Agnes Campe

F, b. circa 1410, d. before 9 December 1489
     Agnes was born circa 1410 in County Essex, England. She was the sister of Richard Campe. She married first John Rands. Agnes married 2nd William Yelverton, son of John Yelverton, after 1459 in Rougham, County Norfolk, England. Agnes's husband, William, died on 27 March 1477 in Rougham leaving her a widow. Agnes made her will on 3 November 1489.

She orders her body to be buried in Rougham Church, before the image of our lady there, beside the sepulchure of Sir William Yelverton, late her husband; and that her executors buy for the said church, a chesible and a cope of the price of 20 marks, as also a basin for a lamp to hang in before the sacraments in the said chancel. And that they suffer the brotherhood and sisterhood of the fraternity of Christ’s resurrection, founded in the said church of Rougham, to receive yearly the revenues of her messuages, and appurtenances belonging to the same, in Buknam’s, to keep her obiit yearly and pray for her soul, her husband’s soul, and all Christian souls. She bequeaths to the altar where her former husband John Rands, lieth buried, in the Parish of Berking, one chalice of silver, weighing 18oz; and to the Church of St Peter in Brentwood, Essex, another chalice of like weight, and two altar cloths. She further orders that five marks, bequeathed to her by her mother, and in the hands of Richard Campe, her brother, be disposed of to the said church of St Peter, for the souls of her father and mother, and that Ralph Parmer, her priest, sing for her soul, the souls of her husbands, for those of her father and mother, and for all Christian souls for the space of two years, and to have for his salary eight marks. She also bequeathed to William Yelverton, her godson, the stuff of her chamber when he cometh to twenty-one years of age.1

Agnes departed this life in Rougham. She was buried there in the Church of St. Mary's. Before the image of our lady and beside her husband. Her will was probated on 9 December 1489.

Family

William Yelverton b. c 1402, d. 27 Mar 1477

Citations

  1. [S2162] The Yelverton Family of Norfolk and the Catesby Family of Warwickshire, and Other Families Connected by Marriage.