Blood, a disbanded officer of the protector's, had been engaged in the conspiracy for raising an insurrection in Ireland; and on account of this crime, he himself had been attainted, and some of his accomplices capitally punished.

The daring villain meditated revenge upon Ormond, the lord lieutenant.

Having by artifice drawn off the duke's footmen, he attacked his coach in the night time, as it drove along St.James's Street in London; and he made himself master of his person.

He might here have finished the crime, had he not meditated refinements in his vengeance: he was resolved to hang the duke of Tyburn and for that purpose bound him and mounted him on horseback behind one of his companions.

They were advanced a good way into the fields, when the duke, making efforts for his liberty, threw himself to the ground, and brought down with him the assassin to whom he was fastened.