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Bedloe, William (1650–1680)  

Maker: Robert White

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
William Bedloe (1650–1680) by Robert White, pubd 1681 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Bedloe, William (1650–1680), informer and adventurer  

Alan Marshall

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Bedloe, William (1650–1680), informer and adventurer, was the second son of Isaac Bedloe (d. 1656). William Bedloe was born in Chepstow on 20 May 1650 and spent his early life both there and in Bristol. Much of his early life was deliberately clouded in obscurity. His own published account of his parentage and ancestry remains dubious. He claimed that his father had been a gentleman soldier who had served the king in the civil wars and whose own father was ...

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Cover Blood, Thomas (1617/18–1680)

Blood, Thomas (1617/18–1680)  

Maker: unknown artist

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
Thomas Blood (1617/1818–1680) by unknown artist The Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge

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Blood, Thomas (1617/18–1680), adventurer and spy  

Alan Marshall

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Blood, Thomas (1617/18–1680), adventurer and spy, was born at Sarney, co. Meath. His early life is obscure, but it was later claimed that his father (who was possibly Neptune Blood) was a blacksmith and ironworker, 'serious, honest and of no inferior credit...

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Bradstreet, Dudley (1711–1763), adventurer and spy  

J. T. Gilbert

revised by S. J. Skedd

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Bradstreet, Dudley (1711–1763), adventurer and spy, was born in Tipperary, where his father had obtained considerable land under the Cromwellian grants. His father's wealth was much reduced by debts, and Dudley, who was the youngest son, was looked after by a foster father in ...

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Ogilvy, John [known as Pourie Ogilvy] (fl. 1587–1601), adventurer  

A. J. Loomie

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Ogilvy, John [known as Pourie Ogilvy] (fl. 1587–1601), adventurer, was the son of Gilbert Ogilvy of Pourie (d. 1601). His sister, Anne Ogilvy, married on 30 November 1587 Sir Thomas Erskine, a gentleman of the bedchamber of James VI and later ...

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Scott, John (1632?–1704), adventurer and spy  

Alan Marshall

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Scott, John (1632?–1704), adventurer and spy, may have been born at Ashford, Kent, in 1632, the son of a royalist colonel, John Scott, but his origins and early life are uncertain. According to his own later account, having committed some misdemeanours against parliamentary soldiers ...

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Standen, Sir Anthony (d. in or after 1615), adventurer and spy  

Paul E. J. Hammer

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26 May 2005

Standen, Sir Anthony (d. in or after 1615), adventurer and spy, was the eldest of (at least) four sons and four daughters of Edmund Standen, esquire (d. 1571), of East Molesey, Surrey, which lies adjacent to the royal palace of Hampton Court...