The Tyrells were powerful gentry elite in Essex, second only to the Coggleshalls. Edmund Tyrell of the Beeches Manor, Rawreth, was a Justice of the Peace who zealously prosecuted heretics of the Reformed Church and watched them burn at the stake. The inscription reads - Here under lyeth ye bodie of Edmund Tyrell late of Beaches and Ramesdon Barringtons Esquier who died at Whitstable in Kent ye VIII day November in the Year of o' Lord 1576 God graunte him a blessed resurrection