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Burial: Heinrich Kersten of Linse, a miller, killed on the road from Bodenwerder, Halle, 12 July 1595
Transcript and translation
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Transcription (German)
Heinrich Kersten von Linse seines Handwerks ein Moller, ein frommer ehrlicher junger Mann, welcher von seinen Gesellen/Brüdern [Kersten?] … auf dem Wege zwischen Bodenwerder und Linse, den 13 Junii zu Nacht … geschlagen und tödlich verwundet, entschlief nach vier Wochen den 11 Julii Freitag vor Margarethen, bestattet 12 Julii Sonnabend. [Margin:] Der Täter ist … flüchtig … Ao 1598 am heiligen Ostertag … gefangen … Ao 1599 bekommt Kersten wieder … gestorben acht Wochen nach der Haftzeit Ao 99.
Translation (English)
Heinrich Kersten of Linse, a miller by trade, a pious honest young man, who was beaten and mortally wounded by his journeymen/brothers [Kersten?] on the road between Bodenwerder and Linse on the night of 13 June; he fell asleep after four weeks, on 11 July, the Friday before St Margaret, and was buried on Saturday 12 July. [Margin:] The perpetrator … fled … taken at Easter 1598 … in 1599 Kersten again … died eight weeks after the imprisonment, 1599.
Notes
The margin notes are not legible in full at screen size. No mill is named. See the 1599 burial of a Kersten miller (D935).
Addendum: F447 (1).
Grade: Stated (draft read; the margin possible).
*Conventions: [ ] editorial addition; [?] uncertain reading; [..] or […] illegible or outside the crop; dates as the register gives them (Julian before 1700).