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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LucyLocket, post: 9558913, member: 13859&quot;]Hope you don&#039;t mind me wading in here as I know nothing about this subject - but I do love a puzzle! I&#039;ve been doing a bit of digging around and have a slightly different slant on the wording.</p><p>I may be way off track but thought I&#039;d run it past you anyway!</p><p><br /></p><p>By breaking the letters up in a different way I have come up with this format:</p><p><br /></p><p>DEL / SARGENTO / MAYOR / Dn / JOAN / ESCUDRO / Y / ARN / FDO</p><p><br /></p><p>Spelling was not standardised in English and it was probably much the same in Spanish at the time the cannon was made.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder if JOAN could actually mean Juan? Although there is an &quot;e&quot; missing from the inscription the next word could be a form of ESCUDERO which is a surname but also means squire or esquire, also originally a shield bearer. The &quot;Y&quot; may simply be the Spanish word for &quot;and&quot;.</p><p>An archaic Spanish word for straps that secured armour in place is &quot;arnés&quot; - like the English word harness - so the ARN at the end could possibly be an abbreviation meaning &quot;armourer&quot;.</p><p>FDO (abbreviation of firmado) means &quot;signed&quot; or &quot;made&quot; as Debora has already said.</p><p>Just my take on it for what it&#039;s worth![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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