Fascinating pictures Rog, you're very lucky. And this isn't 'work', this is fun!
Do you think the word next to ‘Jacobi’ might possibly be ‘anno’? Then we might have a phrase going ‘..Jacobi anno Regno Angliae sexto Apud (?)ytlington’ - ‘in the sixth year of the reign of James of England at (?)ytlington’. At any rate, I think that’s what the Latin might mean.
Since James was James VI of Scotland from being a baby, I have seen documents that carefully describe him as ‘of Scotland the sixth and of England the first’: but I can’t see any word that looks like ‘Scotiae’ so I think that’s not what’s being referred to here. Perhaps they’re dating some significant legal event connected with the payment of 10 pounds lawful money and specifying it happened in 1609 - the sixth year of the reign of King James . And since he was ruling in Scotland a lot earlier, they had to say ‘in the sixth year of the reign of James of England’ to avoid confusion.
By the way, I just googled place names and there’s a Shillington, Beds about 10 kms. from Maulden . It seems in the 17th and 18th centuries the name was spelled... ‘Shytlington’. Then in the 19th century the inhabitants very naturally changed it.
