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The family of Blood among the earlier settlers of New England has sometimes been said to be closely connected with that of the Colonel, but there is no substantial evidence either way. (_Mass. Hist. Coll._) On the other hand a tablet to the memory of Blood's cousin, Neptune, is to be found in Kilfernora Cathedral (_Proc. Roy. Soc. Antiq. Irel. 1900_, p. 396). A note says that he was the son and namesake of his predecessor in the Deanery and grandson of Edmond Blood of Macknay in Derbyshire who settled in Ireland about 1595 and was M.P. for Ennis in 1613. A fuller account of the plots is to be found in articles by the author of this sketch in the _American Historical Review_ for April and July, 1909, under title of _English Conspiracy and Dissent, 1660-1674_.

End of Project Gutenberg's Colonel Thomas Blood, by Wilbur Cortez Abbott