Letterlocking: Elizabeth Stuart Deciphering Sir Thomas Roe’s Letter: Cryptography, Constantinople (1626) (UH0026) from small video 201 Watch Video
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Description: Modelled after Sir Thomas Roe’s letter to Elizabeth Stuart (20/30 May 1626), the National Archives (TNA), Kew Gardens, England, SP 97/12, fol. 48. Shown with permission. nnElizabeth Stuart used ciphers, special codes that need a key to unlock them, to hide information from prying eyes. So far seven of her keys, typically alphabets of 24 letters – in seventeenth-century script i/j and u/v were interchangeable – have been found.nna=nϗnb=07nc=px d=q5 ...nx=k6ny=lw andnz=m2nnNumbers took the
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