Title:

Gentleman

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

Bullen

Last Name:

Reymes

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Inscription:

The Chafin memorial refers to ‘Anna, widow of Bullen Reymes, Knight’ – mentioned in Elwin, Jack, Possum Lives: Brief lives of some of the prominent people who have had connections with Portesham, 2010

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Average

Condition Description:

not known

Memorial Notes:

See: Helen Andrews Kaufman, Conscientious Cavalier: Colonel Bullen Reymes, M.P., F.R.S. 1613-1672, London 1962
Edward Chaney, The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations since the Renaissance, 2nd ed. London, 2000
History of Parliament Online - Reymes, Bullen
Pepys, Samuel (1893). The Diary of Samuel Pepys. pp. Friday 24 January 1667/68.
Elwin, Jack, Possum People: Brief lives of some of the prominent people who have connections with Portesham, 2007, ISSN 1741-7112