Pepy's Diary. 03 May 1663. Lord's Day. Up before 5 o'clock and alone at setting my Brampton papers to rights according to my father's and my computation and resolution the other day to my good content, I finding that there will be clear saved to us £50 per annum, only a debt of it may be £100. So made myself ready and to church, where Sir W. Pen (age 42) showed me the young lady which young Dawes (age 19), that sits in the new corner-pew in the church, hath stole away from Sir Andrew Rickard (age 59), her guardian, worth £1000 per annum present, good land, and some money, and a very well-bred and handsome lady: he, I doubt, but a simple fellow. However, he got this good luck to get her, which methinks I could envy him with all my heart.

Pepy's Diary. 09 Aug 1663. So from thence walked back to Mrs. Russell's, and there drank and sat talking a great while. Among other things talked of young Dawes (age 19) that married the great fortune, who it seems has a Baronet's patent given him, and is now Sir Thos. Dawes¹, and a very fine bred man they say he is.

Note 1. Not clear why Pepy's refers to him as Thomas when he was John Dawes 1st Baronet (age 19).