The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood by Robert Hutchinson Read Free Book Online

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.
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    Additional Manuscripts
    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.7 r – 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.13 r – Poem beginning: ‘Whendaring 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.238 v – 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.238 r – Ralph Alexander named as being suspected of involvement in the attempted theft of the Crown