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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'so home - to read - supper and to prayers; and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I up to my chamber to read and write, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'At night to my chamber to read and sing; and so to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'He being gone, I to my study and read; and so to eat a bit of bread and cheese and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'This night Tom came to show me a civil letter sent him from his mistress.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][letter]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'and so to my office, practising arthmetique alone and making an end of last night's book, with great content, till 11 at night; and so home to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Towards noon there comes a man in, as if upon ordinary business, and shows me a Writt from the Exchequer, called a Comission of Rebellion, and tells me that I am his pri...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Writ]Unknown
1600-1699'While my wife dressed herself, Creed and I walked out to see what play was acted today, and we find it "The Sleighted mayde".'Samuel Pepys [unknown][playbill]Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster, playbill
1600-1699'and I to my office till the evening, doing one thing or other and reading my vowes as I am bound every Lord's day'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Print: BookUnknown
1600-1699'staying a little in Paul's churchyard at the forreigne booksellers, looking over some Spanish books and with much ado keeping myself from laying out money there'Samuel Pepys [unknown][Spanish books]Print: Book
1600-1699'While that [dinner] was prepared, to my office to read over my vowes, with great affection and to very good purpose.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Print: BookUnknown
1600-1699'So home to my office, alone till dark, reading some part of my old "Navy precedents", and so home to supper.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]Navy precedentsPrint: Book
1600-1699'to my office and there made an end of reading my book that I have had of Mr Barlows, of the Journall of the Comissioners of the Navy who begun to act in the year 1618 an...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Report of the proceedings of the commission of 16...Print: Book
1600-1699'So home; and after reading my vowes, being sleepy, without prayers to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'And so walk and by water to White-hall, all our way by water, both coming and going, reading a little book said to be writ by a person of Quality concerning English Gent...Samuel Pepys [unknown]A vindication of the degree of gentry in oppositio...Print: Book
1600-1699'I to my office and there read all the morning in my Statute-book, consulting among others the statute against seeling of offices, wherein Mr Coventry is so much concerne...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Statute book]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up and to read a little;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then I to my office and read my vowes seriously and with content; and so home to supper, to prayers, and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Print: BookUnknown
1600-1699'So to the reading of my vowes seriously, and then to supper.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'Myself very studious to learn what I can of all things necessary for my place as an officer of the Navy - reading lately what concerns measuring of timber and knowledge ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][books on timber measuring and tides]Print: Book


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