Memorial engraving/tablet placed in the church indicates,
"NEAR UNTO THIS PLACE LIETH THE BODY OF WM BARNES
ESQ SON OF EDWARD BARNES OF SOHAM IN CABRIDGE
SHIRE Esq WHO FIRST MARRIED THOMASINE THE DAUGHTER
OF RICHARD HOUELL OF HILLINGTON Esq BY WHOM
HE HAD 5 DAUGHTERS AFTER WHOSE DEATH HE TOOK
TO WIFE TOMASINE THE DAUGHTER OF OWIN
SHEPARD OF KIRBY IN THIS COUNTY Esq & (REMOV
ING HIS SEAT TO THIS PLACE) HAD BY HER 5 SONES &
8 DAUGHTERS AND DID FOR MANY YEARS WTH GREAT
PRUDENCE AND FIDELITY SERVE HIS KING & CUNTRY
IN THE OFFICE OF JUSTICE ON THE PEACE AT LENGTH
SUCH WAS THE INIQUITY OF THE TYMES THAT LOYALTY
WAS ESTEEMED A CRIME WHEN NOE ALLUREMENTS
OR THREATS FROM HIM WHO USURPED THE HIGHEST
POWER COULD SEDUCVE HIM FROM HIS CONSTANT
ADHERANCE TO HIS ABANDONED PRINCE AND THE
PERSECUTED CHURCH OF ENGLAND HE RETIRED
TO A PRIUAT LIFE DEVOTING HIMSELF WHOLY TO
THE SERVICE OF GOD AND RELIGION & PEACEABLY
DEPARTED HENCE IN THE 77TH YEAR OF HIS
AGE 1657 EXPECTING A JOYFULL
RESURECTION.
To whose Memory Frances Stanton His
second daughter by his first wife out
of her tender Love & dutiful
affection Erected this Monument.
Semper Idem"