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The Catholic Recusancy of Dr. John Bullaker of Chichester, 1574–1627

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2017

Timothy J. McCann
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John Bullaker, the author of the English Expositor, was the only son of William Bullaker, the noted grammarian and phonetist, and the father of the Venerable Thomas Bullaker, the Franciscan Martyr. Hitherto biographical information relating to John Bullaker has been hard to find, but the fact that he was a Catholic has meant that it has been possible to discover a certain amount about his career and whereabouts from the harassment he received from the ecclesiastical and civil authorities, because of his persistent recusancy. A study of his presentments for recusancy in the Act Books of the Deans of Chichester; the Detection Books; and the Miscellaneous Papers of the Consistory Court, in the Diocesan Record Office at Chichester, has brought to light a great deal of fresh information about the life of John Bullaker.

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British Catholic History , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 1971 , pp. 75 - 86
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1971

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1. The name is variously spelt Bulloker, Bullacre, Bullokhart and Bullokherde, but is most commonly spelt Bullaker in the documents.

2. An English Expositor, Teaching the Interpretation of the hardest words used in our language. With Sundry Explications, Descriptions, and Discourses. By LB. Doctor of Physicke. London. Printed by John Leggot, 1616.

3. The best account of William Bullaker's life and career is to be found in the Introduction to B. Danielsson and R. C. Alston, The Works of William Bullokar, Vol. I. A Short Introduction or Guiding, 1580-1581, Leeds Texts and Monographs, New Series I (1966), to which I am much indebted.

4. The most important sources for the life of Thomas Bullaker are R.P.F. Angelus a S. Francisco (Richard Mason), Relatio Compendiosa Vitae ac Mortis Venerandi admodum Patris Fratris Ioannis Baptistae Recollecti ac in Provincia Fratrum Minorum Anglorum Strictioris Observantiae Guardiani Cicestrensis, in Certamen Seraphicum Provinciae Angliae pro Sancta Dei Ecclesia in quo breviter declaratur, quomodo F.F. Minores Angli calamo et sanguine pro fide Christi sanctaque eius Ecclesia certarunt, 1649. and Le Sieur de Marsys, Histoire de la Persecution presente des Catholiques en Angleterre, enrichie de plusiers reflexions morales, politiquese et chretiennes, tant sur le qui concerne leur guerre civile, que la religon, divisee en trois livres. Paris. 1646, Vol. I, pp. 57-66, and Vol. Ill, pp. 94-100. Bishop Challoner's account in his Memoirs of Missionary Priests, 1924, pp. 428-435, is basically a precis of Richard Mason, as is J. M. Stone's, Faithful Unto Death, pp. 132-152, while Mrs. A. Hope's book, Franciscan Martyrs in England, 1878, pp. 130-155, is based on both Richard Mason and Le Sieur de Marsys. Among the Thomason Tracts in the British Museum is a Protestant pamphlet entitled, An Exact Relation of the Apprehension, Examination, Execution and Confession of Thomas Bullaker, 1642. An account of the martyr from the Convent of the Institute of Mary at Nymphenburgh in Bavaria, is printed in J. H. Pollen, Acts of the English Martyrs, 1891, pp. 352-357. A certificate of the Duke of Gueldres regarding the relics of the martyr, preserved in the Municipal Archives at Lille in Belgium, is printed in The Rambler, Vol. 8, pp. 119-122, and in Dom Bede Camm's, Forgotten Shrines, 1910, pp. 357-361. The present writer is working on a study of the life of Thomas Bullaker.

5. West Sussex Record Office. Ep. III/4/5-ll.

6. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/17/9-22.

7. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/15/1.

8. W.S.R.O. Par. 44/1/1/1.

9. In the Deposition Book of the Consistory Court of Chichester, W.S.R.O. Ep. I/II/3, ff. 15-18, he is described as being forty-six on the 22nd July 1568.

10. Alexander Hay, A History of Chichester, 1804, p. 569.

11. The house is still standing, and is now known as Southgate House, 41 South Street, Chichester.

12. W.S.R.O. Par. 44/2/1.

13. W.S.R.O. Par. 37/1/1/1, f. 2.

14. W.S.R.O. Par. 37/1/1/1, f. 3.

15. W.S.R.O. Par. 37/1/1/1, f. 4.

16. The five books were A Short Introduction or guiding, to print, write, and reade Inglish speech. London, Henrie Denham. 1580. Bullokars Booke at large, for the Amendment of Orthographie for English speech, London, Henrie Denham. 1580. A short Introduction or guiding, London, Henrie Denham. 1581. Aesops Fablz in tru Ortography with Grammar-nots London, Edmund Bollifant, 1585, and William Bullokarz Pamphlet for Grammar; Or rather too be saied hit Abbreuiation of hiz Grammar for English, extracted out-of hiz Grammar at-larg, London, Edmund Bollifant, 1586.

17. W.S.R.O. Par. 37/1/1/1.

18. W.S.R.O. STD 1/3, f. 17.

19. The original conveyance is now W.S.R.O. Add. MS. 255.

20. W.S.R.O. Ep. IH/4/6, f. 14v.

21. W.S.R.O. Ep. III/4/6, ff. 15, 16.

22. Public Record Office, E. 377/16.

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27. The Works of William Bullokar, Vol. I, p. xi.

28. W.S.R.O. Par. 37/1/1/1, f. 12.

29. Archives of Chichester City Council, N.7, f. 5.

30. Archives of Chichester City Council. N.8. f. 5.

31. W.S.R.O. Ep. III/4/5, f. 125.

32. W.S.R.O. Ep. III/4/5, f. 126.

33. W.S.R.O. Ep. III/4/5, f. 129.

34. W.S.R.O. Ep. III/4/5, f. 131.

35. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/17/10, f. 14.

36. W.S.R.O. Ep. I/15/I, 1600.

38. P.R.O. E. 377/9.

39. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/17/10, f. 33.

40. Archives of Chichester City Council, N.8, f. 5.

41. Archives of Chichester City Council, N.9, f. 1.

42. W.S.R.O. Par. 37/1/1/1, f. 14.

43. W.S.R.O. Cowdray MS. 2000 f. 133.

44. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/17/11, ff, 89v, 90.

45. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/17/11, f. 35v.

46. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/17/11, f. 111.

47. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/17/11, f. 116.

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53. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/17/12, f. 211.

54. P.R.O. E. 377/16.

55. W.S.R.O. Par. 37/1/1/1, f. 31.

56. W.S.R.O. Par. 37/1/1/1, f. 32.

57. W.S.R.O. STD. 1/3, f. 35.

58. W.S.R.O. Par. 37/1/1/1, f. 35.

59. W.S.R.O. Cowdray MS. 2000, f. 182.

60. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/17/13, f. 35.

61. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/17/13, f. 100.

62. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/17/13, f. 154.

63. Library of the Royal College of Physicians, Innes-Smith MS. 286a.

64. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/17/15, f. 13v.

65. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/17/15, f. 39.

66. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/17/15, f. 43.

67. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/13/1, 1613.

68. W.S.R.O. Ep. III/6, 1614.

69. W.S.R.O. Ep. III/4/9, f. 4.

70. W.S.R.O. Ep. III/4/9, f. 8.

71. W.S.R.O. Ep. III/6, 1614.

72. W.S.R.O. Par. 44/6/3, f. 34.

73. W.S.R.O. Par. 44/6/3, ff. 20, 28, 31 and 44. A search through all the available lease books and conveyances of property in West Street, Chichester, has failed to establish the precise position of John Bullaker's house. It was situated in the west end of of the street, six houses from the City walls.

74. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/17/16, f. 10.

75. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/17/16, f. 11.

76. P.R.O. E. 377/26.

77. W.S.R.O. Ep. III/6, 1618.

78. W.S.R.O. Ep. III/6, 1620.

79. P.R.O. E. 377/28.

80. W.S.R.O. Ep. III/4/10, f. 117.

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85. P.R.O. E. 377/30.

86. W.S.R.O. Ep. 111/4/10, f. 147.

87. W.S.R.O. Ep. HI/4/10, f. 149.

88. A true Description of the Passion of Our Saviour lesus Christ. As it was acted by the bloodie lewes. And registred by the blessed Evangelists. In English Meetre by Iohn Builokar. Calend Novemb. 1619. London. Printed by George Purslowe, for Samuel Rand, and are to be sold at his shop neere Holborne Bridge. 1622.

89. P.R.O. E. 377/31.

90. W.S.R.O. Ep. 111/4/11, f. 80.

91. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/23/8, f. 37, printed in Hilda Johnstone, Churchwardens” Presentments, Sussex Record Society, Vol. 49, 1947, p. 113.

92. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/15/1, 1626.

93. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/15/1, 1626.

94. W.S.R.O. STD. 1/3, £. 184.

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99. W.S.R.O. Par. 37/1/1/1, f. 45.

100. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/15/1, 1628.

101. W.S.R.O. Ep. 1/15/1, 1628

102. W.S.R.O. Ep. III/7/6, 1631.