Elizabeth Bury

Her studies were Hebrew, French, music, heraldry, mathematics, philosophy, philology, anatomy, medicine, and divinity.

Elizabeth in 1664 began writing down her "experiences" in her Diary, initially in shorthand.'

In 1667, on 1 February, Bury married Griffith Lloyd of Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire, who died on 13 April 1682.

In her widowhood, which lasted another fifteen years, Mrs. Lloyd passed part of her time in Norwich.

Bury, Bristol, 1720, included the extant portions of her diary, the funeral sermon, a life by her husband, and an elegy by Isaac Watts.