Beneath a canopy, the curtains of which are held back by angels, Jane Thursby, wearing a long
black gown and head-dress, is depicted kneeling on a red cushion before a prie dieu on which
lies a book.
Over the canopy, between two black columns, are the arms:
Argent, a chevron embattled between three lions rampant sable (Thursby) impaling, Qly.
1st and 4th, Gules, a saltire ermine (Nevill of Raby and Holt)
2nd and 3rd, Argent, fretty gules on a canton argent a galley sable
(Nevill, Admiral to the Conqueror).
The inscription, on a black panel beneath which is a cherub's face, reads:
Here lies she dead, that yet does live
cause she dying, life did give.
Her virtuous life prepared a way
for the peace of her last day.
And her devotion at her death
opened Heaven with her breath.
Thither was she making haste
when she prayed and lived her last,
leaving behind the world to shame
the glory of a spotlesse name
surviving thus in Heaven and Earth
both in herself and in her birth.
In memory of Jane Thursby
wife of Christopher Thursby
of Bocking in the county of
Essex, esquire,
She died the 10th day of October
1631, and lefte behind her 2
sonnes William and Nevill.
Deflevit frater ejus, Clemens Nevill.
Jane was Christopher's second wife and third daughter of Thomas Neville.
Sepulchral Effigies of Leicestershire and Rutland
Text copyright Max Matthews 2002. Selected text copyright Bob Trubshaw 2025–6.
Images copyright Max Matthews 2002 or Bob Trubshaw 2002, 2025–6.
No copying or reproduction without prior written permission.
Published by Heart of Albion Press
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