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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'After dinner, up to my wife again, who is in great pain still with her tooth and cheek; and there, they gone, I spent most of the afternoon and night reading and talking...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence homeward by coach, and stopped at Martins my bookseller, where I saw the French book which I did think to have had for my wife to translate, called "L'escholle de...Samuel Pepys Michel MillotL'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames,...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so I walked away homeward, and there reading all the evening; and so to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So he gone, I to read a little in my chamber, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office, doing business and also reading a little of "L'escolle des Filles", which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss ...Samuel Pepys Michel MillotL'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames,...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then they parted and I to my chamber, where I did read through "L'escholle des Filles"; a lewd book, but what doth me no wrong to read for information sake (but it d...Samuel Pepys Michel MillotL'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames,...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then to my chamber and read most of the evening till pretty late, when, my wife not being well, I did lie below stairs in our great chamber'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'He gone, we home and there I to read, and my belly being full of my dinner today, I anon to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home to supper and to read, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And with great joy I do find, looking over my Memorandum-books, which are now of great use to me and do fully reward me for all my care in keeping them, that I am not li...Samuel Pepys Samuel PepysMemorandums and Conclusions of the Navy BoardManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and there took a hackney and home and there to read and talk with my wife'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence home; and there, in favour to my eyes, stayed at home reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wrote by his wife, which shows her to be a mad, conceit...Samuel Pepys Duchess of NewcastleThe life of the thrice noble, high and puissant pr...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home to read a little more in last night's book with much sport, it being a foolish book.'Samuel Pepys Duchess of NewcastleThe life of the thrice noble, high and puissant pr...Print: Book
1600-1699'and she being gone, I to my chamber to read a little again, and then after supper to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'But Lord, to see among the young commanders and Tho Killigrew and others that came, how unlike a burial this was, Obrian taking out some ballets from his pocket, which I...Samuel Pepys [unknown][street ballads]Print: Broadsheet, Handbill
1600-1699'and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at the Council Board, with great good liking'Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[Report]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at the Council Board, with great good liking'Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[Report]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'Thence home and there with Mr Hater and W Hewer late, reading over all the Principal Officers' instructions in order to my great work upon my hand.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]Principal Officer's instructionsUnknown
1600-1699'I walked to the Temple and stayed at Starky's my bookseller's (looking over Dr Heylins new book of the life of Bishop Laud, a strange book of church history of his time)...Samuel Pepys Peter HeylynCyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and...Print: Book
1600-1699'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and there read over this paper of my Lord Keeper's; wherein ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][paper on the faults of the Navy]Manuscript: Unknown


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