The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood by Robert Hutchinson Page A

Sir Henry Bennet, Earl of
    Bennet, Sir John, 56
    Benson, Robert, 84
    Beresford, Michael, 93–4
    Berkeley House, Piccadilly, London, 264
    Berry, Henry, 178
    â€˜Bess’s Day’ (17 November), 198, 289
    Betson, John, 60, 83
    Beverley, Sir Thomas, 237
    Biddell, John, 21
    Bincks, Joseph, 52
    Black Boy tavern, Oxmantown, 68
    Blaine, Jenny, 122
    Blake, Admiral Robert, 229
    Blakeys, Robert, 191
    Blenheim, Battle of, 203
    Blood, Charles (Colonel Blood’s son), xxv, 166, 186, 191, 201–2, 204
    Blood, Edmund, xvii–xviii
    Blood, Edmund (Colonel Blood’s son), xxv, 89, 168, 202
    Blood, Edmund (Colonel Blood’s grandson), 204–5
    Blood, Elizabeth (Colonel Blood’s daughter), xxv, 189–90, 202, 204
    Blood, Elizabeth (née Fowler) (Holcroft Blood’s wife), 203–4
    Blood, Holcroft (Colonel Blood’s son), xxv, 168, 191, 202–4
    Blood, Margaret, xvii–xviii
    Blood, Mary ( née Holcroft, or Holdcroft), xviii, 231
    Blood, Mary ( née Holcroft) (Colonel Blood’s wife), xxiii, xxv, 71, 87, 98–9, 122, 146, 189
    Blood, Mary (Colonel Blood’s daughter), xxv, 189–90, 204
    Blood, Mrs Mary, 204–5
    Blood, Neptune, xvii–xviii, xx, 168, 231–2, 283
    Blood, Thomas, senior, xviii–xix
    Blood, Colonel Thomas
    acquires house, 151
    allegiance to Lauderdale, 156–7
    apology to Ormond, 147–8
    assault on Ormond, 91–2, 94–114, 133, 135–7, 143–4
    attempt on Crown Jewels, 120–31, 143–5
    becomes government agent, 146–7, 153–4
    belief in Providence, 189
    burial and exhumation, 192–3
    death, 190–1
    downfall at Buckingham’s hands, 182–90
    and Dublin Castle conspiracy, 13, 18–19, 22–3, 25, 28–9, 31–2, 34, 40–3 46, 48, 133
    escape from Dublin, 42–3
    family and early life, xvii–xxiii
    family’s land holdings, 3
    forfeits properties, 4–6, 67, 91, 204
    forged confession, 141–2
    gains pardons for accomplices, 159–60
    government agent in Netherlands, 66–7, 166–7
    government salary, 167, 186–7
    granted pardon, 146–51, 204
    granted pension, 149
    and Great Fire, 69, 177, 188
    and Holcroft estates, 168–9
    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,