The Devon historian John Prince[2] (d. 1723) recorded a Latin inscription in verse said to have been engraved on the ledger-stone in Crediton Church of one of the early Bishops of Crediton, he suggested possibly that of Bishop "Eadulph died 932" (sic).
Also the first two lines of it were requested by the will dated about 1500 of a member of the Wilmer family of East Leigh in North Devon, to be inscribed on a monumental brass in his own memory.
[3] The inscription is as follows: Sis testis Xpe[a] q(uo)d non jacet (hic) lapis isteCorpus ut ornetur sed spiritus (ut) memoreturQuisquis eris qui transieris sta perlege ploraSum q(uo)d eris fueramq(ue) q(uo)d es pro me p(re)cor oraTranslated literally line by line as: Be a witness, O Christ, that this stone does not lie here To adorn the body, but that it might commemorate the soul.
Whoever thou art who will pass by, stand, read, weep: I am what you will be, I was what you are.
bear me witness, that this stone is not Put here t'adorn a body, that must rot; But keep a name, that it mayn't be forgot.