Can anybody read Latin (General)

by probsy4 @, Bedford, Monday, May 04, 2009, 12:37 (5755 days ago)

This is the inscription of the monument dedicated to Sir George Probert written in Latin!

Could somebody tell me what it says?

Monument of Sir George Probert.
The parish church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a small Gothic structure of slints and stone, consisting of a nave and chancel. At the west end is a small wooden tower, with a shingled turret. On the east wall of the chancel is a brass plate, in memory of Isaiah Bures (fn. 30) , M. A. of Baliol College, Oxford, vicar of Northall, who died in 1610, and the monument of Sir George Probert (fn. 31) , with the following inscription: "Memoriæ facrum D. Georgii Probert Militis qui perantiquæ familiæ de Pantglase in agro Monumethensi tum rerum tum virtutum præclarus, hæres, prorumpente nupero bello civili, ante retró omnia funestissimo, sub piissimi regis Caroli Primi signis strenue militabat ab eoque ad equestrem ordinem circa annum 1644 evocatus est. Demum a perduellibus per tria regna truculentissimé grassantibus multa diraque per 12 annos intemeratâ side infractoque animo perpessus, reduce augustissimo Carolo Secundo, Monmothiæ Burgensis remuneratus; toti honoratissimæ interioris domus Parliamenti senatui desideratissimus; patriæ, propinquis & universim singulis (quibus innotuit qu´m plurimis) charissimus; Londini febre correptus, constitutâ, re familiari, sumpto S. Synaxeos viatico & pace eeclesiæ acceptâ, integris ad extremum spiritum sensibus, piam efflavit animam Jan. 6. Anno Ætatis 60mo Salutis 1676–7. Ejus quod reliquum est propter summum amorem erga Gulielmum Brabourn, S.S. T.D. hujus loci vicarium (qui ei 40 circiter annorum continuâ inviolatâque amicitiâ mœrens et uti par est gratus se profitetur astrictum) in hâc ecclesiâ inhumatum supremis votis reliquit; ubi jacet coram altare sub lapide Gyffordiano. Mœstissima conjux Magdalena inclytissimi D. Carol. Williams de castro vocato Langybby in Com. Monmouth (a rebellibus in defectione nuperâ demolito) eq. aur. filia devotionis necnon gratitudinis ergo posuit."

From: 'Northall (Northolt)', The Environs of London: volume 3: County of Middlesex (1795), pp. 306-319. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45440 Date accessed: 04 May 2009.


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