He loved wine and was most curious in his wines, was hospitable, but drank not to excess, but it happened that coming from his club at the Crown Taverne in Bloomsbury, a foot, 11 at night, he fell down dead of an apoplexy in Cheapside, at Wood-street end, March 24, Anno Domini 1673/74, aetae 56. Sepult in the church of great St. Helen, Londini.