These are some confused puppies.
They keep saying in these reports there is no conclusive proof that there are any ciphers by Bacon and his followers that stand up to “Testing”.
How about this one.
Taking a piece of the text from the first folio edition of “the Tempest”
“Thee where crabs grow and with my long nayl” and putting the 36 letters into a 6 x 6 grid, we arrive at
T H E E W H
E R E C R A
B S G R O W
A N D I W I
T H M Y L O
N G N A Y L
Look at the fifth column along and read down!
W ROWLY, could it be William Rowly, Secretary to Sir Francis Bacon and the man who sorted out Bacon’s affairs and papers after he died.
The centre four letters spell out the word GRID. This is the same keyword found in the Bruton Ciphers.
There is obviously something going on, but as with all buried treasure, lots of stories are put out just to scare, ridicule or confuse potential competitors.