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Summary
| Description | Monument to Sir Arthur Acland (d.1610) of Acland in parish of Landkey, Devon. Landkey Church. |
| Date | circa 1610; photo 2013 |
| Source | Self-photographed |
| Author | (Lobsterthermidor (talk) 15:20, 15 September 2013 (UTC)) |
The tablet on the left is inscribed thus:
In obitu(m) illustrissimi viri Domini Arthuri Acland equitis aurati qui ex hac vita comigravit xxvi.to die Decembr(i)s An(n)o D(omi)ni 1610 aetatis suae xxxvii. Epicedium: (In departure of the illustrious man Sir Arthur Acland, golden knight, who departed from this life on the 26th day of December in the year of Our Lord 1610 of his age 37. A funeral ode:)
If virtue live after ye corps be laid,
In earth of thee this may be truely said,
Thou livs't tho(u)gh dead for such men cannot dy,
Where fame gives breath to death by memory,
We see thy tombe brave kn(igh)t thy sweet repose,
Thy faire transportance from a sea of woes,
To future joyes where God in soule doth breathe,
Clipping thy temple w(i)th a golden wreath,
Honor attend thy presence famous herse,
To much obscured by my impolish't verse".
The matching tablet on the right is inscribed:
On the noble and truely virtuous ladie Elynor daught(e)r & coheire of Robert Malet of Wolleigh in the countie of Devon Esqr., wife first to Sr. Arthur Acland of Acland Kt; and afterwards to Sr. Francis Vincent of Stoke Daubernon in ye countie of Surrie kt. & baron(e)t; who exchanged this life for a better Aug. ye 10th the year of Our Lord 1645 (of) her age 72.
"Madam to say you'r dead were but to tell
A lie or make the poet infidell,
You in your vertue live immortall that,
Free fro(m) ye dart of death or stroke of fate,
You in yo(u)r children live yo(u)r progenie,
And that's a kind of immortalitie,
Yo(u)r body doth but sleep yo(u)r grave's a bed,
Yo(u)r stone a pillowe whereo(n) to lye yo(u)r head,
Till vertue, children, body, soule anon,
Shall all meet in the Resurrection."
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