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  • - Pauline on Sat 15 Mar 2003, 11:40pm

    Will Bowyer was among the friends and colleagues that Sam hangs out with early in the diary. Claire Tomalin, in “Samuel Pepys: the Unequaled Self,” lists out the names of these young men.

    [p67] “Will Bowyer was only a doorkeeper, but his father Robert was an usher at the Exchequer…”

    see Robert: http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/521.php

  • - Terry Foreman on Wed 29 Feb 2012, 12:28am. Flag this

    William Bowyer (1624-94) was the eldest son of Robert Bowyer, Usher of the Receipt in the Exchequer, under whom Pepys worked early in his marriage. William held the post of doorkeeper in the Exchequer from c. 1655. He died a bachelor. (L&M Companion)

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