Feild, Joseph

Border: HERE LIETH THE BODY OF/THE WORSHIPFULL JOSEPH FEILD TWICE MAIOR OF/THIS TOWN AND MARCHANT ADVE/NTURER WHO DEPARTED IN THE TRUE FAITH OF CHRIST Within border: HERE IS A FEILD SOWNE THAT AT LENGTH MUST SPROUT AND GAINST THE RIP'NING HARVEST TIME BREAKE OUT WHEN TO THAT HUSBAND IT A CROP SHALL YIELD WHO FIRST DID DRESS AND TIL THIS NOW SOWNE FEILD YET ERE THIS FEILD YOW SEE THAT CROP CAN GIVE THE SEED FIRST DYES THAT IT AGAINE MAY LIVE. Later insertion: To the Memory of Jane Thornton, Wife, to Will.^m Thornton, Esq:^r died 8 Sep:^r 1776: aged 76 Also Will:^m Thornton, Esq:^r died 5 June 1782: aged 77.

Sepultus [... ANNO DOM.] XBER 1627 [...]ÆTATIS 63 [SIT DEUS AMICUS] SANCTIS VEL IN SEPULCHRIS, SPES EST [Inscription courtesy of Hull Minster website.]