Career
He was also a neighbour to the diarist Samuel Pepys, who mentions him several times. He came to England in 1652, having been recommended to Samuel Hartlib by Johann Moriaen. He had been in the service of Frederick III of Denmark, collecting "Rarities", and himself was a native of Holstein.
Pepys, a guest at the wedding, describes it as a social event of great magnificence: this suggests that Clod was a man of some wealth, since the Hartlibs were then living in poverty, and Nan"s father could not possibly have paid for the wedding.
