Whitelocke Bulstrode

He was the second son of Sir Richard Bulstrode and his wife Jocosa, daughter of Edward Dyneley of Charlton, Worcestershire.

[1] Bulstrode's major work was A Discourse of Natural Philosophy, Wherein the Pythagorean Doctrine is set in its true light and vindicated (1692).

A Latin translation of the book by Oswald Dyke was published in 1725, under the title Μετεμψύχωσις, sive Tentamen de Transmigratione in Pythagoræ Defensionem sen Naturalis Philosophiæ Discursus.

Several letters passed privately between them on the subject, and Bulstrode, in the conviction that he had the best of the argument, published in 1717—several years afterwards—Letters between Dr. Wood, a Roman catholic, the Pretender's physician, and Whitelocke Bulstrode, Esq., a Member of the Church of England, touching the True Church, and whether there is Salvation out of the Roman Communion.

A second edition appeared in 1718, under the title The Pillars of Popery thrown down, and the Principal Arguments of Roman Catholics answered and confuted; and in particular the specious plea for the Antiquity and Authority of the Church of Rome examined and overthrown.