In message <6.1.1.1.0.20040613194134.01b18b30@pop.bloor.phub.net.cable.r ogers.com>, Vivien Martin <vivien@nitram.ca> writes >Hi all >I need some help please with Latin translation for a passage taken from >"Retours of Services for Heirs". My only Latin I remember from singing in >church and 10th grade Latin which I failed. I need all the help you can give. > >"Magister, Ludovicus Grant de Dalvey, heres masculus Domini Jacobi Grant de >Dalvey, militis baroniti, fratris germani - interris de Dalvey >comprehendentibus Maines de Dalvay et maneriei locum ejusdum; villas et >terras de Knockandorne, Kairnglass, Sheniwell, 2 Altevinas, Aird, Ailen, >Shennach, Achieniaeranach, Achamone; villa et terris de Milnetone de >Dalvey, com monendino de Dalvey et terris monendinariis; salmonum aliisque, >piscationibus stipra aquam de Spey ad easdem terras spectantibus infra >baronium de Strathspey et regulitatem de Spynie > >My attempt as follows: >.Master Ludovic Grant -[or Ludovic Grant, Master of Dalvey,] heir male of Sir James Grant of Dalvey, Knight and baronet, his full brother (=both parents same) [heir] in the lands of Dalvey including the >Maines of Dalvey and the place [big house] of the same manor, the towns and lands of >Knockandorne, Kairnglass, Sheniwell, Aird, Ailen, Shennach, >Achieniaeranach, Achamone; the house and land of Milnetown of Dalvey, with >eels [?if really molendino, mill] of Dalvey and the [mill] land......, salmon.and other fisheries [stipra probably supra=above] the water >of Spey to the same lands that can be seen below the barony of Strathspey and the lordship of Spynie. -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society