In an Abbey guide of 1722 an image of Cowley is shown in the medallion under the urn. The inscription on the black marble gravestone in front of the monument has been re-cut: ABRAHAM COULEIUS H.S.E.

And his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and they buried him in the cave of the field of the Machpelah, which field Abraham had bought as a burial-plot from Ephron the Hittite, facing Mamre ...