In her article about aristocratic women and the care of the dead, 1450-1550, Harris provides a translation (corrected below) of the transcription by Bridges, [1]
Pray for the souls of Richard Knightley and Joan his wife which Richard died the 8th day of the month of December in the year of our lord 1534 and which Joan died the . . . day of the month of . . . in the year of our lord 15__.
Bidges states, "On the south side of this tomb are the portraitures of eight children, with their names under them:[2]
Richard—Thomas—Edmund—John—John— . . . . —Valentine—Nicholas.
Briges then transcribes an inscription "In the high window:" [3]
Orate pro bono statu Ricardi Knyghtley militis & Johanne uxoris ejus filie & heredis Henrici Skenerdon & Margerie uxoris ejus, que quidem Margeria fuit soror & heres Thome Harwedon Armigeri, qui quidam Thomas fuit frater & heres Ricardi Harwedon Armigeri, qui quidem Ricardus fuit filius & heres Willielmi Harwedon Armigeri, qui istas fenestras una cum tecto istius ecclesie fecerunt anno Dni. M.CCCCXVJJJ.
Harris states, "But the expansive dedication of the high window elaborates considerably" and provides a partial translation of the transcription in Bridges (completed and corrected below), [4]
Pray for the good state of Richard Knightley knight and Joan his wife, daughter and heir of Henry Skenerdon and Margery his wife, which Margery was sister and heir of Thomas Harwedon, esquire, which Thomas was brother and heir of Richard Harwedon, esquire, which Richard was son and heir of William Harwedon, esquire, who made these windows together with the roof of this church in the year of our lord 1518.
1479 William Garnon, Margery's second husband, died. [5]
[1] Barbara J. Harris, "The Fabric of Piety: Aristocratic Women and Care of the Dead, 1450–1550," Journal of British Studies 48 (April 2009), 308-335, at 317, citing Bridges, History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, 2[should be 1]:69. Harris appears to have amended the year of death of Joan to 1550. She also suggests ("At Fawsley, Northamptonshire, the inscription on the earliest Knightley tomb simply reads:") that this is the earliest inscription in the church at Fawsley, which, according to the transcriptions by Bridges, it is not, [JSTOR], [JSTOR(UM)].
[2] John Bridges and Peter Whalley, ed., The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, Vol. 1 (Oxford, 1791), 69.
[3] John Bridges and Peter Whalley, ed., The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, Vol. 1 (Oxford, 1791), 69.
[4] Barbara J. Harris, "The Fabric of Piety: Aristocratic Women and Care of the Dead, 1450–1550," Journal of British Studies 48 (April 2009), 308-335, at 317, citing Bridges, History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, 2[should be 1]:69, [JSTOR], [JSTOR(UM)].
[5] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward IV. Garnon, William, Bucks, Oxon, Glos., 19 Edw IV, 04 March 1479 - 03 March 1480, C 140/71/50, [UKNationalArchives].