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Richard Bulstrode
Sir Richard Bulstrode (1610 – 3 October 1711) was an English author, diplomat and soldier, a son of Edward Bulstrode (1588–1659).
Life and family.
Richard Bulstrode was born at Astley, Warwickshire, and educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge. After studying law in London he joined the army of Charles I on the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642. In 1673 he became a resident agent of Charles II at Brussels; in 1675 he was knighted; then following James II into
Whitelocke Bulstrode
Whitelocke Bulstrode (1650–1724) was an English official, religious controversialist and mystical writer,
Life.
He was the second son of Sir Richard Bulstrode and his wife Jocosa, daughter of Edward Dyneley of Charlton, Worcestershire. On 27 November 1661 he was specially admitted a student of the Inner Temple.
When his Jacobite father followed James II into exile, Bulstrode remained in England. He became prothonotary of the marshal’s court and commissioner of excise. In 1705 he purchased the manor of Hounslow, Middlesex