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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'Begun again to rise betimes, by 4 a-clock. And made an end of "The Adventures of five houres", and it is a most excellent play.'Samuel Pepys Samuel TuckThe Adventures of five houresPrint: Book
1600-1699'Being weary and almost blind with writing and reading so much today, I took boat at the Old Swan, and there up the River all alone, as high as Puttny almost; and then ba...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleExperiments and considerations touching coloursPrint: Book
1600-1699'But blessed be God, a good Bill this week we have - being but 237 in all and 42 of the plague, and of them, but 6 in the City - though my Lord Brouncker says that these ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Bill of mortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1600-1699'but he showed me a bill which hath been read in the House making all breakng of bulk for the time to come felony; but it is a foolish Act and will do no great matter'Samuel Pepys [unknown][parliamentary bill]Print: Pamphlet
1600-1699'But I fell to read a book (Boyle's "Hydrostatickes") aloud in my chamber and let her talk till she was tired, and vexed that I would not hear her'Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleHydrostatical ParadoxesPrint: Book
1600-1699'but I spent all morning reading of "The Madd Lovers" - a very good play'Samuel Pepys John FletcherThe mad loverPrint: 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'But this morning, getting Sir W. Penn to read over the Narrative with me - he did sparingly, yet plainly, say that we might have intercepted their Zealand squadron comin...Samuel Pepys John CreedThe victory over the fleet of the States General ....Unknown
1600-1699'but we had breakfasted a little at Mr Gawdens, he being out of town though; and there borrowed Dr Taylors Sermons, and is a most excellent book and worth my buying'Samuel Pepys Jeremy TaylorA collection of polemical discourses, wherein the ...Print: Book
1600-1699'but went home again by water, by the way reading of the other two stories that are in the book that I read last night, which I do not like so well as that.'Samuel Pepys Paul ScarronThe Fruitlesse PrecautionPrint: Book
1600-1699'By and by the Duke of York comes and we had a meeting; and among other things, I did read my declaration of the proceedings of the Victualling action this year, and desi...Samuel Pepys Samuel PepysDeclaration of the proceedings of the victualling ...Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'calling at St Pauls churchyard and there looked upon a pretty Burlesque poem called "Scarronides, or Virgile Travesty" - extraordinary good.'Samuel Pepys Charles CottonScarronides, or Virgile TravestyPrint: Book
1600-1699'Dined at home; and so about my business in the afternoon to the temple, where I find my chancery bill drawn against T. Trice; which I read, and like it.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][chancery Bill drawn against Trice]Manuscript: Sheet
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'Going down I spent reading of the "Five Sermons of Five Several Styles"; worth comparing one with another, but I do think when all is done, that contrary to the design o...Samuel Pepys Abraham WrightFive sermons in five several stylesPrint: Book
1600-1699'Going out of the gate, an ordinary woman prayed me to give her room to London; which I did, but spoke not to her all the way, but read as long as I could see my book aga...Samuel Pepys John HerneThe law of charitable uses, wherein the statute of...Print: Book
1600-1699'Having writ letters into the country and read something, I went to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'he and I all the afternoon to read over our office letters, to see what matter can be got for our advantage or disadvantage therein'Samuel Pepys [n/a][office letters]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'He being gone, and I mightily pleased with his discourse, by which I alway[s] learn something, I to read a little in Rushworth; and so home to supper to my wife'Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: 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


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