The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 256: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE RESULT 229 Our meaning can be better conveyed by placing in juxta- position the proper alphabet and the alphabet according to which Lady Bess’s note was written: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Imnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk Thus / served for a, m for b, n for c, and soon. We must likewise observe that instead of the capital letter I, when expressing the first person, astar (*) was used in the hiero- glyphic calligraphy. CONNIE OOO a Ss (CO)