English: M. S.

HENRICI BOWLES, NUPER DE HAC CIVITATE M. D. A STIRPE ANTIQUA IN AGRO WILTONIENSI ORIUNDI, VIRI IMPRIMIS PROBI AC BENEVOLI, ARTIS SUAE PERITISSMI: QUI CUM IN INDIA OCCIDENTALI, ET IN AUSTRALI AFRICA, EXERCITUI BRITANNICO MEDICI OFFICIO FIDELITER INSERVIISSET, POSTREMO CALPEN FEBRE EXITIALI IBI GRASSANTE PROFICISCENS, CRUCIATU MORBI ACERBISSIMI CONFECTUS, ANIMI TAMEN ET PIETATE INVICTUS, IN NAVE QUA VEHEBATUR SUIS DESIDERATISSIMUS OCCUBUIT, DIE XXVI NOVs. A.D. MDCCCCIV ÆT SUAE XLo. PENELOPE VIDUA MÆRENS P. PENELOPES QUOQ[UE] SUPRAE MEMORATAE QUÆ QUUM MARITUM ADMODUM DILECTUM INSOLABITER PLORASSET OBIIT DIE 15°. AUGUSTI A.D. 1815, ÆT SUAE 50°. Sacred to the memory of Henry Bowles, recently of this city, Doctor of Medicine, descended from an ancient family in the county of Wiltshire, a man of exceptional goodness and kindness, most skilful in his profession: when he had faithfully served in western India and southern Africa in the capacity of medical officer to the British army, finally as he was setting out for Gibraltar when a deadly fever was raging there, weakened by the agony of a most severe illness, yet unconquered in his mind and his devotion, he died on the ship in which he was sailing, most greatly missed by his family, on the 26th November 1804 AD in his fortieth year. Penelope his widow in her grief set up [this memorial].

Also of Penelope mentioned above, who, when she had inconsolably mourned her greatly beloved husband, died on the 15th day of August, 1815 AD in her fiftieth year