This is Volume Two of the two volume work, The Great Cryptogram by Ignatius Donnelly. Volume One is in progress and will be available within six months. This is not a photocopy of the original book, it is a new edition, complete and unabridged and printed on demand. Ignatius Donnelly wrote his two volume work while serving as a U.S. Congressman. It is his contention that the Shakespeare plays were actually written by Francis Bacon, who not only had the learning necessary to compose such works, but also, as a known cipher-creator, put such a cipher into the plays to tell a secret history of the man from Stratford, William Shakspere, and of the intrigues in the court of Queen Elizabeth.