Bacon is Shake-speare . , even by the most ardentStratfordians, be supposed to have been written byShakspeares pen ; let us consider them Will commences In the name of God Amen IWillum Shackspeare. It is written upon threesheets of paper and each sheet bears a supposedsignature. The Will is dated in Latin Vicesimoquinto die [Januarij] Mtij Anno Regni Dni nri jacobi,nunc R Anglie, &c. decimo quarto & Scotie xlix° annoqDni 1616, or shortly in English 25th March 1616. Shakspeare died 23rd April 1616 just four weeksafter publishing his will. I say after PUBLISHING his Will advisedly,

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Bacon is Shake-speare . , even by the most ardentStratfordians, be supposed to have been written byShakspeares pen ; let us consider them Will commences In the name of God Amen IWillum Shackspeare. It is written upon threesheets of paper and each sheet bears a supposedsignature. The Will is dated in Latin Vicesimoquinto die [Januarij] Mtij Anno Regni Dni nri jacobi,nunc R Anglie, &c. decimo quarto & Scotie xlix° annoqDni 1616, or shortly in English 25th March 1616. Shakspeare died 23rd April 1616 just four weeksafter publishing his will. I say after PUBLISHING his Will advisedly,for such is the attestation, viz., Witnes to the pub-lyshing hereof, Fra : Collyns Julius Shawe John Robinson Hamnet Sadler Robert Whattcott Bacon is Shake spare, [othing is said about the witnessing of the signinghereof. The Will might therefore have been, and Imyself am perfectly certain that it was, marked withthe name of William Shakspeare by the Solicitor,Fra (ncis) Collyns, who wrote the body of the u.

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