English: Monumental brass of Thomas Carew (1518-1586) of Haccombe, who married Mary Hoddy (d.1588), a daughter of William Hoddy of Pillistone in Dorset. He died aged 68 on 28 March 1586 of "Gaol Fever", now believed to have been typhus, following his attendance as a magistrate at the notorious Black Assize of Exeter which commenced on 14 March 1586, which fever killed many others amongst his fellow magistrates and attendees at the Exeter Courthouse in Exeter Castle. His monumental brass survives in Haccombe Church, on the floor of the chancel and next to that of his great-grandfather Nicholas Carew (died 1469), and is inscribed in Latin as follows:

Hic jacet corpus Thomae Carew, Arm(igeri), qui obiit 28 die Mart(ii) A(nno) D(omini) 1586 aetatis suae 68 ("Here lies the body of Thomas Carew, Esquire, who died on the 28th day of March in the year of our Lord 1586 (in the year) of his age 68"

The monumental brass of his wife adjoins, inscribed in Latin as follows:

Hic jacet Maria Carew uxor Thomae Carew de Haccombe, Arm(igeri) & filia Will(elmi) Huddye de com(itatu) Dorset, Arm(igeri), quae obiit 19 die Nov(embris) A(nno) D(omini) 1588 ("Here lies Mary Carew, wife of Thomas Carew of Haccombe, Esquire, and a daughter of William Huddye from the county of Dorset, who died on the 19th day of November in the year of our Lord 1588")