In the Epistle Dedicatory, he speaks of the pious and godly lives of St.John's parents, and alludes to the dying words of St.John's father as something which he and St.John had heard, but which was not known to other men.

"I speak a mystery to others but not unto your Lordship." So it is quite clear that St.John could not have been born out of wedlock, and the son of a man who had seduced the sister of this eminent and pious clergyman.
In Noble's "Memoirs of the Cromwell Family," published about seventy-five years after the death of St.John, he is said to be the son of Oliver St.John of Cagshoe in Bedfordshire.
When the "Lives of the Chief Justices" was first published, I wrote to Lord Campbell, telling him these facts, and received the following letter in reply: LONDON, July 9th, 1861.
_Sir_ I thank you very sincerely for your interesting letter of December 13th, respecting Lord Chief Justice St.John.

I think you establish his legitimacy quite satisfactorily and in any future edition of my Lives of the Chief Justices I shall certainly avail myself of your researches.
I have the honor to be Sir Your obliged and obedient Servant CAMPBELL.
The Honorable Geo.

F.Hoar.
Something of Bulkeley's character may be gathered from this extract from the Gospel-Covenant, which Mr.Emerson, who was his descendant, loved to quote.

Think of these words, uttered to his little congregation in the wilderness; the only company of white men in the Western Hemisphere who dwelt away from tide-water: "And for ourselves, the people of New England, wee should in a speciall manner, labour to shine forth in holinesse above other people; we have that plenty and abundance of ordinances and meanes of grace as few people enjoy the like; wee are as a City set upon a hill, in the open view of all the earth, the eyes of the world are upon us, because wee professe ourselves to be a people in Covenant with God, and therefore not only the Lord our God, with whom we have made Covenant, but heaven and earth, Angels and men, that are witnesses of our profession, will cry shame upon us, if we walk contrary to the Covenant which we have professed to walk in; if we open the mouthes of men against our profession, by reason of the scandalousnesse of our lives, wee (of all men) shall have the greater sinne.
"To conclude, let us study so to walk, that this may be our excellency and dignity among the Nations of the world, among which we live; That they may be constrained to say of us, onely this people is wise, an holy and blessed people: that all that see us, may see and know that the name of the Lord is called upon us: and that we are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.