I hope my reply is not too late
I believe I decoded the Shugborough insription, and I created a website to discuss there in detail this solution. Unfortunately, the discussion is a
bit long and will not fit in just one single post, which is why I needed to develop a website of my own just for this purpose. If you are interested,
please visit my website at:
shugborough.info...
For adherents of the modern Grail-conspiracy legend, the code is alleged to hold a clue to the location of the Holy Grail. And this I found out to be
true. I know where the Holy Grail is hidden and I can also prove it! In brief, my solution goes like this:
en.wikipedia.org...
O•U•O•S•V•A•V•V
D• M•
I believe the letters of these two lines of code represent the letter combinations that will open two safe boxes. Keyless combination locks were first
introduced at the beginning of the 17th Century. During that period, and in literature, letter code combinations were written in capital letters
followed by a period. In Beaumont and Fletcher's play The Noble Gentleman written before 1615 were the lines:
"A cap case for your linen, and your plate,
with a strange lock that opens with
A.M.E.N."
These two safe boxes make use of the rotary combination type of locks, using a combination dial to open it.
However, unlike the usual rotary combination locks, words , instead of numbers, surround the dials. The words surrounding the first dial are:
"BERGERE PAS DE TENTATION QUE POUSSIN TENIERS GARDENT LE CLEF PAX DCLXXXI PAR LE CROIX ET CE CHEVAL DE DIEU J'ACHEVE CE DAEMON DE GARDIEN A MIDI
POMMES BLEUES"
The words surrounding the second dial are:
"A DAGOBERT II ROI ET A SION EST CE TRESOR ET IL EST LA MORT"
If you are familiar with the mystery associated with the St Mary Magdalene's Church at Rennes-le-Château, then you will immediately recognize that
these two cryptic messages were obtained from parchments which a priest named Berenger Sauniere discovered in 1887 hidden inside the church.
The first safe box will open by positioning (and stopping) the rotary dial on the following words, and on the following letters, alternatingly moving
the dial clockwise and then counter-clockwise:
TENTATI
ON, Q
UE, P
OU
SSIN, CHE
VAL, J’ACHE
VE, J’ACHE
VE.
The final "V" from the word J’ACHEVE, should be selected twice in a row, moving the rotary dial clockwise, and then counter-clockwise. This is the
reason why the final "V" in the Shugborough code does not have a period after it, since the same letter from the same word was chosen for the
combination code:
O•U•O•S•V•A•V•V
The second safe box will open by positioning (and stopping) the rotary dial on the following words, and on the following letters, alternatingly moving
the dial clockwise and then counter-clockwise:
DAGOBERT,
MORT.
I also used the Sauniere's parchments to help me locate the hiding place of the Holy Grail.
If you want to know more details, or have some questions, please let me know and I will answer them one by one.
[edit on 10-11-2009 by Eulalio Eguia]