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From: Steve Killings <>
Subject: Re: Translations offered
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 17:04:30 GMT


In article <>, GEN-MEDIEVAL
<> wrote:
>Thanks for your generous offer. The following is from a tomb in the floor
>
>of Kilpeck Church, Herefordshire, England. I suspect it is in Latin, so it
>may not fall within the framcework of your offer. In case it does, the
>tomb reads as follows:---
>Depositum
>Roberti Pye
>A(next letter could be small r with a tilde over it)

Armiger?--a squire or foot soldier. Literally, a bearer of arms

>Fily ("Y" has two dots over it) Walteri Pye de Mynd

Actually just Filii the last i just falls below the base line like a j.

>in hac parochia (the a has a mark over it, hard to distinguish) Equitis
>Aurati

In this parish of the gilded knight

>qui obyt 30 Jan: (the J look like a capital I) Anno Salums (or Salutis)
>MDCLXXX
>AEtatis 42.

who died 30 Jan. in the salvific year 1680 at age 42.
>So far I can figure out
>Here lies Robert Pye son of Walter Pye of the Mynd.
>I guess he died Jan 30 1680 at age 42. It is the middle line I can't figure
out
>I'd be glad of your help. Thanks. Willette Wood

Thus we have:

The grave (depositum) of Robert Pye, Squire, son of Walter Pye of Mynd who
died in this parish of the gilded knight on 30 January in the salvific year
1680 at age 42.

-Steve Killings
-S.K.

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