"Sir Richard Ford told us this evening an odd story of the basenesse of the late Lord Mayor, Sir W. Bolton, cheating the poor of the city out of the collections made for the people that were burned, of 1,800 pounds; of which he can give no account, and in which he hath forsworn himself plainly, so as the Court of Aldermen have sequestered him from their Court till he do bring in an account; which is the greatest piece of roguery that they say was ever found in a Lord Mayor."
Samuel Pepys, Diary (December 3, 1667)
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