The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood (54 page)

imprisonment and interrogation, 132–48

and Leving's death, 85

and licences for worship, 163–4

marriage, xxiii–xxv

meeting with Ludlow, 66–8, 136

his notebook, 188–9

and Pentland uprising, 71

and plots against king, 114, 136, 138–9

and political clubs, 173

and Presbyterian conspiracy, 59–65

and rehabilitation of nonconformists, 154–66

relations with nonconformists, 143–4, 154–5, 158, 166

rescue of Mason, 75–85, 133, 188

restoration of properties, 149, 167, 204–5

Romford medical practice, 71–2, 87–9

rumour of his death, 87

suspected presence in Ireland, 68–70

trial of fellow conspirators, 61–2

warrants for his arrest, 71, 73, 84, 185–6

his will, 190–1, 204

Blood, Thomas (alias ‘Thomas Hunt') (Colonel Blood's eldest son), xxv, 71, 188–9

and highway robbery, 88–9, 143, 189

and assault on Ormond, 91–2, 95–8, 100–3, 106, 108–9, 133

and attempt on Crown Jewels, 121, 126–7, 129–30

imprisonment, 134, 141, 148

army career, 168

his widow, 191, 204

Blood, William (Colonel Blood's son), xxv, 166, 168, 191, 202

Blood, William (Edmund Blood's son), xviii

Bloxton, Barnaby, 88

Bold, Samuel (vicar of Shapwick, Dorset), 284

Boleyn, Anne, xxiv

Book of Common Prayer
, 6

Book of Daniel, 54

Book of Revelation, 54

Boscobel woods, 108

Boulter, Margaret, 102

Boyd, Thomas, 48

Boyle, Archbishop Michael (lord chancellor of Ireland), 174

Boyne, Battle of the, 203

Bradford, William, 21–2

Bradley, Jane (barmaid), 181–2

Bradshaw, John, 262

Braithwaite, Mr, 130

Brandon, Richard, 239

Brazil, or Brasil, isle of, discovery of, 240

Breten, John, 68

Bridgeman, Sir Orlando, 144

Bridges, Sir Thomas, 154

broadsheets, 193

Broderick, Sir Allan, 237

Brooks, Thomas, 97

Browne, Captain, 18, 28, 63

Browne, Sir Richard, 160

Bruce, Alexander, 130

Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 53–4, 56–7, 62, 86

and assault on Ormond, 110–12, 135

and attempt on Crown Jewels, 142, 144–5

and Blood's downfall, 182–90

death, 195–6

enmity towards Ormond, 110–12, 135–6, 262, 269

founder of Bilsdale Hunt, 288

and political conspiracies, 173, 175–6, 179–80, 202

reputation for violence, 183

Buffalo Head tavern, Westminster, 185

Buggery Act, 183

Bull Head tavern, Charing Cross, London, 94–5

Burghclere, Lady, 258

Burgoyne, Sir Roger, 150

Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, 142

Burnett, Ralph (Lincoln postmaster), 285

Bury, Captain John, 180 Butler, Dr Nicholas, 155–6, 158, 162, 164

Butler, Timothy, 60, 71, 73, 76, 81, 83–5, 87, 114

Buxton, John, 106, 141

Calveley, Edward, 5

Calveley, Ralph, 237

Calveley, Richard, 169

canary wine, 95, 264

Careless, William, 108

Caroon House, South Lambeth, housing debtors, 280

Carpenter, Philip, 244

Carr, Colonel Gilbert (‘Gibby'), 28, 30–2, 41–2, 60, 64

Carr, Mrs, 42

Carrickfergus, capture of, 203

Carter, Captain Nicholas, 168

Cartmel Priory, xxiv

Cashel, capture of, 203

Catherine of Braganza, Queen, 92–3, 107, 178, 198, 262, 273

Catholicism, royal family and, 165–6

Catholics, banished from London, 179

Cellier, Elizabeth, 284–5

Chamberlain, Dr (Middlesex magistrate), 182

Chamberlain, Thomas, 202

Chamberlin, John (Dublin brewer), 28, 32, 43

Chambers, Captain John, 21, 32, 48

Chambers, Robert, 28

Chapel of the Pyx, Westminster Abbey, xvi, 115, 229

Charles I, King, xx, xxiii, xxv, 115, 196, 233, 238–9, 252

Charles II, King

and assault on Coventry, 112

and assault on Ormond, 99–100

and Blood's
interrogation, 134–41

and Blood's pardon, 146–9

and Blood's role in Pentland uprising, 71

and Crown Jewels, 116, 119, 137, 144–5

and Dublin Castle conspiracy, 8–9, 15, 25, 30, 33, 35–6, 44, 48

entry into London, 248

and forfeiture of Blood's property, 67

and intelligence gathering, 49, 51–2, 56–7

interrogation of Oates, 180

Lauderdale's influence with, 157

pardons Blood's accomplices, 159–60

plots against, xv, 50, 113–14, 121, 135–6, 138–9, 144, 160, 170, 174–81, 198–200

proclaimed king at Pontefract, 233

and religious toleration, 156, 158, 161–3, 165–6

and restoration of Blood's properties, 149, 167, 204

Rochester's satire on, 150–1

and scientific experiments, 177

shortage of money, 92, 117, 144, 151

and succession to throne, 92–3, 165

tendency to absolutism, 165

total of illegitimate children, 263

Charnock, Stephen, 14, 31, 33–4, 42

Choqueux, Dr (French physician), 179

Christian, Edward, 182–3, 186

Christmas Day, observance of during Commonwealth, 248

Church, Mr, 155–6, 158, 186

Churchill, Winston, 24, 237, 242

ciphers, 50–1

Clancarty, Earl of, 17

Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 10, 56, 61, 90, 110, 231

Clarendon House, Piccadilly, London, 90, 96–8, 100, 262

Clarges, Sir Thomas, 33

Clarke, Thomas, 98

Claveley, John, 6

Cleveland, Barbara Villiers (née Palmer), Duchess of, no, 135–6, 198

Clifford, Sir Thomas, 149

Clotworthy, John, 39

cock-fighting, 259

Coddan, Philemon, 182, 184–5

coffee houses, 11, 133, 142, 160, 239

Committee of Foreign Affairs, 153

Congress of Cologne, 167

Constable, John, 108

Conventicles Act, 154–5

Conway, Viscount, 71, 257

Cook, Mrs Dorothy, 204

Cooke, Colonel Edward, 237

Cooke, William, xix

Cooke (brewer), 64

Corbet, Miles, 67

Court of Claims, 4, 15, 22, 24, 179

Covent Garden, London, 94, 263

Coventry, Sir John, 112–13

Craven, William, Earl of, 139, 265

Cromwell, Henry, xxv, 14, 18, 21–2, 31, 34

Cromwell, Oliver, xxv, 1–2, 233–4, 262

Cromwell, Richard, xxv, 173, 285

Cromwell, Thomas, 183, 253

‘Cromwell's Barracks', 236

Crowe, Captain Thomas, 150

Crown Jewels, 115–31, 143–5, 151, 155, 175

and improved security, 205–6

Crown tavern, Ram Alley, London, 184

Cruice, Patrick, 3

Curtis, Thomas, 184, 186

Cutts, Lord, 203

daggers, associated with Blood, 130, 274–5

Dale, William, 144

Dalziel, Lieutenant General Thomas, 70

Danby, Countess of, 184

Danby, Thomas Osborne, Earl of, 170, 178–9, 182, 185

Danvers, Colonel Henry, 73

Darcy, Patrick, 34, 37, 39, 244

Darcy, Corporal William, 75–6, 78, 81–2

Darrington, affray at, 75–85

Davies, Jonathan, 99

Davies, Sir Paul, 23

Davies, Robert, 21

Davis, Henry, 268

Dawson, Christopher, 60

de Gomme, Bernard, 273

De la Rock, Lieutenant, 28

de Ros, General William Fitz-Gerald, 206, 290–1

de Ruyter, Admiral Michiel, 59, 92

Declaration of Indulgence, 161–3, 165, 277

Dering, Sir Edward, 237

Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 264

Devonshire House, Piccadilly, London, 264–5

Dixey, Thomas, 108

Dizey,John, 108

‘dog killers', 63

Dog tavern, Westminster, 185

Dolben, Sir William, 187, 287

Dolman (butcher), 4–5

Domville, Sir William, 38–9

Done, William, 104

‘Dons', the, 155

Downing, Sir George, 67, 256

Draper, Henry, 108

Draper, Sir Thomas, 280

Drayton, Thomas, 89

Drinkwater, Robert, 5

Drogheda, massacre at, xviii, 2, 234

Dryden,John, 173

Dublin Castle conspiracy, 8–48, 91, 117, 133

‘Ducklings', the, 156

duelling, 112

Dungannon, Lord, 19

Duval, Claude, 145

Dyve, Sir Lewis, xxi

Edith, Queen, 116

Edwards, Elizabeth, 118, 123–4, 127, 201

Edwards, Talbot, 118–19, 122–7, 130, 151–2, 206

Edwards, Wythe, 118, 126–7, 129, 134, 151

Egerton, Daniel, 50

Elizabeth I, Queen, anniversary of her accession, 198, 289

Elton, Lieutenant, 87

Essex, Arthur Capel, Earl of, 167, 200

Evelyn, John, 55–6, 91, 136, 149

Exby (footman), 96

executions, in Dublin, 39–40, 44–6, 48

Fairfax, Sir Thomas, xxi

Farriner, Thomas, 69

Fellows, John, 36

Feversham, George Sondes, First Earl of, 54

Fielding, Henry, 99

Fifth Monarchists, 54–5, 59, 95–6, 102, 106, 109, 121, 143, 160, 173, 175

fireworks, 179

Fisher, John, 191

Fitzgerald, Colonel John, 273

FitzJames, Lady, 166

Fitzpatrick, Colonel, 17

Fitzpatrick, Teige and Simon, xx

Fleet prison, London, burnt down, 280

Forbes, Sir Arthur, 24

Ford, Sir Richard, 93, 101, 103

Foulke, John, 22, 28, 32

Four Days Battle, 255

Freer, William, 69–70, 73–4, 86, 259

French Guards, 202

Frend, Sarah, 191

Frying Pan Alley, London, 100–1, 265

Fuller, William, Bishop of Lincoln, 165

Fyan, Thomas, 244

Gant, William, 88

Gardiner, Thomas, 258

Garret, William, 52

Gascoign, Sir Bernard (ambassador in Vienna), 161

Gatehouse prison, Westminster, 106–8, 141, 185–7, 267

General Post Office, 50, 156

George VI, King, 270

Gilson, Thomas, 164

Gladman, Major John, 159

Glencairn, William Cunningham, Earl of, 246

Glorious Revolution, 203

Godfrey, Sir Edmund Berry (magistrate), 178–9

Gorges, Colonel, 29

Gower, Sir Thomas, 58

Grafton, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 197–8

Graham, Sir James, 206

Great Fire of London, 69, 177, 188, 257–8, 262, 280

Great Ormond Street, London, 144

Great Plague, 63, 251, 254, 265

Great Seal of England, 144

Great West Road, 90

Green, Robert (Dublin resident), 30

Green, Robert (labourer), 178

Green Ribbon Club, 173–4

Grey of Wilton, Arthur, Lord, 232

Grice, Captain John, 68, 71, 256–7

Griffin, John, 21

Gunpowder Plot, 118, 179, 198

Gwynn, Nell, 53, 112

H., R. (Richard Halliwell?), Blood's biographer, xxi, 61, 76, 193–4

Hacker, Francis, 238

Hale, Sir Matthew, 109

Halliwell, Captain Richard, 198, 266

and assault on Ormond, 95, 100–4, 109

and attempt on Crown Jewels, 121, 124, 126, 129, 141

in Spitalfields, London, 198

Halliwell, Katherine, 102–3

Hampton Court, 63

hanging, drawing and quartering, 39–40

Harris, James, 198

Harrison, John, 139, 199

Harrison, Major General Thomas, 121, 272

Hart, Mr (Scottish minister), 41

Harwood, Sarah, 183

hearth (chimney) tax, 53, 57, 250–1

Henley (coachman), 96

Henry IV, King, 116

Henry V, King, 270

Henry VII, King, 35, 116–17

Henry VIII, King, 91, 117

his effigy, 235–6

Henry, Hugh, 205

Henry, Joseph, 205

Henshaw, Sir Thomas, 140–1, 149

Herostratus, 120, 271

Heselrige, Sir Arthur, 57, 256

Hewlett, Captain William, 10–12, 238

Heywood (prisoner), 118

Hickeringill, Edmund (rector of All Saints, Colchester, Essex), 284

Hickey, Maurice, 184, 186

highway robbery, 73–4, 86, 88, 96, 101, 143, 175

Hill, Lawrence, 178, 286

Hobart, Sir Nathaniel, 150

Hobson, Paul, 10

Hogan, Hugh, xx

Hogden, Widow, 61

Holcroft:, Charles, 168

Holcroft, Hamlet, 5

Holcroft, Lieutenant Colonel John, xxiii–xxiv, 5

his estate, 168–9

Holcroft, Margaret, xxiii, 5–6, 59

Holcroft, Thomas, xxiii–xxiv, 5–6

Holland Henry, 205

Holles, Denzil, 147

Holmes, Samuel, 88, 106

Hone, William, 199

Hooker, Justice, 106

Hopkins, Jenkin, 10

Hopton, Sir John, 166

House of Lords, planned attack on, 138–9, 144, 170

Howard, Lord, 104

Howell (friend of Halliwell), 102–3

Hubert, Patrick, 257

hue and cry, 81, 260

Huggett, William, 52

Huguenots, 284

Hunt, Michael, xx

Hurst, Elizabeth, 104

Hurst, John, 101–2, 104–5

Hutton, William, 205

Hyde, Edward,
see
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of

Inchiquin, Murrough McMur-rough O'Brien, Earl of, xvii, 230–1

informers,
see
spies and informers

Ingoldesby, Sir Henry, 17

Inishbofin island, 2

Innes, James, 155–6

intelligence gathering, 49–56

Ireton, Henry, 238, 262

Irish Confederation Wars, xx, 1, 4, 97, 237–8, 241

Jamaica, 2, 104

James I, King, 271

James II, King (James, Duke of York), 110, 136, 160, 170, 174, 181, 186

accedes to throne, 195, 202

and naming of New York, 263

plots against, 50, 198–202