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Upper part in Latin roughly translated as 'Your earthly part worn down by age and sickness has fallen, and that has become dust which was dust before. But that which was of heavenly birth shall live forever—the mind, noble, brilliant, sanctified, returned to God. When the awful trumpet shall summon before the throne of the Just Triumphant over death, both [body and soul] shall live in the skies'

Lower part in English 'Here lyeth the bodye of Laurence Hyde late of Westhatch Esquyer, who had issue by Anne his wyfe sixe sonnes and foure daughters, & dyed the vij th day of Iune, in the yeare of the incarnation of our lord god. 1590’