Note 56 — DISSERTATION I.
Reading edition
This person was probably the subject of the following lines in Bancroft's Epigrams, 1639, 4to:
"How plumpe's the libertine! how rich and trimme! He jests with others, fortune jests with him."
Mr. Garrard, in a letter to lord Strafford, says, "There is a new fool in his [Archee's] place, Muckle John, but he will ne'er be so rich, for he cannot abide money."—Strafford papers, ii. 154.