Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Per L&M Companion:
(c 1590 - 1669) In the royal service from 1614; Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the King from 1661. Clarendon scornfully writes of him that ‘his interest and reputation were less than anything but his understanding.’ Parliament did not trouble to keep him under constraint during the Civil War since he was ‘a man that could do them no harm anywhere.’