Note 383 — Chapter XIII
Reading edition
Noble’s Continuation, ii. 82.
Anthony Wood, in his strange Autobiography, relates a practical joke played by Lloyd when he was at Oxford. He contrived that a London citizen should disguise himself as a Greek Patriarch, and get people, including learned professors, to kneel before him for a blessing. “It was a piece of waggery to impose upon the Royalists, and such that had a mind to be blest by a Patriarch instead of Archbishop or Bishop, and it made great sport for a time, and those that were blest were ashamed of it.”—Lives of Eminent Antiquaries, ii. 132.