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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	earl_n	lord_n	privy_a	1,083	5	10.8625	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40781	Cryptomenysis patefacta, or, The art of secret information disclosed without a key containing, plain and demonstrative rules, for decyphering all manner of secret writing with exact methods, for resolving secret intimations by signs or gestures, or in speech : as also an inquiry into the secret ways of conveying written messages, and the several mysterious proposals for secret information, mentioned by Trithemius, &c. / by J. F.	J. F. (John Falconer)	1685 (1685)	Wing F296; ESTC R6319	86,972	206

Cryptomenysis Patefacta Or the ART OF SECRET INFORMATION Disclosed without a KEY Containing Plain and Demonstrative Rules for Decyphering all Manner of SECRET WRITING With Exact Methods for Resolving Secret Intimations by SIGNS or GESTURES or in SPEECH As also an Inquiry into the Secret ways of CONVEYING Written Messages And the several MYSTERIOUS PROPOSALS for Secret Information mentioned by Trithemius c. By J. F. Et varias usus meditando extunderet Artes. Virg. G. 1. LONDON Printed for Daniel Brown at the black Swan and Bible without Temple-Bar 1685. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES Earl of MIDDLETON Lord Claremont and Fettercairn c. Secretary of State for the Kingdom of England and one of His Majesties most Honorable Privy Council of both Kingdoms My Lord HAving Writ a few Sheets to lay open the Incertainty of Cypher and Decyphering being an Art consecrate to the Occasions of Princes I do Humbly prefix your Lordships name to them The thing is designed for His Majesties Service and that gives His Secretary a good Title to it But my Lord I had other Motives for this my Presumption besides your Eminent Station I mean the more Eminent Adherence of your Noble Family to the Interests of the Crown at a time when he was accounted the only Traytor that dared not commit Treason His late Majesty of ever Blessed Memory and Judgment next to infallible had so much Confidence in the Conduct of your late Father That he gave him the command of that Army in the Hills which then only appeared for his Majesties Interest and might have been the means to restore Him had not Providence suited a Bloodless Restauration to a Gentle Reign tho Rebel's Blood stains not And when His Majesty was Miraculously settled upon the Throne of his Ancestors He first chose the Earl of Middleton out of all His Loyal Subjects in his Ancient Kingdom immediately to Represent Him as His Commissioner the next Representation of Majesty it self a Subject is capable of And His Lordship died bearing part of that Sacred Image as Governor of Tangier This leads me to your Lordship and I have the Authority of Custom to go on for Dedications are generally Panegyricks and Authors either find or make their Patrons singular But I forbear because tho' I should say nothing but Truths within the small reach of my own Knowledg as I might exceed the Belief of Strangers so I must come short of the Expectation of all who know your Lordship And as the Subject treated of for the most part lies out of the common Road so the manner of this Address to your Lordship is Suitable having here so far shun'd the Imputation of Flattery that I designedly shade evident Truths while others Blazon Palpable Formalities And now my Lord though I Dedicate the following Observations to your Lordship I hope none can fansie that the Defects under what Designation soever may reflect upon you I know it is a Critical Age and Criticks have much of the Venom and Nature of Wasps often observed to make Sores where there are none to fix upon But their Ignorance as well as Malice is sufficiently ridiculous that do not lay the Faults of this whether Real or Imaginary entirely at my own Dore and there is Ground enough to throw them on Let all be imputed to want of years or Judgment and let this humble Address be call'd want of Discretion Nay there are plenty of WANTS But I HAVE an intire Inclination to serve my King and Country and if this small Tract at this time do in any Measure Evidence it I HAVE my aim and let it remain upon record to my perpetual Infamy if I do not chearfully and upon all occasions venture the last drop of my Blood in His Majesties Service and according to the Circumstances Act of Suffer for one infinitly BETTER than the GOOD OLD CAUSE And next to the Royal Interest I declare That my great Ambition in particular is to be My Lord Your Lordship 's Most Humble and Most Obedient Servant John Falconer TO THE READER YOV will find amongst the following Observations that by means of Secret Intelligence not only Armies but Kingdoms and Crowns have been lost Which Things had never otherways perhaps been attempted at least not effected And particularly That in the beginning of the late Troubles of ever Cursed Memory the Canting I would say Covenanting People of both Kingdoms studyed a part of this BLACK Art * See Bakers Chron. of the Kings of Engl. p. 492. as their first degree in the MYSTERY of Rebellion which ended not before the Faith's Defender was removed to make way for Religion and the Laws of God and his Vicegerent were overturned to secure property In short untill there was nothing Consequential visible in some Mens actions but only in that of Providing Asses for the Pulpit and sending Horses to Church And certainly he wants the Head or Brains of a Plotter tho he may have the Heart of a Traitor that does not in the first place before hereduce his Intentions against an establish'd Authority into Acts consider That it is absolutely necessary to fix some Method of Private Communication betwixt those that are to be the Instruments in carrying on the Work Now taking this for granted because undenyable he must have a stock of Confidence to the non ultra who will deny a Probability That their Letters may be intercepted And if Intercepted I dare trust the following Sheets to evince That the most sure Cypher practicable in a Current converse may make a Discovery The Rules delivered for Decyphering are not taken upon Trust nor were to be had at the second Hand but are the genuin result of Experience and every new Experiment gave occasion of fresh Observations I hope it will be no unprofitable Digression to give an Account of the occasion of my Inquiries this way which fell out thus A few years ago having had some discourse with a Gentleman concerning the Possibility of Resolving any Writing in Secret Character and the means to perform it I was taken with the Novelty of the Thing and after some few serious thoughts ventured upon the Tryal which succeeding at first I still went further And you have here the account of my Discoveries in this progress The Learned Lord Verulam in his Advancement of Learning reports the Art of Decyphering as WANTING and therefore I thought it worth the while to search after it The Advantages that may probably arise from the knowledge of it I leave to be Collected from the danger of Secret Practices especially in this Juncture And as the late Earl of Argile 's later Designs against the Government discovered in several of his Letters last year determined me to undertake this troublesome Task so the open Rebellion now on foot added new Motives for its speedy Publication according to that of the Poet. Et quoniam variant Morbi variabimus Artes Mille malispecies millesalutis erunt I have no mind to enlarge