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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 ΓÇ£nullsΓÇ¥ 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 ΓÇ£dowblethΓÇ¥.
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When you see this symbol, you know that the letter in front of it
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is doubled ΓÇô in other words it appears twice.
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BabingtonΓÇÖs code is difficult to crack. But as Thomas Phelippes
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proved, it can be done!