10 Facts About Agnes Beaumont

Agnes Beaumont wrote an autobiography that declared her innocence of these charges.

Agnes Beaumont's parents were John and Mary Beaumont of Pirton.

Agnes Beaumont's family did not follow the established Christian denomination of Anglicanism so it was unsurprising when she joined a church in Gamlingay led by the evangelist John Bunyan.

Agnes Beaumont was given a lift by Bunyan and rode pillion on his horse.

John Agnes Beaumont then threw her out of the family home, and refused to let her back in unless she promised to stop attending the church meetings.

Murder was a capital offence, but Agnes Beaumont was found to be not involved by the coroner and his jury.

Agnes Beaumont wrote her account of this in about 1674.

Agnes Beaumont died in 1707 and the following year she married Samuel Storey who was a prosperous fishmonger, but she still owned half of her husband's land in Cheshunt.

In 1901 Agnes Beaumont was appearing in a book of girl heroines.

The nineteen-page source manuscript of Beaumont's autobiography, "The Narrative of the Persecution of Agnes Beaumont", was purchased by the British Museum in the 1870s, and is preserved in the British Library.