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ELIZABETH WELLS GALLUP

CONCERNING THE
BI-LITERAL CYPHER OF
FRANCIS BACON

DISCOVERED IN HIS WORKS BY
ELIZABETH WELLS GALLUP

PROS AND CONS OF THE CONTROVERSY

Explanations, Reviews, Criticisms and Replies

DETROIT, MICH., U. S. A.:
HOWARD PUBLISHING CO.

LONDON:
GAY & BIRD.

ANNOUNCEMENT.
THE BI-LITERAL CYPHER OF FRANCIS BACON,

Deciphered by Elizabeth Wells Gallup.

THIRD EDITION

This edition embraces decipherings from the commencement of the use of Bacon’s Cipher inventions—now found to be 1579—and covering the entire period of his literary career, including some works published by Rawley subsequent to 1626. The Cypher has been traced with certainty down to 1651.

This Bi-literal Cypher reveals much secret history concerning Queen Elizabeth, who, it is now learned, was the wedded wife of Robert, Earl of Leicester—while posing as the Virgin Queen—and was the mother of Francis Bacon.

It also discloses the existence of a second so-called Key-Word Cipher, of broader scope, running through all of Bacon’s literary works, with instructions by which they may be deciphered to disclose other hidden dramatical and historical productions of larger importance and greater historical accuracy than those upon the printed pages which enfold them. These are found also to contain secret history, dangerous to Bacon, who sought by this means to transmit it to a future time in which he hoped the Ciphers would be discovered and the truth proclaimed.

The method of the Word Cipher is shown in the deciphered Tragedy of Anne Boleyn, published simultaneously with this Third Edition,—also in the Tragedy of Robert, Earl of Essex,—and the Tragedy of Mary, Queen of Scots.

THE TRAGEDY OF ANNE BOLEYN,

Deciphered by Elizabeth Wells Gallup,

One of the Historical Dramas in Cipher named in the Bi-literal Cypher as concealed in the works of Bacon.

Part I.

Contains extracts from the Bi-literal, with Bacon’s instructions and the Keys by which this Tragedy has been extracted fully illustrating the Word Cipher method of its reconstruction.

An appendix gives the editions used and pages on which may be found the scattered sections brought together in new sequence to form the new play.

Included in Part I will also be found the decipherings made by Mrs. Gallup in the British Museum subsequent to the publication of the Second Edition of the Bi-literal Cypher, and are from Old Editions appearing between 1579 and 1590, establishing the earliest dates this Cypher appeared. They are placed here for the convenience of these having Second Editions only.

THE TRAGICAL HISTORIE

OF OUR LATE BROTHER,

ROBERT, EARL OF ESSEX.

Deciphered by Orville W. Owen, M. D. One of the Historical Dramas in Cipher.

THE HISTORICAL TRAGEDY OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS.

Deciphered by Orville W. Owen, M. D. One of the Historical Dramas in Cipher.

Howard Publishing Co.,
Detroit, Michigan, U. S. A.

Gay & Bird,
London, England.

CONTENTS
(OF THIS VOLUME)

FrontispiecePortrait [Elizabeth Wells Gallup]
Announcements[6]
Title Page “The Bi-literal Cypher”[11]
(Plates from the book)
Contents of “Bi-literal Cypher”
Personal[15]
Publishers Note. Third Edition[19]
De Augmentis, Original Title page 1624[21]
Cyphars in Advancement of Learning, 1605[22]
Cyphars in De Augmentis, Wats Translation, 1640[23]
Bi-literarie Alphabet[24]
Bi-formed Alphabet[25]
Cicero’s First Epistle—Method of deciphering[26]
Cicero’s First Epistle—Cipher infold[27]
Tragedy of Anne Boleyn[29]
(Plates from the book)
Preface[30]
Argument of the Play[35]
Keys for Deciphering[38]

FROM MAGAZINES, ETC.

BACONIANA—LONDON:
Elizabeth Wells Gallup—Descriptive[43]
—Explanatory[122]
—Henry VII.[222]
Editorial—Book Review[74]
Cannonbury Tower[227]
D. J. Kindersley—Henry VII.[218]
COURT JOURNAL—LONDON:
Fleming Fulcher Review[81]
COSMOPOLITAN—NEW YORK:
Garrett P. Serviss Review[112]
FREE PRESS—DETROIT:
Editorial, Book Review[69]
LITERARY WORLD—LONDON:
Elizabeth Wells Gallup. Replies I-II.[150]
NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER-LONDON:
W. H. Mallock, Review[94]
NEW YORK TIMES—LITERARY REVIEW:
Elizabeth Wells Gallup—Reply to C. L. Dana[163]
PALL MALL MAGAZINE—LONDON:
Elizabeth Wells Gallup—Descriptive[51]
Explanatory[126]
TIMES—LONDON:
Elizabeth W. Gallup[144]
W. H. Mallock[169]
A. P. Sinnett[172]
A. P. Sinnett[176]
Parker Woodward[175]
REPLIES TO CRITICISMS:
Elizabeth Wells Gallup[179]
Illustration of Method[198]
Fac-Simile Plates De Augmentis Scientiarum, London Ed., 1623[201]
Fac-Simile Plates Paris Ed., 1624[205]
Henry Irving, Princeton Address[211]