Sir Edward Bullock

Sir Edward Bullock of Faulkbourne (c. 1580 - 1644) was an English landowner, knighted by King James I and a Cavalier during the English Civil War. He purchased Faulkbourne Hall in 1637 which was held in the Bullock family for 260 years.

Edward Bullock was born c. 1580, the elder son of Edward Bullock of Wigborough and Loftes in Great Totham and Joan Collen of High Laver, Essex.

Edward married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Thomas Wylde of Glazeley Hall (died 1599), Salop and Kempsey, Worcester and sister of Sir Edmund Wylde. Edward died in 1644 and was buried at the Church of St Germanus at Faulkbourne. Edward and Elizabeth had one son, also Edward who married Mary, daughter of Sir William de Grey of Marton Hall Norfolk and his wife born Anne Calthorpe.

In 1602, he obtained from William Camden, the Clarenceux King of Arms, a "Confirmation" of the Arms of the Bullocks of Aborfield with due difference to mark his descent from a younger son.

On 3 July 1609 he was knighted by King James I at Richmond Palace.

From 1613 to 1618, he was Captain of Militia for the Maldon Hundred.

In the early days of the reign of King Charles I, he was appointed a Forced ‘Loan’ Collector for the County of Norfolk whilst living in Pentney, c. 1622-31. His accounts, which returned on 12 June 1627, show that as a result of his Commission, he paid the sum of £1,200 into the Royal Exchequer. The deeply unpopular loans hastened the rupture between the King and Parliament.

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