Like all official documents of the period, this one is in Latin. It is a text recording the family history of five generations of serfs, and it is included because it seems likely to be a very good match for a description of Stentiford life in the13th, 14th and early 15th centuries.

This was the time when, most likely, the family changed from being held in serfdom by the Lord Abbot of Buckland Abbey (similar to Aylmer's position) to becoming freedmen with enough substance to lease and work their own land. It took a long time - five generations in Aylmer's case or at least 125 years - but his family achieved it and so, in all probability, did the Stentifords.

This text comes from a really useful booklet called "Latin for Family Historians" by Michael Gandy and is reproduced here with his permission and that of the publishers, the Federation of Family History Societies who have an extensive list of helpful publications.