His parents were said to have been drawn into the rebellion of Robert Aske , known as the Pilgrimage of Grace , through the influence of their nephew , Sir Francis Bigod . They were executed with others in early 1537 for their involvement , in consequence of which their lands escheated to the Crown , although some were granted at a later date to Sir George Bowes ( 1527 – 1580 ) . The circumstances of their trial and execution were recorded by the author of Wriothesley 's Chronicle : Also the 16 day of May 1537 there were arraigned at Westminster afore the King ’s Commissioners , the Lord Chancellor that day being the chief , these persons following : Sir Robert Constable , knight ; Sir Thomas Percy , knight , and brother to the Earl of Northumberland ; Sir John Bulmer , knight , and Ralph Bulmer , his son and heir ; Sir Francis Bigod , knight ; Margaret Cheney , after Lady Bulmer by untrue matrimony ; George Lumley , esquire ; Robert Aske , gentleman , that was captain in the insurrection of the Northern men ; and one Hamerton , esquire , all which persons were indicted of high treason against the King , and that day condemned by a jury of knights and esquires for the same , whereupon they had sentence to be drawn , hanged and quartered , but Ralph Bulmer , the son of John Bulmer , was reprieved and had no sentence . And on the 25 day of May , being the Friday in Whitsun week , Sir John Bulmer , Sir Stephen Hamerton , knights , were hanged and headed ; Nicholas Tempest , esquire ; Doctor Cockerell , priest ; Abbot quondam of Fountains ; and Doctor Pickering , friar , were drawn from the Tower of London to Tyburn , and there hanged , bowelled and quartered , and their heads set on London Bridge and divers gates in London . And the same day Margaret Cheney , " other wife to Bulmer called " , was drawn after them from the Tower of London into Smithfield , and there burned according to her judgment , God pardon her soul , being the Friday in Whitsun week ; she was a very fair creature , and a beautiful . Bulmer began his mining career at some of the former Bulmer properties at Wilton , North Yorkshire , and is said to have been interested in his youth in the iron smelter set up by Sir John Manners at Rievaulx Abbey , a project to which he returned in 1577 when a new smelter was being set up . According to Baldwin , Bulmer 's " later surviving water and drainage works betray experience of this old monastic site ’s water supply , and ideas illustrated in Georg Agricola ’s '' De Re Metallica '' "
Pilgrimage of Grace
Pilgrimage of Grace
Bevis Bulmer