What is all this Latin about?

[MattD30]

Hi

I recently obtained a copy of the 1633 Will of Richard Constants of Reculver and have been getting on with it ok until I reached the Probate section.

The probate section seems longer than usual and then following it there appear to be about four pages of Latin which I am struggling to work out. I can see various names in this section and I'm guessing it has something to do with the validity or Probate of the Will or perhaps something in it was being disputed.

Is anyone able to tell me what this might have been about?

I am having problems attaching images tonight but will try to post these tomorrow.

If anyone wants to see the full text of the Latin section pm me and I can email it to you.

Thanks for any help or ideas

Matt

[Billyblue]

Maybe your file is too big, Matt?
Remember it has to be under 500kb (I think)

Dawn M

[MattD30]

Maybe your file is too big, Matt?
Remember it has to be under 500kb (I think)

Dawn M

Hi

Yes I think that's the case with this image. Unfortunately my laptop froze mid way through posting it and I didn't have time to retry. The probate section is quite long and I wanted to avoid posting it in two halves however I will try this and see if that works.

Matt

[MattD30]

File size was too big for the original post unfortunately so I've cropped the images down into sections.

These first three images all form the Probate section of the Will and I'll post them in order. I'll post  the Latin bit afterwards, although as this is longer I will only post a small section to start with.

Here is the first part.

Thanks for any ideas on this.

Matt

[MattD30]

Sections 2 which continues on from part 1.

Matt

[MattD30]

Here's the first piece of the long Latin section.

Matt

[MattD30]

and here is the following section.

[MattD30]

section 3

[MattD30]

section 4