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Offline MattD30

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Latin Translation
« on: Monday 05 November 18 01:02 GMT (UK) »
Hi

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but I'm hoping someone here can help me translate the Latin on this memorial inscription.

Thanks in advance.

Matt

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Re: Latin Translation
« Reply #1 on: Monday 05 November 18 02:45 GMT (UK) »
I'm doing the easy bits.
Robert Denn  beloved by the poor
______ _______ left this life

"Ex uxore Thomasinae   ….."

With wife Thomasin 5 sons and 2 daughters
abandoned superstition (?)

"septimo die mensis Martii …."
7th March 1594
aged 45
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Re: Latin Translation
« Reply #2 on: Monday 05 November 18 10:24 GMT (UK) »
Robert Denn, dear to the poor, beloved of the rest, after the short course of his upright and esteemed life was complete, survived by five sons and two daughters from his only wife Thomasina, died an early death, of a burning fever, on the twenty-seventh day of the month of March in the year of the Lord one thousand five hundred and ninety four, being in the forty-fifth year of his age.

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Re: Latin Translation
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 06 November 18 18:38 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for those translations.

Matt