√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1700-1799 'Adventures of Six Days' 1 hour after supper. Bed 11. Gertrude Savile Madame de Gomez La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days Print : Book1700-1799 Read 'Adventures of Six Days'. Bed 1. Gertrude Savile Madame de Gomez La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days Print : Book1700-1799 Home near 9. Read 'The Prude' comfortably by a fire. Gertrude Savile Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady. Print : Book1700-1799 Read 'The Prude'. Gertrude Savile Anon OR 'M. A.' [Madame A] The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady. Print : Book1700-1799 Tent till dark. Read the 3rd part of 'The Prude', and the 'The Beautifull Pyrate'. Gertrude Savile Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady. Print : Book1700-1799 Read... "The Beautifull Pyrate". Gertrude Savile Jean Regnauld de Segrais Three Novels; viz I. The Beautiful Pyrate.... OR F Print : Book1700-1799 Tent all day light. Read Ugania [?] and Bajesett. Bed past 11. Gertrude Savile Jean Regnauld de Segrais Three Novels; viz I. The Beautiful Pyrate.... OR F Print : Book1700-1799 Read a Novell after supper. Bed past 11. Gertrude Savile [A Novell] OR [A Novel] Print : Book1700-1799 Slept in the chair - knew not what to do with myself. Read a New Tragidy in Maniscript that has not been acted; the story of the first Brutus that putt his 2 sons to deat... Gertrude Savile 'Brutus' OR 'A Tragedy' Manuscript : Codex1700-1799 Read after supper 'The Noble Slaves'. Bed 12. Gertrude Savile Penelope Aubin The Noble Slaves: Or, the Lives and Adventures of Print : Book1700-1799 'Life of Count De Venivill' after supper. Bed near 12. Gertrude Savile Penelope Aubin The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil... Print : Book1700-1799 Tent till Dark. Read 'Nunnery Tales'. What a Stuped Life is my lott!... Gertrude Savile 'Young Nobleman' Nunnery Tales, Written by a Young Nobleman, and Tr Print : Book1700-1799 Sat humdrum some time. Read a storry out of 'Nunnery Tales'. At 5 to Mrs Drydens... Gertrude Savile 'Young Nobleman' Nunnery Tales, Written by a Young Nobleman, and Tr Print : Book1700-1799 'Tis th' infirmity of noblest mind When ruffled with an unexpected woe To speak what settled prudence wou'd conceal: As the vex'd oceean [sic] working in a storm Off brin... Gertrude Savile Elijah Fenton Mariamne. A Tragey. Acted at the Theatre Royal... Print : Book1700-1799 Writt till supper. Read 'Sesostris'. Bed near 12. Gertrude Savile John Sturmy Sesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy... Print : Book1700-1799 After supper read 'The City Widow' and part of the 'Adventures of Abdella' - 2 new books got tonight. Bed past 12. Gertrude Savile Eliza Fowler Haywood The City Widow; or, Love in a Butt. A Novel. Print : Book1700-1799 Home past 9 almost starv'd to death...Read 'Gill Blas'. Bed 12. Gertrude Savile Alain Rene Le Sage The History and Adventures of Gil Blas... Print : Book1700-1799 Home near 11. 'Gil Blass'. Bed past 12. Gertrude Savile Alain Rene Le Sage The History and Adventures of Gil Blas... Print : Book1700-1799 Home past 10. 'Noble Slaves'. Bed past 12. Gertrude Savile Penelope Aubin The Noble Slaves: or, The Lives and Adventures of Print : Book1700-1799 News. Writt. After supper read 'The Perplex'd Dutches'. Gertrude Savile Eliza Fowler Haywood The Perplex'd Dutchess; or, Treachery Rewarded...A Print : Book1700-1799 Made an end of 'Gil Blas'. Gertrude Savile Alain Rene Le Sage The History and Adventures of Gil Blas... Print : Book1700-1799 Masenger - Believe ye are to blame, much to blame Lady; [...] That Feel a Weight of Sorrow through their Souls. Gertrude Savile Philip Massinger The Very Woman Print : Book1700-1799 I fear to tempt this stormy sea the World, Whose every Beach is strew'd with wrecks of wretches, That daily perish in it. - Rows Ambitious Stepmother Gertrude Savile Nicholas Rowe The Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy... Print : Book1700-1799 Afternoon read Clarke's Attributes 2 hours. Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God Print : Book1700-1799 Would not go to Church. Read Dr Clark's 'paraphras'. Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists Print : Book1700-1799 Read 4 acts of 'The Rehearsall'. Bed 11. Gertrude Savile George (Duke of Buckingham) Villiers The Rehearsal Print : Book1700-1799 Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12. Gertrude Savile George (Duke of Buckingham) Villiers The Rehearsal Print : Book1700-1799 Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12. Gertrude Savile John Dryden All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy.. Print : Book1700-1799 Some of Dr Clark's paraphras. Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists Print : Book1700-1799 Came up and din'd alone. Writt little. Read 'All for Love'. Gertrude Savile John Dryden All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy.. Print : Book1700-1799 Din'd alone in own room. Read part of 'All for Love'. Gertrude Savile John Dryden All for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy.. Print : Book1700-1799 I sat with Aunt till 7. Read Dr Clark's 'Paraphras' 1 1/2 hours.Bed near 11. Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists Print : Book1700-1799 Read 'travells of Cyrus' alone 2 1/2 hours. A fine book. Bed near 12. Gertrude Savile Andrew Michael Ramsay The Travels of Cyrus Print : Book1700-1799 Did not go to Church morn. nor afternoon. Read Dr Clark paraphras. Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists Print : Book1700-1799 Tatlers (borrow'd of Mrs Helen D'Enly) 1 1/2 hours. Gertrude Savile Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 None went to Church. Read Clark's 'Attributes' and writt. Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God Print : Book1700-1799 Read 2 plays after supper - 'The Guardian' and 'The Devil of a Wife'. Bed 1. Gertrude Savile Thomas Jevon The Devil of a Wife Print : Book1700-1799 Read 2 plays after supper - 'The Guardian' and 'The Devil of a Wife'. Bed 1. Gertrude Savile Abraham Cowley The Guardian: A Comedy Acted before Prince Charles Print : Book1700-1799 Read part of a sermon of Dr Stanhope's. Gertrude Savile George Stanhope Twelve Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 Read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's to the sons of the clergy. Bed past 11. Gertrude Savile George Stanhope Twelve Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 The Iris came this morning, in it there was the following article: at Paris there is proposals for publishing by subscription Parisgraphy, or a language that may be read ... Joseph Hunter The Iris Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'W[ordsworth] did not read it [Thomas Beddoes, Domiciliary Verses] until it was reprinted in the Annual Anthology (1799). [Joseph] Cottle sent W[ordsworth] a copy ... in... William Wordsworth Thomas Beddoes Domiciliary Verses Print : Book1700-1799 I wrote out of the Monthly Review, an anecdote of Dr Franklin's [surgeon?] who said that the [king?] was the only gentleman in the kingdom. I began to make an index to th... Joseph Hunter Monthly Review Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 I wrote out of the Gentleman's Magazine the various [games?] assigned for the 9 of diamonds... to which I added my opinion on the subject. Joseph Hunter Gentleman's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 I will here give an account of the Hymns which I could say ... This I have copied from Mr E[vans] writing in an old hymn book of mine. Joseph Hunter 'An old Hymn Book' Print : Book1700-1799 Reading "Anedotes of Some Remarkable Persons Chiefly of The Present and Two Preceding Centuries' Joseph Hunter William Seward Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons, Chiefly o Print : Book1700-1799 I drew out of a book entitled 'a genealogical History of the Present Royal Families of Europe' the pedigree of several of them. Joseph Hunter Mark Noble A Genealogical History of the Present Royal Famili Print : Book1700-1799 Looked at Ainsworth's dictionary for the derivation of all the Christian names; Joseph is derived from the Hebrew of I will multiply ... Joseph Hunter Robert Ainsworth Robert Ainsworth's Dictionary Print : Book1700-1799 'W[ordsworth] received a copy [of the Annual Anthology] in Aug. [1799], and discussed it in his letter to [Joseph] Cottle of 2 Sept.' William Wordsworth Annual Anthology Print : Book1700-1799 "In Feb. 1834, W[ordsworth] remembered having first read Crabbe in the Annual Register during the 1780s; there he also read Beattie's 'Illustrations on Sublimity.'" William Wordsworth Annual Register Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 '"My Sister would be very glad of your assistance in her Italian studies," W[ordsworth] wrote to [William] Mathews on 21 March 1796, " ... yesterday we began Ariosto."' William and Dorothy Wordsworth Ludovico Ariosto Orlando Furioso Print : Book1700-1799 'W[ordsworth] was introduced to The Minstrel by his teacher, Thomas Bowman ... during his schooldays at Hawkshead. De Selincourt emphasizes its influence on the juvenili... William Wordsworth James Beattie Minstrel, The Print : Book1700-1799 "In the Fenwick Note to the Intimations Ode, W[ordsworth] recalled that at school 'I used to brood over the stories of Enoch and Elijah' ... the Hawkshead schoolboys regu... William Wordsworth The Bible Print : Book1700-1799 'W[ordsworth] asked [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795 to "make me a present of that vol: of Bells forgotten poetry which contains The Minstrel and Sir martyn" ... [he]includ... William Wordsworth John Bell Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry Print : Book1700-1799 'At some point after 1828, W[ordsworth] told Alexander Dyce that he read Bowles's Fourteen Sonnets on publication: "When Bowles's Sonnets first appeared, - a thin 4to pam... William Wordsworth William Lisle Bowles Fourteen Sonnets Print : Book1700-1799 "On 7 March 1796 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] remarked that 'I am now reading the Fool of Quality which amuses me exceedingly.'" Dorothy Wordsworth Henry Brooke The Fool of Quality; or, the History of Henry Earl... Print : Book1700-1799 "Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France," D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote in March 1796." Dorothy Wordsworth Patrick Brydone A Tour through Siciliy and Malta in a Series of Le... Print : Book1700-1799 "Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France," D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote in March 1796." Dorothy Wordsworth Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy Print : Book1700-1799 "'Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France,' D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote in March 1796." Dorothy Wordsworth John Moore Travels in France Print : Book1700-1799 "Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at liberty, and in the vacations, to read whatever boo... William Wordsworth Miguel de Cervantes Savedra Don Quixote Print : Book1700-1799 "Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at liberty, and in the vacations, to read whatever boo... William Wordsworth Alain Rene Le Sage Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane Print : Book1700-1799 "Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at liberty, and in the vacations, to read whatever boo... William Wordsworth Henry Fielding Print : Book1700-1799 "Towards the end of his life, W[ordsworth] recalled that during his 'earliest days at school' he read 'any part of Swift that I liked: Gulliver's Travels, and the Tale of... William Wordsworth Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels Print : Book1700-1799 "Towards the end of his life, W[ordsworth] recalled that during his 'earliest days at school' he read 'any part of Swift that I liked: Gulliver's Travels, and the Tale of... William Wordsworth Jonathan Swift A Tale of a Tub Print : Book1700-1799 "In June 1797, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote to Mary Hutchinson, telling her that, as soon as [S. T.] C[oleridge] arrived at Racedown Lodge, 'he repeated to us two acts an... Dorothy Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Osorio Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 "[in 29.10.1828 letter to Alexander Dyce] ... W[ordsworth] recalls that 'in 1788 the Ode was first printed from Dr Carlyle's copy, with Mr Mackenzie's supplemental lines ... William Wordsworth William Collins An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlan... Print : Newspaper1700-1799 "On 27 July 1799, W[ordsworth] told Cottle that 'Looking over some old monthly Magazines I saw a paragraph stating that your 'Arthur' was ready for the press!'" William Wordsworth Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 "On 21 March 1796, [Wordsworth] told [William] Mathews that D[orothy] W[ordsworth] 'has already gone through half of Davila.'" Dorothy Wordsworth Enrico Caterina Davila Historia delle Guerre Civili di Francia ... nella ... Print : Book, Serial / periodical1700-1799 "As [S. T. Coleridge] recalled in the Friend, 'I had [when composing The Three Graves in 1798] been reading Bryan Edwards's account of the effects of the Oby Witchcraft o... Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bryan Edwards The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British ... Print : Book1700-1799 "W[ordsworth] recollected that at Hawkshead ... ' ... I, with the other boys of the same standing, was put upon reading the first six books of Euclid, with the exception ... William Wordsworth Euclid Elements I-IV, VI Print : Book1700-1799 "W[ordsworth]'s note to Guilt and Sorrow 81 acknowledges a borrowing 'From a short MS. poem read to me when an under-graduate, by my schoolfellow and friend Charles Faris... William John Bernard Farish Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 "W[ordsworth]'s note to Guilt and Sorrow 81 acknowledges a borrowing 'From a short MS. poem read to me when an under-graduate, by my schoolfellow and friend Charles Faris... Charles Farish John Bernard Farish Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 "W[ordsworth] read the copy [of John Foxe, Acts and Monuments of Matters most Special and Memorable] preserved today in the Hawkshead Grammar School Library ..." William Wordsworth John Foxe Acts and Monuments of Matters Most Special and Mem... Print : Book1700-1799 "W[ordsworth]'s note to Descriptive Sketches 428 reads: 'These summer hamlets are probably (as I have seen observed by a critic in the Gentleman's Magazine) what Virgil a... William Wordsworth Gentleman's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 "'I have received from [Basil] Montagu, Godwyn's second edition,' reports W[ordsworth] on 21 March 1796: 'I expect to find the work much improved. I cannot say that I hav... William Wordsworth William Godwin An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice Print : Book1700-1799 "On 27 Feb. 1799, W[ordsworth] told [S. T.] C[oleridge] that 'My internal prejudge[ments con]cerning Wieland and Goethe ... were ... the result of no negligent perusal of... William Wordsworth Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Manuscript : UnknownUnknown1700-1799 "Several extracts from Hentzner are copied into MS 1 of The Borderers, D[ove] C[ottage] MS 12, in the hand firstly of W[ordsworth] and then of D[orothy] W[ordsworth]." William Wordsworth Paul Hentzner A Journey into England Print : Book1700-1799 "Several extracts from Hentzner are copied into MS 1 of The Borderers, D[ove] C[ottage] MS 12, in the hand firstly of W[ordsworth] and then of D[orothy] W[ordsworth]." Dorothy Wordsworth Paul Hentzner A Journey into England Print : Book1700-1799 Witness statement in the trial of James Stewart for theft:
James James (Witness): "afterwards I saw the advertisement in the 'Daily Advertiser' about the prisoner at t... James James Daily Advertiser Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in a trial for highway robbery
William Aldrich: "on the 23rd of June, at half past ten at night, the prisoner Hanlon brought me a watch to pledge... ... William Aldrich Daily Advertiser Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for for theft:
Thomas Jones: "reading the 'Daily Advertiser' and finding they were advertised, I went out and fetched them from Mr Humphreys... Thomas Jones Daily Advertiser Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for for theft:
Benjamin Bunn: "I am a pawnbroker and live in Houndsditch... I was reading the 'Daily Advertiser', and I saw an advertisement... Thomas Jones Daily Advertiser Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for for theft:
Samuel Spencer: "The next day about 11 o'clock I read in the 'Advertiser', 'A silver pint mug, marked E.M.M. stole out of the... Samuel Spencer Advertiser Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods:
Robert Alexander: "[the prisoner] brought a saw to pawn... I lent him 2s upon it; the next morning I ... Robert Alexander Public Advertiser Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods:
John Wyn: "On the 17th of December I had been looking over the papers there I read about Mr Parker's ... John Wyn Daily Advertiser Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods:
John Wyn: "On the 17th of December I had been looking over the papers there I read about Mr Parker's ... John Wyn Daily Advertiser Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for for theft:
George Martin: [prisoner offered him cup for sale] "the next morning I read it in the 'Daily Advertiser', only in the paper i... George Martin Daily Advertiser Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods:
Charles Clark: "On the 18th of November, in the forenoon, Mary English came and pledged four silver t... Charles Clark Daily Advertiser Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for pickpocketing:
Thomas Burch: "On Monday morning the 7th of July, the prisoner brought this watch to me... I lent him two guineas on it; ... Thomas Burch Daily Advertiser Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for fraud:
Thomas Douglas: "I saw this advertisement in the Daily Advertiser of the 1st of March last. (It is read to the court)... In conse... Thomas Douglas Daily Advertiser Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
Gravat: "I am in the news business; my son delivered me the watch-cases on Monday night, soon after he had found them I... Gravat Print : Handbill1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for burglary:
John Monk: "I have for some years past supported myself by thieving... Waine came about twelve the next day. Percival was ther... John Monk Print : Handbill1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for shoplifting:
Elias Mordecai: "I set my Basket one Day upon a post, and saw Moses show a Watch to two Gentlemen... five or six days after... Elias Mordecai Advertiser Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Josiah Howard: The 19th of May I and three journeyman-packers left work and came to the Bull-head in Jewin-street; I get much in ... Josiah Howard Advertiser Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Prisoner's defence in trial for highway robbery:
"When I came home I went to a coffee-house in Long-acre and asked for the Daily Advertiser, there I saw the paragraph ... Alexander Bourk Daily Advertiser Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
James Palace: "A night or two after I read in the Advertiser a watch, name Ingraham, describing it to be the same as I ... James Palace Advertiser Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
William Masters: "some time on the 26th of December, we received a handbill from Sir John Fielding, describing this wat... William Masters Sir John Fielding Print : Handbill1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
John Brooks: "the handbill came from Sir John Fielding's on the 26th of December; I saw it in the shop between three an... John Brooks Sir John Fielding Print : Handbill1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for forgery:
William Moreland: "I saw the handbill that had been circulated, advertising that Mr Ryland had been suspected of forgery, and a... William Moreland Print : Handbill1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Allen: "I took the prisoners that night in Kingsland-road... in the morning a printer's boy came to me with a handbill, and I the... Allen Print : Handbill1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
Thomas Brown: "I took an axe of Jones the same evening afterwards; that was on the Tuesday evening and on Wednesday the... Thomas Brown Print : Handbill1700-1799 "[in Aug. 1787 Dorothy Wordsworth] reported that 'I am at present [reading] the Iliad' ... " Dorothy Wordsworth Homer Iliad Print : Book1700-1799 "On 21 Sept 1798, Klopstock read to W[ordsworth] and C[oleridge] 'some passages from his odes in which he has adopted the latin measures' (Wordsworth, Prose Works vol. 1... Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock [odes] Unknown 1700-1799 "In late Nov. 1795, W[ordsworth] wrote to [Francis] Wrangham: " ... we see only here a provincial weekly paper ..." William Wordsworth Print : Newspaper1700-1799 "[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] once left the young W[ordsworth] in his study for a moment and returned to find him reading the Opticks." William Wordsworth Isaac Newton Opticks Print : Book1700-1799 "Late in life, W[ordsworth] remembered that he discovered Ovid before Virgil: 'Before I read Virgil I was so strongly attached to Ovid, whose Metamorphoses I read at scho... William Wordsworth Ovid Metamorphoses Print : Book1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Henry Butt: "On the 26th of August I took in two gravy spoons... Two days after...a handbill came in; I read it over, and thought... Henry Butt Print : Handbill1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
William Aldus: "I am a servant to Mr Salkeld; I produce four table-cloths, and twelve napkins, which I received from the prisoner... William Aldus Print : Handbill1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Robert Price: "I was standing reading a playbill that was stuck up, the prisoner came and laid his hand on my shoulder as before,... Robert Price Print : Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, Playbill1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Robert Price: "I was standing reading a playbill that was stuck up, the prisoner came and laid his hand on my shoulder as before,... Joseph Pead Print : Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, Playbill1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for coining:
"Arthur Cross deposed, that he was reading the newspaper at the Black RAven in Fetter-lane about six weeks ago, wherein Mr Coop... Arthur Cross Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Feling: "I was at the Lion in the Wood reading the newspaper, there was Esq; Henson's coachman, then came the prisoner..." Abraham Feling Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Isaac Reeve: "After this I happened to read in the Newspaper of a quart silver tankard being stole in the prosecutor's house. I w... Isaac Reeve Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Everill knew John White had been charged with stealing a trunk as it was read to him from a newspaper by a landlady named Fox 2 o... Edward Everill Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
Sharpling: "last Thursday was with [the prisoner] between four and five o'clock, he was very much in liquor, this was a... Sharpling Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Q: "Do you know when Cox was taken up?"
Taylor: "I saw it in the newspaper" John Taylor Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Thomas Crocket: "I keep Pan's Coffee-house in Castle-street; on the 9th of November last, the prisoner came into my house, betwee... George Watson Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
Henry Barnard: "I went to Baker's Coffee-house to search the newspaper, whether this bill, which I suspected to be stol... Henry Barnard Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
Henry Barnard: "I went to Baker's Coffee-house to search the newspaper, whether this bill, which I suspected to be stol... Henry Barnard Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
John Williamson: "I went and got a pennyworth of gin. I had a newspaper in my hand; she said she had found a purse with bank note... John Williamson Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Elizabeth Marlow: "In the morning of the 23rd I was looking into the newspaper for a particular thing I wanted to see. I saw an a... Elizabeth Marlow Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for burglary:
James Harrison: "I know both prisoners. On the 7th of September, I was in company with Underwood, at the Angel, Mr Fitzpatrick... James Harrison Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for burglary:
2 statements -that George Todd was apprehended in a public house, reading a newspaper at the time George Todd Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for coining:
John Bailey: "I am an engraver in Fleet-market. I saw the prisoner, as well as I can recollect, the first time was June last. I... John Bailey Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for stealing:
John Jackson: "I came up by coach, I got down at the White Horse Cellar in Piccadilly, I was very much benumbed with cold. I d... John Jackson Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for burglary:
Joseph Jackson: "I come on account of recollecting a circumstance in an advertisement, that I saw in the newspaper, concerning... Joseph Jackson Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for stealing:
William Watson: "...my house was robbed on the 17th of March... I told my case and on the 19th, I saw in the newspaper a descr... William Watson Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Alexander Jack: "...we went to another house a little further on, and there was a man sitting with a pot of beer, reading a newsp... Anon Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for shoplifting:
Walter English: "on the 15th of January last, in the morning, I was in my parlour reading the newspaper, about ten in the m... Walter English Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Defence of prisoner in his trial for theft
James Lewis: "...we went to the Gun, and he asked me to go in; the gentlewoman said come into the parlour, we staid there, a... James Lewis Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Keturah Dyts (wife of landlord): "...on the 15th of August my husband was taken ill; the prisoner was sitting in the kitchen read... Robert Mills Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for murder:
Joshua Parish: "I know the middle man (Payne); it is near three weeks ago since I first saw him... after this I saw in a newspap... Joshua Parish Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Q: "When did you hear of Sadi's death, madam?"
Sullivan: "I really cannot tell; I was in the country; I first read it in the new... Sullivan Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for robbery:
Jane Toosey swore to the court that she read about this crime in the newspaper -The Daily Advertiser Jane Toosey Daily Advertiser Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Esther Radford: [Bevan picks up parcel in Pond-street and takes it to Radford]... he gave them into my possession, and I put them... Esther Radford Gazetteer and Daily Advertiser Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Elizabeth Kinsey, describing actions of prisoner William Mortimer while in tap room of the public house: "I did not see him doing... William Mortimer Print : Newspaper1700-1799 This trial concerned with the manner in which William Hudson read the newspaper (or several) to other customers at the New London Coffee-house and the seditious comments ... William Hudson Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Thomas Tuck: "Last Saturday, about three o'clock, the prisoner was in my parlour, drinking a glass of liquor; I keep a public hou... John Simmonds Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Mary Rose: "I was reading in the newspaper some time after, and saw a person that had been deprived of half-a-guinea and was in c... Mary Rose Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statement in trial for embezzlement:
Anthony Parkin: "he went on Saturday morning to a public house, the sign of the Goat, in Cheyne-street, near Gower-street,... John Norton Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statements in trial for forgery:
Eleanor Castle: "The very day he was taken up, he read the paper at our house... Near two o'clock, in the middle of the day...... Edward Lovell Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Witness statements in trial for theft:
James Streeter: "...says I, Mich, how did you come by this, I am afraid you did not get it honestly; he persisted in it, that he... James Streeter Print : Newspaper1700-1799 "W[ordsworth]'s comment to C[oleridge] in 1802 suggests a first reading of Pliny's letters years before ... 'I remeber having the same opinion of Plinys [sic] letters whi... William Wordsworth Pliny Epistolarum Print : Book1700-1799 "Attacking W[ordsworth]'s 'one-sidedness' in 1840, De Quincey records: 'One of Mrs Radcliffe's romances, viz. 'The Italian,' he had, by some strange accident, read, - rea... William Wordsworth Ann Radcliffe The Italian Print : Book1700-1799 "Christopher Wordsworth Jr. wrote of W[ordsworth]: 'The week before he took his degree he passed his time in reading Clarissa Harlowe.'" William Wordsworth Samuel Richardson Clarissa Print : Book1700-1799 "W[ordsworth] owned and read the French translation of Coxe during his residence in France, 1791-2." William Wordsworth William Coxe Lettres de M. William Coxe a M. W. Melmoth sur l'e... Print : Book1700-1799 "In 1843, W[ordsworth] recalled his research for The Borderers: ' ... having a wish to colour the manners in some degree from local history more than my knowledge enabled... William Wordsworth George Redpath The Border History of England and Scotland Print : Book1700-1799 "[Thomas] Poole read the Appeal in March 1796; writing to Henrietta Warwick on 2 April, he revealed that 'I have lately perused with much delight La Citoyenne Roland.'" Thomas Poole Marie Jeanne Roland de la Platiere An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizeness Ro... Print : Book1700-1799 " ... in March 1796 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] reported that 'I have also read lately Madame Roland's Memoirs, Louvet and some other french things - very entertaining.'" Dorothy Wordsworth Marie Jeanne Roland de la Platiere An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizeness Ro... Print : Book1700-1799 " ... in March 1796 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] reported that 'I have also read lately Madame Roland's Memoirs, Louvet and some other french things - very entertaining.'" Dorothy Wordsworth Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray Narrative of the Dangers to Which I have been Expo... Print : Book1700-1799 "[S. T.] C[oleridge] stayed up until one o'clock in the morning to read Tytler's translation of The Robbers ... " Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller The Robbers Print : Book1700-1799 'Southey, W[ordsworth] told [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795, "is about publishing an epic poem on the subject of the Maid of orleans. From the specimens I have seen I am ... William Wordsworth Robert Southey Joan of Arc Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 'In his letter to [William] Mathews of 3 Aug. 1791, W[ordsworth] somewhat effacingly claims only to have read "in our language three volumes of Tristram Shandy, and two o... William Wordsworth Lawrence Sterne Tristram Shandy Print : Book1700-1799 'In his letter to [William] Mathews of 3 Aug. 1791, W[ordsworth] somewhat effacingly claims only to have read "in our language three volumes of Tristram Shandy, and two o... William Wordsworth Spectator, The Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'W[ordsworth] read "Christian's own Account of the Mutiny on Board his Majesty's Ship Bounty, commanded by Captain Bligh, of which he was the Ringleader" in The Weekly En... William Wordsworth Weekly Entertainer, The Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'Clarissa Harlowe was not more interesting [than Thomas Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the African Slave-Trade] when I first read it at... Dorothy Wordsworth Samuel Richardson Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'We had read his [Thomas Clarkson's] book ... William [Wordsworth] I believe made a few remarks upon paper, but he had not time for much criticism, and in fact having onl... William Wordsworth Thomas Clarkson History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment o... Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 'I remember reading White's Natural History and Antiquities of Selborn[e] with great pleasure when a Boy at school ...' William Wordsworth Gilbert White Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne Print : Book1700-1799 'Three of W[ordsworth]'s translations of Catullus survive from between 1786 and c.1788 ["Death of a Starling" (1786); "Lesbia" (1786); "Septimius and Acme" (1788)] ... he... William Wordsworth Catullus Carmina Unknown 1700-1799 'W[ordsworth] copied a brief quotation from Donne's "Death be not proud" into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16 ["Death be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dread... William Wordsworth John Donne Holy Sonnet 10 Unknown 1700-1799 'In spring 1789 W[ordsworth]translated Horace's Ode to Apollo (Ode I xxxi) with the help of [Christopher] Smart's translation.' William Wordsworth Horace Works of Horace. Translated into English Prose, f... Print : Book1700-1799 'W[ordsworth]'s translation of Horace's Ode to the Bandusian Fountain (Ode III xiii) appears in a manuscript dating from his time at Windy Brow in 1794.' William Wordsworth Horace Odes Print : Book1700-1799 'A 28-line transcription in Wordsworth's hand appears in the Alfoxden Notebook (Dove Cottage MS 14) of a quotation from Richard Payne Knight's The Progress of Civil Socie... William Wordsworth Richard Payne Knight Progress of Civil Society, A Didactic Poem, The Unknown 1700-1799 'Mary Moorman, "Wordsworth's Commonplace Book," Notes & Queries NS 4 (1957) 400-5, reports that the commonplace book used by Wordsworth after 1800 contains "four verses f... William Wordsworth David Herd Ancient and Modern Scottish Poems Print : BookUnknown1700-1799 '[Heron] provided one of the first entries in [Wordsworth's] Commonplace Book ... ' William Wordsworth Robert Heron Observations Made in a Journey through the Western... Print : BookUnknown1700-1799 'W[ordsworth] read Holcroft's play shortly after publication ... on 21 March 1796 [he] told [William] Mathews that "I have attempted to read Holcroft's Man of Ten Thousan... William Wordsworth Thomas Holcroft Man of Ten Thousand, The Print : BookUnknown1700-1799 'At the front of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16, in use during 1798, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied Marlowe's Edward II V.v.55-108, with some omissions ... The extract was copied ... Dorothy Wordsworth Christopher Marlowe Edward II Print : Book1700-1799 'At the front of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16, in use during 1798, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied Marlowe's Edward II V.v.55-108, with some omissions ... The extract was copied ... Dorothy Wordsworth Select Collection of Old Plays Print : Book1700-1799 ' ... a short extract from [Philip] Massinger's The Picture (III.v.211-19) [was] copied by D[orothy] W[ordsworth] into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16 ... ' Dorothy Wordsworth Philip Massinger Picture, The Print : Book1700-1799 'During the spring or summer of 1789, W[ordsworth] translated Moschus' Lament for Bion [Idyllium III] ... ' William Wordsworth Moschus Lament for Bion Unknown 1700-1799 'W[ordsworth] read (in [John] Langhorne's translation) Bion's death of Adonis by 1786 ... ' William Wordsworth Bion Death of Adonis Unknown 1700-1799 'W[ordsworth] composed a loose translation of Petrarch, Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento in 1789-90 while learning Italian with Agostino Isola.' William Wordsworth Petrarch Se la mia vita da l'aspro tormento (sonnet) Unknown 1700-1799 'On the facing verso of the MS [of Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff], [Wordsworth] ... copies out Athalie I.ii.278-82, 292-94 ... ' William Wordsworth Jean Racine Athalie Unknown 1700-1799 Thomas Moore on encountering W[ordsworth] in Paris on 24 Oct. 1820: 'A young Frenchman called in, and it was amusing to hear him and Wordsworth at cross purposes on the s... William Wordsworth Jean Racine Athalie Unknown 1700-1799 '[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] recalled that W[ordsworth] read [George Sandys, Relation of a Journey Begun 1610] in the Hawkshead Grammar School Library.' William Wordsworth George Sandys Relation of a Journey Begun 1610. Foure Bookes. ... Print : Book1700-1799 'As W[ordsworth] recalled in the Fenwick Note to We are Seven ... his reading of Shelvocke's Voyages inspired the killing of the albatross in C[oleridge]'s Ancient Marine... William Wordsworth George Shelvocke Voyage Round the World by the Way of the Great Sou... Print : Book1700-1799 'On the rear flyleaf of his copy of [Charlotte Smith's] Elegiac Sonnets [5th edn, 1789]... W[ordsworth] copied two more of Smith's compositions, both of which were first ... William Wordsworth Charlotte Smith [sonnets (two)] Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 'In later years, W[ordsworth] recalled that under Agostino Isola "I translated the Vision of Mirza, and two or three other papers of the Spectator, into Italian" [Prose W... William Wordsworth Spectator, The Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'On the inside cover of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 2, in use during 1786-7, a faint pencil inscription survives from c.1786: "Non hoc ista sibi tempus spectacula," from Virgil, ... William Wordsworth Virgil Aeneid Print : Book1700-1799 ' ... as a student at Cambridge, W[ordsworth] made a number of translations from Virgil's Georgics .. surviving manuscripts indicate that the translations were made in su... William Wordsworth Virgil Georgics Unknown 1700-1799 '"I am translating the Oberon of Wieland," C[oleridge] told [Thomas] Poole, 20 Nov 1797.' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christoph Martin Wieland Oberon Unknown 1700-1799 '[Francis] Wrangham was ... in the habit of reading MS verses to his friends: C[oleridge] heard his "Brutoniad" in Sept. 1794.' Francis Wrangham Francis Wrangham Brutoniad Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 Robert Southey to William Taylor, April 1799:
'[Amos Cottle] was in a hurry, and wanted northern learning, but seemed to have no idea of knowing how or where to look fo... Amos Cottle unknown Edda Soemundar hinns Froda Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1700-1799 'Coleridge's interest in [Amos] Cottle dated back at least to May 1797, when he read his Latin poem, Italia, vastata ... ' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Amos Cottle Italia, vastata Unknown 1700-1799 William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 14 March 1818: 'If you continue to read the Kendal Chronicle you must be greatly concerned to see that the Liberty of the Press shoul... William Wordsworth [French newspapers] Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'C[oleridge] read [George Buchanan] at Cambridge.' Samuel Taylor Coleridge George Buchanan [poems] Unknown 1700-1799 'W[ordsworth] copied a set of extracts from Buchanan into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book [Dove Cottage MS 26] ... probably between mid-March and 10 June 1807.' William Wordsworth John Lanne Buchanan Travels in the Western Hebrides, 1782 to 1790 Print : Book1700-1799 'C[oleridge] was reading Burnet in 1795 ... ' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas Burnet unknown Print : Book1700-1799 'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied a number of epitaphs into [Dove Cottage MS 20] between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, namely: epitaph of Josias Franklin and his wife; Benjam... Dorothy Wordsworth unknown epitaph of Josias Franklin and wife Unknown 1700-1799 'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied a number of epitaphs into [Dove Cottage MS 20] between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, namely: epitaph of Josias Franklin and his wife; Benjam... Dorothy Wordsworth unknown epitaph of Benjamin Franklin Unknown 1700-1799 'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied a number of epitaphs into [Dove Cottage MS 20] between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, namely: epitaph of Josias Franklin and his wife; Benjam... Dorothy Wordsworth unknown epitaph "taken from the Parish Church-Yard of Mars... Unknown 1700-1799 'C[oleridge] had read the Essay [on the Principle of Population] shortly after its first appearance in 1798.' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas Robert Malthus Essay on the Principle of Population, An Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1700-1799 '... C[oleridge]was reading Plato during the mid-1790s ... ' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Plato Unknown Print : Book1800-1849 '[during winter 1801] C[oleridge] read Parmenides and Timaeus "with great care" ... ' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Plato Parmenides Print : Book1800-1849 '[during winter 1801] C[oleridge] read Parmenides and Timaeus "with great care" ... ' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Plato Timaeus Print : Book1700-1799 "On 20 July 1804 W[ordsworth] wrote to Sir George Beaumont:
"'A few days ago I received from Mr Southey your very acceptable present of Sir Joshua Reynolds works, whi... William Wordsworth Sir Joshua Reynolds Discourses Print : Book1700-1799 'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby:
"I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir with a very old acquaintance, a Sonnet of yours, whch ... William Wordsworth William Sotheby I knew a gentle maid Unknown 1700-1799 ' ... James Losh reported in his diary for 4 Sept 1800 that Madoc "is ready for publication ... Southey showed me about two years ago two books of this poem which I admir... James Losh Robert Southey Madoc Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 'At some time between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied the epitaph of Sir George Vane at the parish church of Long Newton, Durham, as published ... Dorothy Wordsworth William Hutchinson History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of ... Print : Book1700-1799 Byron to John Hanson, [? November 1799]: 'I congratulate you on Capt. Hanson's being appointed commander of the Brazen sloop of war ... The manner I knew that Capt. Hanso... George Gordon, Lord Byron anon [newspaper] Print : Newspaper
