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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'I left them there and walked to Deptford, reading in Wallsinghams "manuall", a very good book.'Samuel Pepys Sir Francis WalsinghamArcana aulica, or, Walsingham's manual of prudenti...Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence with Mr Moore to the Wardrobe and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr Townsend about his accounts an hour or two - we reading of a merry book against the ...Samuel Pepys Sir John BirkenheadCabala, or An impartial account of the non-conform...Print: Book
1600-1699'After dinner I down to Woolwich with a galley, and then to Deptford and so home, all the way reading Sir J Suck[l]ings "Aglaura", which methinks is but a mean play - not...Samuel Pepys Sir John SucklingsAglauraPrint: Book
1600-1699'This day the first of the "Oxford Gazettes" came out, which is very pretty, full of news, and no folly in it - wrote by Williamson.'Samuel Pepys Sir Joseph WilliamsonOxford GazettePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'So down the River, reading "The Adventures of five houres", which the more I read the more I admire.'Samuel Pepys Sir Samuel TukeThe Adventures of the five houresPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up, and betimes with Captain Erwin down by water to Woolwich, I walking alone from Greenwich tither - making an end of "The Adventures of five houres", - which when all ...Samuel Pepys Sir Samuel TukeThe Adventures of the five houresPrint: Book
1600-1699'after dinner I and my boy down by water to Redriffe; and thence walked to Mr Evelin's, where I walked in his garden till he came from church, with great pleasure reading...Samuel Pepys Sir Thomas RidleyA view of the civile and ecclesiasticall lawPrint: Book
1600-1699'Walked back again, reading of my civil law book.'Samuel Pepys Sir Thomas RidleyA view of the civile and ecclesiasticall lawPrint: Book
1600-1699'I walked both going and coming, spending my time in reading of my Civill and Ecclesiastical law-book.'Samuel Pepys Sir Thomas RidleyA view of the civile and ecclesiasticall lawPrint: Book
1600-1699'and by and by comes a letter from Mr Coventry's own hand to him; which he never opened (which was a strange thing) but did give it me to open and read, and consider what...Samuel Pepys Sir William Coventry[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'We spent most of the morning talking, and reading of "The Seige of Rhodes", which is certainly (the more I read it I think so) the best poem that ever was wrote.'Samuel Pepys Sir William DavenantThe Seige of RhodesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So after supper Captain Cocke and I and Temple on board the Bezan, and there to Cards for a while, and then to read again in "Rhodes" and so to sleep.'Samuel Pepys Sir William DavenantThe Seige of RhodesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and after dinner, with my wife and Mercer and Jane by water all the afternoon as high up as Moreclacke, with great pleasure, and a fine day - reading over the second par...Samuel Pepys Sir William DavenantThe Seige of RhodesPrint: Book
1600-1699'This morning as I was in bed, one brings me T. Trices answer to my bill in Chancery from Mr Smallwood, which I am glad to see, though afeared it will do me hurt.'Samuel Pepys T Trice[answer to Pepys's bill]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'...and so took boat again and got to London before them. All the way, coming and going, reading in "The Wallflower" with great pleasure.'Samuel Pepys Thomas BaylyHerba Parietis or The wall-flower, as it grew out ...Print: Book
1600-1699'...and back to Pauls churchyard, where I stayed reading in Fullers history of the Church of England an hour or two...'Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699'And before supper I read part of the Maryan persecution in Mr Fuller.'Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699'To church in the afternoon. And after sermon took Tom. Fuller's "Church History" and read over Henry the 8ths life - in it. And so to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699'I fell a-reading in Fuller's "history of Abbys" and my wife in "Grand Cyrus" till 12 at night, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699'All evening at my book; and so to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book


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