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Literally translated as:
- "Next to this Monument, which he himself, alive and seeing, in his lifetime brought to light (extraho -traxi, tractum, lit: 'to pull out') in memory of himself and of his (i.e. family), lies Christopher Lethbridge, Esquire, who having been born for 59 years departed unto death on the 28th of June and in the year of Our Lord 1713. To the remains of him, his wife Margaret added her own, the daughter of Philip Bowchier, Gentleman, with an interval of a decade as a widow, followed her husband, that is to say on the third day of November in the year of Our Lord 1723. Having been united by an equal covenant of love, she closed her ending with an equal (number) of years".
(Translated as follows by Rev William Henry Morris Bagley, Vicar of Pilton in his book 'Some Account of Pilton Priory and Church' (1907 )[2]):
- ("Near this Monument, which he himself in his lifetime erected under his own supervision in memory of himself and his family, lies Christopher Lethbridge, Esquire, who died on the 28th June in the year of our Lord 1713, aged 59 years. Mingling her remains with his, Margaret, his wife, the daughter of Philip Bouchier (sic, actual spelling on monument is "Bowchier"), Gentleman, followed her husband after an interval of ten years which she passed in widowhood, namely on the 3rd of November, in the year of Christ 1723. United by an equal bond of love, an equal number of years closed their lives".)
