Blount was born in Upper Holloway, Islington, Middlesex, the
fourth son of Sir Henry Blount. His father educated him at home
and exposed him to freethinking philosophy. In 1672 Charles
inherited lands in Islington and the estate of Blount's Hall in
Staffordshire. He married Eleanor Tyrrell in Westminster Abbey
at the end of 1672; they had three sons and a daughter.
Throughout his life he remained at Blount's Hall as a leisured
gentleman, although he also travelled to London to participate
in courtly life. Blount's publications were consistently
anonymous or written under a pseudonym, and with a radical or
Whig slant. In 1673 he wrote Mr Dreyden Vindicated, defending
John Dryden's The Conquest of Granada from Richard Leigh's
attacks. In 1673 he also penned the anonymous The Friendly
Vindication. In 1678 Blount became a member of the Green Ribbon
Club, a group of radical Whig advocates and activists. In 1679
he published An Appeal from the Country to the City under the
name of Junius Brutus. It was a strongly W