Basil Brown

Law Sports at Gray's Inn (1594) Basil Brown

Legal Aspects of the Lives and Works of Shakespeare and Bacon This interesting volume examines legal aspects of the lives and writings of Shakespeare and Bacon. Includes the text of the hard-to-find Gesta Grayorum, which is attributed in part to Bacon. Brown also describes the origin of the Capias Utlegatum insult offered to Bacon by Queen Elizabeth's attorney general, Sir Edward Coke. CONTENTS Introduction Shakespeare's Connection With the Inns of Court Shakespeare's Plays Controlled by Bacon's Friends Why Queen Elizabeth Neglected Bacon - That Capias Utlegatum Origin of "Capias Utlegatum' Insult Offered to Bacon by Queen Elizabeth's Attorney-General, Sir Edward Coke Francis Bacon's Connection With Warwickshire and the Forest of Arden Bacon's Connection With the Burbage's You Would Pluck Out the Heart of My Mystery Shakespeare's Lodgings in Silver Street Bacon's Warwickshire Kinsmen and the Underhill's Was Anne Cecil the Prototype of Helena in "All's Well" Appendix A- History of the Manor and Ancient Barony of Castle Combe. Re Sir John Fastolf's Ward Appendix B- Edmund Tilney, Master of the Itevels Appendix C- List of Lands Owned by the Cooke's, Lords of Hartshill