Word: cypher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Darnley was with her when their baby (James VI) was born; thenceforth he was politically a cypher. Scottish coins bearing their joint effigy were recalled. Feigning reconciliation she tempted him from the security of his father's castle and a crowd of his own retainers. The poor fool was strangled at Kirk-o'-Field by Rizzio's murderers, whom he had betrayed and Mary had pardoned...
...ever used by the ex-French Emperor, a silver goblet inscribed with the Imperial arms; a silver knife, fork and spoon also engraved with the Imperial arms; a shirt, handkerchiefs, pair of white breeches, white pique waistcoats; Church vestments from the Longwood Chapel, some marked with the Imperial cypher; last, the most gruesome relic, a mummified tendon taken from the ex-Emperor's body during the postmortem...