√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 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 : Letter1600-1699 "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 : Sheet1600-1699 "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 Breda Print : Broadsheet, Handbill1600-1699 Adrian Johns notes Samuel Pepys's use of printed lawbooks "to inform himself of 'law-notions'" Samuel Pepys books on laws and statutes Print : Book1600-1699 'I rose early this morning, and looked over and corrected my brother John's speech which he is to make the next Apposition' Samuel Pepys John Pepys [speech] Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 'At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, though I believe he himself was as well able to do it as ... Samuel Pepys John Pepys [speech] Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 'At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, though I believe he himself was as well able to do it as ... Samuel Pepys [unknown] Pontificale romanum Clementis VIII, part 2 Print : Book1600-1699 'Back I went by Mr Downing's order, and stayed there till 12 a-clock in expectation of one to come to read some writings; but he came not, so I stayed all alone reading t... Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 'I called at St Paul's churchyard, where I bought Buxtorfes Hebrew Grammar and read a declaration of the gentlemen of Northamptonshire - which came out this afternoon.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] The humble address and hearty desires of the gentl... Print : Broadsheet1600-1699 '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 Tobit Print : Book1600-1699 'This morning I lay long abed; then to my office, where I read all the morning my Spanish book of Rome.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] Las cosas maravillosas della sancta ciudad de Roma Print : Book1600-1699 '...and back to Pauls churchyard, where I stayed reading in Fullers history of the Church of England an hour or two...' Samuel Pepys Thomas Fuller The church-history of Britain Print : Book1600-1699 '...and with them to Marshes at Whitehall to drink, and stayed there a pretty while reading a pamphlet, well-writ and directed to Generall Monke in praise of the form of ... Samuel Pepys Roger L'Estrange [? probably] A plea for limited monarchy, as it was established... Print : Pamphlet1600-1699 'My Lord and the ship's company down to Sermon. I stayed above to write and look over my new song-book, which came last night to me from London in lieu of that that my Lo... Samuel Pepys [Playford] Select ayres and dialogues Print : Book1600-1699 '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] Bible Print : Book1600-1699 '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 Book Print : Book1600-1699 'Up to my chamber to read a little, and write my Diary for three or four days past.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Unknown1600-1699 'In the evening to the office, where I fell a-reading of Speeds geography for a while.' Samuel Pepys John Speed A prospect of the most famous parts of the world Print : Book1600-1699 'And before supper I read part of the Maryan persecution in Mr Fuller.' Samuel Pepys Thomas Fuller The church-history of Britain Print : Book1600-1699 'And so home, where I fell to read "The fruitlesse precaution" (a book formerly recommended by Dr Clerke at sea to me), which I read in bed till I had made an end of it a... Samuel Pepys Paul Scarron The Fruitlesse Precaution Print : Book1600-1699 'but went home again by water, by the way reading of the other two stories that are in the book that I read last night, which I do not like so well as that.' Samuel Pepys Paul Scarron The Fruitlesse Precaution Print : Book1600-1699 'So after supper and reading of some chapters, I went to bed.' Samuel Pepys [n/a] Bible Print : Book1600-1699 'To Westminster-hall and bought, among other books, one of the Life of our Queene. Which I read at home to my wife; but it was so sillily writ that we did nothing but lau... Samuel Pepys John Dauncey The history of the thrice illustrious Princess Hen... Print : Book1600-1699 'In Pauls churchyard I called at Kirton's; and there they had got a Masse book for me, which I bought and cost me 12s. And when I came home, sat up late and read in it - ... Samuel Pepys [unknown] Masse Book Print : Book1600-1699 'At night Mr Moore came and sat with me, and there I took a book and he did instruct me in many law=notions, in which I took great pleasure.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [law book?] Print : Book1600-1699 'Home and fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were hanged for the King's death; and found good satisfaccion in reading thereof.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... tri... Print : Book, Pamphlet1600-1699 'Home by Coach and read late in the last night's book of the Tryalls...' Samuel Pepys [unknown] An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... tri... Print : Book, Pamphlet1600-1699 'So to Pauls churchyard and there bought "Montelion", which this year doth not prove so good as the last was; and so after reading it, I burned it. After reading of that ... Samuel Pepys [John] [Phillips?] Montelion, the prophetical almanac for the year 16... Print : Pamphlet, almanac1600-1699 '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 Tatham The Rump, or The mirror of the late times Print : Book1600-1699 '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 : Book1600-1699 'To church in the afternoon. And after sermon took Tom. Fuller's "Church History" and read over Henry the 8ths life - in it. And so to supper and to bed.' Samuel Pepys Thomas Fuller The church-history of Britain Print : Book1600-1699 '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 Randolph Cornelianum Dolium Print : Book1600-1699 'I fell a-reading in Fuller's "history of Abbys" and my wife in "Grand Cyrus" till 12 at night, and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys Thomas Fuller The church-history of Britain Print : Book1600-1699 'After that home and to bed - reading myself asleep while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Unknown1600-1699 'All evening at my book; and so to supper and to bed.' Samuel Pepys Thomas Fuller The church-history of Britain Print : Book1600-1699 'and I, before and after supper, to my Lute and Fullers "History", at which I stayed all alone in my Chamber till 12 at night; and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys Thomas Fuller The church-history of Britain Print : Book1600-1699 'At home I fell a-reading of Fullers "Church History" till it was late, and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys Thomas Fuller The church-history of Britain Print : Book1600-1699 'I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's "Patriarchae".' Samuel Pepys Francis Osborne [works] Print : Book1600-1699 'I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's "Patriarchae".' Samuel Pepys Emanuel Tesauro Patriarche, sive Christi servatoris genealogia, pe... Print : Book1600-1699 'And God forgive me, did spent it in reading some little French Romances.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [French Romances] Print : Book1600-1699 'and I home and stayed there all day within - having found Mr Moore, who stayed with me till at night, talking and reading some good books.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [Good books] Print : Book1600-1699 'Then by linke home - and there to my book awhile and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [book] Print : Book1600-1699 'Then home - I to read.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [book] Print : Book1600-1699 'Then to reading and at night to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [book] Print : Book1600-1699 'earley up in the morning to read the "Seamans grammar and dictionary" I lately have got, which doth please me exceedingly well.' Samuel Pepys John Smith The sea-man's grammar Print : Book1600-1699 'This day I find in the news-Booke that Rogr. Pepys is chosen at Cambridge for the towne, the first place that we hear of to have made their choice yet.' Samuel Pepys [n/a] The Kingdomes Intelligencer Print : Newspaper1600-1699 'And then I up to my chamber to read.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and so home, and after a little reading, to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'And in the garden reading "Faber fortunae" with great pleasure. So home to bed.' Samuel Pepys Francis Bacon Faber Fortunae sive Doctrina de ambitu vitae Print : Book1600-1699 'Having writ letters into the country and read something, I went to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'The afternoon, while Will is abroad, I spent in reading "The Spanish Gypsy", a play not very good, though commended much.' Samuel Pepys Thomas Middleton The Spanish Gypsy Print : Book1600-1699 'In the morning my father and I walked in the garden and read the Will; where though he gives me nothing at present till my father's death, or at least very little, yet I... Samuel Pepys Robert Pepys The Will of Robert Pepys of Brampton Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 'Home at noon, and there find Mr Moore and with him to an ordinary alone and dined; and there he and I read my Uncles Will and I had his opinion on it, and still find mor... Samuel Pepys Robert Pepys The Will of Robert Pepys of Brampton Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 'And then came home with us Sir W. Pen and drank with us and then went away; and my wife after him to see his daughter that is lately come out of Ireland. I stayed at hom... Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'At night fell to read in Hookers "Ecclesiastical policy" which Mr Moore did give me last Wednesday, very handsomely bound; and which I shall read with great pains and lo... Samuel Pepys Richard Hooker Of the lawes of ecclesiastical politie Print : Book1600-1699 '...which makes me remember my father Osborne's rule for a gentleman, to spare in all things rather than in that.' Samuel Pepys Francis Osborne Advice to a son Print : Book1600-1699 'and all the day, as I was at leisure, I did read in Fuller's "Holy Warr" (which I have of late bought) and did try to make a Song...' Samuel Pepys Thomas Fuller The historie of the holy warr Print : Book1600-1699 '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 : Sheet1600-1699 'So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his "liberty and necessity", and a little but a very shrewd piece.' Samuel Pepys Thomas Hobbes Of libertie and necessitie Print : Book1600-1699 'So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his "liberty and necessity", and a little but a very shrewd piece.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown- little but shrewd piece] Print : Unknown1600-1699 '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 Camden Britannia Print : Book1600-1699 'at the office all the afternoon, and at night home to read in "Mare Clausum" till bedtime' Samuel Pepys John Selden Mare Clausum Print : Book1600-1699 'we returned and I settled to read in "Mare Clausum" till bedtime' Samuel Pepys John Selden Mare Clausum Print : Book1600-1699 '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 : Sheet1600-1699 'I am now full of study about writing something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; and so am altogether reading Selden and Grotius and such other Authors,... Samuel Pepys John Selden Mare Clausum Print : Book1600-1699 'I am now full of study about writing something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; and so am altogether reading Selden and Grotius and such other Authors,... Samuel Pepys Hugo Grotius Mare Liberum Print : Book1600-1699 'and so home and to supper and to Selden "Mare Clausum" and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys John Selden Mare Clausum Print : Book1600-1699 'And so I home, and sat late up, reading of Mr Selden. And so to bed.' Samuel Pepys John Selden Mare Clausum Print : Book1600-1699 'So after my business was done and read something in Mr Selden, I went to bed.' Samuel Pepys John Selden Mare Clausum Print : Book1600-1699 'and so left the table and went up to read in Mr Selden till church time;' Samuel Pepys John Selden Mare Clausum Print : Book1600-1699 'So we parted; and I home and to Mr Selden and then to bed.' Samuel Pepys John Selden Mare Clausum Print : Book1600-1699 'and so up to my study and read the two treatys before Mr Selden's "Mare Clausum"; and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys John Seldon Mare Clausum 1600-1699 'and so up to my study and read the two treatys before Mr Selden's "Mare Clausum"; and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] Additional evidences... relating to the reigns of ... Print : Unknown1600-1699 'And so home by Coach and I late reading in my Chamber; and then to bed, my wife being angry that I keep the house up so late.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'Hence home and to read; and so to bed, but very late again.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'so home - to read - supper and to prayers; and then to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 '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 Fuller History of the worthies of England Print : Book1600-1699 'My cold being increased, I stayed home all day, pleasing myself with my dining-room, now graced with pictures, and reading of Dr Fullers "Worthys".' Samuel Pepys Thomas Fuller History of the worthies of England Print : Book1600-1699 'This day in the news-booke, I find that my Lord Buckhurst and his fellows have printed their case as they did give in, upon examinacion, to a Justice of the peace.' Samuel Pepys [n/a] The Kingdomes Intelligencer Print : Newspaper1600-1699 'I up to my chamber to read and write, and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'went to Westminster-hall and there bought Mr Grant's book of observations upon the weekly bills of Mortality - which appear to me, upon first sight, to be very pretty.' Samuel Pepys John Graunt Natural and political observations... made upon th... Print : Book1600-1699 'At night to my chamber to read and sing; and so to supper and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'So home; and no sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Fields (with whom we have lately had a great deal of trouble at the office), being a bit... Samuel Pepys Fields [petition] Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 '...and so took boat again and got to London before them. All the way, coming and going, reading in "The Wallflower" with great pleasure.' Samuel Pepys Thomas Bayly Herba Parietis or The wall-flower, as it grew out ... Print : Book1600-1699 'Up earely; and after reading a little in Cicero, I made me ready and to my office - where all the morning busy.' Samuel Pepys Cicero [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 '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 : Book1600-1699 'He being gone, I to my study and read; and so to eat a bit of bread and cheese and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'This night Tom came to show me a civil letter sent him from his mistress.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [letter] Manuscript : Letter1600-1699 '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 Gentleman Englands way to win wealth... with a true relation... Print : Book1600-1699 'My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's "Imposture" and other parts, which my wife of late have taken up to read, and is very fine as any... Samuel Pepys Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas Divine weekes and workes Print : Book1600-1699 '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 Chapman Bussy D'Ambois Print : Book1600-1699 '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 Playford Dancing Master OR English Dancing Master Print : Book1600-1699 'and then to the office and there examining my Copy of Mr Hollands book till 10 at night; and so home to supper and bed.' Samuel Pepys John Holland [discourse on Naval administration] Print : Book1600-1699 'and so to the office again and made an end of examining the other of Mr Hollands books about the Navy, with which I am much contented' Samuel Pepys John Holland [second discourse on Naval administration] Print : Book1600-1699 'It being cold, Mr Lee and [I] did sit all the day, till 3 a-clock, by the fire in the Governors house; I reading a play of Flechers, being "A wife for a month" - wherein... Samuel Pepys John Fletcher A wife for a month Print : Book1600-1699 'And so went home, taking Mr Leigh with me; and after drunk a cup of wine, he went away and I to my office, there reading in Sir W Pettys book, and so home - and to bed' Samuel Pepys [anon] A treatise of taxes and contributions Print : Book1600-1699 'and so up and by the fireside we read a good part of the "Advice to a Daughter", which a simple Coxcombe hath wrote against Osborne; but in all my life I never did nor c... Samuel Pepys John Heydon Advice to a daughter in opposition to the advice t... Print : Book1600-1699 'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having called for it by the way) and so to bed' Samuel Pepys Ovid Metamorphoses Print : Book1600-1699 'and so to my office, practising arthmetique alone and making an end of last night's book, with great content, till 11 at night; and so home to supper and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 '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 : Sheet1600-1699 'This day I bought the second part of Dr Bates's "Elenchus", which reaches to the fall of Richard and no further, for which I am sorry.' Samuel Pepys George Bate Elenchi motuum nuperorum in Anglia pars secunda Print : Book1600-1699 'This day I read the King's speech to the parliament yesterday; which is very short and not very obliging, but only telling them his desire to have a power of indulging t... Samuel Pepys King Charles II His Majesties gracious speech to both Houses of Pa... Print : Pamphlet1600-1699 '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 1600-1699 'While my wife dressed herself, Creed and I walked out to see what play was acted today, and we find it "The Sleighted mayde".' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [playbill] Print : Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster, playbill1600-1699 'and I to my office till the evening, doing one thing or other and reading my vowes as I am bound every Lord's day' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [vowes] Print : BookUnknown1600-1699 'Thence home and to my office till night, reading over and consulting upon the book and Ruler that I bought this morning of Browne concerning the Lyne of Numbers, in whic... Samuel Pepys John Brown The use of the line of numbers, on a sliding (or g... Print : Book1600-1699 '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 : Book1600-1699 'Up and spent the morning till the Barber came in reading in my chamber part of Osborne's "Advice to his Son" (which I shall not ever enough admire for sense and language... Samuel Pepys Francis Osborne Advice to his son Print : Book1600-1699 'While that [dinner] was prepared, to my office to read over my vowes, with great affection and to very good purpose.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [vowes] Print : BookUnknown1600-1699 'So home to my office, alone till dark, reading some part of my old "Navy precedents", and so home to supper.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] Navy precedents Print : Book1600-1699 'to my office and there made an end of reading my book that I have had of Mr Barlows, of the Journall of the Comissioners of the Navy who begun to act in the year 1618 an... Samuel Pepys [unknown] [Report of the proceedings of the commission of 16... Print : Book1600-1699 'I walked back again, all the way reading of my book of Timber measure, comparing it with my new Sliding rule, brought home this morning, with great pleasure.' Samuel Pepys John Brown Description and use of the carpenter's rule Print : Book1600-1699 'Up betimes and to my office, where I first ruled with red Inke my English "Mare clausum"; which, with the new Orthodox title, makes it now very handsome.' Samuel Pepys John Selden Mare Clausum Print : Book1600-1699 'So home; and after reading my vowes, being sleepy, without prayers to bed' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [vowes] Unknown 1600-1699 'Thence to the Temple and sat there till one a-clock, reading at Playford's in Dr Ushers "Body of Divinity" his discourse of the Scripture; which is as much, I believe, a... Samuel Pepys James Ussher A body of divinitie Print : Book1600-1699 'Scotland: it seems, for all the news-book tells us every week that they are all so quiet and everything in the Church settled, the old women had like to have killed the ... Samuel Pepys [n/a] Kingdom Intelligence Print : Newspaper1600-1699 'And so walk and by water to White-hall, all our way by water, both coming and going, reading a little book said to be writ by a person of Quality concerning English Gent... Samuel Pepys [unknown] A vindication of the degree of gentry in oppositio... Print : Book1600-1699 'So home and read to my wife a Fable or two in Ogleby's "Aesop"; and so to supper and then to prayers and to bed' Samuel Pepys Aesop Aesop's Fables Print : Book1600-1699 'Thence by water to Chelsy, all the way reading a little book I bought of Improvement of trade, a pretty book and many things useful in it.' Samuel Pepys Samuel Fortrey Englands interest and improvement consisting in th... Print : Book1600-1699 '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. Gerbier Counsel and advise to all builders; for the choice... Print : Book1600-1699 'And after dinner up and read part of the new play of "The Five houres adventures"; which though I have seen it twice, yet I never did admire or understand it enough - it... Samuel Pepys Samuel Tuck The Adventures of five houres Print : Book1600-1699 'Begun again to rise betimes, by 4 a-clock. And made an end of "The Adventures of five houres", and it is a most excellent play.' Samuel Pepys Samuel Tuck The Adventures of five houres Print : Book1600-1699 'I to my office and there read all the morning in my Statute-book, consulting among others the statute against seeling of offices, wherein Mr Coventry is so much concerne... Samuel Pepys [unknown] [Statute book] Print : Book1600-1699 'Up and to read a little;' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'I went up vexed to my chamber and there fell examining my new "Concordance" that I have bought with Newmans, the best that ever was out before, and I find mine altogethe... Samuel Pepys [Samuel] [Newman] A concordance to the Holy Scriptures Print : Book1600-1699 'Up betimes and fell to reading my Latin grammer, which I perceive I have great need of, having lately found it by my calling Will to the reading of a Chapter in Latin an... Samuel Pepys William Lily A short introduction of grammar... of the Latine t... Print : Book1600-1699 '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 : BookUnknown1600-1699 'At noon my physic having done working, I went down to dinner. And then he [Mr Creede] and I up again and spent the most of the afternoon reading in Cicero and other book... Samuel Pepys Cicero [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'So to the reading of my vowes seriously, and then to supper.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [vowes] 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 : Book1600-1699 '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 '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 [Thomas] [Southland] Love a la mode Print : Book1600-1699 '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] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'Up and to my office; and then walked to Woolwich, reading Bacon's "faber Fortune", which the oftener I read the more I admire.' Samuel Pepys Francis Bacon Faber Fortune Print : Book1600-1699 'So down to Deptford, reading Ben Johnsons "Devil is an Asse".' Samuel Pepys Ben Johnson Devil is an Asse Print : Book1600-1699 'walked to see Sir W. Penn at Deptford, reading by the way a most ridiculous play, a new one call[ed] "The Politician cheated".' Samuel Pepys Alexander Green The Politician cheated Print : Book1600-1699 '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 Birkenhead Cabala, or An impartial account of the non-conform... Print : Book1600-1699 '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 'Thence by coach with my Lord Peterborough and Sandwich to my Lord Peterborough's house; and there, after an hour's looking over some fine books of the Italian buildings ... Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'Thence home and examined a piece of Latin of Will's with my brother, and so to prayers and to bed.' Samuel Pepys Will Hewer [piece of Latin, practice translation probably] Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 'and so we went to boat again and then down to the bridge and there tried to find a sister of Mrs Morrices, but she was not within neither, and so we went through bridge ... Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown - recipes] Print : Book1600-1699 'To church again; and so home to my wife and with her read "Iter boreale", a poem made just at the King's coming home but I never read it before, and now like it pretty w... Samuel Pepys [Robert] [Wild] Iter boreale Print : Book1600-1699 'and then abroad by water to White-hall and to Westminster-hall and there bought the first news-books of Lestrange's writing, he beginning this week; and makes methink bu... Samuel Pepys [Robert] [L'Estrange] The Intelligencer Print : Newspaper1600-1699 'This day I read a proclamacion for calling in and commanding everybody to apprehend my Lord Bristoll.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [proclamation] Print : Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster1600-1699 '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 : Sheet1600-1699 '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 : Sheet1600-1699 'Then into the garden to read my weekly vowes.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [vowes] Unknown 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 : Handbill1600-1699 '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 Fuller Church-History Print : Book1600-1699 '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 '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 Fuller Church History Print : Book1600-1699 '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 John Barclay Argenis Print : Book1600-1699 'And so I home to dinner, and thence abroad to Pauls churchyard and there looked upon the second part of "Hudibras", which I buy not but borrow to read, to see if it be a... Samuel Pepys Samuel Butler Hudibras Print : Book1600-1699 'After a little discourse with him, I took coach and home, calling upon my booksellers for two books, Rushworths and Scobells "collecions" - I shall make the King pay for... Samuel Pepys John Rushworth Historical Collections Print : Book1600-1699 '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 : Book1600-1699 'I to my office and spent an hour or two reading Rushworth; and so to supper home, and to prayers and bed' Samuel Pepys John Rushworth Historical Collections Print : Book1600-1699 'and so after some reading in Rushworth, home to supper and to bed.' Samuel Pepys John Rushworth Historical Collections Print : Book1600-1699 'and so to my office and to read in Rushworth; and so home to supper and to bed.' Samuel Pepys John Rushworth Historical Collections Print : Book1600-1699 'In the evening, he gone, I to my office to read Rushworth upon the charge and answer of the Duke of Buckingham, which is very fine; and then to do a little business agai... Samuel Pepys John Rushworth Historical Collections Print : Book1600-1699 'To church; where after sermon, home and to my office before dinner, reading my vowes;' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [vowes] Unknown 1600-1699 'He being gone, and I mightily pleased with his discourse, by which I alway[s] learn something, I to read a little in Rushworth; and so home to supper to my wife' Samuel Pepys John Rushworth Historical Collections Print : Book1600-1699 'I went to the Temple and there spent my time in a bookseller's shop, reading in a book of some Embassages into Moscovia, &c., where was very good reading.' Samuel Pepys Adam Olearius The voyages and travels of the ambassadors from th... Print : Book1600-1699 'And so home with great ease and content, especially out of the content which I met with in a book I bought yesterday; being a discourse of the state of Rome under the pr... Samuel Pepys Angelo Corraro Rome exactly described... in two curious discourse... Print : Book1600-1699 'At night made an end of the discourse I read this morning, and so home to supper and to bed.' Samuel Pepys Angelo Corraro Rome exactly described... in two curious discourse... Print : Book1600-1699 '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, Poster1600-1699 'He gone, I to my office and there late, writing and reading; and so home to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and then I begin to read to my wife upon the globes, with great pleasure and to good purpose, for it will be pleasant to her and to me to have her understand those thing... Samuel Pepys [unknown] [on the globes] Print : Book1600-1699 'In the evening to the office, where I stayed late reading Rushworth, which is a most excellent collection of the beginning of the late quarrels in this kingdom. And so h... Samuel Pepys John Rushworth Historical Collection Print : Book1600-1699 'So to my office, writing letters, and then to read and make an end of Rushworth; which I did, and do say that it is a book the best worth reading for a man of my conditi... Samuel Pepys John Rusthworth Historical Collection Print : Book1600-1699 'so home to dinner with my poor wife; and after dinner read a lecture to her in Geography, which she takes very prettily, and with great pleasure to her and me to teach h... Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and then through Bedlam (calling by the way at an old bookseller's, and there fell into looking over Spanish books and pitched upon some, till I thought of my oath when ... Samuel Pepys [unknown] [Spanish books] Print : Book1600-1699 'So home, reading all the way a good book;' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and after supper, to read a lecture to my wife upon the globes, and so to prayers and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [lecture on the globes] Print : Book1600-1699 'This evening, being in an humour of making all things even and clear in the world, I tore some old paper; among others, a Romance which (under the title of "Love a Cheat... Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys Love a Cheate Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 'I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over "Theatrum Urbium" and "Flandria illustrata", with excellent cuts, with great content.' Samuel Pepys J Blaeu Theatrum civitatum... Italie [OR] Ubrium praecipua... Print : Book1600-1699 'I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over "Theatrum Urbium" and "Flandria illustrata", with excellent cuts, with great content.' Samuel Pepys Antonius Sanderus Flandria Illustrata Print : Book1600-1699 'and so after dinner, by water home, all the way going and coming reading "Faber fortunae", which I can never read too often.' Samuel Pepys Francis Bacon Faber Fortunae Print : Book1600-1699 'and so up to my wife and with great mirth read Sir W Davenents two speeches in dispraise of London and Paris, by way of reproach one to the other, and so to prayers and ... Samuel Pepys Sir Davenant The first day's entertainment at Rutland House, by... Print : Book1600-1699 'calling at St Pauls churchyard and there looked upon a pretty Burlesque poem called "Scarronides, or Virgile Travesty" - extraordinary good.' Samuel Pepys Charles Cotton Scarronides, or Virgile Travesty Print : Book1600-1699 'This day Mrs Turner did lend me, as a rarity, a manuscript of one of Mr Wells, writ long ago, teaching the method of building a ship; which pleases me mightily. I was at... Samuel Pepys John Wells [manuscript on ship building] Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 'We spent the day in pleasant talk and company one with another (reading in Dr Fullers book what he says of the family of the cliffords and Kingsmils)' Samuel Pepys Thomas Fuller [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'He gone, I down by water to Woolwich and Deptford to look after the despatch of the ships, all the way reading Mr Spencer's book of Prodigys, which is most ingeniously w... Samuel Pepys John Spencer A discourse containing prodigies; wherein the vani... Print : Book1600-1699 '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 'So stayed within all day, reading of two or three good plays.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [plays] Print : Book1600-1699 '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 : Sheet1600-1699 'We read over the contract together and discoursed it well over and so parted' Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys [contract] Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 'Thence home and to my office; wrote by the post, and then to read a little in Dr Powre's book of discovery by the Microscope, to enable me a little how to use and what t... Samuel Pepys Henry Power Experimental philosophy...containing new experimen... Print : Book1600-1699 'After dinner, to my chamber and made an end of Dr Powre's book of the Microscope, very fine and to my content' Samuel Pepys Henry Power Experimental philosophy...containing new experimen... Print : Book1600-1699 'After supper I up to read a little, and then to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and so to supper anon and then to my office again a while, collecting observations out of Dr Powres book of Microscopes, and so home to bed.' Samuel Pepys Henry Power Experimental philosophy...containing new experimen... Print : Book1600-1699 'After dinner I down to Woolwich with a galley, and then to Deptford and so home, all the way reading Sir J Suck[l]ings "Aglaura", which methinks is but a mean play - not... Samuel Pepys Sir John Sucklings Aglaura Print : Book1600-1699 'So home and late reading "The Siege of Rhodes" to my wife, and then to bed - my head being in great pain and my palate still down.' Samuel Pepys William Davenant The Siege of Rhodes Print : Book1600-1699 'So anon they went away and then I to read another play, "The Custome of the Country", which is a very poor one methinks.' Samuel Pepys John Fletcher The Custome of the Country Print : Book1600-1699 'but I spent all morning reading of "The Madd Lovers" - a very good play' Samuel Pepys John Fletcher The mad lover Print : Book1600-1699 'Up and by water with Mr Tooker (to Woolwich first, to do several businesses of the King's); and then on board Captain Fisher's ship, which we hire to carry goods to Tang... Samuel Pepys [Captain] [Fisher?] [papers] Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 'At night home to supper, weary and my eyes sore with writing and reading - and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Unknown