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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'at the office all the afternoon, and at night home to read in "Mare Clausum" till bedtime'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'we returned and I settled to read in "Mare Clausum" till bedtime'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'I am now full of study about writing something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; and so am altogether reading Selden and Grotius and such other Authors,...Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to supper and to Selden "Mare Clausum" and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'And so I home, and sat late up, reading of Mr Selden. And so to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'So after my business was done and read something in Mr Selden, I went to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so left the table and went up to read in Mr Selden till church time;'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'So we parted; and I home and to Mr Selden and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up betimes and to my office, where I first ruled with red Inke my English "Mare clausum"; which, with the new Orthodox title, makes it now very handsome.'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so up to my study and read the two treatys before Mr Selden's "Mare Clausum"; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SeldonMare Clausum
1600-1699'earley up in the morning to read the "Seamans grammar and dictionary" I lately have got, which doth please me exceedingly well.'Samuel Pepys John SmithThe sea-man's grammarPrint: Book
1600-1699'In the evening to the office, where I fell a-reading of Speeds geography for a while.'Samuel Pepys John SpeedA prospect of the most famous parts of the worldPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then home to read the lives of Henry the 5th and 6th, very fine, in Speede; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SpeedThe history of Great BritainePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so to my chamber and read the history of 88 in Speede, in order to my seeing the play thereof acted tomorrow at the King's House.'Samuel Pepys John SpeedThe history of Great BritainePrint: Book
1600-1699'and then to my chamber to read the true story in Speed of the Black Prince; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SpeedThe history of Great BritainePrint: Book
1600-1699'He gone, I down by water to Woolwich and Deptford to look after the despatch of the ships, all the way reading Mr Spencer's book of Prodigys, which is most ingeniously w...Samuel Pepys John SpencerA discourse containing prodigies; wherein the vani...Print: Book
1600-1699'So to Pauls churchyard and there bought "Montelion", which this yeardoth not prove so good as the last was; and so after reading it, I burned it. After reading of that a...Samuel Pepys John TathamThe Rump, or The mirror of the late timesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of "The Bondman" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and begin "The Duchesse of Malfy", which seems a good pla...Samuel Pepys John WebsterThe Duchesse of MalfyPrint: Book
1600-1699'and after Dinner down alone by water to Depford, reading "Duchess of Malfy", the play, which is pretty good - and there did some business'Samuel Pepys John WebsterThe Duchess of MalfyPrint: Book
1600-1699'This day Mrs Turner did lend me, as a rarity, a manuscript of one of Mr Wells, writ long ago, teaching the method of building a ship; which pleases me mightily. I was at...Samuel Pepys John Wells[manuscript on ship building]Manuscript: Sheet


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