BULLEYN, WILLIAM, a learned physician and botanist, born in the Isle of Ely about A.D. 1500, and educated at Cambridge. He travelled through various parts of England, Scotland, and Germany, chiefly with a view to improve his knowledge of plants; and on his return, in 1550, he was made rector of Blaxhall in Suffolk; but he afterwards removed to Durham, where he practised physic with considerable success. Here he contracted a great in-
timacy with Sir Thomas Hilton, governor of Tinnmouth Fort. In 1560 he went to London, and soon after his arrival was accused by the brother of Sir Thomas of having murdered his friend and patron, who had died of a malignant fever while under Bulleyn's care. He was arraigned before the Duke of Norfolk, but honourably acquitted. This Hilton afterwards hired some villains to assassinate him; but failing in the attempt, he arrested him on an action for debt, and sent him to prison. During his confinement Dr Bulleyn composed several of those works which established his reputation as a medical writer. He died in 1576. Dr Bulleyn was well acquainted with the works of the ancient Greek, Roman, and Arabian physicians. He wrote, The Government of Health, 1558-59, 8vo, republished in 1595; A regimen against the Pleurisy, 8vo, Lond. 1562; Bulwark of Defence against all Sickness, Soreness, and Wounds, London, 1562, 1579, folio; A Dialogue both pleasant and pitiefull, wherein is a goodlie regimen against the fever pestilence, Lond. 1564, 8vo, 1569, 8vo.