TheCodeBreakers
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with the rest of the plaintext letters left unenciphered to record in Latin
the baptism on January 1, 1645, of Janet Barne, daughter of William
Barne, curate of the parish. The mother's name is not given. Could the
encipherer have been Barne himself? And if so, was he perhaps hiding an
illegitimate birth? The same system was used in the fee-book for the
parish of Iver near Uxbridge, England, to note on January 17, 1767, the
marriage of 188 b58y48. Why Ann Bunyon's name should be veiled while
her husband's was left in clear remains unknown.
In two spirals on a minute of a letter of September 14, 1750, Gabriel
Cramer, a teacher of mathematics at the I Calvin Academy in Geneva,
who corresponded with the most learned men of his time, inscribed two
cipher messages. Simple columnar transpositions, they counseled:
"The oracle tells thee to fear nothing; thou art permitted to hope for
annaabi.ee 
