To Gray's Inn "Old Purpulii Britain's Ornament" the Author Dedicates this humble offering

CONTENTS

Introduction

..i-xciv

Shakespeare's Connection With the Inns of Court..

1- 25

Shakespeare's Plays Controlled by Bacon's Friends.

26- 34

Why Queen Elizabeth Neglected Bacon—That Capias Utlegatum. 34- 35

Origin of "Capias Utlegatum” Insult Offered to Bacon by Queen

Elizabeth's Attorney-General, Sir Edward Coke..... 37- 49

Francis Bacon's Connection With Warwickshire and the Forest

of Arden

50- 78

79-119

Bacon's Connection With the Burbage's.....

You Would Pluck Out the Heart of My Mystery.

Shakespeare's Lodgings in Silver Street. ...,

120-150

. 151-155

Bacon's Warwickshire Kinsmen and the Underhill's.

. 156-161

Was Anne Cecil the Prototype of Helena in "All's Well”. . 162-168

Appendix A-

History of the Manor and Ancient Barony of Castle Com-

be. Re Sir John Fastolf's Ward...

. 169-176

Appendix B-

Edmund Tilney, Master of the Revels....

.177-182

Appendix C-

List of Lands Owned by the Cooke's, Lords of Hartshill....184-188