James Bulteel (died 1757)

Arms of Bulteel: Argent biletée gules, a bend of the last

James Bulteel (1676-1757) of Tavistock in Devon, was a Member of Parliament for Tavistock 1703-8 and 1711–15,^[1]

Origins

The pedigree of Bulteel printed in Burke's Landed Gentry commences with Samuel Bulteel (d.1682) of Tavistock in Devon, the father of James Bulteel (1676–1757) of Tavistock. The Bulteels were Huguenot refugees from France. However the pedigree given by Prince (d.1723)^[2] commences five generations earlier with James Bulteel of Tournai in Hainault. Certainly there is a familial connection with John Bulteel (died 1669) of Westminster, a Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel in Cornwall, from 1661 to 1669 and between c.1658 and 1667 Secretary to Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor to King Charles II.

Marriage & progeny

He married Mary Crocker, daughter and heiress of Courtenay Crocker (d.1740), of Lyneham, Yealmpton, by whom he had progeny 2 sons and 4 daughters, including:

• James Courtenay Bulteel, eldest son and heir, who left one son:
  • Courtenay Croker Bulteel (died pre-1800), of Flete and Lyneham, who died as a young man, when his heir became his uncle John I Bulteel (1733–1801) of Membland (adjacent to Flete) in the parish of Holbeton.
• John I Bulteel (1733–1801)^[3] of Membland (adjacent to Flete) in the parish of Holbeton, 2nd son and heir to his young nephew Courtenay Croker Bulteel (died pre-1800), of Flete and Lyneham. John I Bulteel married Diana Bellenden, a daughter of the Scottish Lord of Parliament John Bellenden, 2nd Lord Bellenden (died 1707). Having inherited his paternal estate of Flete from his young nephew Courtenay Croker Bulteel of Flete and Lyneham, Yealmpton, John I Bulteel had no further use for Membland.^[4] He sold it to Peter Perring. he married Diana Bellenden, a daughter of the Scottish Lord of Parliament John Bellenden, 2nd Lord Bellenden (died 1707). A mural monument to John I Bulteel survives in Holbeton Church showing two oval escutcheons^[5] the one at dexter showing the arms of Bulteel: Argent semée of billets gules, a bend of the last^[6] with inescutcheon of pretence of Croker of Lyneham (Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three crows proper), the one at sinister showing Bulteel quartering Croker, impaling: Gules, a stag's head and neck couped between three cross crosslets fitchy within a double tressure flory counter-flory or (Bellenden).^[7] Above both shields is the crest of Bulteel: Out of a crown gules two wings argent bilettée of the first.

References

1. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/bulteel-james-1676-1757
2. Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, p.273
3. Gray, Todd & Rowe, Margery (Eds.), Travels in Georgian Devon: The Illustrated Journals of The Reverend John Swete, 1789-1800, 4 vols., Tiverton, 1999 , vol. 4, p.13
4. Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, p.273
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6. In 1660 the Garter King of Arms confirmed to John Bulteel (died 1669) of Westminster (a Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel in Cornwall, from 1661 to 1669. and between c.1658 and 1667 he Secretary to Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor to King Charles II) the right to bear arms as follows: Argent semy of billets and a bend gules, with crest: Out of a crowne gules two wings argent billetté of the first.(Balliol College Archives & Manuscripts, Conroy Collection: Catalogue 1 - 17, 9C.3)
7. http://www.heraldry-scotland.co.uk/peerage.html