M.S.   

Sacred to the Memory

SISTE VIATOR!        

HALT, TRAVELLER!

QUIS HEIC JACET               

HE WHO LIES HERE

Operae pretium tibi scire          

Is worthy of your attention

Nempe GVILIELMUS CASTEILUS Armiger 

To wit WILLIAM CASTLE, knight

Navatis Mercatorii apud REDROFIAM Naupagus           

Shipwright of the Merchant Navy at ROTHERHITHE

In Agro SVRRIENSI Irenarcha           

Justice of the Peace in the County of Surrey

Militiae que ejusdem (Majorem vocant) Instructor

Also Instructor (known as Major) of the Militia there

Et ob fidelem operam in ijs muneribus navatam 

And by reason of his faithful labours in these offices, diligently performed

Serenissimo R Carolo 2do inter paucos charus 

Prized as few others by His Most Serene Highness KING CHARLES II

VIR in Arte sua praestantissimus

A MAN outstanding of his kind

Cujus si Peitatem in Deum in Regem Fidem

Whether for his piety towards God or his Fidelity towards the King

In Pauperes Munificentiam

His Munificence towards the Poor

In Omnes Comitatem spectes

His Courtesy to All,

Parem Illi inter superstites aegre invenies

You will scarcely find his Equal among the living

Plura dicere non opus est

There is nothing more to say

Abi et Imitare

Go and Do Likewise

Obij die 26: lunij 1681 anno …

Deceased 26 June 1681 …

(Aetatis suae 54

in his 54^th year (lit: His summers were 54)

(salutis humanae

AD (lit: in the year of human salvation)