Inscription
Near this place lyes interred Charles Howard, earl oft Carlisle, viseount Morpeth, baron. Dacres of Gilsland, lord lieutenant of Cumberland and Westmorland, vice-admiral of the coasts of Northumberland, Cumberland, bisihoprick of Durham, town and county of New- castle and maritime parts adjacent , governor of Jamaica, privy councellour to king Charles the second , and his embassador extraordinary to the Czar of Muscovy, and the kings of Sweden and Denmark in the years 1663 and 1664, whose effigies is placed at the top of this monument. He was not more distinguished by the nobility and antiquity of his family, than he was by the sweetness and affability of a natural charming temper , which, being improved by the peculiar ornaments of solid greatness, courage, justice, generosity , and a public spirit, made him a great blessing, to the age and nation wherein he lived. In business, he was sagacious and diligent , in war circumspect , steady and intrepid in council wife and penetrating , and though this may secure him a place in the annals of fame, yet the filial piety of a daughter may be allowed to dedicate this monumental pillar to his memory. Obiit 24. Feb. 1684. aetatis 56.
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