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Many thanks to Peter Barber and Eric Johnson-Baufre. It seems clear there
is no readily available information to indicate Lord Burghley had a map of
Warwickshire or if he did that it survives.
Such a map if one could ever be found would be quite valuable,
especially for Stratford-on-Avon where the Shakespeare-Arden family lived -- a
family which left a long and intriguing paper trail that it clung to "Ye
Olde Faith" after 1588 and even well into the Jacobean period.
This Catholic-flavored paper trial was never fully assembled prior
to 1950 and even to the extent that it was that year in one work, the
hostility to Catholicism in Britain and the Shakespeare Establishment i
particular rendered any pursuit of this evidence taboo -- along with a
prohibition
against any speculation that England''s Icon, the Bard might have been
bisexual or homosexual (e.g. the Sonnets). The great Lord Acton encouraged
the pursuit of the Catholic connections in the mid-1850s but only quietly in
order to protect his academic career given that he was a Roman Catholic.
Beginning in the late 1990s, this suppression of evidence came to
an end and has resulted in a profound and deepening schism among Shakespeare
scholars who still cling to the idea that the man from Stratford was the
real literary genius as opposed to being a pen name for some other person.
The split is between the Orthodox Stratfordians and the growing
ranks of those who now maintain that the incumbent Bard is so elusive,
mysterious because he was in fact living a double life as a crypto-Catholic --
a
belief system with the Orthodox scholars correctly reject as a misfit,
ultimately incompatible with the Shakespearean literary works when taken as a
whole.
In any case, a Lord Burghley-commissioned map of
Warwickshire/Stratford town that pin-points families that were Church Papists,
recusants,
etc. (perhaps the incumbent Bard's family??) would be potentially quite
valuable and perhaps rock the Kingdom all the way to Buckingham Palace.
Actually, my forthcoming book which offers a solution to the
160-year old Shakespeare authorship dispute will Rock the Kingdom, especially
the
Royal Palace. Trying to solve the Shakespeare mystery has been as equally
challenging as trying to determine the true origins of Christopher
Columbus, but at least we know the Bard was an Englishman just like God.
Peter Dickson
Arlington, Virginia
Phone: 703-243-6641
Email: _pwdbard@aol.com_ (mailto:pwdb...@aol.com)
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