"The history of the family in the late fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries can be traced through the brasses in the Upton Church. ... The earlies of the Bulstrode brasses is a female figure who is kneeling and clad in a shroud. ... This figure represents Agnes Bulstrode who died in 1462; she was the wife of William Bulstrode who died ten years later. The antiquarian Browne Willis recorded the figure of Agnes and the inscription in 1733. ... a rubbing [was] made in 1829 ... The rubbing shows the figure of Agnes and on smaller plates the nine sons and two daughters of the couple. The daughters wear butterfly head-dresses which were in fashion during the second half of the fifteenth century. It also shows the one surviving shield, and the inscription: Orate pro animabus Willi Bulstrode & Agnetis uxoris ejus filie Willi Norreys de Bray et pro animabus Rici Isabella Johis Willi Edmundi, Agnetis Thome Rogeri Henrici et Georgii filior[em] pi dei Willi Bulstrode et Agnetis que quidem Agnes mater obijt 12 Die Aprilis A [anno] Dni [domine] MCCCC LXII et Anno Regis Edwardi quarti 11 et praedictus Willis Pater Anno ... aetatis ... [not filled in]"