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From Sir Henry Neville AKA Shakespeare Bush Lies

by Open-Publishing - Thursday 22 December 2005

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To my kind and gentle reader, please be patient while I conjure the spirit of Shakespeare, to call Bush a liar.

It was a dark and stormy afternoon as I went to my computer and googled, Shakespeare, in the news option. It was the beginning of November and a new book was just released titled ’The Truth Will Out’ claiming that Shakespeare was Sir Henry Neville . One of the authors is named Rubinstein and a search of his background associates him with the Intelligent design movement. This piqued my curiosity because I had been publishing articles on Bellaciao’s internet site criticizing ID and it’s promoters.The co author Rubinstein is associated with the University of Wales.

I then googled, Henry Neville and William Vaughan a Welshman and influential name in the early records of New Hampshire. The result was a surprise, it was documents from British court records dated 1601, at the time of the Essex rebellion. The court record concerning Neville refer to the conveyance of deeds, to relatives. According to the ’Biography of Shakespeare’ by Peter Ackroyd, this is sometimes done when trouble is brewing on the horizon. Neville was jailed for his involvement in an assassination plot on Queen Elizabeth ( aka Shakespeare) after the Essex Rebellion in 1601.

My first thought was I had stumbled upon the answer to a mystery surrounding Vaughan, I had been trying to resolve for over a decade. The mystery was presented in a book written by William Vaughan in 1626 titled the ’Golden Fleece’. Vaughan alludes to his role as a spy and his ensuing graces for foiling an assassination attempt on the Crown. Because the book is filled with allegory and metaphors it is difficult to ascertain if he is referring to real events and the depth of meaning. The 1601 court document concerning Vaughan was an order that he be released from the Tower and death penalty and further that the jailor be arrested for not doing so in a prompt manner.

Was this the same William Vaughan that attended Oxford and published his first work in 1597 with a dedication to the Essex household with an image of the printing press of Richard Field? Field was the lifelong friend of Shakespeare and published Shakespeare’s works in 1623. The use of allegory and wit to allude to real historical events is a device shared by Shakespeare and Vaughan. But Vaughan never wasted an opportunity to bash the Playwrights of his day. One factor that may account for this is Vaughan’s support of the historical Bard as a Welsh poetical treatment of verse but opposed to the pornographic content of the playwrights. The William Vaughan mentioned in the court documents was associated with the Earl of Shrewsbury. William Vaughan the author of the Golden Fleece was a kin to the Welsh spymaster, Robert Cecil.

Robert Cecil oversaw the transition of power during the transition from Queen Elizabeth to the Scottish King James in 1603 and also oversaw the writing of the King James Bible and broke up the Essex and Babbington plots with the aid of his spy network. The book ’Shakespeare by Another Name’ (William De Vere, the Earl of Oxford, AKA Shakespeare), comments concerning Cecil and the Essex rebellion of 1601 " that Cecil’s spies had long since infiltrated the Essex house staff ". To obtain social stature at this level it helped if you were related by blood or marriage, Cecil and Vaughan were.

Christopher Marlowe the Playwright ( AKA Shakespeare ) and author of Faust was also a spy for Cecil but had a tragic death at the hands of Cecil’s agents. William Vaughan comments to the effect that Marlowe’s death was the providence of God in the Golden Grove published in 1600 and the circumstances of Marlowe’s death is referenced in Shakespeare’s ’As you Like It’ . Marlovians claim that Christopher was Shakespeare and did not really die and point to a letter written by William Vaughan in 1603 claiming that Marlowe was back.

William Vaughan reveals that he is involved in a secret society in the Golden Fleece and the reason he is exposing his secrets is for the good of his country. Vaughan styles his society after the knights of the Rosie Cross or Rosicrucian’s. Because of the use of the word Fairy in the Golden Fleece and Vaughan’s literary background, the rosie cross is a reference to Spenser’s, Fairy Queen and the knight of the Rosie Cross written in 1589. Like Vaughan, Spenser was Welsh and they both sing the praises of poetry.

From the Golden Fleece
.... stiling themselues the Fraternitie of the Rosie Crosse. At the first hee (king Charles)seemed to slight the newes, thinking they might be some of those Cabalisticall Mountebankes, which went abroad selling of smoke, and making credulous persons to belieue, that they were of a Mathematicall fry, and race of wise Philosophers, to whom Mercurius Trismegistius had transferred the neuer erring Art of discerning Truth from falshood, the meanes to vnite the variable will of man, and that which Worldlings doe most prize, to make the Philosophers Stone.

The Free masons are a separate secret society in 1626 and were Protestant and fit the description of what the Rosicrucians are not, at least at the time the book is written. Vaughan describes the Rose fraternity as Catholic but anti Pope. In their terminology the Rosicrucian’s were Catholic and made the sign of the cross. The Cabala, Geometry and Tobacco were associated with Free Masons in 1626. The Essex Rebellion occurred at the end of Elizabeth’s reign and the Golden Fleece was written and addressed to King Charles at the beginning of his reign. In the interim was King James who showed Sir Henry Neville favor. Neville was a director of the London Virginia company and under James Tobacco became a cash crop.

At first King James and the Rosicrucian’s warned about the health dangers of Tobacco, Sir Francis Bacon (AKA Shakespeare ) and of Welsh descent claimed that it was addictive. King James wrote a book in 1607 that claimed that Tobacco ruined the lungs heart and brain. When Shakespeare’s Tempest was performed in 1610 the Kings attitude changed because of the need for the Virginia company to thrive. The Tobacco warning was the third in a series of examples of inhaled particles and the resulting disease. The first was a discovery of Paracelsus, the first to use observation and experimentation to show that diseases could be caused by foreign agents and his name would be associated with the origins of the Rosicrucian’s and in Shakespeare’s work, scientific movement. The second was the ailments of chimney sweeps and their illness from breathing soot. The Rosicrucian’s were genuinely committed to healing the common man, the miners the chimney sweeps and protecting the public from Tobacco.

The Golden Fleece is not Utopian and was written to promote Vaughan’s 1610’s settlement in New Foundland. By 1629 Vaughan desired to support the settlements in New Hampshire as a way to reach the North west passage. The Golden Fleece was intended to promote trade and Vaughan uses terms of modern economics to make his case. Trade would alleviate the poverty of Wales and stem the wave of inflation that Vaughan considered the root of Britain’s economic woes. Vaughan was promoting a New World Order with free trade as a cure for poverty not Tobacco production.

In the Golden Fleece Vaughan’s fellow spy is John Florio (AKA Italian Shakespeare) Florio was the tutor for the earl of Essex and Southhampton and his translations of Italian to English can be found in Shakespeare’s works. Shakespeare’s first teacher was a Welshman and that accounts for the Celtic Welsh influence in his works. Dee,Bacon, Cecil, Spenser, Vaughan represent the Welsh enlightenment and Shakespeare was influenced by their lives in the writings of his works.

My Motive

The motive for my research began with a series of Indian deeds done circa 1640 and important to the early history of NH. The deeds are known as the Wheelwright Indian deeds and are named after Rev. Wheelwright founder of Exeter NH and author of the preface to Americana Mercurious. The deeds were intended to give Wheelwright a claim to form a government in NH after he was expelled from Massachusetts. He was expelled for not following the religious mandates of the Fundamentalist Puritan’s and their harsh dealings with the Indians.

The Wheelwright Indian deeds have been studied by scholars for three hundred years beginning with Cotton Mather, America’s earliest historian in 1707. The deed was used to convey land in NH to Irish Scottish immigrants. Because the date is 1629 it was pronounced a forgery in 1800, because the signers were not in NH until after 1629. The only fact that can be claimed with certainty is that it was recorded by William Vaughan a name associated with early NH history and also a name that appears on the deed, George Vaughan, a kinsman of the author of the Golden Fleece.

George Vaughan was sent from New Foundland to NH in 1631 to aid NH and the discovery of the North west passage depicted in the Champlain Map of 1629.He came with Francis Williams another Welshman related to Rodger Williams founder of Rhode Island. The Golden Fleece is dedicated to Francis Williams and when George Vaughan and Francis arrived they hold positions of authority.

Rev. Wheelwright founded Exeter NH in 1639 with a combination for government that was an agreement by the settlers for self rule and was necessitated by their isolation from Great Britain and is considered the first government body in America not made in England. Exeter is also the birthplace of the Republican Party in 1853 after a secret meeting was held in a hotel by Amos Tuck. Today Exeter is associated with the author, Dan Brown and the Da Vinci Code, but also for the author, John Irving and a ’Prayer For Owen Meany’. A Prayer for Owen Meany begins with a description of another Wheelwright Indian deed dated 1639, depicting a prostrate armless Indian.

The armless Indian deed was actually a statement of witness and signed by Darby Field (his mark) and Capt. John Underhill dated 1639. following their genealogic claims, their ancestors are associated with Shakespeare.

Capt. Underhill was from Killingworth England and related to the Usher of Sir Francis Bacon. Before Bacon died he accused Underhill of adultery and after Bacon died, Underhill married Bacons widow and became head of his Manor. William Underhill another relation conveyed the deed to Shakespeare for New Place in 1597. Another Underhill was the Bishop of Oxford and it was his argument with an Italian astronomer over the Heliocentric debate that spawned the Whips and Scorn speech by his opponent, shortly before he was burned at the stake. Capt. Underhill had special social stature he was the commander of the Massachusetts military before he was accused of adultery by Massachusetts officials and joined Wheelwright in NH. In 1641 he caused a riot when it was discovered he was a spy, he escaped from NH and had a long and illustrious career in what is now Long Island NY, then controlled by the Dutch.

The other signer, Darby Field is known for his climb to the top of Mt. Washington in 1641, it was detailed in a journal kept by the governor of Massachusetts and a letter to England. Darby described seeing the Northwest Passage but it was not true. The governor of Maine formed a party that did climb Mt. Washington shortly after and soon went back to England and corrected his correspondence that described Fields vision. The governor of Massachusetts corrected his journal entry concerning what Field saw. It was while I was researching Darby Field that I became interested in the Wheelwright Indian deeds.

Field is related to John Field of Lincolnshire England according to a genealogy published in Appalachia magazine. John Field and Rev. Wheelwright were both married to Hutchinson’s as was Anne Hutchinson who was a lightning rod for women’s rights and the controversy that got Wheelwright and Rodger Williams expelled from Massachusetts.

John Field of Lincolnshire was the brother to Theopholus Field the Bishop of Hereford and Nathan Field a playwright and actor who is said to have taken Shakespeare the actors place on stage. Theopholus’s descendants were settlers in Virginia in 1635.

A famous astronomer named John Field wrote a book in 1555 based on Copernican Heliocentric computations. The calculations were used by the navy for critical navigational locations using the stars. The preface to the book was written by Queen Elizabeth’s most famous astrologer and spy John Dee ( AKA 007 ). Dee is credited with inspiring Ian Flemmings 007, Christopher Marlowes, Faust and Prospero in Shakespeare’s the Tempest. I humbly suggest, Dee’s Astrology was a code for conveying military secrets. John Dee was the tutor for Robert Cecil and like Cecil was a Welshman. John Dee translated the mathematical works of Trimistigus making math accessible to the common man and developed map making. He was also the first to seek the North west passage. Although they did not find the passage they opened up profitable trade routes as a result of their attempts.

Darby Field was employed on occasion as an Indian interpreter and it is also claimed to be an Irishman causing confusion as to his real heritage. The history of Roscommon Ireland embraces him as one of their own and his feat of being the first European to climb Mt. Washington. Roscommon got its name circa 1630 when the earl of Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, settled in Ireland to make it more English. The Earl of Roscommon married into the Wentworth family. The Wentworth name has an illustrious genealogy which included Sir Henry Neville and the Arden’s, related to William Shakespeare’s mother.

Field and Underhill have special authority in New Hampshire when they witness the Indian deed and their ancestors are associated with the worlds of Shakespeare, Bacon, Dee, and Cecil. Shakespeare’s works and life are influenced by his peers and relatives. Shakespeare being Shakespeare is not in question from this research on the ancestors of NH settlers and their deeds.

Sir Francis Bacon wrote Novum Organum which is credited with establishing the methodology of science or inductive logic, observation and experimentation. It is important to remember that the enlightenment was nurtured from this secular approach. Bacon recognized that there is another area of investigation that he referred to as Metaphysics and that is were ID belongs. ID should not be limited to God as the source of ID because that would discriminate against the UFO supporters that also promote ID.

Because Copernicus is burned as a heretic and Dee and John Field were imprisoned before 1555 for practicing the magic art of mathematics, they understood the dangers of religion and ideologies that could and did persecute them. Under Bacon science became a methodology and this is what is at risk from ID, not Darwin.

During my research of Darby Field and Capt. Underhill, I would google their names and would get the genealogy site for George Bush but I took it with a grain of salt because Bush lies. It is just as well because when I research their names now I can’t find it and the Bush genealogy, I do find, only goes to the 18th century.