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PLAQUES have been unveiled in a Dorset village commemorating historic links including the Great Dorset Steam Fair.

Colonel Thomas Blood, Charles II and an Unsuccessful Theft Author: The Infamous Colonel Thomas Blood. "Blood, that wears treason in his face, Villain complete in parsons gown, How much he is at court in grace For stealing Ormond and the crown! Since loyalty does no man good, Lets steal the King, and outdo Blood!" John Freke, The History of Insipids (1676) Thomas Younger Years Thomas Blood was born at Kilnaboy Castle in County Clare in the west of Ireland in 1618. Thomas’ Anglo-Irish father wa...