_Burnet,_ speaking of the Earl of Rochester, second son of Lord Clarendon:--[He] is a man of far greater parts [than his brother].

He has a _very good pen_, but speaks not gracefully .-- _Swift._ I suppose it was of gold or silver.
Ibid.

_Burnet._ [The King] told me, he had a chaplain, that was a very honest man, but a very great blockhead, to whom he had given a living in Suffolk, that was full of that sort of people [Nonconformists].

He had gone about among them from house to house, though he could not imagine what he could say to them, for he said he was a very silly fellow.

But that, he believed, his nonsense suited their nonsense, for he had brought them all to church.