The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood

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Authors: Robert Hutchinson
Ormond about the progress of the trial of the conspirators; Dublin, 3 July 1663.
    f.686 – Information from Lieutenant Richard Thompson about his knowledge of the late conspiracy in which he ‘was unhappily involved’; written from Dublin Castle prison, 5 July 1663.
    f.688 – Lieutenant Richard Thompson to Ormond. Please ‘accept these last words of a dying man . . . [I] was drawn in by Mr. Blood into the plot for which great sin I beg pardon’; Dublin Castle 5 July 1663.
    ff.691–4 – Lord Santry’s speech when passing judgment upon Alexander Jephson and others; Dublin, 7 July 1663.
    33 f.18 – E[dward] Bagot, a former soldier, to Ormond, warning of a plot against the Lord Lieutenant’s life; Blithfield, Staffordshire, 2 August 1663.
    f.90 – Mrs. Charity Staples to Ormond. Prostrating herself at his feet, ‘knowing scarcely how to syllable or articulate her anguish that my son [Major Alexander Staples of Londonderry] should have his hand in treason’ . . . [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 impostor’; ?Ballysheskin, 28 August 1663.
    34 f.674 r – ‘Advice of Incidents in Ireland’ sent anonymously to Ormond and by him endorsed with the initials ‘PA.’, April 1663.
    35 f.52 r – Notes on persons suspected of complicity in seditious plots in Ireland ‘given by R.A.’ apparently to Sir George Lane; 6 September 1666.
    f.54 r – ‘Persons lately going into Ireland’.
    f.54 v – 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 – William Leving, government spy, to Ormond, providinginformation about [Thomas] Blood and other conspirators who had fled Ireland; 15 November 1666.
    f.146 v – List of Persons declared rebels [in Scotland] by proclamation; 4 December 1666.
    39 f.27 – The king to Ormond; the office of clerk of the crown and peace in Co. Clare, once held by Thomas Blood and ‘passed in his son Holcroft Blood’s name’ is now void because of Blood’s absence from Ireland; Whitehall, 12 March 1679.
    43 f.192 – 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 – 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.708–9 – Ormond’s speech to the Irish House of Commons; 9 March 1663.
    46 ff.51–2 – Bennet to Ormond; the king ‘wonders if [Ormond] could get further [details about] the last plot’ and discover whether it had ‘any 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 us’; Whitehall, 15 May 1663.
    f.55 – Bennet to Ormond; the king ‘approves in general of [Ormond’s] vigour and steadiness in abiding the plot’; Whitehall, 1 June 1663.
    ff.61–4 – Bennet to Ormond. Despite diligent inquiries, no trace of Charnock has been found in London. Colonel Gibby Carr’s wife, also in London, has produced testimony from magistrates in Rotterdam that he had been ‘constantly seen there these six months’ . . . but ‘perhaps ’tis a bought testimonial only’; Whitehall, 27 June 1663.
    ff.357–8 – Arlington to Ormond. Reports on the arrival in Ireland of ‘Blood and other notorious conspirators’ who were ‘hoping to work effectually their wicked ends upon the . . . militia

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