BLOUNT, Thomas, a learned English writer, born in 1618 at Bordesley in Worcestershire. Upon the breaking out of the Popish plot, he was much alarmed on account of his reputation as a zealous Catholic; and being seized with a palsy, he died in December 1679. Besides other treatises he was the author of Boscobel, or the History of His Majesty's Escape after the Battle of Worcester.