Author: Hanrahan, David C
Title: Colonel Blood - The Man Who Stole The Crown Jewels
Description: Alan Sutton, 2003, 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/F. xii+212pp, 8pp b/w plates, index, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Hardback with dustjacket. ISBN: 0750933275 ¶ Biography of Thomas Blood [ 1618 - 1680 ] an Irish soldier who served under Cromwell and is best remembered for attempting to steal the Crown Jewels. He failed and amazingly was pardoned by Charles II not just for this crime but also for many others Blood had committed. There is speculation that the robbery was a plan, to which the King was privy, to finance the Royal Coffers.

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