Is son of a clergyman[1]; a good common lawyer, a slow chancellor, and no civilian. Chance more than choice brought him the seals. Very covetous.
Since the queen's accession to the throne, he has been created a duke, and is near 6o years old. As arrant a knave as any in his time.
One of the best beloved gentlemen, by the country party, in England. A very poor understanding.
Of a creditable family in the city of Worcester. Very mean; his father was a noted rogue. He is believed to have been the best chancellor that ever sat in the chair. I allow him to have possessed all excellent qualifications except virtue; he had violent passions, and hardly subdued them hy his great prudence.
He is a great encourager of learning and learned men, is the patron of the muses, of very agreeable conversation, a short fair man, not 40 years old. His encouragements were only good words and good dinners. I never heard him say one good things or seem to taste what was said hy another.
- ↑ His father was rector of Thurcaston, in Leicestershire.
