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Here entombed lyeth the Lady Joyce Lucy, wife of Sir Thomas Lucy, of Cherlecote, in the County of Warwick, Knight, Daughter and heir of Thomas Acton, of Sutton in the County of Worcester, Esquier, who departed out of this wretched world to her Heavenly Kingdome, the tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord God 1595, of her age lx and three. All the time of her life a true and faithful servant of her Good God, never detected of any crime or vice; in religion most sound; in her love to her husband most faithfull and true; in friendship most constant, to what was in trust committed to her most secret; in wisdom excelling; in governing her house, and bringing up of youth in the feare of God that did converse with her, most rare and singular. A great maintainer of hospitality; greatly esteemed by her betters; misliked by none unless of the envious. When all is spoken that can be said, a woman so furnished and garnished with virtue, as not to be bettered, and hardly to be equalled by any. As she lived most virtuously, so she dyed most Godly. Set down by Him that best did know what hath been written to be true. THOMAS LUCY