The Stuart princess who could have deposed Charles I
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Breaking a Cypher
You try to collect a lot of letters with the same cipher, and you then, this is how i do it. The thing to remember about syphoces in this century is that they were very rudimentary. It's sometimes even er. When i was working on my other book, a playwright, aprobane, who was also a spy, had a cipher key with the ais, one, b, two, cs, three. Oh, what would the d be? So it, it's, it can be that kind of rudimentary.
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