Secret, coded letters penned by Mary, Queen of Scots, while she was imprisoned in England by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, have been uncovered by a multidisciplinary team of international codebreakers.
The contents of the letters were believed for centuries to have been lost. That was until George Lasry, a computer scientist and cryptographer, Norbert Biermann, a pianist and music professor, and Satoshi Tomokiyo, who is a physicist and patents expert, stumbled upon them while searching the national library of France's—Bibliothèque nationale de France's —online archives for enciphered documents.system.
He added,"Together, the letters constitute a voluminous body of new primary material on Mary Stuart—about 50,000 words in total, shedding new light on some of her years of captivity in England. During her time in captivity, Mary communicated with her associates and allies through extensive efforts to recruit messengers and to maintain secrecy.
Using computerized and manual techniques, the study authors decoded the letters, which show the challenges Mary faced maintaining links with the outside world, how the letters were carried and by whom.and captivity conditions, and her negotiations with Queen Elizabeth I for her release, which she believes are not conducted in good faith.
Their detective work revealed verbs and adverbs often in the feminine form, several mentions of captivity, and the name"Walsingham," which gave rise to the suspicion that they might be from Mary, Queen of Scots.
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