Hello David, As you know I am leading a group of our history society members in our Wills project here in Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor. We intend to transcribe the wills for Longworth and Hinton Waldrist too. David Vaisey ex Bodleian Librarian is our tutor and has the onerous task of checking our work. So I asked David about this for you and this is what he said. ============= Dear Jill, 'Aedes' in docs like this simply means House or Hall - and there was an Exeter Hall in The Strand at that date (according to a quick Google check.) I suppose it could have been one of the places where the officials of the PCC met to grant probate, but I haven't checked that. It oughtn't to be too difficult to check. Best Christmas wishes, David ============ If these are PCC Wills, would it be a good idea to ask someone in that department at The National Archives? They are really very good at helping. HTH Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Jill -----Original Message----- From: oxfordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:oxfordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mike in Droitwich Sent: 19 December 2011 18:01 To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OXF] A smidgin of Latin Hi David Have you tried using Google's More/Translate Latin to English facility It's interesting. Mike Fisher in Droitwich my family tree http://mjfisher.tribalpages.com David Beames wrote: > Hi all > > As some listers know, I co-ordinate the OFHS Wills Library Project. > > A couple of times lately, ploughing through PCC wills to be added to the Library, I have come across an odd phrase in the official note which is added to the will when it is "proved": > This time, it's with the 1670 will of Thomas Allen of Goring. > > "Probatum ... apud aedes Exonienses scituat' in le Strand in Comitatu' Middlesex..." > > That's "Proved ... at aedes Exonienses situated in the Strand in the County of Middlesex..." > > But what's "aedes Exonienses " ?? > > Well, "aedes" is said to be a temple or a house, and an exonium (or essonium) was in English law an excuse for non-appearance at a Court Baron. > While I love the idea of a Temple of Excuses, it doesn't seem to have much to do with granting Probate, which has to be done at a court of some kind, and in this case was at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. > > Where DID the PCC sit? I'd thought maybe at Lambeth, but was it in the Strand, where the Law Courts are today? > > The tube station nearest to the Law Courts is called Temple Bar, which presumably meant something long before the tube was invented. > I'm wondering whether "aedes Exonienses" was the nearest the scribes could think of (in Latin) to "Temple Bar". > > But please does anyone actually KNOW ? > > DaveB > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Interactive Oxfordshire parish map: http://searches.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/pardata.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Interactive Oxfordshire parish map: http://searches.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/pardata.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message