Elizabeth was mother to Bulstrode Whitelocke,(1605-1675), prominent parliamentarian, lawyer and Ambassador to the Swedish Court of Queen Christina for the New Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell.
[3] Dorothy and her older sister Cecily Bulstrode (1584-1609) were both gentlewomen in the bedchamber of Anne of Denmark, and associated with the influential courtier Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford.
James Whitelocke, recalling the events of 1611, recorded that Eyre and Bulstrode were married without the consent of either family, and wrote, "the man is one of the most dissolute, unjust, and vicious reprobates that lives upon the face of the earth".
According to Herbert, Anne of Denmark obtained his portrait by William Larkin and Dorothy had it copied in miniature by Isaac Oliver, and she wore it in a gold locket concealed to view.
The Duke of Lennox said that John Eyre was "the most miserable man living" because of the shame of Dorothy's letter proving him a liar, and because his father had disinherited him on hearing of the assault.
One godparent was Humphrey May (1573-1630), groom of the king's privy chamber, Whitelocke wrote he "should have been for Dorothy", apparently meaning he would have preferred him as a brother-in-law rather than the "reprobate" Eyre.
She died in 1650 and was buried at St Mary's, Upton Grey, Hampshire, where she has a marble or alabaster wall monument with her portrait bust and heraldry, and also a further wooden board with verses commemorating her.
[16] The monument's inscription was printed in the Gentleman's Magazine which alludes to her medicinal practices, and that other daughters were "wise" but she was "best", but the verses were not published, "not being remarkable for their goodness.