Ashworth had been minister of the Baptist congregation at White's Alley, Little Moorfields; in 1743 Bulkley was the successful candidate (in competition with Richard Baron) for that post, but he again moved on to a more prominent position.
[1] Bulkley, in 1745, succeeded James Foster at the Barbican, carrying with him his congregation from White's Alley.
Some years later, when Foster retired (January 1752) from the Sunday evening lectureship at the Old Jewry Meeting-house, Bulkley again succeeded him.
He came round, after Foster's death, to "mixed communion", and was taken to task for it by Grantham Killingworth, a General Baptist layman of Norwich.
Posthumously published were:[1] Bulkley married in 1749 Ann Fiske, of Colchester (died August 1783), but had no issue.