Plaque Wording:
IOHANNES HICCOCKS Magister in Cancellario
Magister in Cancellario Vir
Integer Vita: in Forensi negotio
Inter severiores Iurisprudenti Litteras
Urbanitate Morum conspicuus
In rerum Civilium Vicissitudine
Civis Bonus, et Inconcussus
In labefacta Valetudine, et acutis doloribus
Sui potens, et Comes in amicos.
Curiam Suam penitus inspectam
Et exagitatas acerrime fraudum Latebras
Lucro apponebat:
Virtutis enim Intemerat su Famam ftabilivit
Temerata Suspicio.
Obijt V. Apr. MDCCXXVI.
tat. LVIII.
{translation} JOHN HICCOCKS, Master in Chancery.A man of blameless life: in court business, highly distinguished for his polished manners amidst the more severe studies of jurisprudence.In the changing fortunes of public affairs, a good and unshaken citizen.In failing health and acute pain, master of himself and a companion to his friends.He counted it as profit that his court was thoroughly examined and the hiding places of fraud were most fiercely rooted out; for a tried suspicion only established the reputation of his untarnished virtue.He died on 5 April 1726, aged 58.
{translation} JOHN HICCOCKS, Master in Chancery.A man of blameless life: in court business, highly distinguished for his polished manners amidst the more severe studies of jurisprudence.In the changing fortunes of public affairs, a good and unshaken citizen.In failing health and acute pain, master of himself and a companion to his friends.He counted it as profit that his court was thoroughly examined and the hiding places of fraud were most fiercely rooted out; for a tried suspicion only established the reputation of his untarnished virtue.He died on 5 April 1726, aged 58.