William and Mary Bulmer

William and Mary Bulmer and their son William are buried in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey but their memorial tablets perished a long while ago and the graves are not marked.

John Dart, in his history of the Abbey published in 1723, gives a translation of the Latin on Mary Bulmer's tablet:

Sacred to Memory. Here lies the mortal part of Mary Bulmer, daughter of W. Green of Lannorth in the co. of York who nevertheless was more adorned with virtue than her high birth. She married William Bulmer, Gentleman, to whom she was occasion of no trouble except by leaving him at her death, she bare only one son named William who was, instead of many, a youth of great genius, student of Christ Church in Oxford, of so short a continuance, who being first snatched away by too hasty Death, his most tender mother chose to be buried near him, that him, whom she intirely loved when living, she might tho dead, unite even in death. She surrendered her soul to God, her body to the tomb, and her character to posterity the 18th of February 1661

Her son died in 1658. The arms of Bulmer - a lion rampant billette - was shown on the tablet. William Bulmer was a notary public in Westminster and his second wife was Mary Bradley. His brothers were Robert and Thomas and sisters Mary and Ann. A manor at Combe in Hertfordshire and other lands were given him by Charles II for faithful service. He was buried on 9th January 1679.