The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood (49 page)

ff.142–3 – Letter from Sir John Nicholas to his father.

Harley MSS

2,161
f.158 – Pedigree of Richard Hunt of Limehurst, showing Margaret Hunt's marriage to John Holcroft.

6,859
– Memoirs and narratives by Sir Gilbert Talbot.

ff.1–17 – Account of Blood's attempt to steal the Crown Jewels.

Lansdowne MSS

1,152, vol. 1
– Papers of William Bridgeman, later under-secretary of state to the Earl of Sunderland in the reign of James
II.

f.238
v
– Nicholas Cooke and Henry Lavening to Sir Bourchier Wrey, bart., on the capture of [Captain Robert Perrot], one of the Monmouth rebels, Brendon, Somerset; 30 July 1685.

f.238
r
– Ralph Alexander named as being suspected of involvement in the attempted theft of the Crown Jewels.

Sloane MSS

2,448
– ff.15 – ‘Necessities for fortifying Tangier' noted by ‘T.S. Bekman' [Captain Martin Beckman] c.1661.

1,941
– Papers of Dr Nehemiah Grew of London, mainly seventeenth-century poems and songs.

f.18 – A stanza ‘upon Blood's attempting to steal the crown' in Latin and English.

3,413
– Papers
of Dr Walter Charleton [d.1707] of Norwich.

- f.29
r
– Poem by Andrew Marvell on Blood's attempted theft of the Crown. Latin and English.

Stowe MSS

202
Essex Papers, May–August 1673.

f.81 – Warrant in favour of Thomas Blood senior in Ireland, 1673.

John Rylands Library 150 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3EH

Tatton Park MS 68.20
– Nehemiah Wallington,
Great Marcys Continued: or yet God is good to Israel
; f.210, an account of the siege of Sherborne Castle, Dorset, 1645.

Lancashire Record Office Bow Lane, Preston PR1 2RE

DDX 2670/1
– Notes on the Holcroft family, compiled by J. Paul Rylands, 1877.

DP/23
– Depositions of Leonard Egerton esquire of Shawe; Holcroft Linford gentleman, of Little Walden and John Peers, yeoman, of Glas-brooke, in Egerton
v
John Holcroft esquire of Holcroft concerning money borrowed for the purchase of the manors of Holcroft and Pursfurlong; November 1666; certified by Hugh Standish and William Berrington, 6 May 1683.

DP/397/25/4
– Notes on defendants' title in lawsuit over the manors and lands of Holcroft, Pesfurlong, Culneth and Risley, Lancashire,
c
.4 December 1657.

QSP/147/3
– Information of Margaret, widow of Colonel John Holcroft esq., against Thomas Holcroft esq., Hamlet Holcroft the younger, gent., Joseph Key, Robert Drinkwater, husbandman and Richard Deane, miller, all of Holcroft, Culcheth; Quarter Sessions petitions, Ormskirk, Lancashire, midsummer 1657. Damaged.

QSP/547/15
– Ejection of John Southworth of Cadeshead, Lancashire, and his mother Margaret by Richard Caveley,
c.
1681–2.

House of Lords Record Office Houses of Parliament, London SW1A OPW

HL/PO/JO/10/1/344/352
– Records of House of Lords' inquiry into the assault on the duke of Ormond; 14 January 1671.

(b)
Attestations of Mathew Pretty and William Wilson at the Bull Head tavern, London.

(c1)
Information of William Done.

(C2)
Information of John Jones, victualler at the White Swan tavern in Queen's Street, London.

(C4)
Information of Thomas Trishaire, W. Tayler and Michael Beresford.

(d1)
Examination of John Hurst.

(e1)
Deposition of Thomas Drayton, a constable of Lambeth, Surrey.

(e2)
Deposition of John Buxton, of Bell Alley, Coleman Street, London.

(e3)
Deposition of Margaret Boulter, aged twelve years, niece of Richard Halliwell.

(e4)
Deposition of John Buxton.

(e5)
Deposition of Elizabeth Price.

(e6)
Deposition of Samuel Holmes.

(e7)
Deposition of Holmes's servant.

(e9)
Deposition of Thomas Weyer.

(e10)
Deposition of William Gant.

(e11)
Deposition of Mrs Price and William Mumford.

(e12)
Deposition of Katherine Halliwell.

(e13)
Deposition of Barnaby Bloxton, tailor.

(g1)
Letter of Judge Morton to the Duke of Ormond.

(g2)
Copy of JPs' warrant.

(g3)
Record of conviction against Hunt.

(g4)
Receipt of Thomas Hunt, dated 17 October 1670, relating to the recovery of his pistol, sword and belt, in the custody of Thomas Drayton, constable of Lambeth.

(g6)
Letter from T[homas] A[llen] to Mrs Mary Hunt, dated 17 November 1670, and addressed to ‘Mr Davyes' house at Moreclack' (Mortlake, Surrey).

(h)
Summary of previous depositions relating to Halliwell.

(h1)
Letter from T[homas] A[llen] to Mr Holloway [Halliwell].

(h2)
Letter from T[homas] A[llen] to Mr Holloway [Halliwell].

(h4)
Paper endorsed ‘Fifth Monarchy'.

(h6)
Letter from Richard Halliwell.

(h7)
Letter from Richard Halliwell to the lord mayor.

(h8)
Depositions of William Mosely and his daughter Honour Mosely, of Blue Anchor Alley, Bunhill, London.

(h9)
Petition of Katherine Halliwell, wife of Richard Halliwell, tobacco-cutter.

(l)
Examination of Francis Johnson, ‘a pretended minister', living in Gray's Inn Lane, London, 19 December 1670.

(m)
Information of John Wybourne and George Baker about John Washwhite.

(m1)
Petition of John Washwhite.

(m2)
Petition of John Washwhite.

(n3)
Examination of Thomas Dixey (named in the information John Dixey).

(n4)
Letter from Judge Morton to Mr James Clarke.

(o)
Paper endorsed: ‘An information given to the Lord Arlington concerning the persons that assaulted the Duke of Ormond'.

(p)
Report of the House of Lords' Committee; 17 February.

(q)
Draft order of the House of Lords; 9 March.

Manchester Archives Marshall Street, Manchester M4 5FU

L89/1/23/1
– Commission on Chantries addressed to Sir Thomas Holcroft, John Holcroft and two others relating to chantries of Stretford and Manchester; 13 February 1546.

National Archives of Ireland Kildare Street, Dublin 2

MSS

451
– Pedigrees and other genealogical data compiled by Alfred Molony relating to the Brereton, Blood and Blount families.

12,816
–
An account of the family of Blood, mainly of Co. Clare, descended from Edmond Blood MP, with blazons of arms.

The National Archives Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU

America and Colonial Papers

CO/21
, no 170. West Indies papers, 1667.

Assize Records

ASSI 35/111/5,
f.4 – Surrey assizes at Guildford; Indictment of Thomas Hunt, alias Thomas Blood, for highway robbery at Croydon; 4 July 1670. Damaged.

Chancery Court Records

C 241/147/39
– Action for recovery of a debt of £200 brought by the creditor, Henry de Tildeslegh of Ditton in [Widnes], Lancashire, against Thomas, son of John de Holcroft of Lancashire; 17 February 1367.

Exchequer Records

E 134/1652/Mich2
– Depositions in the dispute over the estates, debtors and last will of Edward Calveley esquire, died November 1636.

E 134/12Chas2/Mich6
– Robert King
v
John Benbow and Mary Hoi-croft, relict of John Holcroft, over a conveyance made by Christopher Trentham of his estate in Cheshire to John Holcroft and others; 1660.

E 134/13Chas2/East21
– John Calveley
v
Thomas Holcroft, Margaret Holcroft, widow, John Kerford, Charles Holcroft, Thomas Broome, John Shaw, Thomas Busworth,John Barton; manors of Holcroft, Cad-awshed, Barton-upon-Irwell and Pursfurlong and lands in Culcheth, Riseley, Atherton and Wigshaw, Lancashire; 1661.

E 134/13Chas2/Trin6
– John Calveley
v
Thomas Holcroft, Margaret Holcroft, widow, Charles Holcroft, Thomas Broome, John Shaw, Thomas Unworth, John Kerford John Barton; manors of Holcroft, Cadawshed, Barton-upon-Irwell and Pursfurlong and lands in Culcheth, Riseley, Atherton and Wigshaw, Lancashire; 1661.

Postal archives

POST 23/1
–
Letter to mayor of Hull announcing that regular posts would be carried along five principal roads in England and Wales, viz. to Dover, Edinburgh, Holyhead, Plymouth and Bristol; London 28 January 1636.

Privy Council Records

PC 2/68
– Proceedings of Privy Council 21 April 1679–29 May 1680.

f.471 – Removal of Sir William Waller from the Commission of the Peace.

State Paper series

9/32/313
– Sir Joseph Williamson's ‘address book'.

29/97/20,
f.32 – Sir Roger Langley, high sheriff of Yorkshire, to Bennet; York, 23 April 1664.

29/97/41,
f.54 – Sir Roger Langley, high sheriff of Yorkshire, to Bennet, suggesting the services of William Leving as a spy; 3 April 1664.

29/97/75,
f.130 – Leving to Arlington; Tower of London, 30 April 1664.

29/98/132,
f.244 – Sir Roger Langley, high sheriff of Yorkshire, to Bennet; May 1664.

29/102/48,
f.57 – Names of thirteen persons in London in disguise with their aliases.

29/102/49,
f.59 – Orders for the repair of the Tower of London; Whitehall, 12 September 1664.

29/103/21,
f.13 – Bennet's certificate of employment for William Leving and request that he should ‘not be molested or restrained'; 5 October 1664.

29/115/44,
f.124 – Interrogation of William Ashenshaw, a prisoner in the White Lion prison.

29/121/131,
f.175 – List of thirty-one disaffected persons in London; 22 May 1665.

29/121/132,
f.176 – List of seventeen seditious persons suspected to be in London; 22 May 1665.

29/140/93,
f.136 – Discharge of three conventiclers [?with assistance of Colonel Blood] – dated December 1665 in
CSP Domestic
but almost certainly after 1671.

29/147/111
, f.147 – ‘Notes from the person sent by my lord of Orrery'.

29/155/17
, f.24 – Gilbert
Thomas, marshal of the Gatehouse prison to Arlington; 2 May 1666.

29/168/148,
f.154 – Captain John Grice to Williamson; Blood has departed for Ireland with others to ‘do mischief; 24 August 1666.

29/168/151,
f.158 – Instructions from Williamson to intercept all letters coming from Ireland addressed to John Knipe [of] Aldersgate Street [London] or going to Ireland, addressed to Daniel Egerton, of Cock [Cook] Street, Whitehall; ?24 August 1666.

29/168/211,
f.154 – Captain John Grice to Williamson about Blood's involvement in a new Irish conspiracy; 26 August 1666.

29/173/131,
f.205 – Request for permit from Arlington, endorsed ‘Blood's Memorial' dated August 1665 in
CSP Domestic
but after 1671.

29/173/132,
f.206 – Memorandum [by Williamson] reporting that ‘nothing [had been] found' to justify that the Great Fire of London had been caused ‘other than by the Hand of God, a great wind and a dry season'; London, 1666.

29/196/6,
f.6 – Sir Philip Musgrave to Williamson reporting that Blood ‘was among the Scottish rebels' and had been in Westmoreland ‘at a rigid Anabaptist's [house]'; 1 April ?1667.

29/201/39,
f.46 – Jonathan Mascall to Williamson, reporting that William Leving was held as a prisoner; York, 18 May 1667.

29/201/93,
f.108 – Warrant to apprehend William Freer for ‘dangerous and seditious practices'; ‘given at court at Whitehall'; partially undated [?May] 1667.

29/209/44,
f.54 – William Leving to Arlington; Newgate prison, London, 11 July 1667.

29/209/88,
f.103 – William Leving to Williamson; Newgate prison, London, 13 July 1667.

29/210/141,
f.162 – Petition of Captain John Grice to Arlington, seeking an allowance and a pass for Ireland; 25 July 1667.

29/210/151,
f.173 – William Leving to Arlington, providing his account of the rescue of Mason; 25 July 1667.

29/211/17,
f.18 – Jonathan Mascall to Williamson, giving another account of Mason's rescue; York, 27 July 1667.

29/211/60,
f.61 – Corporal William Darcy to Sir Charles Wheeler, Old Palace Yard, Westminster; York, 24 July 1667.

29/212/6,
f.6 – John
Betson, government spy, to Arlington; 1 August 1667.

29/212/70,
f.74 – William Leving to Robert Benson, clerk of assizes, with note attached reporting that Leving was dead and had been poisoned; 5 August 1667.

29/218/18,
f.27 – Freer to Williams, wrongly reporting the death of Blood; York Castle, 28 September 1667.

29/281/74,
f.100 – Robert Pitt to Prince Rupert; 23 December 1670.

29/281/77,
f.103 – Postscript to a torn letter to an unknown addressee reporting that ‘Allen or Ayliff, mentioned in the [
London] Gazette
. . . had been at sea in the
Portland
frigate'; 25 December 1670.

29/281/15,
f.17 – [Henry Muddiman] to Mr. Worth, collector at Falmouth; Whitehall, 8 December, 1670.

29/281/24,
f.28 – Thomas Peachy supplying information about Henry Davis, one of the Queen's troop of guards (in Williamson's handwriting); London, 13 December, 1670.

29/281/75,
f.101 – Robert Benson to Williamson; Wrenthorp, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, 24 December 1670.