John the Evangelist

St John the Evangelist (right altar wing, Sixteenth Whole egg + [21]... 

This old hawk. This white hawk that Saint John the Evangelist holds. That whistles in the dawn. 

Indeed, Bonus included Moses, David, Solomon, and John the Evangelist among the founders of alchemy. Chiara Crisciani, "The Conception of Alchemy as Expressed in the Pretiosa margarita novella of Petrus Bonus of Ferrara," Ambix 20, no. 3 (1973) 173 and 71 n. 26. 

The various writing styles evident in Shakespeare suggest the nom de plume was for a team. Probable members include Richard Field, Richard de Vere 17 Earl of Oxford, Gabriel Harvey, Edmund Spenser, Sir Edward Dyer, Sir Philip Sidney and Sir Francis Bacon. Their interest seems focused around the players companies that performed each year on St John the Evangelist s Day, December twenty-seventh, a traditional assembly day of Freemasons. 

See, for example, John Evangelist Walsh, Midnight Dreary the Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe (New York St. Martin s Minotaur, 2000). 

Walsh, John Evangelist. Midnight Dreary The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe. 

Walsh, John Evangelist. Poe the Detective The Curious Circumstances behind the Mystery of Marie Roget. New Brunswick Rutgers University Press, 1967. Whalen, Terence. Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses The Political Economy of Literature in Antebellum America. Princeton University Press, 1999. 

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