Nostradamus C3 Q17: Sects motivations arise out of court actions.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015

This verse which contains one of the three anagrams for centuries and here it appears in a sequence which says centuries rules aver amount unite (ruſle -er nuict ſe-ra ve - uMont A - uenti) while other anagrams offer strong evidence for a scene involving actions in a legal court.

Amongst these are adjacent anagrams for bellicose_courts, tribunes, attune_Bernuy's_ manoeuvres and grudgeless_committees,. There are further clusters that imply the battle is about a liquid medication opposed by those of Koranic faith and that this theme parallels slanders that were linked to Jean de Bernuy of Toulouse.

The use of the anagram for pen is compelled by the structure of the line and even though it is very easy for this to be generated by chance its context fits with the sort of cipher Nostradamus uses for members of a sixteenth century sect. It is my belief this is used by Nostradamus as a pseudonym for the person who recorded his less essential letters. (See my paper on Marguerite d' Angouleme and Nostradamus Sect for more).