More Messages About the Murder of the Poet Christopher Marlowe

In this post (and later posts) I am going to add some evidence to support my hypothesis that the play As You Like It contains messages about the murder of the poet Christopher Marlowe.  Chapters 2 (background on Marlowe and his killing) and chapter 13 of my book discuss this hypothesis, so I recommend starting there. The chapters were posted during February 2015 and are found elsewhere on this site.

I realize that the hypothesis that the play As You Like It contains messages about the murder of the poet Christopher Marlowe a radical and even outlandish.  I am sure it is a hypothesis that is not popular with Baconians, Oxfordians, or Marlovians.  Bacon may have ordered the murder, Oxford seems to have carried it out, and Marlowe is shown to be a traitor to enlightenment.  (It probably does not make Strafordians happy either because the messages show that Shakespeare the actor did not write the plays.)  But I think the hypothesis makes sense, and I keep finding messages.  Here is the hypothesis in a nutshell:

·         Chistopher Marlowe, a promising poet, was recruited or sought to become a member of the Rose Cross Brotherhood of writers, and he was eventually inducted.

·         Marlowe collaborated with Edward de Vere and possibly other writers in the Rose Cross Brotherhood, and he became privy to some of the very sensitive secrets and secret projects of the Rose Cross Brotherhood.

·         He may have learned that Queen Elizabeth I was the true mother of Edward de Vere, 17^th Earl of Oxford (and probably Francis Bacon and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex).  (This is another radical hypothesis.)   However, if Marlowe was working with de Vere and Bacon, he would have at least known the messages being planted in published works and other Rose Cross intrigues.

·         Marlowe was somehow involved with the publication of the Martin Marprelate tracts.  I believe he somehow subverted the publication, either by inserting attacks that would infuriate John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, and antagonize the government, or, alternatively, he may have informed on the Rose Cross Brothers involved in the project, which led to the arrest and execution of John Penry. 

·         Marlowe was entangled in the "Dutch church libels,” which led to the arrest and torture of Thomas Kyd, and was about to appear before the Privy Council.   There was a great risk that he would divulge the most sensitive information about the activities of the Rose Cross Brotherhood.

·         As a result, he was eliminated for the execution of Penry, for breaking his vows to the Brotherhood, and to silence him.

Now, on to the evidence.  I am going to lay out some pieces to the puzzle.  Some pieces will fit together.  Many pieces are missing.  Other pieces will just be out of place for now.  I am going to start with pages one and two of the play As You Like It.  This evidence supplements what is already shown in my book.

I debated whether I should post one massive post when I finish work, or a lot of little posts as I progress.  A co-worker thought a lot of little posts would be better.

Here is the first piece:

 

A Puzzle Leading to "MARLOWE" on the first page of the play As You Like It—

The first images are some circles drawn using the “mark upon him [two courses off]” compass setting.  

These lines are indicated in left-hand column:

Enter Oliuer.

Adam. Yonder comes my Master, your brother.

Orlan. Goe a-part Adam, and thou shalt heare how

he will shake me vp.

I interpret this as indicating an important puzzle to solve.  The puzzle is: How can Oliver shake things up?  Or, what solves the line “he will shake me up.”

And the answer is that “Charles the Wrestler” will help Oliver shake things up.  It is witty—a wrestler shaking things up.  A little 17^th century humor.

So, the text about “Charles the Wrestler” has to be moved over.  And the message is “MARLOWE” will shake me up.

Another solution of the same puzzle is shown below, but I think the solution above is the one that was preferred by the encipherer.

The text surrounding the message is interesting too, but I will discuss that later.