The code invented by Anthony Babington uses a different 
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symbol for each letter of the alphabet. All the letters have their 
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own symbol except J, V and W. These letters you have to guess 
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from the rest of the word.
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Babington also invented a selection of special symbols that 
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stood for entire words. For example the word and looked like 
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this     , while      stood for the word from.
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To make the code even harder to crack, he also added symbols 
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known as “nulls” by professional code-crackers. These do not 
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stand for anything, they are there simply to confuse anyone 
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who tries to decipher the symbols and work out what they 
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mean. 
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Finally, Babington had a special symbol he called a “dowbleth”. 
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When you see this symbol, you know that the letter in front of it 
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is doubled – in other words it appears twice. 
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Babington’s code is difficult to crack. But as Thomas Phelippes 
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proved, it can be done!