The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood (50 page)

29/281/99,
f.132 – Thomas Peachey to Williamson, retracting his suspicions about Henry Davis; ‘The Mews' ?London, 30 December 1670.

29/287/911,
f.120 — Examination of Richard Wilkinson before Lord Arlington; [undated] 1670.

29/289/187,
f.366 – Account of attempted theft of Crown Jewels in a newsletter to Mr Kirke in Cambridge; London, 9 May 1671.

29/289/283,
f.284 – Claim by Thomas Drayton and Henry Partridge of Lambeth, Surrey, for the £100 reward for information leading to the identification of the attackers of the Duke of Ormond; ? April 1671.

29/290/11,
f.15 – Blood to the king; Tower of London, 19 May 1671. [A forgery – not in Blood's hand.]

29/293/12,
f.15 – Blood to Williamson, describing a visit by a stranger who may be trying to ensnare him; London, 18 September 1671.

29/293/28,
f.31 – Notes by Williamson on information on conspiracies supplied by Blood; 21 September 1671.

29/294/14,
f.20 – Notes in Williamson's hand on methods of defeating conspiracies; London, 9 November 1671.

29/294/15,
f.21 – Williamson's notes on Blood's
work amongst the Presbyterians; London, 11 November 1671.

29/294/36,
f.43 – Williamson's aide-memoire on conspiracies; London, 16 November 1671.

29/294/124,
f.152 – Richard Wilkinson, government informer, to Williamson; 1 December 1671.

29/294/139,
f.169 – Williamson's notes claiming that Blood ‘has left himself notably to fantasies', has received money to pay debts and his ‘head is turned with wine and treats'; London, 4 December 1671.

29/294/216,
f.274 – Sir John Robinson, lieutenant of the Tower of London, to Williamson, describing his meetings with Blood; Tower, 23 December 1671.

29/294/235,
f.295 – Williamson's notes of threats to Blood; London, 27 December 1671.

29/333/82
, f.126 – Richard Wilkinson, government informer, to Colonel John Russell about his poor treatment in prison; Appleby, 10 February 1673.

29/333/181
, f.249 – Note in Colonel Blood's handwriting that pamphlets from Holland were due to be delivered, most going to the Spanish ambassador; [February] 1673.

29/366/25,
f.11 – Williamson's notes: Blood's pension as a spy; 12 September 1675.

29/397/7,
f.7 – Notes by Williamson about information supplied by Blood of a Fifth Monarchists' plot to attack the Tower of London and kill Charles II and his brother at Newmarket or London and set up Richard Cromwell as nominal ruler; London, 2 October 1677.

29/414/23,
f.40 – Blood to James, Duke of York with a plea for his assistance in gaining freedom; 15 July 1680.

29/414/26,
f.46 – Blood to Sir Leoline Jenkins with a request for £600 from the Lords of the Treasury in lieu of his salary and ‘an immediate supply' for thirty or forty guineas ‘for I am quite destitute'; London, 18 July 1680.

29/417/207,
f.443 – Charles Blood to the Duke of York warning of ‘most dangerous conspiracies' against him; undated, ?1681.

29/417/207.1,
f.445 – Charles Blood's information about a plot to stage an insurrection against the king; undated, ? 1683.

29/450/712,
f.46 –
Letter to Lord Conway assuring him that there was no plot involved in starting the Great Fire of London; [8 September] 1666.

44/34/86,
f.87 – Warrant to the keeper of the Gatehouse prison to receive John Buxton for ‘dangerous practices and combinations with Thomas Blood and his son' and to keep him a close prisoner; London, 15 May 1671.

44/34/110,
f.111 – Pardon to Thomas Blood ‘the Father of all Treasons' of ‘all Treasons, misprisons of treason, murders . . . felonies, assaults, batteries and other offences w[ha]soever at any time since 29 day of May 1660, com[m]itted by himself alone, or together w[it]h any other p[er]sons . . .' recorded in Arlington papers, dated 1 August 1671.

44/34/115,
f.116 – Grant of pardon to Thomas Blood junior in the same form as his father's pardon; London, 31 August 1671.

45/12/246
– Proclamation offering reward for the capture of the rescuers of Captain John Mason; 8 August 1667.

46/95/72
– Warrants from P[aul] Hobson (major in Sir Arthur Hesilrige's Regiment of Foot) to Alderman Thomas Ledgard, military treasurer to Sir Arthur Hesilrige, governor of Newcastle, for payments to Cornet John Grice for money for the soldiers to buy oats for their horses; receipted, 11 May 1649.

46/95/78 – Warrants from Sir Arthur Hesilrige to Alderman Ledgard for payments to Cornet John Grice for intelligence; receipted, 22 June 1649.

84/180/62
– Intercepted letter: Ludlow ‘heard that several persons sent out of England to destroy friends wheresoever they may be met with'.

84/188/125
– Blood reports on passage of Dutch warships on River Texel; March 1672.

State Papers series, Ireland

63/313/120
, f.243 – Ormond and Irish Council to Bennet concerning the prisoner Henry Porter, alleged executioner of Charles I; Dublin Castle, 29 April 1663.

63/313/164,
f.335 – Colonel Edward Vernon to Bennet; 21 May 1663.

63/313/166
f.340 – Colonel Edward Vernon to Williamson; 21 May 1663.

63/313/168
, f.346 –
Earl of Orrery to the king; Newtown, 23 May 1663.

63/313/169,
f.349 – Colonel Edward Vernon to Bennet; 23 May 1663.

63/313/170
, f.351 – Ormond and Council to Bennet; Dublin Castle, 23 May 1663.

63/313/172,
f.354 – Lord Aungier to Bennet; 23 May 1663.

63/313/173,
f.355 – Ormond to Bennet; Dublin Castle, 23 May 1663.

63/313/176
, f.361 – Sir George Lane to Bennet; Dublin Castle, 25 May 1663.

63/313/174,
f.357 – Ormond to Bennet; Dublin Castle, 24 May 1663.

63/313/180
, f.366 – Ormond to the king; Dublin, 30 May 1663.

63/313/186,
f.376 – Colonel Edward Vernon to Bennet; Dublin, 30 May 1663.

63/313/187
, f.378 – Deposition of James Tanner taken before the lord lieutenant; Dublin, 31 May 1663.

63/313/193
, f.395 – Sir Nicholas Armorer to Williamson; Dublin, 3 June 1663.

63/313/198
, f.403 – Colonel Edward Vernon to Williamson; Dublin, 5 June 1663.

63/313201,
f.408 – Ormond to Bennet; Dublin, 6 June 1663.

63/313/207
, f.419 – Ormond to Bennet; Dublin Castle, 10 June 1663.

63/313/209
, f.422 – Ormond to Bennet; Dublin Castle, 10 June 1663.

63/313/209,
f.425 – Sir George Lane to James Tanner with reply and note to Robert Littlebury in London; 6–10 June 1663.

63/313/211
, f.430 – Sir Thomas Clarges to Bennet; Dublin, 11 June 1663.

63/313/215
, f.435 – Sir George Lane to Bennet; Dublin Castle, 13 June 1663.

63/313/217,
f.439 – Ormond to Bennet; Dublin Castle, 13 June, 1663.

63/313/220,
f.449 – Thomas Bate to Robert Littlebury at the sign of the Unicorn, Little Britain, London; Dublin, 13 June 1663.

63/313/221,
f.451 – Sir Gilbert Talbot seeks the grant of Blood's estates in Ireland from Williamson; 13 June 1663.

63/313/224,
f.456, [–] ‘from my chamber in the “Round World”' to Sir Jordan Crosland ‘at his house in Holborn [London] between the Griffin and the Bowl'; 14 June 1663.

63/313/225
, f.458 – Colonel Edward Vernon to Bennet; Dublin, 14 June 1663.

63/313/226,
f.460 – Instructions for the search for arms in Co. Dublin, signatures torn off; Dublin, after 16 June 1663.

63/313/230
, f.465 – Account of all His Majesty's military stores and weaponry in Ireland, as at August 1662 and July 1663; 18 June 1663.

63/313/234,
f.474 – Robert Leigh to Williamson; Dublin, 20 June 1663.

63/313/243,
f.491 – Sir George Lane to Bennet; Dublin Castle, 25 June 1663.

63/313/245
, f.495 – Ormond to Bennet; Dublin, 25 June 1663.

63/314/2,
f.3 –
Colonel Edward Vernon to Williamson; 1 July 1663.

63/314/6,
f.42 – Draft of a letter from Ormond to the king; Dublin, 14 July 1663.

63/314/11,
f.32 – Sir George Lane to Secretary Bennet; Dublin Castle, 11 July 1663.

63/314/17,
f.44 – Colonel Edward Vernon to Williamson; Dublin, 14 July 1663.

63/314/18,
f.46 – Ormond to Bennet; Council Chamber, Dublin, 15 July 1663.

63/315/21
, f.42 – Ormond to Bennet; Dublin Castle, 16 November 1663.

63/315/22
, f.44 – Earl of Orrery to [Bennet]; Newtown, 17 November 1663.

63/315/15,
f.49 – Sir George Lane's account of the recapture of William Lackey on 15 November, 1663; Dublin Castle, 18 November 1663.

63/320/34,
f.72 – Earl of Orrery to the king; Charleville, 7 February 1666.

63/320/45,
f.1 – Copy of a letter from Earl of Orrery to Ormond; Charleville, 12 February 1666.

f.2 Dame Dorcas Lane to her husband, Sir George Lane, 8 February 1666.

63/321/164,
f.10 – Earl of Orrery to Arlington; Charleville, 22 September 1666.

63/320/129,
f.2 – The king to Ormond, with instructions to grant Captain Toby Barnes a lease of the town and lands of Sarney, Braystown and Foylestown in the barony of Dunboyne, Co. Meath and 500 acres of ‘unprofitable mountain' in Glenmalure, Co Wicklow, formerly
belonging to Thomas Blood, lately attainted of high treason; Whitehall, 11 April 1666.

War Office Papers

WO 94/58/24
– Correspondence relating to the memorial to Talbot Edwards, 1936.

Works Departments Records

WORK 14/2/1
– Papers on the adaptation of Wakefield Tower as a new Jewel House and provision of glass cases to display the Regalia; 1 January 1852 to 31 December 1869.

WORK 31/22
– Plans of Jewel House in Tower of London, 15 August 1702 and plan of first storey showing dining room, parlour, kitchen and staircase, dated 1668, both bearing the stamp ‘I.G.F.' for Inspector General of Fortifications.

WORK 31/68
– Plan and section of Jewel Tower; early eighteenth century.

Wills and Probate Records

PROB 11/364/248
– Will of Thomas Blood; Westminster, 22 August 1680.

PROB 4/5301
– Engrossed inventories, exhibited from 1660, of Thomas Blood of St Margaret, Westminster; 7 May 1681.

PROB 4/5476
– Inventory of the goods and chattels of William Blood, of
Mary
, signed by his sister Elizabeth Everard, November 1688.

PROB 11/360/467,
f.304 – Edmund Blood, purser of
Jersey
, 3 April 1678.

PROB 11/504/89
– Brig. Holcroft Blood, Brussels, 26 July 1708.

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