between ten crosses pattee argent), is the following Latin inscription: 'Domini : Rich : Berkelaei : Militis : in : suam : mortem : carmen : monitorium : Cum genus et nomen capiunt cognoscere cuncti mentem nemo : si quis qui sim inquirere pergat nescio responde : verum hunc se nosse moneto'' Translated into English: “...Of the lord Richard de Berkeley, knight, in his death, a song of those admonishing: Though all men may desire to know my name and race, yet no man may desire to know my mind. If any one should take up the enquiry as to who I am, reply I know not, but let that man be advised to know himself” His epitaph follows: Whom youth could not corrupt, nor change of dayes Add anything but years, he, full of them As they of knowledge, what need this stone prayse Whose epitaph is writt in the heartes of men That did this world and her child Fame despise His soule w.th (with) God, loe here his coffin lyes Obiit : Aprilis : xxvi : Ano. Domini : 1604 Aetatis suae 71 (Trans.: "He died the 26th of April in the year of Our Lord 1604, 71 (years) of age") Sources Barker, W.R. St Mark's or The Mayor's Chapel, Bristol, Formerly called the Church of the Gaunts. Bristol, 1892, pp. 146–8 Evans, Rev. D.R., A History of Stoke Gifford, 1958. Extracts reproduced in: Kerton, Adrian (ed.), History of Stoke Gifford, 2005 (www.sbarch.org.uk) Smyth, John, The Lives of the Berkeleys, Lords of the Honour, Castle and Manor of Berkeley, in the County of Gloucester, from 1066 to 1618. First published 1618. (Main source of Barker, W.R.) Maclean, Sir John (ed.), The Visitation of the County of Gloucester Taken in the Year 1623 by Henry Chitty and John Phillipot, London, 1885, pp. 8–9, "Barkley" (contains errors) Berkeley genealogy website References 1531 births 1604 deaths People from South Gloucestershire District English MPs 1604–1611 High Sheriffs of Gloucestershire Lieutenants of the Tower of London Richard 16th-century English people