CHAPTER XI.

Paper-Marks In and After the Time of Francis Bacon 318
Plates 357
List of Paper-Marks 385
PEEFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION,
Correcting some Errors, Noting some Omissions, adding some Particulars Worthy of Inquiry.
TO THE KEADEE.
TWENTY years have rolled away since the first edition of this book, having vainly struggled for leave to chirp and twitter at home, spread its small wings and flew over to America, in hopes that in that spacious and " liberal air " it might pipe and whistle freely.
The opposition which in those days beset any book daring to set forth true particulars concerning the hidden life of " Bacon " seems almost too strange to be true, but Records of such passages have been carefully stored for the student of a future generation. Meanwhile, although opposition to Baconian publication continues the case is altered. Matters put forward with diffidence and reserve have been now declared indubitably correct, and the suppressive methods of Librarians, Custodians, and the Press in general, with regard to unpublished records, or anything touching the life and works of the concealed Poet-Philosopher (although continued), are now to a great extent understood.
At the age of 15 Francis began to draw together his "In- visible Brotherhood" the Rosicrucian Fraternity. This was
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positively asserted and enforced with instances by a Rosicrucian, the last of his circle, to the present writer.
It has also been announced to a Lodge of Masons, by the " Supreme Magus. Ros. Cru. in Anglia^ that the Rosicrucian and Masonic Orders are parts of One and the Same Society — The Rosicrucians, a Secret Society — the Freemasons, a Society with Secrets. This statement after some objection from the Lodge, was accepted as an incontrovertible fact.
The President of the Bacon Society also received from Sir