Old Pros

A member of the fourth order of the British peerage, between an earl and a baron. The son or younger brother of a count.   ...

Someone who governs or keeps a castle. "They looked at him a hard bunch. Of Mrs Pulteney-Banks he could see little but a cocoon of sh...

A literate, dexterous, dogged writer and copyist. "The scribe to whom a poor-quality parchment had been given was in for a very disa...

A codebreaker.  "The philosopher of the Arabs," al-Kindi, wrote a treatise entitled A Manuscript on Deciphering Cryptographic Me...

Cryptographers specialize in the extremely ancient art of writing coded messages. In the 5th century B.C., Herodotus recounted an "in...

A street peddler offering oranges in the open air. An orange monger.  “The riot of images, the virulent volubility of l...

Someone with a key to the coffers.  A treasurer.   An officer in the royal household in England, under the controller.  ...