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The three putti on top of the monument each have an inscription the first two: Labor, Immortalitum. Inscription Qui Generisque sui fuerat gentisque togatae Gloria Keylweii funera flenda vides. Contulerant in eum varie sua munera Iusticiae comites suada Minerva fides. Dum latet in temple vir non incautus asulo. Invidia carvit, crevit ac ille magis. Tutius occult crescit sic arbor in aevo nittitur et tandem, viribus ipsa suis. Sed neque sic potuit, venienti obsistere morti. (sed bene) dum in Christo molliter ossa cubent. Dotibus heu nimium mors O inimica beatis; Horrida sic omnes; ad tua lustra trahis.
My transliteration makes for an imperfect translation, but: Who from his genteel birth made himself a civic dignitary, you see (before you) the late lamented glorious son of the Kelways. He brought together in himself various ways of persuading the Courts of Jurisprudence to be faithful to Minerva (^the Spirit of Justice). As long as a man stays in the temple of justice, he is not unwarily secluded. (^But) The envy, covetousness, grows and that more and more. Safely hidden he increases as a tree in its lifetime and finally is polished, on his own strength. But even then he could not, that will come, (^what comes to us all) oppose death. (But on the good side), While with Christ ones bones lie softly. With too great talent alas comes Death. Oh, unkind blessing; I shiver like everyone; to you my tears are drawn. (Photo Sept 2014).