BACON AND SHAKESPEARE.
SECRET OF THE WYE. An interesting development has taken place in connection with the search for the Bacon-Shakespeare secret which the Duke of Beauforth and Dr. Orville Owen have been conducting for some months past in the bed of the River Wye at Chepstow. Eighty yards from the scene of their excavations a cache has been discovered, which may possibly be the roof of the hiding place in which Francis Bacon is supposed to have buried his key to the mystery of the Shakespeare plays. The Duke of Beaufort’s agent, Mr. H. Pirie-Gordon, states that the spot at which the cache was found is indicated with astounding clearness in a series of new Bacon cyphers which the explorers have just obtained. The cache, Mr. Pirie-Gordon states, is situated in the bed of the Roman ford. It is a large framework of timber. 4lft. long and 15ft. -wide. It is intersected by 19 beams, each twelve inches square. These form compartments filled with stones battered into a blue-grey clay. Underneath this casing it is hoped to find the long-sought manuscripts proving Bacon to have been the author of Shakespeare’s plays.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 154, 16 June 1911, Page 11
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192BACON AND SHAKESPEARE. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 154, 16 June 1911, Page 11
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