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attempting to set a pretender on the English throne.
The pretender's cause exhorted the allegiance of many in England,
and the nation's attention focused on Atterbury's trial. Most of the facts
about the alleged conspiracy had come from his intercepted
correspondence, and the most inculpatory evidence had been extracted
from the portions in cipher by Willes and by Anthony Corbiere, a former
foreign service official in his mid-thirties who had also been appointed a
Decypherer in 1719. The Lords "thought it proper to call the Decypherers
before them, in order to their being satisfied of the Truth of the
Decyphering." To demonstrate this, Willes and Corbiere deposed,
That several Letters, written in this Cypher, had been
decyphered by them separately, one being many Miles distant in
the Country, and the other in Town; and yet their Decyphering
agreed;
That Facts, unknown to them and the Government at the Time
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