Talk:Sir Richard Bulkeley, 2nd Baronet

Murdered?
"Bulkeley died, murdered by French "miracle workers", and was buried at Ewell." What does this mean? Are there actual court records that his deat was murder, or is this soemone snarking at quack doctors or some religious sect?Filigree11 (talk) 17:43, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Slightly late answer here, but there is a problem with the phrase 'murdered by French "miracle workers"'; the Royal Society source used says "fell victim to some French 'miracle workers' to whom he gave large sums of money; his friends had him declared 'non compos' by the Court of Chancery; after his death his house was sold to pay his debts", so murdered in a figurative sense, perhaps, but not actually murdered. What seems to have happened is that he became a patron of one Abraham Whitrow, who was associated with a group of Hugenots who were former Camisards and had fled to England; this group were referred to as the French Prophets, although Whitrow was English and that group disowned him. However, Bukely was on the verge of selling his estate to fund Whitrow, until his friends had him declared unfit to manage his affairs. (I haven;t had much time to check this out, but I'm basing this on an extract from a book on various prophets of the 17th and 18th Century link; there is a similar account in the Peerage of England:Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical. Greatly Augmented and Continued to the Present Time, Volume 8 (link) and I would assume there are a lot more sources out there. The sentence does need to be amended.  FlowerpotmaN ·( t ) 00:51, 6 July 2012 (UTC)