The pastor's note on the French, Sleidinge baptism register, end of August 1667

State Archives of Belgium (Rijksarchief), AGATHA: Sleidinge, Sint-Joris, baptisms 1661-1682, page 109. · see it in the archive

Transcription

Hoc tempore devastata est haec patria nostra per exercitum Francorum, unde notitia singulis [?] adaequata esse non potuit parvulis hinc inde baptizatis.

Translation

At this time this our country was laid waste by the army of the French, so that no proper record could be kept of the little ones baptised here and there.