Help with Latin in Manor Court Roll

[sunnylew]

Could someone please help me with a word in this roll?

From what I can make out, it means something like:

Which said eastern end of the said Cottage the said Nicholas Harris ?and (?quedu) Anne Martin, Widow, took up as heirs after the death of Nicholas Reeve deceased, being coheirs of the said Nicholas at a Court held 5th Apr 33 Ch II (1681).

The full page can be found here:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DR99-K6N?i=848&cat=416138

(It's just by the dot half way down in the margin)

I'm not sure what "Quedu.." means, but think it may be important, as the Anne Martin mentioned here is not part of the Surrender in this transaction.

My guess is that she got the Western end of the cottage, but I don't really know.

Cheers,

Lewis

[horselydown86]

I think this word is qued(a)m, which is more commonly found in lexicons as quaedam.

It's usually used to introduce a person of some, but not primary, significance to the matter:

...the said Nicholas Harris & a certain Anna Martins widow...

Quaedam is fem. nom. sing., which fits grammatically.

[sunnylew]

Thank you Horselydown86.

That makes a bit more sense to me now

[horselydown86]

I just took a look at the next bit.  I think it might be:

                            ...vidua h(ab)uer(unt) et

sursu(m) ceper(unt) sibi & heredib(us) suis jure hereditario...

Roughly translated:

                                 ...widow did hold and

take up to themselves and their heirs by right of inheritance...


DISCLAIMER:  I may have some contracted endings wrong.

CORRECTION:

Typo corrected.

[Bookbox]

My guess is that she got the Western end of the cottage, but I don't really know.

No, she originally held the eastern end ...

Q(ue)m quid(e)m orientalem finem
d(i)c(t)i Cottagij d(i)c(t)us Nich(ola)us Harris & qued(a)m Anna Martins vidua h(ab)uer(unt)

I agree with quedam for Anna Martins, not to be confused with quidem in the line above (an invariable adverb, meaning ‘indeed’, ‘in fact’).

[sunnylew]

Hi Bookbox,

I was actually thinking that Ann may have had the western end as I couldn't see any Surrender from her, so thought maybe they had each taken half of the cottage, Nicholas taking the East and Ann taking the West.

I've since gone back to their Admission, and the whole thing is a bit of a tangle, with Nicholas and Ann inheriting moieties of each side of the cottage as heirs of Nicholas Reeve Snr, who'd initially split the cottage 20 years previous between two of his sisters, then to his own right heirs.

Anyway, I guess that's the fun of research. I'll have to wait in anticipation for what else crops up as I work my way through the records