Lancelot (Launcelot) Bulkeley (1568? – 8 September 1650) was a Welsh

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and member of the

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Life

He was the eleventh and youngest son of Sir Richard Bulkeley of

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and Cheadle, but the eldest by his second wife, Agnes, daughter of Thomas Needham of Stenton. He was thus half-brother of Sir Richard Bulkeley. His parents' marriage was unhappy: his mother was unfaithful to his father, and his father's sudden death led to an accusation by his brother that she had murdered him (she was tried for

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but acquitted). He entered at the beginning of 1587, as a commoner,

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, where he proceeded B.A.; he afterwards moved to St. Edmund Hall, where he took his M.A. degree in 1593.Braly-Bruer Pages 171-200 Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714
/ref> On 13 November of the same year he was ordained deacon by

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. Some years later he became

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, and he was promoted to its see in 1619. Subsequently, he was named by

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a member of the

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. He revived the controversy regarding the

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, and on the question being submitted to Thomas Wentworth,

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, the precedency was given to the

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. At Christmas 1628 he was involved in an unsuccessful attempt to prohibit the public celebration of the

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. When the news reached the city there was a large scale

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, and a

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stoned Bulkeley, who had to seek refuge in a private house; to his outrage,

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refused to take any steps to assist him and refused entry to the town to the troops sent by the Crown to quell the riot. In 1630 he complained about the activities of Saint Anne's Guild, the leading religious guild in medieval Dublin. Based in St. Audoen's Church, it was still in effect a Roman Catholic body. Bulkeley complained that the guild "hath swallowed upp the Church's means." Bulkeley was one of the Council who in 1646 issued a proclamation confirming the peace treaty concluded in that month between the

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and the Roman Catholics. On 8 March 1649, it was decreed that all honours, castles, etc. belonging to the archbishopric of Dublin should be vested in General

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, and Bulkeley was committed to prison for resisting the act passed by the English Parliament in 1647, prohibiting the use of the ''

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''. The archbishop died at

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on 8 September 1650, in his eighty-second year, and was buried in

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under the communion table. He was the author of a pamphlet, ''Proposals for sending back the Nobility and Gentry of Ireland.''

Marriage & children

By his wife Alice, daughter of Roland Bulkeley of

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, he had at least seven children: William (

), Richard, Margaret, Alice, Dorothy, Mary and Grizel. William was the father of

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. Grizel married Ambrose Aungier: two of their sons held the title

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References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bulkeley, Launcelot 1568 births 1650 deaths 16th-century Irish Anglican priests 16th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Anglican archbishops of Dublin People of Elizabethan Ireland

Launcelot Lancelot du Lac (French for Lancelot of the Lake), also written as Launcelot and other variants (such as early German ''Lanzelet'', early French ''Lanselos'', early Welsh ''Lanslod Lak'', Italian ''Lancillotto'', Spanish ''Lanzarote del Lago' ...

17th-century Anglican archbishops Archdeacons of Dublin British expatriate archbishops People from Beaumaris