Inscription
Here lyeth Thomas Stradlinge, Esquier, sonne to Harry Stradlinge, Knight, and Elisabeth his wyfe (the daughter of William Thomas of Raglan in the Countie of Monmouth, Knight) who dyed at Cardyffe in the Monastery of Preaching Fryers, on the 8 day of Sept. in the yere of our Lord 1480. whose... (after the Dissolution of the sayd Monasterie) Thomas Stradlinge, knight, his nephewe* [see note], caused to be taken up and caried to Saint Donatts and buried in the chauncell of the church there by his sonne the 4 day of June in the yere of our Lord 1537, and afterwards Edward Stradlinge, Knight, his nephewe, sonne of the 5th of that name, translated the said bones out of the chauncell into the chappell there in the yere of our Lord 1573. After whose death his wyfe married with Sir Rees ap Thomas, Knight of the Garter, and dyed at Picton in the county of Pembroke, the 5 day of February, in the yere of our Lord 1533, and was buryed at Carmarthen in the Church of the Monastery of Preachinge Friers with the said Sir Rees ap Thomas her husband.
Gravesite Details
* In Tudor England the term nephew (as used in the inscription transcribed above) usually meant a man's grandson and heir male, who in addition was often his godson, not to be confused with the modern usage of the term.
