The Chapman Tablet. 

Of the earliest Jacobean workmanship, this tablet commemorates Edmund Chapman, a typical Elizabethan Puritan who was probably the first of the regular Lecturers, appointed in 1577 or 1578. In 1582 he organised the Dedham Classis.
 
The epitaph is in Latin and may be translated:
Without, in his deep nest beneath the sod
Lies Edmund Chapman, Doctor of Divinity
Would'st hear his life's epitome? With God
None spake more oft, none lived more close than he.
Why to the churchyard his dear bones commit.
Whose voice within the shrine was wont to ring?
In humble hope of resurrection knit, 
The shepherd's mid his lambs lies slumbering.
Died November 7th, 1602, age 64.