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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699"In her course of Reading she was still laying in for use and practice. Her course was, when she read the Scriptures, to gather out passages, and sort and refer them to t...Elizabeth Baker ScripturesUnknown
1600-1699'After I had praied I reed of the Testement and did eate: after, I walked and did medetate of that I had reed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'and, after, I did read of the bible, praied, and wrett in my sermon booke, and then went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'so, when I had praied priuatly & reed a chapter of the testement, I went to bed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'then I reed of the testement, walked a whill, and went to supper'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I wrett in my testement and reed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'reed of my bible, studeed my Lector, and so dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699"The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the sermons and learned those too ... memorized morning an...John Rogers The BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699"Francis Bishop [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s], condemned to be shot, 'turned open the Bible' and read a passage enjoinin...Francis Bishop The BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699"Hugh Leeson [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s] ... was first 'wrought upon' by his wife, 'whom God made the first Instrument...anon The BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'To their church in the afternoon, and in Mrs Turner's pew my wife took up a good black hood and kept it. A stranger preached a poor sermon, and so I read over the whole ...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Book of TobitPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I read prayers in this house. So to bed.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'So after supper and reading of some chapters, I went to bed.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'So soon as word was brought me that Mr Coventry was come with the barge to the Tower, I went to him and find him reading of the psalmes in short-hand (which he is now bu...Sir William Coventry Thomas CrossSternhold and Hopkins PsalmsPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence by water home and to bed - having played out of my chamber-window on my pipe before I went to bed - and making Will read a part of a Latin chapter, in which I per...Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home in the evening and to my office, where despatched business and so home. And after Wills reading a little in the Latin Testament, to bed.'Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'then a Latin chapter of Will and to bed.'Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home and up to my lute long; and then after a little Latin chapter with Will, to bed.'Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'And being in bed, made Will read and conster three or four Latin verses in the bible and chid him for forgetting the grammer.'Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And so to prayers and to bed.'Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book


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