Translation Please

[Chimp]

I think it's Latin but not sure

 

[Londoner]

omnes eodem cogimur, omnium

versatur urna serius ocius

sors exitura et nos in aeternum

exilium inpositura cumbae.

~Horace

We are all herded to the same place, the universal

urn is turned quickly and gravely, casting out lots,

and we will be placed on board

a boat to eternal exile.

 

[Londoner]

Not from my brain, googled the first line and the translation came up! Verse 7 of ode2,3

 

[Chimp]

Thank you Londoner. Probably just the Curates way of filling in a blank year in marriages then.

 

[AnnB]

Not from my brain, googled the first line and the translation came up! Verse 7 of ode2,3

And there was me thinking we had a Latin scholar in our midst

 

[Londoner]

Thank you Londoner. Probably just the Curates way of filling in a blank year in marriages then.

Maybe he was preparing for a funeral!

 

[Londoner]

And there was me thinking we had a Latin scholar in our midst

Latin was the only thing I failed at O level!

 

[Sis]

Omnes eodem cogimur
All the same undeniably

Had to leave it there 'tis bedtime and I can't make out some of the words. No, I dont know Latin, I was just using the google translator

Whilst taking forever I see that 'tis done and so much for the way I did it - totally wrong

 

[Chimp]

OK, here is what is written at the top of the very first book of Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths for my local church. The book starts around 1600. It might be a list of BMD,s but I can't make out what it says.

I think I can make out the word 'December'

 

[Londoner]

That's a challenge. I think toward the end it says the year of our Lord God 1601. The ones look like lowercase i

 

[Sis]

Over to you Londoner!! Good night all!

 

[mugwortismy cat]

OK, here is my poor attempt, a while since I've tried to read this age of document.

The returns(?) of the weddings &~
(this word must be christenings or baptisms) and burials ? ? to be ?
in the only Register Booke ? ?
Reyning(?) ? ? daye of
December in the year of our Lord god
1599 untill the yeare of our Lord God
1601 ? be since(?) forward ? in this
booke ? expressed(?)

 

[AnnB]

The returns of all the weddings & Christenings and burials ?? to be ?
in the only Register Booke of ??
beginning at the xx ? day of
December in the yeare of our Lord god
1599 until the yeare of our Lorde god
1601 and be ? forward into this
booke ? expressed

In other words Muggy got there before me and we both came to similar conclusions

 

[Chimp]

You have all done excellently, it looked like shorthand to me, all sqiggles, dots and lines. I go cross eyed trying to read it.

 

[arthurk]

I think the 3rd line is:
in the ould Register booke of Knighton

and at the end, after 1601:
and soe furth forward as in this booke is expressed

 

[Chimp]

Thank you Arthur.

 

[arthurk]

And a bit more... Second word looks to me like "names".

End of 2nd line, after "burialls":
[?] are to be found

Not sure of the [?] - looks a bit like "whe", possibly for "who"?

And I'm not quite sure what the whole thing is getting at.

 

[Chimp]

I think the long shot is, this was the first book of it's kind to be set up for Knighton church. Later on in the series there follows books 2, 3 etc. I have been going through the books to see who the Vicars, Curates and Perpetual Curates were.

 

[Ma-dotcom]

The people of Knighton must be agog to see what you come up with next Chimp.

 

[gillyflower]

I am so impressed with the translations. I did Latin at school - but never progressed that far! Well Done