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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'Up, and walked to Greenwich reading a play, and to the office'Samuel Pepys [unknown][a play]Print: Book
1600-1699"Back I went by Mr. Downing's order, and stayed there til 12 o'clock in expectation of one to come to read some writings, but he came not, so I stayed all alone reading t...Samuel Pepys Dutch Ambassador[a speech]Manuscript: Letter
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'my wife, it being a cold day and it begin to snow, kept her bed till after dinner. And I below by myself looking over my arithmetique books and Timber Rule.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][Arithmetic books]Print: Book
1600-1699"Here Swan showed us a ballat to the tune of Mardike, which was the most incomparably writ in a printed hand; which I borrowed, but the song proved silly and so I did not...Samuel Pepys [ballad]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'There parted in the street with them, and I to my Lord's; but he not being within, took Coach, and being directed by sight of bills upon the walls, did go to Shoe lane t...Samuel Pepys [n/a][bill advertising cockfight]Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster
1600-1699'This day my wife showed me bills printed, wherein her father, with Sir John Collidon and Sir Edwd. Ford, hath got a patent for curing of smoking chimnys. I wish they may...Samuel Pepys [unknown][bills advertising a cure for smoking chimneys]Print: Handbill
1600-1699'and then up, and fell to reading of Mr Eveling's book about Paynting, which is a very pretty book.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book about painting]Print: Book
1600-1699'And coming back I spent reading of the book of warrants of our office in the first Dutch war, and do find that my letters and warrants and method will be found another-g...Samuel Pepys [unknown][book of warrants in Cromwell's war, 1652-4]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'Thence walked with Mr Coventry to St James's and there spent by his desire the whole morning reading of some old Navy books given him of old Sir John Cookes by the Arch-...Samuel Pepys [unknown][books about the Navy]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
1600-1699'Then by linke home - and there to my book awhile and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then home - I to read.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then to reading and at night to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so home and to supper, and then saw the Catalogue of my books which my brother hath wrote out, now perfectly Alphabetical; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [Samuel and John] Pepys[Catalogue of his books]Manuscript: Unknown
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'And after dinner to the Change a little and then to Whitehall, where anon the Duke of York came and a Committee we had of Tanger; where I read over my rough draft of the...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[contract]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'We read over the contract together and discoursed it well over and so parted'Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[contract]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'and so we set out for Chatham - in my way overtaking some company, wherein was a lady, very pretty, riding single, her husband in company with her. We fell into talk, an...Samuel Pepys [unknown][copy of verses]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'At my office all the morning, reading Mr Holland's discourse of the Navy, lent me by Mr Turner; and am much pleased with them, they hitting the very diseases of the Navy...Samuel Pepys John Holland[discourse on Naval administration]Print: Book


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