17/07/2023

Two More Enciphered Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots

Two enciphered letters (already attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots in the book catalogue) are in Cotton MS, Caligula B IX.
I identified the keys used in these letters from among the keys I reconstructed.
One is the Mary-Hamilton Cipher. Thus, the recipient is probably John Hamilton, Archbishop of St. Andrews.
The other is the Mary-Norfolk Cipher. (Right after uploading this update, I found the deciphered text, with normalized spelling, is printed in Labanoff.)
These updates are now in "Ciphers of Mary, Queen of Scots".

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