Foundation tablet, Kederminster Almshouses, Langley
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Foundation tablet, Kederminster Almshouses, Langley
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 15 Mar 2011
This stone is built into the wall above the porch of the almshouses, and commemorates the endowment of the houses by Sir John Kederminster, giving the date, 1617. At the top are the arms of the Kederminster family - this part is in much better condition than the rest and must have been renewed. Below is a Latin inscription, badly weathered. I can make out the words 'Manerii de Langly ma . . . et Wyrardisbury' (the old form of 'Wraysbury') and - I think - 'Dachet'. The family name 'Kederminster' appears at the top. Just below it is the word 'Senescalis', which I suspect may be the word for 'almshouse'. (In Stamford, Lincolnshire, various old almshouses go by the name of 'Callis'.) At the very bottom the date is given in two forms, linked by a big curly bracket - 'A Dni 1617', and above it the so-called 'regnal date', 'Regni 15', meaning the 15th year of the reign of James I. I ought to say that this is my own attempt at deciphering the inscription, and I'm hoping that someone with local knowledge may be able to make better sense of the whole thing.
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