He also visited Sicily, met Artemisia Gentileschi in Naples and travelled as far as Athens, where he saw 'the beautiful ruins' before the disastrous 1687 explosion in the Parthenon.
In 1650, he was imprisoned in Taunton Castle and after the Battle of Worcester helped some Royalists to escape abroad.
He was servant to the Duke of Gloucester until September 1660, and was commissioner for assessment for Dorset from August 1660 to 1669.
In 1661 he was re-elected MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in the Cavalier Parliament, and proved to be a very active member.
[1] Reymes was friends with the diarists, Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, and was a keen theatre-goer and gardener.
"[4] In 1672 Reymes was unwell and retired to Dorset where, after a lingering illness, he died in December at the age of 68, and was buried in Portesham church.
He was survived by his daughters but only one of his sons, also called Bullen (who died at Waddon after having been mysteriously found wounded in Weymouth in 1695).