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Above is inscribed within arches: "Anno Dom. 1613 Apr 20" and "Sub auspiciis IC Jacobi"
Which may be translated as:
"Stranger the Home of the Muse which you see, Nicholas Wadham of Somerset, Esquire, ordered the building of as an oral declaration (of his last will). Indeed he having been snatched away by fate he bequeathed to his wife Dorothy the completion, she without delay finished it and magnificently added her own expenditure. O You Highest Father be present favourably inclined and to you (to present and to you give) we seek perpetuity")