Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Biography
Rumbold served in the Wardrobe since 1629, was a Royalist agent during the Interregnum and became joint clerk of the King’s Great Wardrobe (with Thomas Townsend) in 1660.
He died in 1667, and his wife, Mary, died soon after.
He has a nephew, Henry, who becomes storekeeper at Tangier, a British possession in Pepys’s time in Morocco.
— L&M Companion volume
CO-CLERK, KING’S GREAT WARDROBE
Reference page for the Wardrobe:
http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/946.php
THOMAS TOWNSHEND, the other co-clerk:
http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/947.php
Their immediate supervisor, Master of the Wardrobe, was Sir Edward Mountagu, Pepys’s patron:
http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/112.php