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Thanks to Michael Andrews-Reading who sent me a photograph of the monument to Richard Cecil and his wife Jane from the Church of St. Martin, Stamford, Leicestershire, so I can provide this first-hand transcription from that photograph.
 
Thanks to Michael Andrews-Reading who sent me a photograph of the monument to Richard Cecil and his wife Jane from the Church of St. Martin, Stamford, Leicestershire, so I can provide this first-hand transcription from that photograph.
  
The monument has five brasses, two larger ones for Richard and Jane, and three smaller ones, one for each daughter.  The large brass reads:
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The monument has five brasses, two larger ones for Richard and Jane, and three smaller ones, one for each daughter.  One of the larger ones is transcribe above, the second large brass reads:
  
 
"The said Jayne was daughter and heyre of W'am Heckington of Bourne in ye county of Lincolne Esqr: She lived 87 yeares wherof she continued a widowe 35 yeares. She deceased ye 10th of March 1587. She was a very grave religious Vertuous & worthy Matro & delighted excedingly in ye workes of piety & charity. She was crowned with much Honor & comfort & (By God His great blessing she lived to see her children & her childrens children to ye fourth & fift generation & yt in a plentifull & honorable succession being a happy mother of yt most honorable Sr Wm Cecill Knight of ye most noble order of ye garter LO: Burghley Lord High Trer of England who lyeth here by her"
 
"The said Jayne was daughter and heyre of W'am Heckington of Bourne in ye county of Lincolne Esqr: She lived 87 yeares wherof she continued a widowe 35 yeares. She deceased ye 10th of March 1587. She was a very grave religious Vertuous & worthy Matro & delighted excedingly in ye workes of piety & charity. She was crowned with much Honor & comfort & (By God His great blessing she lived to see her children & her childrens children to ye fourth & fift generation & yt in a plentifull & honorable succession being a happy mother of yt most honorable Sr Wm Cecill Knight of ye most noble order of ye garter LO: Burghley Lord High Trer of England who lyeth here by her"

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