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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'So home; and after reading my vowes, being sleepy, without prayers to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
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'and so home and to my office a while to read my vowes. The home to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; and so home to my office and there read over my vowes...Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'I sat up an hour after Mr Coventry was gone to read my vowes - it raining a wonderful hard showre about 11 at night for an hour together. So to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home and at my office reading my vowes;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'Then into the garden to read my weekly vowes.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'And read very seriously my vowes, which I am fearful of forgetting by my late great expenses - but I hope in God I do not. And so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home and my wife and I together all the evening, discoursing; and then after reading my vowes to myself... we hastened to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home to prayers, and then to read my vowes and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'To church; where after sermon, home and to my office before dinner, reading my vowes;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'I was at it till past 2 a-clock on Monday morning, and then read my vows and to bed'Samuel Pepys [vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'And I to my closet, there to read and agree upon my vowes for next year; and so to bed - and slept mighty well.'Samuel Pepys [vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'And then met my uncle Thomas by appointment, and he and I to the Prearogative Office in Paternoster Row and there searched and found my Uncle Day's will and read it over...Samuel Pepys John Day[Will]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'And then met my uncle Thomas by appointment, and he and I to the Prearogative Office in Paternoster Row and there searched and found my Uncle Day's will and read it over...Samuel Pepys Beatrice Day[Will]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's "Patriarchae".'Samuel Pepys Francis Osborne[works]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


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