Shakespeare's Lost Purple Bloodline

By An Incomparable Descendant Ronald Bates

For four hundred years, my family has been passing down the story of why our grandparents wrote, how they hid their children in the new world for safety from the Church, and how they hid their signatures in the greatest writings in the English language. They worked in secret and formed secret societies. As the Shakespeare folio was dedicated to the Incomparable Pair of Brethren""I am an Incomparable Descendant. There are thousands of us in America. This book follows the family tree of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Edward Devere to present day. It is a Roots meets National Treasure meets Da Vinci Code, filled with facts and clues left from hundreds of years ago to modern day that tells their story. This book is a legacy to my children and family. It is very valuable to any Freemason, Elizabethan historian, genealogist, or any American who is proud to be free! After sharing my story and comparing pictures of my family and Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Edward Devere, in college, the professor said, "You write that book and someone will make a movie out of it!" So the writing begins.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 24, 2018
• ISBN: 9781642587005

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Chapter 1

Grandma’s Meltdown

Iwent to my grandmothers’ sisters’ house in Laceyville. Something was said about church, and I asked my cousin Dale, Which church?

He answered, The Catholic church.

My grandmother shouted, Says who? Our family has never been Catholic; they have always been against us!

The story began.

Great Grandma’s Revelation

The children all gathered in the dining room. Grandma had a very important task to assign each and every one of them. It was a very serious and solemn event. It was the same event that she had gone through sixty years earlier and most certainly had been repeated a few more times over the centuries. The children were handed a piece of paper and pencil, and were asked to write down what they would do to change the world.

The children spent considerable time on their very important task. Grandma collected the papers one at a time and commented on each one. She also explained to the group how our grandparents had changed the world a long, long time ago. They had changed the world with words. They had to do many things in secret. They were creating new words for the English language and writing very important books. The Bible was written in Latin then. Our grandparents from long ago were the best writers and poets the English language ever knew. They had ways of hiding their names and life stories in the poems and books they were writing because they wanted to be remembered in the future for their sacrifice.

"It is very, very, very true that our grandparents were all knights and protected all of the kings and queens for hundreds of years. Queen Elizabeth I was the center of our family. Our entire family protected her and took care of her needs. During her reign and King James’s, our grandparents hid their grandchildren in the new world for protection from the church." The families often remained close in America and sometimes married other relatives.

Which church, Grandma?

The Catholic Church, sweetheart. If the Catholics knew who our grandparents were, they would have tried to kill them. Some were killed.

Are we safe now, Grandma?

Yes, dear. No one wants to hurt us now.

Did any of our grandparents become famous for what they wrote?

Yes, Mary Herbert and her brother Philip Sidney translated the book of Psalms. Grandma continued, Did you ever hear of Francis Bacon or Edward Devere? No one responded. They all were writers.

Were any of our grandparents kings or queens, Grandma?

No, but they knew all of the kings and queens.

I have since found that nobility and knights are mostly recent great-grandchildren to previous kings and queens, and most marry distant cousins. Rarely did commoners achieve noble or royal status.

Where did my grandma get her red hair from, Grandma?

I really have no idea, dear. I wish I knew.

This was the end of my personal questions to my grandmother. Later, Dale and David Fox, and myself had a sword fight in the small barn (which was probably the neighbors) that lie behind our great-grandparents’ home in Rome, Pennsylvania. In being young American boys, the only English knights we knew were King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. We wondered if they could be our grandparents. How close we were and had no idea. Someone mentioned the King James Bible, and how grandma had said our grandparents were his best friends.

After thirty-five years of wondering and many years of research, I have the conclusion that my grandmother was not entirely correct. If you ponder the fact that this is word-of-mouth for over four hundred years, you will realize the account is truly amazing. Furthermore, factor in that my grandmother clearly never saw the paintings of those which she spoke so knowledgably about. I was no older than ten years old on the day I quote. Other times, my parents told how my grandmother said our grandparents were nobility in England and that they were the Herberts. I saw many pictures of my family and older generations visiting nobility in England and understood that they were visiting distant cousins in England. My great-aunt was the last to go, and she is not aware of our past story. This fact seemed to be set in stone as a youngster, but as I grew older, the elders seem to be misplacing their memories, therefore the importance of telling this story.

The search for facts within the older generations proved to no avail. I was on the dawn of a new horizon. That horizon was the Internet and great sites like Ancestry.com, Wikipedia, Amazon, and multiple other sources that contain valuable information. I really felt that if I did not bring the story together, it might be forgotten in a generation, possibly forever. Perhaps I was extremely wrong, and everyone would know who their grandparents were within my family with new technologies and search engines, which are yet invented. One thing is certain though. Great-grandmother never used a computer, and her stories were a repeated story from generation to generation.

On my mother’s side, I descend from the Pool tribe of Towanda, Pennsylvania. There is nobility in this family also. A Dutch aristocrat named Anthony Vanderpool is a great, great-grandfather to many in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Anthony and the other first white settlers that came with him to Bradford County were all Dutch fur traders married to Mohican wives who they met along the Hudson River. There are many resources to study this family and their tight family lines, which some would suggest amount to inbreeding. I have heard that states far-off study the family tree of this family. I have studied ancestry.com family tree and can only say there are many cousins that married many cousins for centuries. It is worth mentioning that my mother and her siblings looked like they just walked off an Indian reservation. I am proud to descend from this family.

On my father’s, father’s side I may be descended from possible terrorists. Remember, remember, the fifth of November! The Guy Fawkes gunpowder plot to blow up King James and the entire parliament had its gunpowder loaded under parliament by a guy named Thomas Bates. William Bates of Stevensville, Pennsylvania, wrote in his chronicles every day of his life, starting in the 1800s. He helped to build the train tracks across Alaska and spent summers panning for gold until track work resumed.

He spent two summers and one winter in Alaska. He won many ribbons for his hybrid apples, which he invented and took to the fair. He wrote in his chronicles that there were five brothers who came to New England and went their separate ways. The brothers agreed to never keep a family genealogy in a Bible because if one of them were caught, they all could be tracked down. It is uncertain how guilty these brothers were, or