Note: All dates employ the ‘Old Style’ Julian calendar, in use before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar, under the Calendar Act 1752.
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| edn. | edition |
| EHR | English Historical Review |
| fn. | footnote |
| HJ | Historical Journal |
| HLQ | Huntington Library Quarterly |
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| HoC | House of Commons |
| HoL | House of Lords |
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| MP | Member of Parliament |
| MS(S) | Manuscript(s) |
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| N&Q | Notes & Queries |
| no. | number |
| ODNB | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
| pt. | part |
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Primary sources
MANUSCRIPT
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Carte MSS
32 f.202r – Examination of James Milligan of Antrim by the earl of Mount-Alexander and William Leslie esq. about the concealment of Thomas Blood, alias Thomas Pilsen, in Antrim; 24 August 1663.
f.210 – Letter from Thomas Blood to John Chamberlin, reporting that he hoped to recruit disbanded cavalry troopers but he had no confidence in the ‘Scots . . . they stick so to a King’s interest, though I have laboured with some of them of a small sort to come along with me, I can prevail little – yet, I doubt not to pick up some’; ?August 1663.
f.211 – Instructions for the bearer of above letter, listing persons who can give information and assistance, undated but endorsed: ‘copied 14 August 1663 at Wicklow’.
ff.384–5 – Order in Council by Ormond regulating military pay; Dublin, 4 May 1663.
f.388 – Order in Council by Ormond directing the return of arms to his majesty’s military stores in Dublin and various other cities; Dublin, 4 May 1663.
f.446 – Sir Arthur Forbes to Ormond, reporting evidence to expect ‘some sudden design’ against the State and the apprehension of the people; Newton, Co. Meath, 22 May 1663.
f.460 – Robert Green to Colonel James Walsh, reporting that ‘disguised men have been passing about these parts’ and the night meetings held before the discovery of the Dublin Castle plot; Dublin, 25 May 1663.
f.538r – Jared Hancock to Ormond, reporting the departure of a ship from Wexford, belonging to Samuel Abernattin, ‘a known fanatic’, with several passengers on board; Wexford, 2 June 1663.
f.550 – Ormond to Bennet; Stephen Charnock, ‘a pretended minister, and chaplain to Henry Cromwell, is deeply involved in the guilt of the late conspiracies here’ and was lodged in London at Robert Littlebury’s house ‘at the sign of the Unicorn in Little Britain’; Dublin, 10 June 1663.
f.553 – Eglinton to Ormond with information on the conspirators, Lieutenant Colonel Moore and Cornet Blood; 11 June 1663.
ff.589–90 – Certificate by the borough masters and governors concerning testimony given by Jacob ‘Borstius’ [Vorstius] and others about the residence in that city of Colonel Gilbert Carr; Rotterdam, 10/20 June 1663.
f.602 – Patrick Darcy, learned counsel, to Ormond, submitting lists of the members of the grand juries of the city and county of Dublin but fearing ‘not many of them [are] fit for the business now to be agitated’; 22 June 1663.
f.604r – Patrick Darcy to Ormond, passing on information that Sir John Ponsonby ‘has said openly . . . that at the trial of the prisoners [the government] would find themselves deceived’. Endorsed: ‘For your grace only’; 22 June 1663.
f.605v – List of members of grand juries of the city of Dublin and Co. Dublin; 22 June 1663.
f.608 – J[ohn] T[homson?] to William Jackson reporting that much mischief was being done here by unruly persons ‘spoiling people’s houses in the night, under [the] pretence of taking prisoners for being [in] on the plot’; Loughbrickland, Co. Down, 29 June 1663.
f.645 – Petition of Major Thomas Barrington to Ormond, providing details of his service and that of Colonel Edward Warren in the uncovering of the late treasonable plot and seeking clemency in granting Warren’s life and estate; [June] 1663.
f.655 – Schedule of ministers’ names that are taken and sent to Carrickfergus and Carlingford relating to the late treasonous plots in Ireland; [June 1663].
f.666 – Opinion of Patrick Darcy, learned counsel, upon a point of law submitted by the Irish Government, about the penalties faced by the Dublin Castle conspirators; Dublin, 23 May 1663.
f.668 – Patrick Darcy to Ormond; Boar’s Head, Dublin, 4 June 1663.
f.669 – The case against conspirators to ‘surprise His Majesty’s Castle of Dublin in respect of the penalties by law incurred thereby with questions thereon stated to learned counsel’; [?1 June] 1663.
f.669 – Further opinion of Patrick Darcy; 23 June 1663.
f.673 – Patrick Darcy to Ormond about the progress of the trial of the conspirators; Dublin, 3 July 1663.
f.686 – Information from Lieutenant Richard Thompson about his knowledge of the late conspiracy in which he ‘was unhappily involved’; written from Dublin Castle prison, 5 July 1663.
f.688 – Lieutenant Richard Thompson to Ormond. Please ‘accept these last words of a dying man . . . [I] was drawn in by Mr. Blood into the plot for which great sin I beg pardon’; Dublin Castle 5 July 1663.
ff.691–4 – Lord Santry’s speech when passing judgment upon Alexander Jephson and others; Dublin, 7 July 1663.
33 f.18 – E[dward] Bagot, a former soldier, to Ormond, warning of a plot against the Lord Lieutenant’s life; Blithfield, Staffordshire, 2 August 1663.
f.90 – Mrs. Charity Staples to Ormond. Prostrating herself at his feet, ‘knowing scarcely how to syllable or articulate her anguish that my son [Major Alexander Staples of Londonderry] should have his hand in treason’ . . . [I] beseech [Ormond] to have a regard to his tenderness of years and to the frailty of a nature beguiled by the subtlety of some grand impostor’; ?Ballysheskin, 28 August 1663.
34 f.674r – ‘Advice of Incidents in Ireland’ sent anonymously to Ormond and by him endorsed with the initials ‘PA.’, April 1663.
35 f.52r – Notes on persons suspected of complicity in seditious plots in Ireland ‘given by R.A.’ apparently to Sir George Lane; 6 September 1666.
f.54r – ‘Persons lately going into Ireland’.
f.54v – Arlington to Sir George Lane: Blood reported in Lancashire and came near to arrest after Fire of London; Westminster, 6 September 1666.
f.128r – William Leving, government spy, to Ormond, providing information about [Thomas] Blood and other conspirators who had fled Ireland; 15 November 1666.
f.146v – List of Persons declared rebels [in Scotland] by proclamation; 4 December 1666.
39 f.27 – The king to Ormond; the office of clerk of the crown and peace in Co. Clare, once held by Thomas Blood and ‘passed in his son Holcroft Blood’s name’ is now void because of Blood’s absence from Ireland; Whitehall, 12 March 1679.
43 f.192 – The king to Ormond; Colonel Shapcott, now in custody in Ireland upon charges of complicity in the late conspiracy, is to be taken to England for further interrogation; Whitehall, [day left blank] June 1663.
f.505 – The king to Ormond; Captain Toby Barnes to have the lease of towns and lands in Sarney, Beatown and Foylestown in the barony of Dunboyne and Co. Meath with certain unprofitable mountain-lands in Co. Wicklow, formerly belonging to Thomas Blood, now attainted of high treason; Whitehall, 11 April 1666.
44 ff.708–9 – Ormond’s speech to the Irish House of Commons; 9 March 1663.
46 ff.51–2 – Bennet to Ormond; the king ‘wonders if [Ormond] could get further [details about] the last plot’ and discover whether it had ‘any connections with England and Scotland in both which there is certainly much combustible matter, if a fire should ever break forth, from which God keep us’; Whitehall, 15 May 1663.
f.55 – Bennet to Ormond; the king ‘approves in general of [Ormond’s] vigour and steadiness in abiding the plot’; Whitehall, 1 June 1663.
ff.61–4 – Bennet to Ormond. Despite diligent inquiries, no trace of Charnock has been found in London. Colonel Gibby Carr’s wife, also in London, has produced testimony from magistrates in Rotterdam that he had been ‘constantly seen there these six months’ . . . but ‘perhaps ’tis a bought testimonial only’; Whitehall, 27 June 1663.
ff.357–8 – Arlington to Ormond. Reports on the arrival in Ireland of ‘Blood and other notorious conspirators’ who were ‘hoping to work effectually their wicked ends upon the . . . militia especially’. Some of his informers had offered to go to Ireland; Whitehall, 28 August 1666.
ff.363–4 – Arlington to Ormond. The government was unable ‘to trace out or suspect that [the Great Fire of London] was either contrived or fomented by any of the discontented party’; Whitehall, 7 September 1666.
f.383 – Arlington to Ormond. The bearer of this letter, is sent into Ireland, with the intention of taking Blood; Whitehall, 12 October 1666.
49 f.193 – Ormond to Colonel Gorges, urging ‘uttermost vigilance’ – it was certain that the plotters had intelligence from Derry by means of one Staples, some of whose former company remain in the city’s garrison; Dublin Castle, 25 May 1663.
f.216 – Ormond to Clarendon, announcing Colonel Vernon’s departure to London; Dublin Castle, 14 July 1663.
59 f.86 – Instructions by the lord lieutenant for the seizure of firearms in Ireland; 16 June 1663.
68 f.562 – Report of the trial of prisoners upon commission of oyer and terminer; 23 February 1664.
f.564 – Ormond and Council of Ireland to Bennet; reporting that some two months ago, intelligence had been supplied to the lord lieutenant of a conspiracy to seize Dublin Castle and his own person. Due precautions were taken and some conspirators seized; Dublin, 23 May 1663.
f.574 – Alexander Jephson’s last speech on the gallows; Dublin, [July] 1663.
ff.576–8 – Edward Warren’s speech at his execution; Dublin, 15 July 1663.
f.580 – Instructions by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to the governors of Carrickfergus, Derry and Galway to search diligently for conspirators and to secure the security of their garrisons; Dublin Castle; 19 May 1663.
69 f.164r – Blood’s apology to Ormond.
71 ff.388–9 – Proclamation ‘upon the occasion of the late conspiracy’ signed by the lord lieutenant and members of the Council of Ireland.
114 f.505 – Edward Tanner to Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Staples, recommending that Staples throws himself on Ormond’s mercy and ‘make an ingenuous confession of his whole knowledge of the plot. The evidence is clear and the law will condemn us all’; 15 June 1663.
118 f.63 – Narrative of the discourse between Alexander Jephson of Trim, Co. Meath and Sir Theophilus Jones; Lucan, 19 May 1663.
143 ff.96–97 – Ormond to Edward Hyde, lord chancellor, on how the plot against Dublin Castle was discovered; Dublin Castle, 7 March 1663.
ff.128–31 – Ormond to the king: memorandum on the constitution of his majesty’s army in Ireland and proposals to ‘bring it to the condition’ his majesty would have it in, with details of what had been discovered about the late plot; Dublin Castle, 8 May 1663.
f.133v – Ormond to the king, reporting that the conspiracy was more widespread than he first believed and warning that a coup d’état could still be mounted, with an intercepted letter about the plot; Dublin Castle, 30 May 1663.
f.133r – Ormond to Bennet, urging that some conspirators should be pardoned to entice them to turn king’s evidence and praising Colonel Edward Vernon’s role in uncovering the plot; Dublin Castle, 30 May 1663.
ff.142r–v – Ormond to Bennet, warning of the problems of bringing prosecutions under martial law; Dublin Castle, 13 June 1663.
144 f.26v – Order signed by Ormond for the immediate return of all officers of His Majesty’s Army in Ireland to their respective garrisons and quarters; Dublin Castle, May 1663.
f.123 – Petition of Mary Roberts, widow, to Ormond, praying for the satisfaction of a debt owed to her by Lieutenant Richard Thompson, executed for treason, from his estate forfeited to the crown; c. 10 November 1663.
159 f.66 – Elizabeth Warren, widow to Ormond: Edward Warren, her late husband, ‘in time of great sickness was wrought upon by the 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.175v – 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.116v – 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.471r–472r – Narrative describing Blood’s attempt to steal the crown.
f.473v – Joseph Williamson’s ‘address-book’; correspondence with a ‘Mr. T.B.’ in Zeeland in the Dutch United Provinces in 1666; entries 38–44.
f.473r–475 – Copy of notes from Blood’s pocketbook, listing his ‘deliverances since I was for the Lord’s cause’ including his wanderings in the north of England in late 1663 and his near-arrest in London around the time of the Great Fire of 1666; also his religious resolutions and duties.
C.978 – Life of John Wallis, Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford, by Rev. John Lewis, minister at Margate, 1735. (Another copy is in BL Add. MS. 32,601.)
D.916 f.99 – Description of Captain Martin Beckman.
f.101 – Instructions by Charles II to investigate Beckman’s contacts with the Dutch ambassador in London.
Western MSS
28,184 f.250 – Account of the two licensed nonconformist congregations in Oxford, 1672.
The British Library 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
10,115 – Williamson papers on projected war with France in 1677.
f.73 – Blood’s two sons serving in Royal Navy.
28,077 – Minute book recording business in the office of Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby, lord high treasurer; 19 June 1673–31 March 1675.
f.139 Payment of £4,000 to secretaries of state for intelligence purposes, to be paid from funds collected by the hearth tax or ‘chimney money’; October 1674.
32,99 f.377 – Letter from Dr John Wallis, Savilian professor of geometry, to his friend, John Fell, Bishop of Oxford, denying the truth of charges made against him of deciphering letters of Charles I, captured by parliamentary forces after the Battle of Naseby; Oxford, 8 April 1685.
36,916 – Ashton Papers. Newsletters sent to Sir Willoughby Aston by John Starkey and H. Skipwith from London; 17 October 1667–9 January 1672.
f.233 – Capture of Blood reported and his description as ‘formerly a captain in the old king’s army under Sir Lewis Dyve’.
41,254 – Letter book of Thomas Belasyse, Second Viscount Fauconberg, lord lieutenant of North Yorkshire; 16 June 1665 to 18 August 1684.
f.7r – Letter to Charles II naming John Mason as being involved in the Great Fire of London.
44,915 – Papers collected by Robert Cole on the provision of the new regalia for the coronation of Charles II.
f.1–2 – Treasury order for payment to Robert Viner (later lord mayor of London) of £21,97 9s 11d for the new regalia.
f.3 – Receipt signed by Robert Viner for £5,000 in part payment for the regalia.
ff.5–12 – Lists of the regalia provided for Charles II’s coronation in the custody of Sir Gilbert Talbot, master and treasurer of the jewels and plate.
47,128 – Egmont Papers. Miscellaneous poems copied by First Lord Egmont before 1748.
f.13r – Poem beginning: ‘When daring Blood his Rent to have regained . . .’ attributed to Andrew Marvell, 1671.
47,133 – Egmont Papers. Morland’s Brief Discourse containing the nature and reason of intelligence, ff.8–13.
Egerton MSS
2,539 – Official and private correspondence of Sir Edward Nicholas, secretary of state, and his son, Sir John, clerk to the Privy Council, 1660–1704.
f.101 – Petition of William Garret to Williamson for the position of ‘tide-waiter’ in reward for his past service in sending intelligence to Williamson’s predecessor as secretary of state; October, 1662.
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.238v – 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.238r – 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.29r – 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.
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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