HEARE LYETHE BVRYED NEER TO THIS MONVENT / IOHN COWPER LATE SERIEANT (serjeant) AT LAWE DECEASED / WHOE WAS BORNE AT HORLYE (Horley) IN YE COVNTY OF / SVRREY IN AO DO 1539 & AT HIS AGE OF 26 / YEARS TOKE TO WIEFE IVLYAN THE DAVGH:/TER OF CVTHBERT BLACKDENN ESQVIOR / AND THEN BEGAN TO STVDDY THE COMON LAWE IN THE INNER TEMPLE AND THER / CONTINVED 24 YEARES WHICH TIME HE SPENT IN / THIS MANNER 5 YEARES VNDER THE BARR // 8 YEARS AT THE BARR AND (??) YEARS / AT THE BENCHE AND THEN WAS CALLED / TO BE SERIEANT AT THE LAWE IN VCH / DEGREE HE CONTINVED ONE YEARE / AND A HAVLFFE AND THEN ENDED THIS / LIEFE THE 15 DAYE OF MARCHE (??) 1599 / BEINGE THEN THE AGE OF 51 YEARS.