Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Per L&M Companion:
kt., 1674. A not very successful clerk to Sir W, Coventry, dismissed for idleness in 1667, he entered the Treasury as a clerk and rose to become First Clerk (1673), Clerk to the Privy Council (1674) and Commissioner of the Hearth Tax (1685).