Note 89 — Chapter XLV · ROBARTES AND BERKELEY, 1669-1672

Macray’s Notes of conversations between Clarendon and Charles II. in July 1660, Roxburghe Club. Character in Clarendon’s State Papers, iii., supplement, lxxiv. Burnet’s character is to the same effect, adding ‘corrupt, without shame or decency,’ Own Times, i. 266. ‘The greatest vapourer in the world,’ Pepys’ Diary, December 3, 1665, and very dishonest, ‘guilty of one of the basest things that ever was heard of a man,’ ib. September 27, 1668. Marvell says he gave 10,000l. for his place to the Duchess of Cleveland, letter of August 9, 1671.