"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]"