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Elizabeth Burrows
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First Reading
Michael Robinson • Link
Per L&M Companion:
The pretty widow of a naval lieutenant, Anthony Burrows, who was killed in action in 1665. Her mother Mrs. Crofts kept a shop in Westminster where Elizabeth seems to have worked. An entry in Pepys's private accounts for 1667-8 ('Burroughs ... gloves') may refer to a purchase that was innocent. Most of his dealings with her were not.
Second Reading
San Diego Sarah • Link
A curious tea party took place one Sunday in May, 1666:
"After dinner ... I by water to Westminster to Mrs. Martin’s, and there sat with her and her husband and Mrs. Burrows, the pretty, an hour or two,"
So the Elizabeths knew each other, and Mr. Burrows knew Pepys, and they all sat around for an hour or two discussing ... the weather?
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San Diego Sarah • Link
"So the Elizabeths knew each other, and Mr. Burrows knew Pepys, and they all sat around for an hour or two discussing ... the weather?"
It was, of course, Mr. Martin ... Lt. Burrows died in 1665. Sorry!
Christopher David Robin Williams • Link
Sam's Moto must have been 'get it where you can find it'. There are many crude sayings today that describes men like Sam that have loving and loyal wives at home, perhaps he wasn't entirely satisfied at home, but his absence during the period of mourning following his wife's passing must have sent him into a time of sorrowful reflection.
Third Reading
Guy de la Bedoyere • Link
The marriage of Elizabeth Crofts to Anthony 'Barwis' (a transcripion error of Burrows by digital transcribers of the old records which they misread) is recorded on 28 April 1653 at St Mary Somerset with St Mary Mounthaw in London. There is no real question that this was Mrs Burrows. She can be identified as almost certainly the Elizabeth Crofts baptised at St Margarets Westminster on 5 April 1637. She was therefore about 28 when she was drawn into Pepys's orbit.