Captain Blood fame
as a conspirator is based on his attempt to steal the Crown
Jewels from the Tower of London in1671. In Ireland Blood was
already as infamous as an intriguer, when in, 1663 a plot was
uncovered known as Bloods Plot, Blood and some other disaffected
Protestants sought to occupy Dublin Castle unsuccessfully.
After the Stuart's
had reclaimed the throne of England, The Act of Settlement of
1662 restored the lands confiscated, under Cromwell to their
ancestral owner's leaving the Protector's former beneficiaries
seething.
