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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1600-1699	'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, and so went to the church'	Margaret Hoby	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'dined, reed of the bible, walked abroad'	Margaret Hoby	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'hard Kate read a chapter'	Kate	[n/a]	Bible [?]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'This day and the next I went about the house, after I had hard Kate [read] a chapter'	Kate	[n/a]	Bible [?]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	She would every yeare read over the whole Bible in an ordinary course, which course she constantly observed for the space of fifteene yeares together, beginning her t...	Mary Gunter		The Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	A New Version of the Psalms of David	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Religion is such a consolation to a drooping spirit,that I could wish thou wouldest seek for comfort and cheerfulness in it; for God never forsakes those who turn to him....	Ellen Weeton		['Psalms']	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'She rose about eight o'clock; and, before she came down stairs, read herself a chapter in the Bible or New Testament, and that with active attention, as she frequently m...	Mary Birch	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'It puts me in mind of the account of St Paul's Shipwreck, where all are said by different means to reach the Shore in safety.'	Jane Austen		Acts 27:44	Print: Book
	1700-1799	None went to Church. Aunt gave us coffee. Mother read scriptures.	Barbara Savile		Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I know not why but too late for Church. Read 1 hour in the summerhouse, Dr Clark on the Evengelists.	Gertrude Savile	Samuel Clarke	A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Came home before 7. Dr Clark 1 hour. Bed past 10.	Gertrude Savile	Samuel Clarke	A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Afternoon went to the chaple. Home. Coffee. Read Clarke's 'Parraphras on the Evangellists'.	Gertrude Savile	Samuel Clarke Clarke	A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Read 'Six Days Adventures' after supper. Bed 11.	Gertrude Savile	Madame de Gomez	La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Adventures of Six Days' 1 hour after supper. Bed 11.	Gertrude Savile	Madame de Gomez	La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Would not go to Church. Read Dr Clark's 'paraphras'.	Gertrude Savile	Samuel Clarke	A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Some of Dr Clark's paraphras.	Gertrude Savile	Samuel Clarke	A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I sat with Aunt till 7. Read Dr Clark's 'Paraphras' 1 1/2 hours.Bed near 11.	Gertrude Savile	Samuel Clarke	A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Did not go to Church morn. nor afternoon. Read Dr Clark paraphras.	Gertrude Savile	Samuel Clarke	A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists	Print: Book
	1700-1799	"In the Fenwick Note to the Intimations Ode, W[ordsworth] recalled that at school 'I used to brood over the stories of Enoch and Elijah' ... the Hawkshead schoolboys regu...	William Wordsworth		The Bible	Print: Book

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