Decipher & Translate Please (Old French Or Latin?)

[Aulus]

septingentisimi sexti ego [?prefacscriptus?]


seven hundred and six, I [possibly an office which he held]

Could it say ego praescriptus?  That would mean I aforesaid (well, literally, afore-written)

Or what about infra scriptus (written below)?

[Aulus]

natum [??] die circa [??][??]

could it be meant to say natum eodem die ('born on the same day')?

I can't think of a number that fits the various squiggles! 

and then circa ortum which could mean around the place of birth.  Though I can't work out the last (four?) letters of that line sohb??

[Roger in Sussex]

Aulus,

I wondered if it was praescriptus, but it seemed a bit too long - too many letters. I'm not even sure if it is one or two words.

I think your eodem die is very likely - have just realised that the end of that line could be circa ortum solis (around sunrise)

So that line might be

natum eodem die circa ortum solis - born the same day around sunrise

does that make sense to you?

Roger

[Aulus]

Yes, solis.  And the ascender on the final s isn't an ascender, but a mark on the paper. 

I'm becoming more convinced it's infra scriptus


Edit.  The final s of solis is the same as the final s of afferentis, so the ascender is not a mark on the paper, but one of the ways the writer forms a final s.

[Roger in Sussex]

Yes, I agree infra now, it was the initial j which foxed me!

Roger

[stonechat]

I have looked at a feet of fines which was also 1706 and in latin - I thnk they'd been in latin for some time

I agree latin makes one think of Catholic records. It could also be someone old and from an old school was doing the writing.

I have managed to understand enough Latin to understand most docs, but I am doubtless missing a lot of fine detail. A lot of these people probably did not have good latin, and I have seen many english words such as spinster in the middle of latin docs - this is an interesting thread

[Roger in Sussex]

There was a point in  the eighteenth century - 1725 comes to mind, but I can't find a reference to check - after which all court records, including manor courts, had to be recorded in English. I remember seeing a picture in a book on handwriting where the change occurred on a particular page.

[Redroger]

No scholar, I failed Latin badly, 54 years ago! But could the office that he held have been prefect, or did they only come into being after the revolution?

[Roger in Sussex]

 But could the office that he held have been prefect, or did they only come into being after the revolution?

Aulus has convinced me that it is two words, jnfra (for infra) scriptus, and reads "I below written...", so I have abandoned my early idea about it being an office.

The great thing about this board is that one can bounce ideas on each other and usually come to an answer that makes sense.

I don't know about France, but Prefect was an office in Roman times so perhaps they revived it after the revolution?