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pestilential insinuation of one Blood to join with him in his plot against the castle of Dublin for which offence he hath satisfied the sentence of the law by the loss of his life . . . ’. Her marriage portion of £400 was used to purchase land in Ballybrittan, Co. Meath, which, ‘with other [confiscated] lands, worth about £500, a year, were since lost to him, and restored to the proprietors, by decree of the Court of Claims . . .’. She begs that her late husband’s small remaining estate, now forfeited, may be remitted to her and her seven children.
    f.175 – Petition of Captain Toby Barnes to Ormond to become custodian of Blood’s former lands in Counties Meath and Wicklow; [? 1 February] 1664.
    f.175 v –Warrant signed by Ormond to the Barons of the Exchequer for the grant of custodian of Blood’s former lands, if found to be at his majesty’s disposal; 4 February 1664.
    165 f.111 – Warrant signed by Ormond for the removal of Dubliners living in rooms overlooking the city’s ports and replacing them with soldiers ‘for the better security of the city’; Dublin Castle, 30 May 1663.
    f.116 v – Warrant, signed by Ormond, for the recapture of Philip Alden, ‘late a prisoner in Dublin Castle’ under charge of high treason; Dublin Castle, 18 June 1663.
    214 f.438 – Major Thomas Barrington to Sir George Lane, reporting rumours that his name was mentioned during the investigation of the Dublin Castle plot and that he expected every hour to be arrested ‘to his disparagement’. If Sir George sent a guard, he would ‘instantly wait upon him’; Dublin, 22 May 1663.
    f.442 – Ormond to Philip Alden, sent via Colonel Vernon ‘for security’ seeking more information about the plot to help find ‘the bottom of the plot . . . in some way that it may not spoil the use of future intelligence’; Dublin Castle, 18 March, 1663.
    f.446 – Ormond to Philip Alden, seeking information on ‘who are at the head of the design for taking the castle’; Dublin, 4 March 1663.
    f.448 – Philip Alden to Ormond, disclosing details of a plot to capture Dublin Castle; 4 March 1663.
    f.534 – Earl of Mount-Alexander to Ormond, announcing the capture of ‘Blood’s only guide and protector in the County of Antrim’ and entreating Ormond always ‘to have about his person a sufficient guard’; Newtown, 25 August 1663.
    221 ff.52–3 – Bennet to Ormond: the king has had Ormond’s letter to him about the late conspiracy read twice to him and has agreed to extend mercy to those willing to turn king’s evidence; Whitehall, 6 June 1663.
    228 f.151 – Newsletter addressed to Thomas Wharton at Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, about Lord Sunderland’s interview with Thomas Blood; Whitehall, 3 March 1679.
    Clarendon MSS
    34 f.27v –Account of the attempted kidnapping of Colonel Thomas Rainborowe at Doncaster, Yorkshire; 29 October 1648.
    MSS English History
    C.487 – Edmund Ludlow, A Voyce from the Watchtower.
    MSS English Letters
    C.53 f.131. P. Maddocks to Sir Robert Southwell, 14 November 1684 about Ormond’s reactions to reform of the standing army in Ireland and of the administration in Dublin.
    D.3 f.84 – Letter from Williamson describing Blood’s attempted theft of the Crown Jewels as ‘one of the strangest any story can tell’ and that his capture was worth ‘ten times the value [of the] Crown’.
    Rawlinson MSS
    A.185 (Pepys Papers) f.471 r –472 r – Narrative describing Blood’s attempt to steal the crown.
    f.473 v – Joseph Williamson’s ‘address-book’; correspondence with a ‘Mr. T.B.’ in Zeeland in the Dutch United Provinces in 1666; entries 38–44.
    f.473 r –475 – Copy of notes from Blood’s pocketbook, listing his ‘deliverances since I was for the Lord’s cause’ including his