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11 Apr.

THE DANISH TREASURE, 1583 - topics: travel,court_patronage,money_legal,letters_books

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11 Apr. - Daybook Entries. Records travel, court patronage, money legal, letters books: After my coming home from the Court, about 4 of the clock after noon, and after being in my study a while, it came into my head to assay to decipher the cipher which before is spoken of, and was brought me by E.K.

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Records travel, court patronage, money legal, letters books: After my coming home from the Court, about 4 of the clock after noon, and after being in my study a while, it came into my head to assay to decipher the cipher which before is spoken of, and was brought me by E.K. as he was willed to do.3 And at the first I...

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THE DANISH TREASURE, 1583

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travel,court_patronage,money_legal,letters_books

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Thursday. After my coming home from the Court, about 4 of the clock after noon, and after being in my study a while, it came into my head to assay to decipher the cipher which before is spoken of, and was brought me by E.K. as he was willed to do.3 And at the first I was half out of all hope: but yet making many assays, and guessing at it (at the length) to be Latin, I found this to be the true alphabet: God giving me the perseverance. Abcdefgh klmnopq rstvxyzw 9 tC '-) c( ~ [< l( V e ~.J ~ C) CI) V tt./ \ ( 't-;1 And the first longer writing was thus: Tabula locorum rerum et Thesaurorum absconditorum, Menabani, mei Gord4nili, militis, et Danaorum Prineipis, expulsi, multorumque aliorum elarissimorum (Britanie meridionali parte) virorum, contra eiusdem inhabitatores militantium: quam, hie, familiarissimorum consensu, aliquando ad nostratium rediuntium commoditatem et auxilium abscondere et sepelire deerevi: qua quid em intelleeta, facile possunt ad lucem abscondita efferre.-I And the notes of the ten places hereby affixed are thus to be read orderly:5 1 Gilds eros hie 0.......... mer id.io onali. ot on 2 blankis Suters croces

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Thursday. After my coming home from the Court, about 4 of the clock after noon, and after being in my study a while, it came into my head to assay to decipher the cipher which before is spoken of, and was brought me by E.K. as he was willed to do.3 And at the first I was half out of all hope: but yet making many assays, and guessing at it (at the length) to be Latin, I found this to be the true alphabet: God giving me the perseverance. Abcdefgh klmnopq rstvxyzw 9 tC '-) c( ~ [< l( V e ~.J ~ C) CI) V tt./ \ ( 't-;1 And the first longer writing was thus: Tabula locorum rerum et Thesaurorum absconditorum, Menabani, mei Gord4nili, militis, et Danaorum Prineipis, expulsi, multorumque aliorum elarissimorum (Britanie meridionali parte) virorum, contra eiusdem inhabitatores militantium: quam, hie, familiarissimorum consensu, aliquando ad nostratium rediuntium commoditatem et auxilium abscondere et sepelire deerevi: qua quid em intelleeta, facile possunt ad lucem abscondita efferre.-I And the notes of the ten places hereby affixed are thus to be read orderly:5 1 Gilds eros hie 0.......... mer id.io onali. ot on 2 blankis Suters croces