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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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'and at the Dukes, with great joy, I received the good news of the decrease of the plague this week to 70, and but 253 in all; which is the least Bill hath been known the...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Bill of mortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
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'To their church in the afternoon, and in Mrs Turner's pew my wife took up a good black hood and kept it. A stranger preached a poor sermon, and so I read over the whole ...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Book of TobitPrint: Book
1600-1699Adrian Johns notes Samuel Pepys's use of printed lawbooks "to inform himself of 'law-notions'"Samuel Pepys books on laws and statutesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so I left them with him and went with Mr Moore to Grayes Inne to his chamber, and there he showed me his old Cambdens "Brittannia", which I intended to buy of him an...Samuel Pepys William CamdenBritanniaPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to supper. And after reading part of "Bussy D'Ambois", a good play I bought today - to bed.'Samuel Pepys George ChapmanBussy D'AmboisPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence with Mr Moore to the Wardrobe and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr Townsend about his accounts an hour or two - we reading of a merry book against the ...Samuel Pepys Sir John BirkenheadCabala, or An impartial account of the non-conform...Print: Book
1600-1699'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the following in his diary the previous day (15 April): 'Then...Samuel Pepys John PlayfordCatch that catch can, or The musical companionPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home to dinner and then to my chamber to read Ben Johnson's "Cateline", a very excellent piece.'Samuel Pepys Ben JonsonCatelinePrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence home and I spent most of the evening upon Fullers "Church History" and Barcklys "Argenis"; and so after supper to prayers and to bed'Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerChurch HistoryPrint: Book
1600-1699'At night fell to reading in the "Church History" of Fullers, and perticularly Cranmers letter to Queen Elizabeth, which pleases me mightly for his zeal, obedience and bo...Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerChurch-HistoryPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I read prayers in this house. So to bed.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]Common Prayer BookPrint: Book
1600-1699'After he was gone, I fell a-reading "Cornelianum Dolium" till 11 a-clock at night, with great pleasure; and after that to bed.'Samuel Pepys Thomas RandolphCornelianum DoliumPrint: Book
1600-1699'At the Coffee-house in Exchange=alley I bought a little book, "Counsell to Builders", written by Sir Balth. Gerbier; it is dedicated almost to all the men of any great c...Samuel Pepys Sir Balth. GerbierCounsel and advise to all builders; for the choice...Print: Book
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'So I made Gosnell [sing] and we sat up, looking over the book of Dances till 12 at night, not observing how the time went; and so to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys PlayfordDancing Master OR English Dancing MasterPrint: Book
1600-1699'so did not enlarge, but took leave and went down and sat in a low room reading Erasmus "de scribendis Epistolis", a very good book; especially, one letter of advice to a...Samuel Pepys Desiderius ErasmusDe conscribendis epistolisPrint: Book
1600-1699'To the hall, and there find the boy's verses "De peste"; it being their custom to make verses at Shrovetide. I read several, and very good they were, and better I think ...Samuel Pepys [boys in the upper forms at Eaton] De pests [Bacchus verses]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699"This morning my Lord showed me the King's declaration and his letter to the two Generalls to be communicated to the fleet. The contents of the letter are his offer of gr...Samuel Pepys Declaration of BredaPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill


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