to mankind, shall be confined to so universal a Piety, and brought into use by the industry of the converte petinents whose wretched carcasses the impartial laws have, or shall have dedicated as an untimely feast for the worms of the Earth in whose womb these deserted Riches must ever lie buried as lost abortments, unless those be made the active midwives to deliver them. For my Lords, I humbly consider them the fittest of all men to effect this great work for the ends and causes which I have before expressed."

The wretched carcasses are the books written by so much dead letter of the word not-understanding of his Francis' Works and a feast for worms. It is up to the fittest of men to effect these Works, and the time it takes is proportional to what the collective spyche can take.

His pace must wary be and slow
That hath a Slippery-way to go.
And, they who with more haste, than heed, will runne,
May lose the way, in which they well begunne.

Hopefully, then, you can take my snails pace so we can reach Cibola one of these years.

Charlotte

PS I purched a new computer and may have to wait a few days to change several things.

[Charlotte]

Having not much time this morning, I'll convey the origin of common sense.

"Common Sense reports that he was born in Athens" and is the father of Wit.

Of old, when Wisdom chose to wed,
E're Common Sense was born
Fair Truth believed all he said
And fixed the nuptial morn.

But fate at whose decrees we guess
Just at the nuptial hour, sent
Wit disguised in Wisdom's dress
To crop the beautious flower.

Thus paired, not matched, 'twas past recall
Each other viewed with scorn
'Till Fortune made ammends for all
When Common Sense was born.

By Prudence bred on Wisdom's plan
Beneath Truth's watchful eye,
'Twould sink the dignity of man
If Common Sense should die.


Maybe it sleepeth.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

Hallo Don, Members and Guests,

The necessity for a Masonic Shakespeare Vault

In the subject under consideration, the Prince of Poets and the Masonic and Rosicrucian Societies cannot be seperated.

Beginning his grand scheme at the Court in France at age 17, Sir Francis Bacon informed the public in 1592 concerning the Great Instauration:

" Being convinced that the Human Intellect makes its own difficulties, there was but one course left therefore, to try the whole anew upon a better plan, and to commence a total Reconstruction of Sciences, Arts, and all Human Knowledge , raised upon the proper Foundations.

"In obedience to the everlasting Love of Truth, I have committed myself to the uncertainties and difficulties and solitude of the ways, relying on Divine Assistance . . . in the hope of providing at least for the present and future generations guidance, more faithful and secure.

"The same humility I used in invention, I employ in teaching (as the founder of Freemasonry), for I do not endeavor even by the veil of obscurity to invest these inventions of mine with any majesty, which might easily be done by one who sought to give luster to his name rather than Light to other Men's Minds - I am laboring to lay the Foundation" for the Aquarian Age.

Times were turbulent in England, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy, and Francis knew that his Work had to be abandoned and hidden for several centuries. The voyages written about had to secure the colonies for successful colonization and for his unknown plans to reform the World to be brought to America and secreted in a vault in the Earth.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

What is in the great Shakespeare Masonic Vault

Fr. Baconi
DE VERULAMIO
Historia Naturalis
& Experimentalis
DE
VENTIS,
&c

The title page of Fancis Bacon's Natural History shows a crowned King, naked from the waist up, emerging from his "earth- vaulted confinement". A fully clothed female figure bends gracefully toward him as if welcoming him to the light of the day. She also is crowned and both hold a scepter. The above inscription is encircled by a white cloud formation arising from the King.

"Above the two earth-bound human figures - placed in the four corners 'outside' the cloudy veil (are) four humanly faced cupid heads vigorously blowing four-directional winds toward the center, thus calling attention to the verbally-stated inscription".

These four humanly faced cupid heads, Lord Bacon as cupid shot his arrows, even blind folded, over the centuries to our time, and it becomes more apparent with each day that the wind of discovery is blowing from four major directions, and increasing minor ones.

They also "may well represent the created MIND OF NATURE from within which form-bound human minds are differentiated and contained. Obviously the humanly faced cupid heads "squaring the cloudy circle" do understand the four evolutionary kingdoms in Nature--their "Natural and Experimental" History, as related to the two "royal" masculine and feminine human figures below. For they do represent the fraternal and feminine aspect of a "fifth kingdom in Nature," that of ENSOULED HUMANKIND: Immortally ensouled, mortal humankind.

"Fifth kingdom, or ensouled humans, have been given "dominion over Nature and her creatures" by reason of their Divine-parental Soul-endowment. Therefore the royal crowns upon the heads of the kingly pair, and the scepter in their hands identify two soul-matured, ensouled bodily human, masculine and feminine entities, who have come to intelligent recognition of principles, laws and lawful ways, whereby mental and physical "dominion over Nature and her creatures" is lawfully exercised. It constitutes the one and only "true royalty" involving all of ensouled humankind."

All this has resonance with the story of Eden, when Adam had dominion of the animals and then became a living soul. It can also be traced in Embryology when the "quickening" occurs in the fifth month, when man becomes a living soul.

Without knowing her extensive recollection of times past, it is a bit hard to understand Fern, and being German, her style of writing reflects our way of capitalizing words not done in the English language.

Perhaps the past, present, and future is to be known by what is in the Vault and recollecting, for as Mr. Hall states:

"We were them then and we are them now".

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

To the earnest Reader

The quest to come to know Bruton Vault

Before the following of Fern's writings, she elaborates on a most intriguing meeting with a man, regarding the Shakespeare Plays, which must remain obscured for the time being.

Fern poses "the natural question: How could anyone living and working in the early seventeenth century possibly have known and pictorially as well as verbally delineated these things three and one-half centuries ahead of time? Believe it or not--but wait and see--that on the road toward progessively realized discernments numerously encountered incredibilities and perplexities keep on clearing up all by themselves, simply, naturally, frequently unexpectedly, while reactively "tickling your funny bone."

Reminds me of my Philosophy Teacher, "forget about answers for now, just take part in the process and stop projecting and imagining, for the mind that is bussy imagining never hears a word being said."

As a women, Fern writes:

"... materialistic-scholarly, literary and scientific men may very well consider that intuitive-emotional feminine perception--when honorably and sincerely motivated, can and do frequently lead to much more constructive and reconstructive solutional conclusions and actions, than all the fame and power-aspiring, or intellectually self-displaying, masculine-rational speculating and its opinionated time-perpetuating!"

Hence the libraries full of books written over a few centuries speculating about the Shakespeare Controversy, the "push-me-pull-you" two-headed Lama from Tibet in the circus of "Dr. Dolittle", who speaks "pig" and other animal languages", personifying Francis Bacon, who could do little in his time but made pro visions for our time and now fanned by the four cupid heads vigorously blowing four-directional winds to remove the dust from Bruton Vault, reminicent of Thutmose IV removing the sand from the Sphinx.

"In fact", Fern has it, "it did seem that by necessity it may well have been profitable to periodically nourish both sides of the controversy, so as to keep the issue artificially alive up to the time of desired discernment.

"As far as discovered "codes" and code-methods were concerned, I was completely unschooled in them (had to raise the new-born Wilbur with a bottle) and little inclined to patiently track down mechanical rules. It seemed curious that none of the codes discovered in the Shakespeare Plays were consistent or continuous, but seemed to evaporate, so that none of the scholars could conclusively prove their respective discovered method. It began to indicate to me that, whatever it is these codes turned out to be, they must somehow have been dependent upon the structual aspects of alphabetically formed writing as such. Also when "live speech" is sound-muted and transformed into "dead writing," rational light-factors lend themselves readily to written forming, but emotional warmth-factors are readily submerged. For that reason poets take recourse to "poetic license."

For that reason poets take recourse to poetic license, and why Shelley states that "Poetry is at once the centre and circumeference of knowledge to which all science must be referred", and that " a Poet is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue and glory..." Such is Francis to me.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

Sorry about the repetitions, but good because things can be had from the top of the head.

Fern:

"As we shall see and learn to understand ever more clearly: Lord Bacon gathered about him the most brilliant intellects of the British Isles and the European continent. He inspired, solicited and employed their material-ideological and factual co-labor in and for the experience-adapted and experience-darkened foundation building of a New Age human world and family future. We shall come to know them as the ORIGINAL, LITERARY-MASONIC SHAKESPEARE GROUP. Once aware of this carefully secreted but noblest of all fraternal conspiracies which ever graced our planet, much does and become possible, feasable and factual which otherwise would boggle the imagination.'

Makes me think of good and bad conspiracies in the greater, and in the lesser that each human, and even animals, conspire at one time ot another with a certain result in mind. Sometimes "it is as easy a lying" says Hamlet.

"But to avoid semblence to "idolatry," only one long-rangs question remains--pending a long-range answer--how, why, in what manner or by what lawful way did Lord Bacon, the New Age Architect and guiding light of the literary Masonic Shakespeare Group, came to understanding of his fraternal and paternally anticipated New Age World and Family nission? Also: What proof is there? Will proof for that also be revealed from among the ducumentary wealth of Bruton Vault?"

The Good Pens, as they are known, could go about their daily activities "since their association with the New Age undertaking and the literary Shakespeare issue would remain carefully secreted. However, that gave them great advantage in two very definate ways. First, not openly associated with the Shakespeare issue, they being contemporaries, could be much more openly outspoken about the true facts underlaying the controversial Shakespeare mystery. Secondly, having been instructed in the newly conceived "Code-Invention"--which would have to be dependent upon text-construction in the art of writing as such--these members of the Shakespeare Group would "practice their newly gained 'code-skills' "in their published writings."

As eloquently stated by Latona that Shakespeare lingered somewhere in between these personages.

It is often written that Francis invented the English languages as we know it today, invented this or the other, but this, his 'code-system' must have been his greatest invention, methinks.

"In Mr. Hall's article on the Controversy, a beneficiant complicity of many minds is strongly suspected and variously confirmed by scholarly findings. Even more profound testimony is Lord Bacon's standing in Masonry and Rosicrucianism."

Again, Latona conveyed: "Francis was the one man that stood shoulders above the rest,
"Him under the wings, the instaurator himself FB."

"It made me happy that, being a women, I did not have to conform to, and most certaily would not let myself in for practicing secretive ways! Seems the Lord made men to make secrets, and made women to break all men-made secrets wide open: For wine aged too long turns into vinegar."

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

When Fern says the "the Lord made men to make secrets and women to break all men-made secrets wide open", she doesn't mean for women to want-only disclose sacred things, rather, more in terms of masculine creative and feminine redemptive mien, the latter she describes as a warm love factor emerging from confinement with the help of 'father time', and, as Francis and the entire Shakespeare Group was more alive to her than the living, a sentiment I definitively share, it seemed to her that the Group "had decided to vent their long frustrated anticipations", by appealing and "aiming at (her) mind, soul and imagination", to "somehow, some way - simply come to the rescue of Bacon and his noble conspirators, because they no longer could help themselves." This she did consulting photostatic copies of first editions of seventeenth century writers and contemporaries of Francis kept in another vault to which she was given the key.

The Great Scheme

"... the complete and vast extend of Lord Bacon's work", is "found registered in black and white in the neig innumerable works pertaining to the great scheme.

"The manner of the inner life, the soul of the writings is contained within the apparent text body--rather it is the motivating principle, life-priciple of the body--indeed discovers to us the secret of organic life and its manner of animating form, as will be seen later.

"To return to the great labor of the initial Masonic builders: the young plant of Masonic Brotherhood was not to be confined to the specialized soil of but a few members. It was destined to spread its roots into all the countries and nations of the world, and woo business and tradesmen, "the sons of toil" and backbone of empire for the fraternal ideal. For that reason the outer order of our present-day Free Masonry was established."

As stated in the "New Atlantis" thread, the outer order of Masonry of the "Island of Bensalem" were those sent out into the world to collect information and "knowledge of the state of the arts and sciences", and "bring back books, instruments and news", they themselves were to move undetected among humanity.

Not so where I live, as I detect working for a Mason now and then by some such sign in the house. What secrets they harbor I am careful not to ask, but members of the outer order, then and now, according to Fern, "were subjected to a selective system by which they could attain to numerous degrees and proportionally receive deeper insight into the work. This in turn spurred them to greater effort and endeavor in their various occupations and stations in life, and made them useful instruments for carrying out diverse aspects of the great design in fields commercial, political, scientific, philosophical, and religious." I do have a feeling however, that members sent out by the "College of Bensalem" were of a different complexion being closer to the source.

Those living in the "House of the Stranger" on the island, "kept the lamp of the Muse burning during the last three hundred years by periodically publishing works produced by the Shakespeare group and designated to be released at certain times, in accordance with the plan, during the interval of concealment. The final revelation of the plan also was to be effected through this inner group, in the event that it had not been detected or brought to a natural discernment."

Anticipating our times, "these men knew that three hundred years hence they would have to deliver "concrete proof" to a sceptical age, and they fortified their scheme for such an emergency. The constant incentive for discernment, contained in the published writings, was not enough. They preserved manuscripts of all these writings , among them the Shakespeare-manuscripts, of which nver a line has been found. Also papers used in the transcription of the King James version of the Bible. Hence the mysterious disappearance of many of Bacon's own writings, which are historically reported as "missing" or "lost.

"They preserved historical records and documentary verifying the facts disclosed in the Plays, etc., such as the Tudor birth-records, also crown-jewlels and other significant objects of literary and historical value."

On this 20th of January, with the inaugration of Barack Obama, I hope with the rest of the World that Fern's words then

"Surely America--the strong child so richly endowed--is approaching her birthday of maturity"

have come to pass.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

President Barack Obama, inaugural speech:

"As for the common defence, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our founding fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a character expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expediance's sake."

Fern:

The Constitution of the United States, and the main course of its History, were predetermined and carried out in accordance with Sir Francis Bacon's plan of New Age Empire-building. The Declaration of Independence was conceived long before it was brought to life."

A reference to the writ on this forum in "National Treasure", viz., in 1610, among the Coucil of shareholders of 52 members was Francis Bacon, this "Virginia Company" published "a document entitled A True and Sincere declatation of the purpose and ends of the Plantation began in Virginia... a worthy enterprise..." Thomas Gates was involved, and in 1917 C.M. Gayley wrote concerning "Shakespeare and the Founders of Liberty in America."

Fern:

"Two definite classes of people braved the hazardous journey. Those who have been inflamed with the spirit of the New Age became pioneers of the future. America has been accused of having received the criminal element of Europe. That may be true to a small extent. Yet, when tyranny and intolerance are the law, he who dares to resist or break that law may technically be called a criminal, but it is of such timber that the New Age is hewn."

Fern knew her stuff, there were both types of these 'criminals' involved. Sir Humfrey Gilbert in his ill-faded voyage set out with a "motley crew of pirates and criminals - such needie people of our country which now trouble the commonwealth - the jetsam of society who had committed 'outragious offences whereby they are dayly consumed with the gallowes', and those inflamed by the New Age spririt elaborated on by Latona in name and position.

From the Founding Fathers to yesterday's inauguration of the 44th President, a great span of time was required "not only for the inception and launching of the work, but to permit the young race in America to grow from infancy to maturity and readier receptivity." Looked like most of the world was receptive yesterday to "proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises - and worn out dogmas..."

As if President Obama had echoed Fern's words, that part of the greatest treasure incorporated in our inheritance is a "New Constitutuion for the United Brotherhood of the earth (then) was built upon enduring principles and anchored at the center of universal law, so that true democracy may be born after its three hundred years prenatal period. Christianity was recorded, reconciled to scientific law and correlated to the Secret Doctrine of the East. The complete draught of the work, an outline of European and American history, a history of Free Masonry, a history of the Rosicrucianism, manuscripts of all published writings were united in a vast wealth destined to mold the culture of the New Age", and a new race born in many generations of all existing races.

None of this is told to the people of America and the world, but continuously suppressed, hopefully not much longer.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

The elect crafty S.O.T. Sons Of Toil

Francis was sent to the French Court at age 15. Seven men are said to have toiled in England and France to remodel the languages from Latin and Greek, to which he was privy. Born to be of benefit to mankind, he came back to London at age 17 to begin to perfect his mission to reform the world.

Fern touches briefly on the Rosicrucian movement in central Europe in the late 16th and early 17th century, when, enormously influenced by Dee an attempt was made by the greatest minds and illuminated Mystics of Europe, named and associations given by Latona, to break the stranglehold the Roman Catholic Church had on the people at the time, leading to the conflict between the gentle Palatine Lion Frederick V, associated with the RC movement, and the fierce Habsburger Eagle of the fanatical Jesuits loyal to Rome. As a side note, Madam Blavatsky detested the Jesuits, but held the RC, the Mystics, and Francis Bacon in high esteem.

To which Fern adds that the "final attempt (of the Brotherhood) to gather the scattered nations under three headings of Northern, Central and Southern Europe had not taken sufficient hold among men to effect this uniting of nations without the bloody process of war.

"In the field of Religion the Imperialism of the Roman Church and the extreme conservatism of the orthodox religions were curbed by the Reformation, a channel which had already been opened by the natural trend toward illumination of the dark ages.

"This aspect of the work was carried on principally by that portion of the secret society and concealed brotherhood known under the name of Rosicrucianism. Their main seat was in Germany. One of the best known Rosicrucians Philosophers was Valentine Andrea, Lord Bacon's adopted name after his supposed death in England.

"For those who by choice and circumstance were expelled from the European conflict consequent to the drastic reform, a haven was created in the temperate zone of North America", a place and "cradle for a specific Utopia", and those pioneers of the voyages not yet talked about in detail, nor their motivation, "mixed their fate with the turbulant waters of the Atlantic and thereby received their paptism henceforth to be members of a new race, inhabitants of Bacon's true New Atlantis, America."

It is quite obvious by now that the Masons and Rosicrucians gently move humanity forward according to the Scottish Rite Creed.

Bruton Vault

Since the ships of these pioneers anchored there abouts Virginia,

"The logical place of concealment for this vast treasure was Virginia. Under great difficulties the records were brought to Jamestown in 1635 by a true descendant of Sir Francis Bacon, Henry Blount, who upon arrival in America adopted the name of Nathaniel Bacon.

Shortly before the Bacon Rebellion and in connection with the planned removal of the Virginia Capital to Williamsburg, the records were brought to their final resting place in a great vault beneath the tower center of the first brick church in Bruton Perish. Some historical documents were buried in Bacon Castle in Surrey County. Copies and duplicates of all records were buried elsewhere, such as in Masonic and Congressional vaults."

Fern had access to "the 17th century shelf", other, it is difficult to find the real Henry Blount, "a descendant of Francis Bacon", even though there are Blount's in England and America. I have searched quite a bit to blick through and find a sensible answer, but all I have thus far for sure is, dont laugh, a "Pure Irish Linen" kitchen towel given to me by a very academic teacher friend, a "true and original copy of Shakespeare", in black and white, which I of course don't use under the image

LONDON
Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount. 1623

I have a feeling that one of the Masonic vaults Fern is referring to is the "Hall of Records" at Mt. Rushmore, hewn by Gutzon Borglum, Freemason, were the most important documents, "the book for Presidents only", and the "life altering" page 47, are sealed in a teakwood box and placed in a titanium vault, weighed down by a 1,200 pound granite capstone.

"Into this room the records of what our people aspired to and what they have accomplished should be collected and preserved, and on the walls of this room should be cut the literal records of the conception of our republic, its successful creation, the record of its westward movement to the Pacific, its Presidents, how the memorial was built and, frankly, Why?"

As I have stated before, here in the west, on the Great Seal of the State of California, sits Athena, a bear/boar by her side, the winged and horned Hermes on her shield. That is, on the original flag.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

Fern, the time ca 1938

"In case of the emergency that Lord Bacon's great secret and Bruton Vault were not discovered, the location of the Masonic Shrine was to be revealed to the Inner Group of Masons. The designated time was the opening of the Spencer Tomb, in Westminster Abbey, England. At the time however, I had already uncovered the old foundations, and simultaneously the first concrete "evidence" in the three hundred year old controversy was obtained. Those who are greatly responsible for reiterating the flimsy Shakespeare legend with more legend, expanded much effort to keep the discovered facts from being known.

"......... interests have restored Stratford on Avon. In some mysterious manner they have also bought up the whole town of Williamsburg. Luckely, among the very few buildings not acquired by them is Bruton Church, because the property is not purchasable. However, since I left Williamsburg they have expanded one hundred thousand dollars restoring the present church and have continued to subvert true information.

Since the opening of Bruton Vault in America is to release the key to the location of similar vautls in the various nations of Europe, and to disclose to the nations their participation in the great scheme of eliminating war from the face of the Earth--I cannot help but feel that peaceable terms might have effected the union of Western races, and the present bloody slaughter might have been prevented.

"Surely, in view of the overwhelming evidence at hand, a work of such regenerating and constructive content should be investigated by those who are intrusted with the welfare of a nation--a nation in dire need of its great inheritance--a nation destined to decide the fate of the whole Western Hemisphere, and of the world.

"Perhaps the people of America will file their own claims to their inheritance, and as Lord Bacon writes in "Bacon's Remains":

"God will use a voice, which sometimes he useth,
that is, Vox populi--the Speech of the people."

With the election of President Obama, the people have spoken and millions all over the world were inspired for a better step forward, but the people, races from all nations on our planet, are unaware of their "inheritance", which, as Sir Francis Bacon himself, is continued to be subverted. To the people of the general public who have heard of it, it probably sounds too fantastic to give it another thought because the colonization of America was, and still is pitched as people from foreign lands merely coming "to the land of opportunity where anything is possible."

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

Concerning Henry Blount changing his name to Nathaniel Bacon upon arrival in Virginia, this is the long and short of it.

In 1599 Lettice Knolly, cousin of the Queen, wedded to the Earl of Leicester, secretly, because the Earl Robert was still the husband of the Queen, married Sir Christopher Blount after Leicester, father of Francis, died. Close ties here.

Henry Blount, 4th Earl of Newport (1602-82)

"Mountjoy Blount, natural son of Charles Blount, Earl of Devon, Was created by King James I Lord Mountjoy, and by King Charles I Earl of Newport, which title became extinct upon the death of Henry, 4th Earl of Newport, 1697."

Nathaniel Bacon, the younger, "landed in Virginia about 1672-3 and in 1676 was about 'eight and twenty". Henry landed in VA "about" 1672 and was "about" twenty years of age in 1676, these days don't work. If Henry was born in 1602 and at the time he came to VA in 1672, he would have been 70. The "about" is the problem methinks, because in a geneology is stated that Nathaniel was born in 1648, so he would have been 24 in 1676. That works perfectly.

I have been keeping a note for some time related to the man who stood shoulders above the rest, the Imperator himself FB, on the "Notes on Francis Bacon/ Shakespeare thread, but had not a place fitting place to incorporate it. It may be important to people who folloed some of the posts.

The chapel of the Drummond Castle in Scotland "was reduced internally...", and "recently the plain plaster ceiling of the passage was taken down and underneath were found the painted beams c. 1578.

"Around 1630 the Chapel ceiling was painted , the subject the mounted Emperors and Kings of Northern Europe and Northern Africa. They are: Britain, Poland, Sweden, Spain, Turkey, Hungary, Mauritania, Prester John (a supposed Christian ruler of Ethiopia), France and Germany. The source of these paintings remains untraced but most of them are good likenesses, i.e. Charles I and Henry IV (over the latter the painter has put the wrong title 'Imperator Germania' who in his turn is called 'Rex Francia'!"

Methinks the painter had something there because the Imperator Germania is Francis Bacon or Valentine Andrea, the name he adopted in Germany, not a French King.

Interesting also is that "the Drummonds are alleged to descend from Yorik, a Hungarian prince who accompanied Princess Margaret Atheling to Scotland in 1068."

The first of three Drummond's, Michael Drummond, settled in Virgina in 1731.

Drummond Castle, the "high ground" or on high ground.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

Addendum to yesterday's post.

The untraced paintings (1630) on the ceiling of Drummond Chapel, Scotland, of European Kings and Emperors, one being a "good likeness" of Henry IV, 1366-1413, King of England and France.

In Shakespeare's Henry IV, the Earl of Douglas, Archibald, kills Blunt, thinking he is Henry IV in disguise. So here is Henry Blount, 4th Earl of Newport, which title became exinct with the death of Henry of Newport in 1697. It was in 1635 that the records, now in Bruton Vault, were brought to Jameastown, VA, by Henry Blount, who changed his name to Nathaniel Bacon upon arrival in Jamestown, VA. In other words, WS/FB tells in the Play of the disguise of Henry Blount as Nathaniel Bacon, Henry being "killed" by one Archibald.

In keeping with the moment and signs of the time, the people of America "have come to truly 'self-governing self election", that is to say as regards the "self-governing self-election for directing their elected political representatives to undertake proper and responsible action in the name of the people they represent."

Well, we know that for the most part the political representatives of the people are hearing-impaired, some truly are, some pretend to be, and all keep talking about et nauseum of what needs to be done, the bureaucracy of branches so tangled and lumped up that nothing can move, more precise, no one knows how to untangle and move it, it's over their heads by now, not to mention self-interests and agenda, and the majority of the People see The House, of cards artificially held together on all sides, barely. It should be mandatory that all branches of Government, including the Executive, have two "normal" common sense people, male and female, involved in decision making, and our Leaders, being highly educated in Statescraftiness, could easely distinguish between Joe the Plumber of Brainwash City and for instance, Don Baron, who could create for them a geometrical House of Eternity, worthwhile.

But Hope spring 's eternal and methinks, with due respect, Barack's eye sees more than he is given credtit for. He admires Lincoln and Shakespeare, but, educated at Harvard, as was Mark Lehner and we know where his head is at , has he heard rightly of Nathaniel and Sir Francis Bacon?

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

The "vast treasure", ducuments and never seen Shakespeare manuscripts, were brought to Jamestown in 1635 by Henry Blount who then changed his name to Nathaniel Bacon, historically known as Nathaniel Bacon the Elder.

"Some historical documents were buried in Bacon Castle in Surrey County", Surry, Virginia. Surrounding Bacon Castle are the cities of Williamsburg, Hampton, Windsor, Suffolk, and Newport News, or the New Earl of Newport.

Henry Blount was the 4th Earl of Newport, this title became extinct with Henry's death (Shakespeare "killed" Henry Blunt, see post 11) because he became Nathaniel Bacon, the Elder.

"With its cruciform shape, triple chimneys and curvilinear gables, Bacon's Castle is a rare surviving example of Jacobean architecture in America. Built in 1665, the house was home to a prosperous planter, Arthur Allen. Allen also planted a garden adjacent to his house for the use of his family and household. The house passed to Major Arthur Allen at his father's death. A supporter of the colonial governor and member of the House of Burgesses, Allen was driven from his house in 1676 when Nathaniel Bacon and men staged what came to be known as the Bacon Rebellion."

The Bacon Castle was bought and restored by APVA Preservation and opened to the public in 1983.

"Visitors today can step back to the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century through the doors of Bacon Castle. Using Allens inventories from 1711 and 1755, furnishings have been selected to interpret daily life. Much of the early and original massive hand hewn beams are evident on the upper floors of the home. On the first floor, the raised panel woodwork in the downstairs chamber and great hall reflect the early eighteenth- century renovation of Elizabeth Bray, wife of Arthur Allen III."

Now David Bray and Richard 'Bland' were right hand man of the Bacon Rebellion, more later.

Lord Chathham wrote a letter to his nephew, the Earl of Camelford, advising him "to read "Nathaniel Bacon's Historical and Political Observations, which is, without exception, the best and most instructive book we have on matters of that kind." This formerly much read book was published first in 1647, (so either by Nathaneal the Elder or cousin of the Rebel) undergoing three additions. For the last one, 1682, the publisher was outlawed, since the book was written with a bias to the principles of the parliamentary party, to which Bacon belonged. The author was very probably related to Lord Bacon and also the rebelcould the reference be to the rebel's father? Both are spoken of as being of Gray's Inn-Nathaniel, junior studied law there."

The latter is is garbled writing, but Grays Inn was the house of Sir Nicholas Bacon where law was taught, and where Francis, his foster son also studied law.

There is an old Anglecan brick church, known as the lower church, date 1754, attached to Bacon Castle, designer unknown. This is almost as tangled as the Elizabethan, Palentine, and Rosicrucian era, but obviously connected, but I mean to clear it up.

The area about Bacon Castle is famous for the Blue Ribbon, hickory smoked Ham which becomes Bacon, and "Virginia is for Lovers", and I am the most ardent and most devoted of Fancis' Lovers.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

Apropos the untraced painting of "Rex Francia", titled "Imperator Germania" (there is a connexion to Poland and Hungary) in the Chapel of Drummond Castle, Scotland, I read the following in the

William and Mary Quartely

"Swan's Point is nearly opposite Jamestown. It was the residence of Col. Thomas Swan, whose son Samuel married Sarah, daughter of William Drummond, one of the prime leaders in "Bacon's Rebellion."

Sarah was also involved, and stated in the "Scots Connection", her father "William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649) was a celebrated poet and contemporary of the English poet Ben Johson", who was one of the closest friends of Francis Bacon.

The "Drummond Clan Badge" is a circular belt with buckle, inscribed "Gang Weary", a Phoenix in the circle. Three Drummond's immigrated to Virginia, and it doesn't get any more obvious of who was involved in the colonization.

www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx/drummond-family-crest.htm

Please click on "Clan Badge"

A mystery in itself is this statement:

"The arms given in Virginia Magazine, Vol. 11-126, is evidently a mistake, since it puts color on color, and thus violates one of the canons of heraldry. Burke gives us: "Gu., on a chief Arg., two mullets pierced Sa.

Crest -a Boor,"-which we believe to be correct. Nathanael Bacon of Kings Creek in the Colony of Virginia, a man of great wealth and influence, had intended making his namesake-the rebel-his heir; but owing to the premature death of the young man, his estate was bequeated to his niece, Abigail Burwell, who lies buried at Carter's Creek, Glaucestor."

Perhaps the other mistake is "Crest-a Boor", instead of Boar, emblem of Sir Francis Bacon.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

The Elder Nathanael and younger Nathaniel, and the last edition of the book on "Historical and Political Observation" by Nathanial Bacon outlawed in 1682. The author of the article of the sometimes garbled language mentioned, R.T. Crowder, of Gloucester County, Virginia, however, says the "publisher" of the book was outlawed, which must be another mistake, maybe deliberate, because a publisher cannot be outlawed, but only banned from publishing a or more books containing information the powers that be want to keep from the public.

Given in this genealogy,

www.newrivernotes.com/va/baconc.htm

As far as I can glean, Nathanael the Rebel, and his 'Cousin' Nathanael who "settled at King's Creek, York County, are one and the same person, the former 18 years of age when he died, the latter 30 when he came to Virginia. But where is Henry Blount? His liniage died in the process of name and date changing, as Mr. Crowder also noticed something amiss. In any case, Shakespeare had Blunt "killed" by Archibald, so to speak, because he 'disguised' himself as Nathaniel Bacon.

The Bland Map

In an "old historical Virginia magazine", Fern discovered a reference to the first Bruton Church, "accompanied by a sketch of a Church building" of a brick-pattern. It aws drawn by a traveler from Germany named Michael, who gave an account of his journey. - The most exhilarating sketch was produced in 1699 when the old or original Brick-church in Bruton Parish was still standing. Though no reference is made in the accompanying text, the only thing unmistakenly obvious is the Brick-pattern, in reference to Bruton Church existing in 1699.

The natural and inevidable conclusion must be that someone by the name of Michael, traveling from Germany to the New World, was specifically interested in stating openly and plainly that in 1699--sixteen years before the present Bruton Church was built--there was indeed a Brick Church in Bruton Parish, which could not be mistaken for any of the wooden churches recorded. Certainly whoever Michael was, might have been, or still is, from that day on he became a gratefully recognized good frien and helper in "Quest for Bruton Vault."

Though not travelers to the New World, there are two men I can think of by the name Michael involved in this drawing.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

Henry Blount and Nathaniel Bacon

Who Henry Blount was is described in the last posts, the Reader has to make adjustments via references to come to a satisfactory conclusion.

Fern:

"A large, engraved tombstone plate, found in some locality I was unable to ascertain, is hanging on the wall of the present Bruton tower structure, clearly visible upon entering the Church.

"In the inscription Nathaniel Bacon is referred to as "Being of the House of the illustrious Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam." (See genealogy of previous post)

"Of course disregarding blood-ties, all who became entrusted members of and participants in the great New Age labor were in reality of "The House of Sir Francis Bacon," the noble leader of the valiantly cooperative fraternal "SPEAR-SHAKERS!" The paternal seed of New Age thinking, living and relationships ripened from within the cooperative fraternal Shakespeare group and its labor.

"Nathaniel Bacon the Elder's nephew is "Nathaniel Bacon the Younger." He became the unacknowledged young hero of the first "Bacon Rebellion in Williamsburg" which occurred in 1676."

History has on one Bacon Rebellion, which Fern calls "the first", the second being her stirring up all sorts of dust and trouble ca 1938, and it is my hope that the third Rebellion is not far of.

"No doubt the enthusiastic young pioneer who had been educated in Cambridge or Oxford was to an inspiring measure initiated into the New Age Undertaking and its relationship to the true founding of American trail and error Democracy. For the young Nathaniel Bacon did become instrumental in the transfer of the documentary treasure to its final resting place beneath the tower of the first Brick Church in Bruton Parish, "Middletown," which later was called Williamsburg. Young Nathaniel Bacon died at twenty-nine years of age, in connection with the Bacon Rebellion, and before the first and original Brick Church in Bruton Parish was completed and dedicated."

On the age and death of the young Nathaniel all historical information seems to agree, still, Henry Blount's participation in all remains in the shadow.

"I would here like to caution the Reader that, since I did not attend school in this country, that the crowded Williamsburg events and even up to this day, there was little time and opportunity for historical research; my own information about American History remained scanty and may not always be correct. I am merely relating the way things looked to me at the time. The Reader is invited to correct any errors. Since my efforts did lead to indisputable location of Bruton Vault, I came to the conclusion that frequently it is our lack of unnecessarily detailed information, which leads more quickly to our goal."

I would have to agree with the latter statement, which might be termed common sense minus nit-picking: one doesn't need to measure and count over how many rocks water flows to see where the river issues into a body of water.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

Atlantis, the "drowning" and retrieving the "Documentary Treasure" of Francis in Williamsburg, VA, America, or New Atlantis.

Lovers of Shakespeare/Bacon understand one of my favorite verses from the Tempest

Deeper than ever plumet sound
I'll drown my book.
Crowns thrown from thrones to tombs
Detombed arise, to match thy Muse
With a monarchic theme.

Remebering that Francis, first-born of Elizabeth I, was the uncrowned King of England, ruled the Isle and saw to the Commonwealth of the World, in the greater, and also that his "living speech" is "sound-muted", hence "dead writing" in the Book he drowned, which the mind of the naturally ignorant Reader or pure fool can render dynamic, as opposed to the unnatural mechanically repeated ignorance of most experts on Atlantis, in this case, who, as Francis put it, "never move but by the wind of other men's breath, and have no oars of their own to steer withal..."

Fern writes for the former:

"In this chapter we will encounter several different kinds and forms of mental and even earthly-physical tempests. They both destroy and unearth things. Shakespeare tempests in particular specialize in destroying long, time-perpetuated mysts and pretenses, the while unearthing unexpected, fantastically dramatic realities and visionary projects which are secretively "alive" in our human earth-living and thinking.

"Shakespeare tempests even unearth solidly established physical and mental foundations of all descriptions. They are foundations concealedly guarding deeply "drowned" and vaulted documentary treasures. Treasures outlining, ideologically defining, in retrospect explaining, a livingly instigated and secretively time-perpetuated physical and mental-intellectual foundation building for the anticipated realization of a New Age world family future.

"Secretively alive, unconsciously and subconsciously experienced for centuries by human earth-generations, consciously recognized--yet to be factually realized--it is a future which has become our sorely disturbed and generally bewildered present. Our present time is precariously poised to make living, happy transition into this long promised , long hoped-for and long worked-for New Age future.

"Deeper than ever plumet sound I'll drown my book," is an enigmatic statement indeed. For books are physically formed objects created for the written time-perpetuating of mind-formed intelligence as human knowing and learning. To "drown" a book is to abandon both the objective written creation and its intelligent content to the custody of time, the while awaiting ever-increasingly experienced, human-collective receptivity for timely understanding.

"Meanwhile, no physical plumet will be able to sound the vaulted cavity in the earth, or the newly qualitative intelligent content of the drowned book, which must be mentally and bodily buried, pending a pre-determined and pre-envisioned time for lawful discernment, release, and anticipated sharing with all members of New Age world and family generations."

Atlantis has been kept consciously alive since Plato's time for the very reason Fern describes, and it was Francis drowned his book purposely, pre-determining and pre-envisioning the time when we are more receptive and more capable of understanding, so maybe this could be the very early stages of the third Bacon Rebellion, and as I said before, Atlantis is not a ringed city in some ocean but our history recorded in the book, the Plays, and will surface when Francis' New Atlantis is rightly understood.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

The buried Treasures of Atlantis, Above and Below

Seeing the English language of his time inadequate for his plan to re-educate and reform the whole World, Francis had to reinvent said Sprache.

A worldly scholar, "Spedding drew attention to a MSS, in 1859 and in 1883 Mrs. Henry M. Pott most exhaustively analyzed the same in their relation to the plays.

"Among the papers is noticeable a memorandum book in Francis' own hand, entitled : "The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies," which contains single words, sentences, collected quotations and also proverbs which he had selected in order out of this collection to enrich his mother tongue where it had been hitherto found wanting. The number of his newly-created words together with those adapted from other languages is reckoned by an Etymologist at nearly five thousand. And they show themselves in brilliant utilization in his writings in comparison with the English language of his day in pregnant, extraordinary and delicately turned sentences and modes of expression."

Madam Deventer VonKunow

The first appellation for Wilbur Charlotte the spider spins in her web is "Some Pig", the second "Terrific", the third "Humble".

Fern:

"This brings us to the remainder of the above quotation from Shakespeare's Tempest: "Crowns thrown from thrones to tombs." Crowns represent physical and mental self-elevation and self-featuring, maintained upon "thrones" by idolatrous subjects. Crowns are thrown from thrones to tombs by intelligently self-humbling and selflessly disposed Love-realization. For creatively endowed human consciousness and its light-intelligence is by nature self-centered and self, life and light displaying and expending in its creative expression. Only in and through experiencing creative exhaustion does creatively endowed human consciousness come to the self-humbled realization of its own origin, endowment and sustenance by and from within the redemptive Love-Principle and its ever selflessly disposed life and light bearing for life and light-sharing."

From the greater Cosmos to the everyday human thought, creation and redemption are inseperable, return to a singularity as science has it, or as "the Father of the House of Solomon" says:

"The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and the secret motion of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible."

Bring science to the microcosm, these words are but the philosophical version of quantum physics, ie, an unobserved quantum entity is said to exist in a coherent superposition of all possible states permitted by its wave-function.

Not buried is Francis' new dimension of writing, as we use it daily, unwittingly, some far more eloquent than others, "the infinately ensouling, inevitably working system of world family re-eduacation for living, replacing our current physical and mental regimentation for dying" is well on the way. "For all of us will truthfully understand that all true Wisdom, divine, human or natural, ever is and ever must be or become the WISDOM OF LOVE FOR ALL LIFE AND ALL LIVING!"

Rebirth of Humanity Above

The hidden Treasure of the Trice Great Mind of Francis, PVA

"We have burials in several earths, where we put divers (various) cements, as the Chinese do their porcelain. But we have them in greater variety, and some of them more fine. We also have great variety of composts and soils, for the making of the earth fruitful.

"We have high towers, the highest about half a mile in height, and some of them likewise set upon high mountains, so that the vantage of the hill, with the tower, is in the highest of them three miles at least. And these places we call the upper region, accounting the air between the high places and the low as a middle region. We use these towers, according to their several heights and situations, for insulation, refrigeration, conservation and for the view of divers meteors--as winds rain, snow, hail; and some of the fiery meteors also. And upon them, in some places, are dwellings of hermits, whom we visit sometimes, and instruct what to observe.

"We have great lakes, both salt and fresh, whereof we have use for the fish and fowl. Ale use them also for burials of some natural bodies, for we find a difference in things buried in earth, or in air below the earth, and things buried in water. We have also pools, of which some do strain fresh water out of salt, and others by art do turn fresh water into salt. We have also some rocks in the midst of the sea, and some bays upon the shore for some works, wherein is required the air and vapor of the sea, and likewise violent streams and cataracts, which serve us for many motions; and likewise engines for multiplying and enforcing of winds to set also on divers motions.

"We have also a number of artificial wells and fountains, made in imitation of natural sources and baths, as tincted upon vitriol, sulphur, steel, brass, lead, niter, and other minerals; and again, we have little wells for invusions of many things, where the waters take the virtue quicker and better than in vessels or basins. And amongst them we have a water which we call water of Paradise, being by that we do to it made very sovereign for health and prolongation of life.

"We have also great and spacious houses, where we imitate and demonstrate meteors--as snow, hail, rain, some artificial rains of bodies, and not of water, thunders, lightenings; also generations of bodies in air--as frogs, flies, and divers others.
"We have also certain chambers of health, where we qualify the air as we think good and proper for the cure of divers diseases, and preservation of health.

"We have also fair and large baths, of several mixtures, for the cure of diseases and the restoring of man's body from arefaction; and others for the confirming of it in strenght of sinews, vital parts, and the very juice and substance of body."

All this is buried in the Masonic Shakespeare Vault in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Charlotte


Harmonically
The Poet Divine

Power of Light, all-merciful and healing,
Of heaven's Arch the vessel surrogate,
Reach thou my dark, each blot and lack revealing,
Till my dull sphere by thine is permeate;
Undo the fetters of this self-made prison,
And by thy solvent make me all atoned,
Until from earth's sepulchral shadows risen,
(Love's child redeemed that long in tears has groaned)
The upward path I take, by fire ensplendoured,
And from this cindered flesh through pain untold,
Despite despair, in death past death regenerated,
Earth's lead transmute to heaven's eternal gold.

Part out my pygmy; from this coal shall rise
The living Stone, the Diamond of the Wise.

[Charlotte]

The "popularly inclined" Rebel Nathaneal Bacon

His father, Nathaneal Bacon the Elder, formerly Henry Blount, 4th Earl of Newport, brought in 1635, the records show, the Documentary Treasure of Francis Bacon to Jamestown, VA. I still don't get an 'AHA' on this one.

Nathaneal Bacon the Rebel transported said documents to to "Middletown", now Williamsburg, ca 1676, the year of the Bacon Rebellion. No mention of the above is made in the few articles I have read of History of Virginia, rather:

"There has been much discussion regarding the uprising. The investigator here (R.T. Crowder, Goucester County, Virginia) produces evidence that the underlaying cause was the English navigation law which refused free trade between America and foreign nations. Proof is also presented in denial of the claim that Bacon's Rebellion was based wholly upon disagreement over the Indian policy, which has been frequently charged against the first revolutionists. The investigator claims that Bacon's Rebellion was the forerunner of the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution and that its loss in life constituted the first martyrdom to the political principle of liberty and independence in America. (This sentence I like) The investigator further believes that he has found the hitherto unknown burial-place of this first American Revolutionist."

Apparently, the burial place of N.B. the Elder is kept secret too, as Fern was unable to find out where the tombstone plate at the entrance to present Bruton Church came from. The inscripition refers to N.B. the Elder as of "Being of the House of the illustrious Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam". That's why it was removed.

Mr. Crowder

TO THE MEMORY OF BACON

"In Memoriam, Nathaneal Bacon, the youger, General and Member of the Governor's Council, Born in Suffolk, England-1630-40-died in this Country in 1676. Originator of his socalled Rebellion, whose influence in the foundation of the Spirit of Americanism is immeasurable-the Washington of his day, popular and patriotic, whose magnanimity strongly contrasted with Berkeley's malignity. A soldier, a statesman, a saint-Gloucester, who honors the noble dead, and cherishes the memory of kingly men, and in whose soil the body of Bacon is said to sleep, erects this monument to the great patriot, by authority of the Circuit Court, through the generosity of friends."

"This tribute to the memory of Nathaneal Bacon, the younger, will be found, word for word, engraved on a plain marble slab in the Gloucester Court House, Virginia."

It is not told who erected the monument, but obviously who either knew the Rebel or very much admired him. The Rebel was the one whose book (3rd edition) on historical and political observations was outlawed in England in 1682, but "the author was probably related to Lord Bacon". The Geneaology in the link given yesterday "shows his connection with the celebrated Lord Bacon". A thank you to Mr. Crowder for bringing Francis into dry history, and also the "Crest-a Boor", Boar if you please, and also the "niece Abigail" of Nathaneal Bacon of Kings Creek, Virginia, who was the nephew of the Rebel. As I mentioned, Mr. Crowder saw something wrong with this picture, and so do I.

Of the Rebels appearance, "the "Winder Papers," Virginia State Library, give us the following description:

"He was a person whose erratique fortune had carried and shewn him many Foreigne Parts, and of no obscure family. Upon his first coming into Virginia he was made one of the Councill, the reason of that advancement (all on a sudden) being best known to the Governour, which honor made him the more considerable in the eye of the Vulgar, and gave some advantage to his pernicious designs. He was . . .indifferent tall but slender, blackhair'd and of an omnious, pensive, melancholy aspect, of a pestilent & prevalent Logical discourse tending to atheisme in most companyes, not given to much talke, or to make sudden repyes, of a most imperious and dangerous hidden Pride of heart, despising the wisest of his neighbours for their ignorance, and very ambitious and arrogant. But all these things lay hidd in him till after he was a councillor, and untill he became powerful & popolar."

"At this time, it is very difficult indeed to state the exact causes of bacon's Rebellion. But we believe that there were a great many circumstances and action of those in power which tended to foment the people and stir them up for rank rebellion. Of the many causes for rebellion, we believe the most of them come under the following four heads:

1. The English Navigation Acts.
2.The tendency toward a proprietary government.
3.The Indian disturbances.
4. The disaffection with Berkely's measures against the Indians."

Perhaps Mr. Crowder suspects more as he says "most" of the causes fall under this heading, but these are only byproducts and peripheral to the rebellion, as Mr. Crowder himself "claims - that Bacon's Rebellion was the forerunner of the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution..." And so it was, maybe Mr. Crowder knows, or not, that the original DoI was written long before, when Thomas Gates and Sommer et all traveled between England and Virginia.

Much can be gleaned also from the "Winder Papers" discribing the nature and temperament of the Rebel, seemingly a most mysterious man, it makes me think that he may have been a member of the "Night School" frequenting Ralegh's Durham House.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

Correction to my last post: instead of 'Night School' it should be "School of Night" at Durham House, gifted by Elizabeth to Sir Walter Ralegh, where he "kept his library and sea charts", to which was "a well-beaten path - of scientists and artists, metallurgists, draughtsmen and botanists - anyone, in fact, who might have knowledge to contribute - was summond to Ralegh's study. Jews from Prague and mineral experts from Holland: all were welcome at Durham House, and there were often as many as fourty experts living under the roof."

Big Chief Elizabeth, Giles Milton

According to dates, it is more likely that Nathaneal the Elder (Henry Blount) was a member of 'the school of night', as Mr. Crowder noted that father and son could be the same person. Since the school was held at 'night' it could be the members didn't see each other clearly and couldn't distinguish whether it was father or son. I jest. Judging who the experts at Ralegh's 'library' were, it is not hard to see what they were on about.

And why, in "National Treasure" 1 and 2, is Ben Gates' 'right hand' and expert on state of the art technological devices, called Riley Poole? According to the script, meaning "Riley's Pool of Knowledge". Sir Ralegh pooled his knowledge in his "library", for the Jews from Prague and botanists, and also had a "laboratory" at Durham House for the metallurgists and mineral experts from Holland. His half-brother Adrian Gilbert the alchemist to the Countess of Pembroke, Marie Sidney, herself an alchemist. To pool also means mixing, blending, amalmagating etc. It is so obvious.

The mysterious Rebel

Identification controversy

"No one knows for certain when Bacon (the Rebel) was born. An earlier attribution as the Nathaneal Bacon born in 1646 or 1647 appears to be spurious, based on no firm foundation, although widely repeated in later literature including Encyclopædia Britannica. The 1922 edition of the Dictionary of National Biography does not give him a specific birthdate but does say he was "of Friston Hall". Although his father is said to be "Thomas Bacon" in a contemorary document, his mother is not named and is unknown. She is not Elizabeth Brooke (even though this is repeated in many books), who in fact married a man named Nathaniel Bacon. That Bacon was a generation older than the man who is subject of this article." The Rebel. (wiki)

The House of Burgesses, which "represented the popular will", gave the Rebel a seat "from Henrico county", the Rebel being in the "Middle Plantation" (now Williamsburg), was "proclaimed commander in chief" by 500 followers. Strange, that in the tribute engraved on the marble slab at the Gloucester Court House, VA, he is called "the Washington of his day - whose influence in the foundation of the Spirit of Americanism is immeasurable..." Here, the Founder of America, Commader in Chief, 'influencing' the Founding Fathers, Sir Francis Bacon, is gleaned underneath the language.

With these 500 men the Rebel "appeared in Jamestown and demanded his commission" as General from Governor Berkely. "The sturdy old cavalier went out in great anger before the insurgent chief, (the Rebel) and bearing his bosom, exclaimed, "Shoot! shoot! it is a fair mark!" Bacon said, respectfully, "Not a hair of your head shall be hurt; we have come for our commissions to save our lives from the Indians." The governor, influenced by his judgement when his anger had cooled, or by his fears, not only signed the commission, but joined his council commending Bacon to the King as a zealous, loyal, and patriotic citizen. That was done on July 4, 1676, just 100 years before the Declaration of Independence, written by a Virginia "rebel," THOMAS JEFFERSON, proclaimed the English American colonies" free and independent States."

This date of July 4, 1676, and the 100 year difference seems to be important to many writers, apparently missing a "coincidence", parhaps a plan, or that "they" all knew each other, surely knew of each other, missing the greater scheme of things.

"Bacon, so enraged, immediately marched against the Indians - Berkely "proposed to proclaim Bacon a traiter", which is why Bacon was enraged, couldn't be because the governor "commanded him to King as a zealous, loyal, and patriotic citizen" and therefore marched against the Indians.

When the Rebel heard that Berkely would declare him a traitor, which members of his convention refused, "he addressed his followers with much warmth, saying, "It vexes me to the heart that, while I am hunting wolves and tigers that destroy our lands, I should myself be persued as a savage. Shall persons wholly devoted to their King and countrymen who hazard their lives against the public enemy - deserve the appellation of 'rebels' and 'traidors'? The whole country is witness to our peaceable behavior. But those in authority, how have they obtained their estates? Have the not devoured the common treasury? What arts, what sciences, what learning have they promoted? I appeal to the King of the Parliament, where the cause of the people will be heard impartially."

Hearing the language of the Rebel, the public enemy is Berkely and Co., wolves and tigers, those in authority, who devour the the common treasury, promoting neither art, learning, or the sciences. That is Baconian Speak, and obviously not aimed at the Indians who had their own wisdom.

"Under the circumstances, Bacon felt himself compelled to lead in a revolution. He invited the Virginians to meet in convention at the Middle Plantation. The best men in the colony were there. They debated and deliberated on a warm August day from noon until midnight. (And some more minutes Mr. Hall would add) Bacon's eloquence and logic led them to take an oath to support their leader in subduing the Indians and in preventing a civil war; and again he went against the Indians. (And I don't believe it the way it is made to sound) The governor, (Berkely) alarmed by the proceedings at the Middle Plantation, fled, with his council, to the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, where, by promise of booty, he tried to raise an army among the inhabitants and the seamen of English vessels there."

This is interesting, I remember Stephen the chess playing magus, answering Laton's question concerning Hatteras in NC, say that there is an easy-going group of fishermen mingling about a rock in "Ham" near Nascar racetrack, and a country band playing, not a good tourist attraction. So methinks these are the descendants of Berkely and his men upholding the tradition.

"William Drummond, who had been the first governor of North Carolina, with his brave and patriotic wife, Sarah, was then with Bacon. Mrs. Drummond did much to incite the Virginians to go in the path of revolution, and she was denounced as "a notorious, wicked rebel." Her husband proposed to Bacon to proclaim government in the colony abdicated by Berkely on account of his act. It was suggested that a power would come from England that would ruin the republicans in the colony. Sarah snatched up a small stick from the ground, and exclaimed,

"I fear the power of England no more than a broken straw. The child that is unborn shall have cause to rejoyce for the good that will come by the rising of the country."

Sarah, being the wife of a Drummond, meant the child Europe was pregnant with at the time of the Renaissance, Francis' England, and the great Rosicrucian movement, impregnated by the Luminaries connected with the Heidelbergers, and others talked about, or did she have another child in mind? The Drummond connection is of the greatest importance in view of what I wrote a few days ago. In these matters the sun is just below the horizon, the dawn's early light.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

I read more versions of the Bacon Rebellion, astounding how accounts differ. The following would agree with my defence of Nathaneal Bacon of who he considered his enemies:

"The people being much exasperated, and General Bacon by his address and eloquence having gained an absolute dominion over their hearts, they unanimously resolved that not a hair of his head should be touched, (the words Bacon said to Berkley) much less that they should surrender him as a rebel. Therefore they kept their arms, and instead of proceeding against the Indians they marched back to Jamestown, directing their fury against such of their friends and countrymen as should dare to oppose them . . . .

It is most evident in DC and throughout the land that America is a Masonic Republic. Obviously Masons served on both sides of the Atlantic and both sides of the Revolution. Looking at the pre-revolution history of Germany, England, Italy, and France, in the main, the Masons and Rosicrusians instigated the Revolution, hence Nathaneal Bacon, a descendent of Sir Francis Bacon, new-founder of these and other Societies, is called a "Master Mason". The former name of "New Atlantis" was "The Land of the Rosicrucians", the Rosi Cross going back to Egypt. "God created the first Rose and gave it to the god of Silence."

Adding to the Rebels accolades, it is said that "his eloquence could animate the coldest heart", he "had not yielded the love of freedom to the enthusiasm of royalty, was well educated, possessing a pleasant address, and a powerful elocution, he had rapidly risen to distinction in Virginia. Quick of apprehension, brave, choleric, yet discrét in action, the young and wealthy planter carried to the banks of the James River the liberal ideas which the instinct of human freedom had already whispered to evry emmigrant, and which naturallysprung up amidst the equalities of the wilderness.

"Bacon was appointd commandor-in-chief to the universal satisfaction of the people, who made the town ring with their joyous acclamations, and hailed "the darling of their hopes" as the appointed defender of Virginia."

Under the "Acts of Bacon", the people of Virginia were given the exclusive right to tax themselves, to govern their country "by equal vote of their own representation", magistrates "notorious for raising taxes for their private gains were disfranchised; and finally, that there might be no more room for future reproach or discord, all derelections were convened under the mantle of a general amnesty.The acts of this assembly manifest the principles of Bacon; and were they not principles of justice, freedom, and humanity?"

In 1676 "began a new era in the history of man. The eighteenth century in Virginia was the child of the seventh; and the Bacon rebellion, with the corresponding scenes in Maryland, and Carolina, and New England, was the harbinger of American independence and American nationality - encouraged by the active energy of Bacon."

His "blood poisoned" by "the malaria from the marshes around Jamestown", the great Rebel, "darling of the hopes of the people of Virginia", is said to have "died of malignant fever in 1676, on October 11", my Birthday, so I hope I have done him Honor.

The epitaph of Colonel Nathaneal Bacon of King's Creek, York, cousin of the Rebel, maybe, is given in "Virginia Magazine", October 1894

Letters of WM. Fitzhugh

"Here lieth interred ye body of Nathaniel
Bacon Esq whose descent was
from the Ancient House of ye Bacons (one of whom was
Chancellor Bacon & Lord of Verulam) who was
Auditor of Virginia & President of ye honorable
Council of State & Commador in chief for the
County of York, having been of the Councill
for about 40 years & having always discharged
ye office in which he served with great
Fidelity and Loyalty to his Prince, who departed
this life ye 16 March 1692 in ye 73d year of his age."

"His wife Elizabeth died November 2, 1691, 67 years of her age".

The Rebels body, or Nathaneal the Elder, his father, or the same as the Rebel, has not been located, and whether Nathaniel of York was the Rebel's cousing really doesn't matter to me. In this epitaph he, Nathaniel of York, and Francis, Lord Verulam, are descendants "from the Ancient House of ye Bacons", of Grimbaldus, Norman Knight, of the 11th century. So was the Rebel.

A Bacon is a Bacon!

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

It is difficult to compact in a few pages the huge amount of information necessary to get a sense of the importance of Bruton Vault, so I'll give random snippets and prattle along.

Several tombs, their position and inscriptions on the slabs caught Fern's attention. One of them is the LUDWELL tomb, which inscription reads:

Under this Marble Lieth the Body
of THOMAS LUDWELL Esq.
Secretary of Virginia who was born
at Bruton in the COUNTY of SOMERSET
in the kingdom of ENGLAND And
departed this life in the year 1678 And
near this Place Lieth the bodies of Richard
KEMP Esqr his Predecessor in y Secretary
Office and Sir Thomas Lunsford KT
in memory of whom this Marble is placed
by Order of PHILIP LUDWELL Esqr.
nephew of the said THOMAS LUDWELL
in the year 1727.

If you're so inclined, in the first vertical line you can find 'foundation', criss-cross with the MAS in Thomas 'Mason', Vault you can find with the beginning of V irgina, 'great' with 'year', Francis Bacon in upper and lower case and so on. Deciphered the tracing reads:

"Under the secret foundations of Former Bruton lies Francis Bacon's Great Virginia Vault of Free-Masonry", and "In America by the Order of Masonry".

Discernable also "Shakespeare manuscripts", and, writes Fern, "the foundation of the original Brick Church in Bruton Parish were still in the ground, in fact, they were not far from, or "near this place, at least nearer and to the north from the five tombstones..."

If you read the insciption carefully and common sense-wise, it doesn't make any sense to dedicate a tombstone to one man while pointing to two other men whose bodies lay near the place. Bacon's Rebellion was in 1676, in which he was apparently involved. The ducuments and manuscripts were brought to Virginia in1635.

The New England History and Genealogical Register

"The first Ludwell, it is conjectured, came to Virginia about 1650, the male liniage became extinct in 1767."

The "Earl of Newport" title became extinct 1679, the death of Henry Blount, who supposedly brought the ducuments to America in 1635 and changed his name to Nathanael Bacon, the Elder, and in Shakespeare's Henry IV, the Earl of Dougles, Archibald, kills Blunt, thinking he is Henry IV in disguise. I have to go with Shakespeare and the disguise of Henry Blount as Nathaneal Bacon, besides having a melt down.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

Henry Blount, described above, still eludes me. He is of the House of Mountjoy, of which is Baron William Blount, or Blunt - scholar of learning - pupil of Erasmus", and his grandson Charles Blount who duel'd with Francis' brother Essex, they became friends later and Charles went to the Azores in 1597 with Walter Ralegh. Sir Christopher Blount was Essex' stepfather by marriage to Lettice Knolly, very close relations. Christopher Blount of the Inner Temple and Garder Knight is the most interesting. Sir Michael Blount was a Sheriff of Oxfordshire and member of Parliament. Search for Henry Blount/Nathaneal Bacon the Elder produces non existent pages to be filled in by someone, or other vagaries. Something is looming in the back of my mind.

Meanwhile, the unusually admirable tribute "To the Memory of Bacon", given above, is engraved on a plain marble slab in the Gloucester County Courthouse, VA. Son of Charles I, Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, (1640-1660) was honored as a Knight of the Garder at age of 13, died at age 21, and rests at Westminister Abbey. The Gloucester's also tie in close and apparently important.

In Williamsburg, "directly across the entrance to Bruton Chruchyard (is) Duke of Gloucester Street", which I equated in "National Treasure" with "Parkington Lane" under Trinity Church at Wall Street and Broadway, because in the movie it leads to the Treasure.

The Nicolsen Tomb at Bruton Churchyard

According to directions indicated on the Nicolsen tomb inscription, Fern was convinced it holds the key that would lead her to the Vault beneath the former Brick Church tower. The date of "Mr. Nicolsen's departure was given as January 22, Francis' Birthday. Fern also spied information in the Sonnets, 'tis 107

Not my own fears nor the prophetic Soul
Of the wide world, dreaming on things to come,
Can yet the lease of my true Love control
[True Love documented and vaulted]
Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.

Only one who loves Francis near infirmity can glean his true Love.

The afore mentioned drawing of a brick church, which looks more like a lectangular coffin, drawn by the German traveler "Michael" in 1699, was drawn the same year as a map by Mr. Bland, called the "Bland" map. "Maybe Mr. Michael and Mr. Bland were traveling companions", Fern remarks. "There are only three buildings marked on the Bland map: William and Mary College on one end of town, the Capitol building on the other end, and Bruton Church in the middle." Maybe that's why Williamsburg was called "Middle Plantation".

"Measurements are given in a "legend" attached and written by a man named Nicolsen. Immediately it again brought the Nicolsen tomb to mind, which I believed held the directions to the location of old Bruton.

"The legend attached to the Bland map is curiously worded in Old English. It gives measurements in "poles." Only East and West directions are mentioned in the legend. North and South directions have to be scaled. For that purpose a scale is attached at the lower corner of the map. There was another curious thing about the Bland map. It may have been customary at the time to ornament and decorate mechanical drawings such as maps", but there was a "definite design and purpose. It seemed peculiar that two snakes were encircling the scale on the Bland map", which entwined serpents requently appear in...

Measuring tape in hand and constantly arguing with the...and telling them that their measurements were all wrong, Fern finally asked an engineering student from W and M College to measure and scale the directions to independently varify her "codes".

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not Love
Which alters when when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
Oh no, it is an ever fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
It is the star to every wandering bark
Whose worth unknown, although his height be taken.

Sonnet 119

Prince William is the 1000th Garder Knight.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

The Nicolson Tomb

SACRED
to the Memory of
JAMES NICOLSON
late Steward of
William and Marrys COLLEGE
he was born in the toun of Inverneis
NORTH BRITAIN
ANNO 1711
and died the 22 of January
1773
Industry frugality integrity
Simplicity of manners and
independence of Soul
Adorned his character and
procured him universal Esteem
Reader
learn from this Example that
As the most Exalted Station may
be debased by VICE so there
is no situation in life on
which VIRTUE will not confer
DIGNITY

Fern:

"Habitually I began "anagramming," and found it remarkably easy to extract "Dear Reader, learn from this tomb the exact location of 'Old Bruton'. But quiet aside from that, James Nicolsen, who supposedly is buried under this tombstone monument, was born in the year 1711 and died on January 22, 1773", Francis' Birthday, and standing there, Fern thought this was "maybe his Rebirth day". Sometimes words are misspelled. bacon can be found in the inscripition via

debased
is no
which

"Still in reviewing Williamsburg events without being steeped in the middle of them", she had "long since realized that much timely aid, direction and protection was consciously given, though at the time it appeared tome as an "unusually lucky" occurence in the course of normal and natural events. Perhaps this is a good a time as any to state with graditude and appreciation that in the course of my eight month stay in Williamsburg--and more so in the long years following--prominent members of the Order of Masonry did openly and honestly contact me, almost as if aware of contingencies and need for encouragement.

"As will be seen in the course of this account, two very prominent gentlemen or Lords undertook a long journey from London at the most critical time in Williamsburg. As it turned out, it was pricipally for better protection of the Vault (around which Fern had dug a trench in the middle of the night) and thereby also for my reassurance."

I scribbled beside the two gentlemen from London 'Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern'.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

Correction to the Nicolson Tomb inscription. Fern sometimes spells 'Nicolsen', but on the tombstone it is 'Nicolson', perhaps Nicol son, which Fern thought was the key to finding the ducmentary wealth under the first Bruton Church.

Corrected is the the word 'town', should read "toun", as in Bru-ton.

Fern:

"As to anagramatically indicated directions: The term "North" is spelled out in the line as North "Britain." The "Br" of Britain readily combines with the misspelled word "toun" to Bruton". She notes the word "steward", derives "north-west", the dates of the inscription give measurements, and comes to conclude "somewhere north-west from the present tower center, nearby in Bruton Churchyard, would be the tower-center of the former Brick-Church beneath which Bruton Vault is centered."

I remarked that the first Bruton Church looked more like a coffin than a church.

"Completed in 1683, the brick church, about 60 feet (18 m) by 24 feet (7.3 m), rose to the north and west of the present church building and only a few steps northwest. The buried foundations remain." (wiki)

Fern says "nearby", wiki says "a few feet of the present church", and under this coffin-church is the Vault. "The first rector, the Reverend Rowland Jones, dedicated the structure on Januray 6, 1684 at the Epiphany." (wiki) Fern had an Epiphany when she discoverd that first church was still standing in 1699, as I posted a few days ago. All this should mean something, no?

That former "Brick-Church" was drawn in 1699 by a German traveler named "Michael", the same year "Mr. Bland" drew the "Bland map" with a "scale encircled by two snakes", to which was attached "a legend" by Nicholsen giving measurements in "poles". The deciphered message reads: "Dear Reader, learn from this Tomb Bacon's Virginia Vault situation".

While the digging was in progress "deliberately instigated - negative rumors (by "brick-heads" as she called them) sprang up her and there", that Fern was "digging up human bones and giving them away as souvenirs", but "there was so little inclination among the people for believing such slander, that the rumors died with the breath of their churly originators. We had not struck any grave or come across even a single bone ot skull, with the exception of the one peeping out from beneath a curtain as engraved on the Edward Nott tomb." (Shakespeare Tomb)

Fern did her "inking" of inscriptions in the "evening after excavations were completed (in) the fading glow of the setting sun...

"The evening sunlight, briefly imparting life and light to the old foundations newly uncovered and confirming a long slumbering hope in human hearts, was now reflected by the patient iridescence of exposed "rocky bricks,"which soon again would be submerged in the darkness of the night. But "tomorrow in time" would again give way to the rising orb of a new day "today." For ere long the solar orb would climb up the horizon and gently embrace and bid farewell to the vanishing night, giving birth to the dawn of a New Age day. Slumbering Earth-generations, beckoned by the dawning light, will waken from the mesmerizing grip of early morning nightmares, grateful for being able to partake in the labors and adventures of the rising new day."

Fern the Philosopher, Lover of Francis and Poetry, and Archaeologist above and below, adds

" 'twas as in that hour of beauty when the rising son
squandereth their cloudy bed with rosy hues
to flood his loved works, as in turn he
bidded them 'good night'. And all the towers and
temples and mansions of men face him in bright
fare-well ere they creep from their pomp, naked
beneath the darkness; while the mortal eyes 'tis given
(if so they close not of fatigue and strain in lamp-lit tasks)
'tis given as for a royal boon to beggarly outcasts
in homeless vigil, to watch where uncurtained
behind the great windows of space heaven's jeweled
company circleth unapproachably!"


The Divine Poet

[Charlotte]

Plucking out Mysteries by reading between and underneath the lines, and associated names utilized by 'fibbing' Philosopher Historians.

"Francis Nicholson (12 November 1655 - 5 March 1727 or 1728) was a British military officer and was colonial governor or acting governor of New York, Virginia, Maryland, Nova Scotia, and South Carolina.

"Nicholson was born in the village of Downeholme, Yorkshire, England. He became a page of the Marquis of Winchester. In 1678 he was made an ensign and he fought in Flanders. He rose to the rank of captain and became assistant to Sir Edmond Andros, governor of New England, with whom he sailed to the American colonies.

"Nicholson served as Lieutnant-governor of New York from 1687 to 1689 and as Governor from 1689 to 1690. Nicholson then served as lieutnant-governor of Virginia from 1690 to 1692. While in Virginia, he was instrumental in the creation of the College of William and Mary and named one of its original trustees. He served as governor of Maryland from 1694 to 1699, and played a leading role in moving the state capital from St. Mary's to Anne Arundel, which was renamed Annapolis in honor of then-Princess Anne. Nicholson returned to Virginia in 1699 as governor, a position he held until 1705. During this term, Nicholson oversaw the transfer of Virginia's capital from Jamestown to Middle Plantation, which was renamed Williamsburg."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Nicholson

Seems Francis Nicholson was a bussy man. Of importance is that he returned to VA in 1699 when Bland drew the "Bland map", and "Michael", the lone traveler from Germany, drew the first, coffin-like Bruton Church.

Nicholson captured Port Royal, Nova Scotia on October 2, 1710, and as governor of Nova Scotia and Placentia, served also as "auditor of colonial accounts", a counting as he saw fit to fit, from October 12, 1712 through August 1717.

Nicholson was instrumental in the creation of and one of its first trustees of William and Mary College, in which Jefferson entered at age 16, and remarked that John Locke, Francis Bacon, and Isaac Newton, involved in the RC movement, are the "three greatest men the world had ever produced".

You might remember that the Earl of Arundel was part of the Heidelberger Rosicrucian movement.

Most intriguing is that Nicholson oversaw the transfer of Virginia's capital from Jamestown to Williamsburg. One might ask what all he transfered, since Fern insists and proved that the key to the documentary Treasure of Francis Bacon is the insciption on the Nicholson Tomb at Bruton.

This Treasure or "Great Plan" to reform the world, intent and purpose of the RC, was brought to Jamestown by Henry Blount or Blunt, in 1653. May be used was the name "Bland" and his map to which Nicholson attached a "legend". Henry Blount changed his name to Nathaneal Bacon, the Elder, who may be the same as the Nathanael the Younger or "Rebel". Post 18 describes his remarkable and 'impressive' character.

To mention once more that "Archibald" in WS Henry IV, kills Blunt, mistaking him for Henry IV in disguise, most important as many scholars agree that the History is in the "Plays", and I have it on best authority that it is.

Salutations to Fern and Wilbur!

The Spider
Charlotte

[Charlotte]

President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Duke of Gloucester Street the most historic avenue in America. (One enters Bruton Church Yard from there.) Such a statement might very well come from this mysterious book by and for President's only as hinted in National Treasure: Book of Secrets.

Indicated in the previous post, Governor Francis Nicholson oversaw the transfer of Virginia's Capital from Jamestown to Williamsburg in 1699. Important events always happen at the the turn of a century, or stormy nights if you remember National Treasure.

The lay of the land

"The College of William and Mary (1639) and Bruton Parish church (1683) had already been built with respect to the horse path's alignment. (When Williamsburg was called Middle Plantation) The plan to locate the Capitol opposite the College along a principal axis, following the line of the low ridge, dictated a linier approach to the main street. Thus, Governor Francis Nicholson baroque plan for the new town demanded that three long, straight, east-west streets would have to cross several deep ravines over the lenght of their intended courses."

To make a long story and three streets into one, they were linked and "became the modern Francis Street of today, now extending the full lenght of the town." Francis definately has residence in Willyburg.

"In his fascinating book, Tidewater Towns, historian John Reps advanced several theo-ries concerning the earliest Williamsburg street layout, particularely the contemporay reference to streets layed out in a "W" and "M" cipher by Governor Nicholson. To augment this article, I have taken Rep's conjectural street layout map showing how the town might have initially looked in 1699 and added the location of the old horse path and ravines as they were originally situated. By studying this map one can perhaps better appreciate the difficulty that the Middle Plantation terrain posed in laying out streets as Nicholson originally intended.

"Shortly after Nicholson's recall to England in 1705, changes to his orginal design were already being considered. In June 1706, the House of the Burgesses passed an act to make Duke of Gloucester Street follow a "mathematical straight" course, a supposed reference to correct the conjectural seperation in the street's course as it entered Market Square and to prevent future attempts to fancifully alter the layout of the streets."

www.history.org/history/cwland/resrch/resrch4.cfm

Nicholson returned to Virginia in 1699, the same year Theodorick Bland made a survey of Williamsburg, to which Nicholson attached the peculiar legend mentioned, and Fern's traveler from Germany, Michel, I found to be the Swiss traveler Francois - Luis Michel, also called Franz Ludwig Michel, who in the same year drew the first Bruton brick church, "complted in 1683", a coffin-like structure measuring "60 by 24 feet", and "which foundations remain", under which is located the Masonic Shakespeare Vault of Francis Bacon, Fern insists.

Three years later, in 1702, the same Swiss or German Michel, we are kin, drew the Christopher Wren Building at William and Mary College, and drew 9 images of the first brick church on the roof of the Wren Building, though with a pitched roof, whereas he drew the singular Bruton brick church with a flat roof, coffin-like.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wren_william_mary_michel.jpg

Christopher Wren, 1632-1723, one of England's greatest architects, Astronomer, Geometer, Mathematician, Philosopher and Freemason, member of the Royal Society, was the nephew of the Bishop of Ely, which firmly connects colonial Williamsburg with Francis Bacon, the Rebel Nathanael and relations, the great RC movement in Germany, France and Italy, and the previous voyages as about the time of Francis Nicholson all involved in the colonization met up at Raleigh's Tavern in Williamsburg for a beer and good conversation.

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

I am sorry for not checking the previous links. The first can be had by googling "Colonial Williamsburg, Lay of the Land", the second, Wren Building, 1702 drawing by Franz Ludwig Michel.

David Bray tomb

Another tomb in Bruton churchyard is "the pyramidal David Bray monument: It is the only of the stone-monuments which bears a Latin inscription. Also, "Guil. Bray" is the signature beneath a Latin inscription in a front page of the George Wither Book - dated July 2, 1634. Furthermore the location of the David Bray tomb coincides with the place inside of the old foundation where the altar of the former Brick-Church would have stood. Quite aside from that, the David Bray monument , by its pyramidal shape immediately did remind me of its emblem counterpart in the George Wither book, which had become decisively instrumental in sending me to Williamsburg in "Quest of Bruton Vault".

The City of Bath, dedicated to Sulis Minerva or Athena, Muse of Francis.

As did Fern, its architect John Wood the Elder, found inspiration and guidance in the Wither Book. The beautiful city in Somerset was founded by Bladud, mythical King of Briton, for whom there is little historical evidence. Legend has it that King Bladud built Bath in 863/500 BC, and created the hot springs by the use of magic, that he was in Athens, contracted leprosy, returned home, was imprisoned, escaped and became a swineherd in Swainswick. He observed the pigs going to an alder-moorand coming back covered in warm black mud, which they seemed to enjoy, and moreover never suffered from skin diseases. King Bladud likewise took a mud bathand was cured of his leprosy. John Wood the Elder "wrote about Bladud , and put forth the fanciful suggestion that he should be identified with Abaris the Hyperborean, the healer known from Classical Greek sources." I learned that Elizabeth I visited Bath.

There is a statue of King Bladud, the Sage, Healer, and Priest of Apollo, "overlooking the King's Bath at Bath", which "carries the date of 1699", the year Francis Nicholson, shown in a "Portrait thought to be Nicholson", oversaw the tranfer of Virginia's capital from Jamestown to Williamsburg, the Swiss traveler Franz Ludwig Michel drew the coffin-like first Bruton Church and three years later made the earliest drawing of the Christopher Wren Building at William and Mary College, and Theodorick Bland made his survey of Williamsburg. In any case, tales of "Pigs" or "Hogs" and "Boars", or "coche", the name of California natives for "pig" or "shoat", on the original Flag of the Golden State to which Athena was moved, always denote Francis Bacon.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath,_Somerset

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bladud

Fern:

"Trying to gain more information about the pyramid monument, I learned that during the Civil War it had been demolished, but afterwards was again reconstructed. Maybe the original version was identical with the Wither Book Pyramid, hard to tell now! But I did feel sure that the Bray tomb was of particular interest and special importance. When I tried English anagrams on the Latin text, it seemed to work perfectly. And why not, since even supposedly "dead languages" can choose to reveal their "hidden intelligence" through alphabetically rearranged anagrams in any old or new language they please! However I did not dwell upon what I thought I might have found confirmed in the inscriptions, namely that the David Bray tomb did mark the place where Lord Bacon's physical remains and perhaps also some of his mental "remains" had found their last resting-place. I kept my thoughts to myself for fear of making the already incredulous more incredulous!

Surely to be confined from within old Bruton's long buried foundations would be a most fitting resting place for their (Lord Bacon and members of the original literary Masonic Shakespeare Group) earthly remains, symbolizing the ashes from within the New Age Phoenix would be reborn. From Gray's "Elegy in a Country Church-yard", which we believe to be Bruton Churchyard:

"Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid
Some heart once preganant with celestial fire
Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed
Or waked to extasy the living lyre.
But knowledge to their eyes her ample page
Rich with the spoils of time, did never unroll.

Anybody familiar with Francis knows his heart of celestial fire, that he was the uncrown'd King of England during the reign of his mother, Queen Elizabeth I, and after, and as the Prince of Poets, Shakespeare, he waked to ecstacy the living lyre.

"And there is this passage in the concluding Epitaph of "Gray's Elegy"

Slow through the Churchyard path we saw him born
Approach and read, for thou canst read
The lay graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.

The Shakespeare Monument in Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon:

STAY PASSENGER WHY GOEST THOU SO FAST
READ IF THOU CANST WHOM ENVIOUS DEATH HATH PLAST
WITH IN THIS MONUMENT SHAKSPEARE WITH WHOME
QUICK NATURE DIDE WHOSE NAME DOTH DECK Y TOMBE
FAR MORE THAN COST. SIEH ALL Y HATH WRITT
LEAVES LIVING ART BUT PAGE TO SERVE HIS WITT

[Charlotte]

Yon aged thorn is the pyramidal David Bray monument in Bruton Churchyard, the Church formerly being called "Christ Church - St. David". A living vine grows up the likeness of yon thorn in the Wither Book, topped by the alchemical symbols of Earth and Mercury:

Although there be no timber in the Vine,
Nor strenght to raise the climbing Ivei-twine,
Yet, when they have a helper by their side,
Or, prop to stay them, like this Pyramide,
One roote sometime, so many Sprays will beare,
That, you might thinke some goodly Grove it were:
Their tender stalkes, to climbe aloft, are seene;
Their boughs are cover'd with a pleasant greene;
And, that, which else, had crept upon the ground,
Hath tops of lofty trees, and turrets crown'd.

To the left of the monument is the coffin-like brick structure of old Bruton Church, its flat roof covered by palm leafs from a mature palm tree growing by a tombstone plate on the ground, by which plate stand a man and a women in conversational attitude. To the right of yon aged thorn stand a Christ figure with Halo, a cross in his right arm, looking at the same-self women, Athena, an open book in her hand, looking at Christ as she emerges from the same structure depicted also on the right side, but now of wood.

In the 1699 drawing of the original coffin-like Bruton Church by Ludwig Michel, the Swiss traveler attached a rectangular mirror to the stem of a mature palm tree, the mirror aimed at the future. In the Wither Book drawing, c. 1634, a rectangular arched mirror is attached to the now wooden Church from which Athena emerges. In this case, Athena is Fern who opened the book to Bruton Vault. The future was invisioned in 1634.

As an aside, in another drawing in the Wither Book is an uncanny resemblance to the Wren Building at W and M College:

Our outward Hopes will take effect,
According to our King's aspect.

Vouchsafe to shine on Me, my gracious King,
And then my Wither'd Leaves, will freshly spring.

Fern asked the diggers "to excavate a square trench about the whole base of the David Bray monument. When they did so we discovered that the pyramid above was nine feet square and three feet deep, which seemed most unusual for a burial place. It was constructed of the same large and glazed brick as the uncovered foundations, and seemed to be topped with a large stone plate." The above mentioned plate in the Wither Book.

Eleven years after the Swiss traveler Michel drew the original brick Bruton Church, and eight years after he made the first drawing of the Christopher Wren Building, David Bray and Richard Bland, whose portrait, as with Francis Nicholson, is thought to be him, were members of the Bruton Vestry, the year 1710. Richard Bland was the uncle of Theodorick Bland, the Bland Family indeed an old family, a Frederic Bland contemporary with Michel made a survey of Williamsburg in 1699, and, an "earlier Richard Bland - was related to many of the others. This branch of the Bland family first came to Virginia in 1653, when Theodorick (1630-1671) emigrated from London."

Considering only the outward, the linier history is probably more confused than I am: Theodorick immigrated from London in 1630, the documentary Treasure of Francis Bacon was brought to Jamestown in 1635 by one Henry Blount, or Blunt, so the dates work accoring to "both" histories, but not necessarely the names Theodorick and Henry Blount, the latter being killed by Shakespeare's Archibald because he was in disguise, if you follow the story.

After the later Theodorick Bland died in 1790, one William Branch Giles "complted his term. Bland was originally buried in New York's Trinity Churchyard", under which Trinity Church was "Parkington Lane" leading to the Treasure in "National Treasure", corresponding to "Duke of Gloucester Street" whence one enters Bruton Churchyard, Williamsburg. "In 1828", Bland's remains were moved to the Congressional Cemetary in Washington DC."

William Branch Giles, "pronounced jyles)" ,maybe of the same branch, was a long-term Senator from Virginia...

wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Branch_Giles

The more to it of the "prominent family in colonial Virginia", the Bland Family.

The later Theodorick, again, "was sent to Great Britain for education and studied medecine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1763 - returned to Virginia and began a practice.

"As the Revolution neared, Bland's Whig views aligned him with the rebels. In June 1776 he became a captain in Virginia's cavelry. He eventually rose to become a Colonel of the 1st Continental Light Dragoons, but his military career was not very noteworthy. A part of his problem was due to General Washington's generally poor use of cavelry. The other part was due to his own limited military leadership."

So general history has it. It should be no surprise that he was not cut out to be a soldier having studied medicine and became a physician, "statesman from Prince George County. His unit was relegated to scouting duty and he was later described by a distan cousin, "Henry, "Light Horse Harry" Lee, as "noble, sensible, honorable, and amiable; but never intended for the department of military intelligence." A good clue.

This distant cousin of Theodorick, Henry Lee III, "was an American patriot who served as Governor of Virginia and as the Virginia Representative to the United States Congress. During the American Revolution, Lee served as cavelry officer in the Continental Army and earned the name Light Horse Harry." His was also father of Confederate general Robert E. Lee."

Theodorick and Henry the Light Horse were born 14 years apart, both served in the cavelry of the Continental Army, and going by how Henry described his distant cousin Theodorick, they knew each other well.

No reason is given for Henry's unusual Title "Light Horse Harry", such as for serving in the Continental Army; or for being a good rider light on a horse; or because his mother's name was Lucy, etc. Reading further, it is as though the earliest immigrants and "Governors" transposed England's landscape to Virginia and most of the East Coast.

Henry Lee, 'Light Horse' Harry, "was born in Dumfries, Virginia, British America, the son of Maj. Gen. Henry Lee II (1730-1787) of Leesylvania (maybe a light bulb should go on) and Lucy Grymes (1734-1792) the "Lowland Beauty". His father was first cousin once removed from Richard Henry Lee, sixth President of the Continental Congress. His mother was an aunt of the wife of Governor Thomas Nelson Jr. His great-grandmother Mary Bland was a great-aunt of President Thomas Jefferson and he descended once from King John of England, twice from King Edward I of England, once from King Jean de Brienne of Jerusalem, twice from King Edward III of England and once from King Pedro I of Castile."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_III

Kingly lineage had Henry the Horse of Light, and descendant of Mary Bland. He looks rather like he describes his distant cousin Theodoric, but here are some of the founders of American Democracy, who might be who, and I have a feeling that the elusive Henry Blount, who brought Francis Bacon's ducumentary Store to Jamestown, can be found among these descendants of "Robert The Bruce, Of Scotland."

Charlotte

[Charlotte]

On half a glance or less, this history of the past 4 to 5 centuries I am so passionate about may seem to have affinty with we've 'been there and done that', and in the very same sense, viz, learning some in school, glossing over some books, a quick google, looking at a few pictures, visiting historical sites informed by guides endlessly turning the wheel of the mill to keep the same muddy waters flowing everywhere in the world I have been, pardon me. I stopped listening years ago.

These 4 to 5 centures past are wholly germane to this moment in time, scarcely to be imagined. Frances Yates, TRE:

"Throughout the world the news will be trumpeted that you are engaged in labours the purpose of which is to secure that human knowledge and the empire of the human mind over matter shall not for ever continue to be a feeble and uncertain thing."

Wrote Comenius the Bohamian Brethren, born 1592, to the Royal Society of London, the former 'Invisible College" making themselves somewhat transparent. Comenius "was six years younger than Johann Valentine Andreae", and was "enormously influenced" by Andreae, the adopted name of Francis Bacon while in Germany. Comenius and Anrdeae could have met in Heidelberg, writes Madam Yates, but we say they were friends and Brethrens, and friends of Frederick and Elizabeth of Bohemia. How else could it be? If you are Obama and I am Hillary, and we have the same strong interests, we meet in DC.

In Williamsburg, Virginis, the "Bray Monument", and Bray Family, "Nicholson's Tomb", and family, "Thomas Ludwell Tomb", the "Bland map" and family, the Rebel Nathanael Bacon, Henry Lee III 'Light Horse Harry', and many other things pertaining to the great scheme of things, which is becoming gradually clearer.

We live in most interesting of times, and Ithinks that Don's world-wide tzunami is forming on some distant shore, above and below.

Charlotte