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Acknowledgements

This book could not have been written without the tireless and enthusiastic support of my dear wife, who has shared with me the complexities of seventeenth-century Irish politics and the conspiracies against the crown and government of Charles II.

I am very grateful to Heather Rowland, Head of Library Collections, and Adrian James, Assistant Librarian, at the Society of Antiquaries of London; Kay Walters and her team at the Athenæum Club library; the staff at the University of Sussex library at Falmer, East Sussex and the National Archives at Kew and in the Rare Books, Manuscripts and Humanities reading rooms at the British Library. My thanks are also due to the staff at the Bodleian Library; to my researchers Hilda McGauley of ‘Records of Ireland' for her assistance at the National Library of Ireland and especially to Denise A. Harman for her hard work at the Lancashire Record Office. Lastly, I am particularly grateful to Robert C. Woosnam-Savage, Curator of European Edged Weapons at the Royal Armouries, and to my good friend Philip J. Lankester, Curator Emeritus, for their very kind help with Colonel Blood's ballock daggers.

At Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Alan Samson has, as always, been encouraging and helpful, as has Lucinda McNeile, and I would like to record my gratitude to my meticulous editor Anne O'Brien and to David Atkinson for compiling the index and to my agent Andrew Lownie. Any errors or omissions are entirely my responsibility.

Robert Hutchinson
West Sussex, 2015

Illustrations

Unknown man, formerly known as Thomas Blood, attributed to Gilbert Soest and painted in the 1670s.

Thomas Blood by George White.

James Butler, First Duke of Ormond, lord lieutenant of Ireland during the attempted seizure of Dublin Castle in 1663, and victim of Blood's attempted kidnap and murder.

Sir Joseph Williamson, secretary of state and operational head of the Stuart secret service.

Henry Bennet, First Earl of Arlington, secretary of state and pursuer of the would-be assassins of the Duke of Ormond.