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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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'So to read and talk with my wife, till by and by called to the office'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So to the Custome-house; and there with great threats got a couple [watermen] to carry me down to Deptford, all the way reading "Pompey the Great" (a play translated fro...Samuel Pepys CorneillePompee: Pompey the Great, a tragedy. As it was act...Print: Book
1600-1699'So to the office till 10 at night upon business, and numbering and examining part of my Sea=manuscript with great pleasure - my wife sitting working by me.'Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[Sea Manuscript]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'So to the reading of my vowes seriously, and then to supper.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So we parted, and I and Mr Creed to Westminster-hall and looked over a book or two, and so to My Lord's...'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: 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'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'The afternoon, while Will is abroad, I spent in reading "The Spanish Gypsy", a play not very good, though commended much.'Samuel Pepys Thomas MiddletonThe Spanish GypsyPrint: Book
1600-1699'The Bill of Mortality, to all our griefs, is encreased 399 this week, and the encrease general through the whole city and suburbs, which makes us all sad.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]Bill of MortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1600-1699'Then by linke home - and there to my book awhile and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then down to my chamber and made an end of Rycaults "History of the Turkes", which is a very good book.'Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1600-1699'Then home - I to read.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then home to dinner; and after dinner to read in Rushworths "Collections" about the charge against the late Duke of Buckingham, in order to the fitting me to speak and u...Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'Then home to read, sup and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then into the garden to read my weekly vowes.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'Then to Pauls churchyard, and there I met with Dr: Fullers "Englands worthys" - the first time that I ever saw it; and so I sat down reading in it, till it was 2 a-clock...Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerHistory of the worthies of EnglandPrint: Book
1600-1699'Then to reading and at night to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then we fell to reading of a book which I saw the other day at my Lord Sandwichs, entended for the late King, finely bound up - a treatise concerning the benefit the Hol...Samuel Pepys Tobias GentlemanEnglands way to win wealth... with a true relation...Print: Book
1600-1699'Then with Creed, and read over with him the Narrative of the late [fight], which he makes a very poor thing of, as endeed it is, and speaks most slightingly of that whol...Samuel Pepys John CreedThe victory over the fleet of the States General ....Unknown


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