Agnes Witts (1747-1828) was a remarkable woman with great zest for life. Witt’s favourite pastimes were cards and stimulating conversation, her social circle was wide and well-connected; and her attachment to her faith was consistent and strong. She came from a well-to-do family whose considerable income had come from a successful business in linen drapery with a genealogical tree hung around with a viscount or two, a duke and the odd lord and Knights of the Realm. In 1775, she married Edward Witts who had inherited the family wool-stapling business in Chipping Norton and shared his love of travel to the detriment of his attendance to their financial affairs, although he carried out his social responsibilities as a country gentleman and civic duties as a justice of the peace, a deputy lieutenant for Oxfordshire and, in 1779, high sheriff of the county.