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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with a Latin will from 1520, please
« on: Tuesday 04 November 25 12:57 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Horselydown86 fo clarifying those words, I am grateful for your assistance.

Thank you too, Vance Mead for the link you provided.  I had found excerpts in Crisp's Somerset Wills but there were very obvious translation errors.  I had not come across the book of Medieval Wills for those years so you have also helped me build my resources.


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help with a Latin will from 1520, please
« on: Tuesday 04 November 25 07:39 GMT (UK)  »
This will, in Latin, is from 1520.  I can understand a bit but I am not certain about some words, which I have underlined.  Also, I would appreciate a translation from where marked X, to the end.

I don't need the probate part translated but have included it because I thought perhaps would help to determine if Jacob (?James) is the grandson or the nephew.

Thank you

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with some words, please
« on: Friday 17 October 25 10:39 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Horsleydown86 and Vance Mead. Your assistance is appreciated and having those words has helped so much. 
The testator was Robert Aubrey and the images have been taken from the copy on TNA site -  those on Ancestry were even harder to read.
Thanks again

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help with some words, please
« on: Friday 17 October 25 01:46 BST (UK)  »
I have a PCC transcript of will from 1488 which has some words I'm unsure about - see underlined words in attached images.

Any assistance in deciphering these words would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: What is definition of fyding (fynde)?
« on: Sunday 28 September 25 07:38 BST (UK)  »
Thank you everyone for your kind assistance.  Vance Mead the definition in the Middle English Dictionary is spot on!  What a useful resource; I'll certainly save the link.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / What is definition of fyding (fynde)?
« on: Sunday 28 September 25 04:40 BST (UK)  »
The following is from late 1500s.

"My will is further that yf my saied wife will take uppon her the fynding and bringinge up of my two youngest daughters Grace and Dorothie until they be married: then my will is that my saied wife shall have for their exhibition the use and occupacon pasturinge and feeding of one hundred of sheepe uppon ... "

In this context, I wonder if fynding means providing food and lodging but I would like to be more certain.  My web searches for an actual definition come up blank so I hope someone can help.

Thank you

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: what could this word mean in today's English
« on: Thursday 11 September 25 04:14 BST (UK)  »
Thank you all for your assistance.  Although the annuity was given for the sons' 'natural lives', it's clear the intention was that it would not be paid for more than 48 years.

horselydown86 your suggestion certainly makes sense when looked at in relation to how long the sons' natural lives might be, and on closer examination of the handwriting, the letters are a bit ambiguous so the 't' & 'u' might be 'l' & 'v' to make overlyve not overtyue!

Truly appreciated

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / what could this word mean in today's English
« on: Wednesday 10 September 25 09:48 BST (UK)  »
I have come across the word "overtyue"(or overtiue) in a will from 1589 - Wiltshire, and I am curious if it was a real, but now obsolete, word.  A google search only throws up overture but it's not that.

For context, the testator leaves an annuity for the term of the natural lives of two sons with instructions for the funds to come from the profits of some leased property.  However, the next sentence says, "So that my saied sonnes William and John overtyue not the tearme of ffortie and eighte yeres next after the date of this my laste will and testamente"

I wonder if it means that the annuity is not to be paid for more than 48 years from the date of the will, presumably because that was when the lease on the property was to expire.  As such, would  'exceed' or 'dominate' possibly be an option?

Thanks

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1500s - help with a some words
« on: Thursday 07 August 25 14:08 BST (UK)  »
Thank you very much Bookbox.

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