If you look at the 3 words on the left hand side:
Hart
et
Weekes
The capital letters of both their names are very ‘flowery’, but classic script from this time.
The letter ‘e’ was written in reverse to how we write it now - you can see them in ’et’. and then two together after the fancy ‘W’, and also after the curly ‘k’ in Weekes.
The line across the top is the date - ‘Quinto die mensis Julij Anno dim 1625’
I am no Latin scholar (but have seen a lot looking at old registers etc, so picked up a bit thanks to help on here), but I’d read that as 5th day the month of July Year of our Lord 1625’
No doubt somebody will be along who IS a Latin scholar, and will be able to translate it - it is by no means illegible.
I can see ‘Edwardi Harte gent de Ringmer’ on the second line - from the 3rd word on to the end of the line.
If you go down to the 8th line, it says ‘inter eum (I think) et Rachell Weekes de Haustmanden’ - which is ‘between him and Rachell Weekes of Haustmanden’.
It will be interesting to see what all the rest of it says!
Wouldn’t hold out too much hope for any more genealogical information though.
