Mary Culpepper

MARY BACON (previously CULPEPPER, nee BLENNERHASSETT) b.c1517/18 d.17-Sep-1587

daughter of George Blennerhassett & his 1st wife Anne Covert

Latin Inscription on brass translated into English:

Mary, daughter and heir to George Blenerhaysett Esquire the son of Thomas Blenerhaysett Knight, wife of Thomas Culpeper Esquire, and afterwards of Francis Bacon Esquire of Pettistree in the County of Suffolk, who died 17th September 1587 without issue aged 70 a widow, pious, chaste, hospitable

John Cornwaleis and John Blenerhaysett [erected this] in memory of and with love towards her.

NOTE: The seven pieces comprising this brass are palimpsests, parts of an older monumental brass reused, with portions of the older design visible on the reverse when the brass is removed from its ledger slab for maintenance or repair. The reverse of these brasses show a large part of an early 15th century effigy of an unknown academic.

Source: blennerhassettfamilytree.com by Bill Jehan