Inscribed Stone - Translation please

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LeeW
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12 years ago

I came across a stone built in to a quarry wall at Barrel Edge Quarry near Cromford, Derbys.

The inscription is in latin and reads "Nil Desper E", I know Nil means nothing and Desper means despair/forbidden and the E can be a number of things.

Anyone know what it translate to.

Also there is a marked gritstone adjacent

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Peter Burgess
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12 years ago

That's intriguing. I was tempted to suggest it was the boundary stone of property owned by Neil Desper, and the engraver, noticing he had left the E out, added it to the bottom. 😉

Could the E represent someone's initial? and the DESPER is simply an abbreviated DESPERANDUM?

NewStuff
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12 years ago

"Peter Burgess" wrote:
and the DESPER is simply an abbreviated DESPERANDUM?

That's my initial thought, "Nil Desperandum" certainly springs to minds.

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Roy Morton
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12 years ago

It looks as if there should be another word to the right of Nil but without Doubt it's 'Never despair' as for the E ....Eric? :lol:

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"But I''m not Chinese!"
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Minegeo
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12 years ago

It is "Nil Desperandum Est" - literally "we must never despair" It is also the motto from the family crest of the Stewart Family

Coggy
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12 years ago

Is it;

+
BILST
UM
PSHI
SM
ARK

?

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Trewillan
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12 years ago

"Coggy" wrote:
Is it;

+
BILST
UM
PSHI
SM
ARK

?

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Roy Morton
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12 years ago

"Trewillan" wrote:

"Coggy" wrote:
Is it;

+
BILST
UM
PSHI
SM
ARK

?

Anagram - Sink the Bismarck?

I get - "Bluish armpits" with M&K left over.
Sounds like the results of prussicking in too tight a wet suit
:lol:

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"Then you must have forgotten something!"

Coggy
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12 years ago

Inscribed stone found by Leather Bottle Inn, Cobham Kent by S. Pickwick Esq.

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