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English: Statues of Nicholas Wadham and his wife Dorothy Petre at their foundation, Wadham College, Oxford, with the arms of Wadham impaling Petre between. Nicholas holds in his hand a building as an offering. On the stone tablet between the two figures is the following latin inscription:

"Hospes quam vides domum musis nuncupatem ponendam mandabat Nicholaus Wadham Somersetensis armiger. Verum ille fato preareptus Dorotheae conjugi perficiendam legabat illa incunctanter perfecit magnificeque sumtibus suis auxit. Tu summe pater adsis propitius tuoque muneri addas quaesumus perpetuitatem"

Above is inscribed within arches: "Anno Dom. 1613 Apr 20" and "Sub auspiciis IC Jacobi"

Which may be translated as:

"Stranger the Home of the Muse which you see, Nicholas Wadham of Somerset, Esquire, ordered the building of as an oral declaration (of his last will). Indeed he having been snatched away by fate he bequeathed to his wife Dorothy the completion, she without delay finished it and magnificently added her own expenditure. O You Highest Father be present favourably inclined and to you (to present and to you give) we seek perpetuity")

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