Of his two sons one, also named Thomas, became physician to Prince Talleyrand, and married a sister of John Stuart Mill.[14] All this by the way, but there is little more to record of Borrow's mother apart from the letters addressed to her by her son, which occur in their due place in these records.

Yet one little memorandum among my papers which bears Mrs.Borrow's signature may well find place here: In the year 1797 I was at Canterbury.

One night at about one o'clock Sir Robert Laurie and Captain Treve came to our lodgings and tapped at our bedroom door, and told my husband to get up, and get the men under arms without beat of drum as soon as possible, for that there was a mutiny at the Nore.

My husband did so, and in less than two hours they had marched out of town towards Sheerness without making any noise.

They had to break open the store-house in order to get provender, because the Quartermaster, Serjeant Rowe, was out of the way.