The name "Francis" and the word "free"

The name "Francis" literally means "free". Here, to illustrate, are some of  the OED definitions of the  word "franchise", of medieval European origin, from which the name derives:

franchise: 1. Nobility of mind; liberality, magnanimity. 2. Freedom; exemption from servitude or subjection. 3. A legal immunity or exemption from a particular burden. 4. A right or privilege granted by the power of a monarch to an individual or group. 5. Freedom from arrest. 6. Freedom or full membership of a corporation or state. etc 

By consensus of scholars, the final play written by Shakespeare was The Tempest, which stands at the beginning of the First Folio.

The last word of The Tempest is therefore the last word of the canon of the Plays, and that word is: free.

Thus, at the very end of the canon, the traditional place at which an artist would usually sign their work, we find the very word which signifies Francis.