The inscription under the knight reads: Here liethe bvryed the boddye of Thomas Earle, the sone of Waltar Earle, whoe departed from this lyff the 16 daye of Marche in the yeare of ovr Lorde God 1597.
The inscription under the children reads: His sones were 4, his daughters 2, of whome John, Thomas and Dorithe are desecid, and remayneth nowe levynge Waltar, Christopher, and Elizabethe