To God the Best and Greatest: Sacred. John Davys of knightly rank, having formerly discharged with prudence the highest duties of King's Attorney General in the realm of Ireland: thence having been recalled to his own country, secured the first place among the servants of his lord the King, at the Law. After various services nobly rendered in each office, being now nominated to more distinguished (appointments) he suddenly frustrated the hope of his friends but fulfilled his own--being called away from human honours to celestial glory, in the year of his age 57. A man for accomplished genius, for uncommon eloquence, for language whether free or bound in verse, Most happy. Judicial sternness with elegance of manners and more pleasant learning he tempered. An uncorrupt Judge, a faithful Patron For love of free-born piety and contempt of fretting superstition alike remarkable. He looked down from on high on the obstinate narrowness of plebeian souls in the matter of religion, pity softening his disdain. Himself magnanimously just, religious, free, and moved by heaven, Had for wife the Lady Eleanor of the Right Honble. Earl of Castlehaven, Baron Audley, daughter: His only surviving offspring by her he left as heiress, Lucy, to the most illustrious Ferdinand Baron Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, married. He spent his last day the 8th December In the year of our Lord 1626. With us leaving an example: here for the resurrection of the Just, he waits. * * * * *