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BULSTRODE, SIR RICHARD (1610-1711)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 796 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BULSTRODE, See also:SIR See also:RICHARD (1610-1711) , See also:English author and soldier, was a son of See also:Edward Bulstrode (1588–1659), and was educated at See also:Pembroke See also:College, See also:Cambridge; after studying See also:law in See also:London he joined the See also:army of See also:Charles I. on the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War in 1642. In 1673 he became a See also:resident See also:agent of Charles II. at See also:Brussels; in 1675 he was knighted; then following See also:James II. into See also:exile he died at St Germain on the 3rd of See also:October 1711. Bulstrode is chiefly known by his See also:Memoirs and Reflections upon the Reign and See also:Government of See also:King Charles I. and King Charles II., published after his See also:death in 1721. He also W.-BULSTRODE wrote See also:Life of James II., and See also:Original Letters written to the See also:Earl of See also:Arlington (1712). The latter consists principally of letters written from Brussels giving an See also:account of the important events which took See also:place in the See also:Netherlands during 1674. His second son, WIIITELOCKE BULSTRODE (1650-1724), remained in See also:England after the See also:flight of James II.; he held some See also:official positions, and in 1717 wrote a pamphlet in support of See also:George I. and the Hanoverian See also:succession. He published A Discourse of Natural See also:Philosophy, and was a prominent See also:Protestant controversialist. He died in London on the 27th of See also:November 1724.

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