English: Inscriptions on exterior of the Lane Chapel, south aisle of St Andrew's Church, Cullompton, Devon. The inscription is sculpted low-down on the outside wall of the aisle, running round all three sides of the building, with each word cut on detached stones. Facsimilie drawing 1847 published in: Delagarde, Philip Chilwell, An Account of the Church of St Andrew, Cullompton, published in Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society, Volume 3, Exeter, 1846-9, p.57[1]. Transcription with modern spelling:

"In honor of God and his blessed Mother Mary, remember the soule of John Lane with a Pater Noster and Ave Mary and the soule of Thomasine his wife, to have in memory all other their children and friends of your own charity which were founders of this chapple, and here lie in sepulture, the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and six and twenty. God of his grace on both their soules to have mercy, and finally bring them to eternal glory. Amen for charity."

Due to a misreading of the inscription on the exterior of his Chapel he was said by Polwhele (1793) to have occupied the office of Wapentake Custos,^[1] Lanarius,^[2][3] (translated as "Constable of the Hundred, wool merchant"). However no historical evidence supports the existence of such an office and the inscription was later correctly re-interpreted by Smirke (1847) as "with a Pater Noster and Ave Mary".^[4]