the 251st word, the same word old. (3.) If, again, we take 523 and deduct 218, (from 30 upward 74:2), we have 305 left; deduct the modifier 50, and we have 255 left; this carried down 74:1, counting in the hyphenated words, brings us again to old. (4.) If we take 523 and deduct 167, we have 356, and, less the b & h words, 334; and, less the modifier 30, it becomes 304: if we count down the 74:2 column, counting in the bracketed words, we have a remainder of 34, which, carried up the next column forward, brings us again to the same word, old. (5.) If we take 505 and deduct 198, (50, 74:2 downward), we have 307; or, less the 22 bracket words, 285; carry this again through 74:2 and we have a remainder of 37, which, carried up the next column forward, 74:1, counting in the hyphenated words, again brings us to the same word old.

Let me put these remarkable results in regular order:

And that these results are not accidental the reader can satisfy himself by observing that every one of these olds and jades comes out of 505 and 523; not one is derived from the other root-numbers 516 and 513. This shows that it is in the part of the story told by 505 and 523 the Queen is referred to as "the old jade." And see how completely some of these accord, the same root-number producing both words:

CHAPTER VII.

THE PURPOSES OF THE PLAYS.

Now I see

The bottom of your purpose.

All's Well that Ends Well, ii, 7.

ECIL tells the Queen that, having heard that the Essex party

CEC

were representing the deposition and murder of Richard II. on the stage, and cheering uproariously at every "hit," even as the liberty-loving German students in a later age applauded every preg nant sentence in Schiller's play of The Robbers, he sent a friend to ascertain the facts, who returned with the statement that the reports were all true. And we have the following sentence, descriptive of the scene on the death of the King, who was murdered at Pomfret by Sir Pierce of Exton, as represented in the last act of the play of Richard II:

356-22-326-284-42. 193-42-151+1=152+1 h=153

9

74:1

stop.

356-30-326-50-276-253-23-15 b & h=8. 448

356-30-326-50-276. 284-276-8+1=9.

The reader will note that every word here is the 356th word; and the figures at the beginning of the chapter show how that number is obtained. He will further observe the constant recurrence of the same terminal numbers, 86, 133, 108, 141, 276, and their modifications. It would require some art, in any other writing, to pick out the words of such a coherent sentence without any arithmetical limitations whatever, simply taking a word here and there where you find it; but when you obtain every word of such a sentence as the above in arithmetical order, each one being the 356th from certain points of departure, it surely cannot be accident.

But Cecil goes on still further to give his views of the purposes of the play of Richard II. And here we still have the same original root-number, and we find the same terminal numbers constantly recurring, to-wit, 108, 141, 133, etc., and again they work out a coherent narrative which holds due relation to the whole Cipher story.

356-248-108. 193-108—85+1—86+3b=89.

89

75:1

The

It may be asked why the root-number (523—167—) 356 is here continuous, while in some of our former examples it alternated with (505—167—) 338; but it would appear, from my researches, that it is only at the beginning that this alternation exists; and that, as the Cipher progresses, it diverges, and follows out one of the root-numbers after another to its ramifications: thus 338 will be found, after a time, to produce a story different from, but connected with, that told by 356. The process might be compared to a nimble squirrel on two branches of a tree, growing out of the same portion of the trunk. For a time it leaps from branch to branch; then, as they widen out, it follows the ramifications of one branch to the end.

The reader will also note that all the story we have thus far given is derived from three pages, 74, 75 and 76; and most of it is from pages 74 and 75; and it will be found, as we proceed, that we have not exhausted one-tenth of the possibilities of these pages. It would be marvelous if we had been able to make such connected grammatical and historical sentences out of a dozen pages; it is still more marvelous that they have been found in two or three. We have on these three pages not only the names of Marlowe, and Archer and Cecil and Shak'st-spur, Hayward and the old jade, but the name of King Richard and Pomfret and King John, and, as we will see, the Contention of York and Lancaster, and a number of other typical words, which, if there is no Cipher, could only have coincided here by a species of miracle. I am aware that the hypercritical will say, as has been intimated already, that the foregoing results are due to my “ingenuity;" but ingenuity cannot create the very significant words which are shown to exist in the text, on these pages 74, 75 and 76, together with Bacon, Bacons, St. Albans, Gray's Inn, etc., which appear near at hand. Those words were there two hundred years before I was born. We have seen that 356, modified by carrying it through column 74:2, produced the statement that Bacon had used the play of Richard II. as a pipe wherewith to

Now let us take the very next

blow the flame of rebellion almost into open war. portion of the text which follows column 74:2, to-wit, the first subdivision of 75:1, and we have results running in the same direction of thought, viz.: that Bacon had also been trying to poison the mind of the multitude with irreligious views. Surely, such connected thoughts could not, by accident, run out of the same rootnumbers, counting, in the one instance, from the top of one column, and, in the other instance, from the top or middle of the next column.

And it will also be observed that the statements here made agree precisely with what I have shown, in the first part of this book, as to Bacon's early religious views, and the treasonable purposes of some of the plays; and also with the facts revealed on the trial of Essex as to the conspirators hiring the actors to enact this very play of Richard II., so that they might gloat their eyes with the sight of a tragedy on the mimic stage which they hoped to bring into effect very soon upon the stage of the world. It follows that partisans and conspirators, assembled for such a purpose, would act very much as the Cipher story describes.

356-21b-335-193-142. 284-142-142+1—143. 143 356-30-326-284-42-7 h (74:1)=37.

74:1 well-known

37

356-193-163—15 b & h-148. 508-148-360+1= 361

356-30-326-193-133-15b & h=118+162 (78:1)= 280