Johannis Carew, ex Thomasina, Pronepoti;
Alexandri Carew, ex Joanna Hatch, Abnepoti;
Nato An: Sal: 1555
Pacis Præsul: 1581
Cornub: Vicecom: 1586
In re milit: Regias Vices functo 1586
In Colleg: Antiquariorum elect: 1598
Religioso, Ingenioso Viro, Docto, Eloquenti,
Liberali, Magnanimo, Integerrimo,
Græce, Italice, Germanice, Gallice, Hispanice
ΑΥΤΟΔΙΔΑΚΤΩ
Injuriarum beneficiis placidis retaliatori,
In libris versato, necnon librorum auctori candidissimo,
de Principe et Patria
ob assidua et fidelia officia, semper opt: merito,
eruditorum, pauperum, oppressorum
sublevatori benignissimo,
qui, post 65 annorum bene et feliciter emensum spatium,
inter privatas solitas diurnas ad D: OP: MAX:
supplicationes in Bibliotheca
placidè in Christo obdormivit 6o. Nov: 1620.
Richardus Carew Filius, Patri
opt. merito, officiosi obsequii ergo
cum lachrimis posuit.
Uxorem duxit Julianam Arundell de Trerice 1577
Johannem primogenitum, Anton: et Filias Gertrudam,
Annam, et Annam ad superos premisit.
Filios Richard: Johann: Hobbin:
Georg: Wimond: reliquit superstites.
“The verses following were written by Richard Carew, of Antony, esq. immediately before his death (which happened the sixth of November 1620) as he was at his private prayers in his study (his daily practice) at four in the afternoon; and being found in his pocket, were preserved by his grandson Sir Alexander Carew, according to whose desire they are here set up in memory of him.
Full thirteen fives of years I toyling have o’erpast
And in the fourteenth, weary entered am at last.
While rocks, sands, stormes, and leaks, to take my bark away
By grief, troubles, sorrows, sickness did essay,
And yet arriv’d I am not at the port of death,