Ormond about the progress of the trial of the conspirators; Dublin, 3 July 1663.
f.686 â Information from Lieutenant Richard Thompson about his knowledge of the late conspiracy in which he âwas unhappily involvedâ; written from Dublin Castle prison, 5 July 1663.
f.688 â Lieutenant Richard Thompson to Ormond. Please âaccept these last words of a dying man . . . [I] was drawn in by Mr. Blood into the plot for which great sin I beg pardonâ; Dublin Castle 5 July 1663.
ff.691â4 â Lord Santryâs speech when passing judgment upon Alexander Jephson and others; Dublin, 7 July 1663.
33 f.18 â E[dward] Bagot, a former soldier, to Ormond, warning of a plot against the Lord Lieutenantâs life; Blithfield, Staffordshire, 2 August 1663.
f.90 â Mrs. Charity Staples to Ormond. Prostrating herself at his feet, âknowing scarcely how to syllable or articulate her anguish that my son [Major Alexander Staples of Londonderry] should have his hand in treasonâ . . . [I] beseech [Ormond] to have a regard to his tenderness of years and to the frailty of a nature beguiled by the subtlety of some grand impostorâ; ?Ballysheskin, 28 August 1663.
34 f.674 r â âAdvice of Incidents in Irelandâ sent anonymously to Ormond and by him endorsed with the initials âPA.â, April 1663.
35 f.52 r â Notes on persons suspected of complicity in seditious plots in Ireland âgiven by R.A.â apparently to Sir George Lane; 6 September 1666.
f.54 r â âPersons lately going into Irelandâ.
f.54 v â Arlington to Sir George Lane: Blood reported in Lancashire and came near to arrest after Fire of London; Westminster, 6 September 1666.
f.128 r â William Leving, government spy, to Ormond, providinginformation about [Thomas] Blood and other conspirators who had fled Ireland; 15 November 1666.
f.146 v â List of Persons declared rebels [in Scotland] by proclamation; 4 December 1666.
39 f.27 â The king to Ormond; the office of clerk of the crown and peace in Co. Clare, once held by Thomas Blood and âpassed in his son Holcroft Bloodâs nameâ is now void because of Bloodâs absence from Ireland; Whitehall, 12 March 1679.
43 f.192 â The king to Ormond; Colonel Shapcott, now in custody in Ireland upon charges of complicity in the late conspiracy, is to be taken to England for further interrogation; Whitehall, [day left blank] June 1663.
f.505 â The king to Ormond; Captain Toby Barnes to have the lease of towns and lands in Sarney, Beatown and Foylestown in the barony of Dunboyne and Co. Meath with certain unprofitable mountain-lands in Co. Wicklow, formerly belonging to Thomas Blood, now attainted of high treason; Whitehall, 11 April 1666.
44 ff.708â9 â Ormondâs speech to the Irish House of Commons; 9 March 1663.
46 ff.51â2 â Bennet to Ormond; the king âwonders if [Ormond] could get further [details about] the last plotâ and discover whether it had âany connections with England and Scotland in both which there is certainly much combustible matter, if a fire should ever break forth, from which God keep usâ; Whitehall, 15 May 1663.
f.55 â Bennet to Ormond; the king âapproves in general of [Ormondâs] vigour and steadiness in abiding the plotâ; Whitehall, 1 June 1663.
ff.61â4 â Bennet to Ormond. Despite diligent inquiries, no trace of Charnock has been found in London. Colonel Gibby Carrâs wife, also in London, has produced testimony from magistrates in Rotterdam that he had been âconstantly seen there these six monthsâ . . . but âperhaps âtis a bought testimonial onlyâ; Whitehall, 27 June 1663.
ff.357â8 â Arlington to Ormond. Reports on the arrival in Ireland of âBlood and other notorious conspiratorsâ who were âhoping to work effectually their wicked ends upon the . . . militia