√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1600-1699 'and there fitted myself and took a hackney-coah I hired (it being a very cold and fowle day) to Woolwich, all the way reading in a good book touching the Fishery; and th... Samuel Pepys [unknown] Ichthyothera; or the royal trade of fishing [proba... Print : Book1600-1699 'and there fitted myself and took a hackney-coah I hired (it being a very cold and fowle day) to Woolwich, all the way reading in a good book touching the Fishery; and th... Samuel Pepys John Herne The law of charitable uses, wherein the statute of... Print : Book1600-1699 'Going out of the gate, an ordinary woman prayed me to give her room to London; which I did, but spoke not to her all the way, but read as long as I could see my book aga... Samuel Pepys John Herne The law of charitable uses, wherein the statute of... Print : Book1600-1699 'and so home and with her [wife] all the evening, reading and at musique with my boy, with great pleasure; and so to supper, prayers and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'So home to dinner and then to my chamber to read Ben Johnson's "Cateline", a very excellent piece.' Samuel Pepys Ben Jonson Cateline Print : Book1600-1699 'Then home to dinner; and after dinner to read in Rushworths "Collections" about the charge against the late Duke of Buckingham, in order to the fitting me to speak and u... Samuel Pepys John Rushworth Historical Collections Print : Book1600-1699 'Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr Hooke's "Microscopicall Observacions", the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.' Samuel Pepys Robert Hooke Micrographia [?] Print : Book1600-1699 'I sat down and read over the Bishop of Chichesters sermon upon the anniversary of the King's death - much cried up but methinks a mean sermon.' Samuel Pepys Dr Henry King A sermon preached the 30th of January...1664 Print : Book1600-1699 'and by and by comes a letter from Mr Coventry's own hand to him; which he never opened (which was a strange thing) but did give it me to open and read, and consider what... Samuel Pepys Sir William Coventry [letter] Manuscript : Letter1600-1699 'This day the News-book (upon Mr Moores showing Lestrange Captain Ferrers letter) did do my Lord Sandwich great right as to the late victory.' Samuel Pepys [n/a] The Newes Print : Newspaper1600-1699 'at night home to look over my new books, and so late to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'I met this noon with Dr Burnett, who told me, and I find in the news-book this week that he posted upon the Change, that whoever did spread that report that instead of t... Samuel Pepys [n/a] The Intelligencer Print : Newspaper1600-1699 '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 : Unknown1600-1699 'At night home and supped; and after reading a little in Cowley's poems, my head being disturbed overmuch with business today, I to bed.' Samuel Pepys Abraham Cowley [poems] Print : Book1600-1699 'At night to read, being weary with this day's great work.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and after supper to read melancholy alone, and then to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'And so home to supper; and after reading a good while in the Kings "works", which is a noble book - to bed.' Samuel Pepys [King] [Charles I] The workes of Charles I Print : Book1600-1699 'Thence to Brainford, reading "The Villaine" (a pretty good play) all the way.' Samuel Pepys Thomas Porter The Villaine Print : Book1600-1699 'Up, and walked to Greenwich reading a play, and to the office' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [a play] Print : Book1600-1699 'Here I saw this week's Bill of Mortality, wherein, blessed be God, there is above 1800 decrease, being the first considerable decrease we have had.' Samuel Pepys [n/a] Bill of Mortality Print : Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster1600-1699 'and there sent for the Weekely Bill and find 8252 dead in all, and of them 6978 of the plague - which is a most dreadfull Number - and shows reason to fear that the plag... Samuel Pepys [n/a] Bill of Mortality Print : Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster1600-1699 'We spent most of the morning talking, and reading of "The Seige of Rhodes", which is certainly (the more I read it I think so) the best poem that ever was wrote.' Samuel Pepys Sir William Davenant The Seige of Rhodes Print : Book1600-1699 'So after supper Captain Cocke and I and Temple on board the Bezan, and there to Cards for a while, and then to read again in "Rhodes" and so to sleep.' Samuel Pepys Sir William Davenant The Seige of Rhodes Print : Book1600-1699 'but he showed me a bill which hath been read in the House making all breakng of bulk for the time to come felony; but it is a foolish Act and will do no great matter' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [parliamentary bill] Print : Pamphlet1600-1699 '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 : Book1600-1699 'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read... Samuel Pepys John Evelyn Hortus Hyemalis Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 '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 Mortality Print : Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster1600-1699 'Thence back by water to Captain Cockes, and there he and I spent a great deal of the evening, as we had done the day, reading and discoursing over part of Mr Stillingfle... Samuel Pepys Edward Stillingfleete Origines Sacrae, or A rational account of the grou... Print : Book1600-1699 'and so away to my Bezan again - and there to read in a pretty French book, "La Nouvelle Allegorique", upon the strife between Rhetorique and its enemies - very pleasant.... Samuel Pepys Antoine Furetiere Nouvelle Allegorique, ou Histoire des derniers tro... Print : Book1600-1699 'Up, and after being trimmed, I alone by water to Erith, all the way with my song-book singing of Mr Laws's long recitative Song in the beginning of his book.' Samuel Pepys Henry Lawes Ayres and dialogues Print : Book1600-1699 'This day the first of the "Oxford Gazettes" came out, which is very pretty, full of news, and no folly in it - wrote by Williamson.' Samuel Pepys Sir Joseph Williamson Oxford Gazette Print : Newspaper1600-1699 'but we had breakfasted a little at Mr Gawdens, he being out of town though; and there borrowed Dr Taylors Sermons, and is a most excellent book and worth my buying' Samuel Pepys Jeremy Taylor A collection of polemical discourses, wherein the ... Print : Book1600-1699 '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 mortality Print : Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster1600-1699 'I went therefore to Mr Boreman's for pastime, and stayed an hour or two, talking with him and reading a discourse about the River of Thames the reason of its being choke... Samuel Pepys [unknown] [Discourse on the River Thames] Print : Unknown1600-1699 'He set me down at Mr Gawden's, where nobody yet come home... So I took a book and into the gardens and there walked and read till dark - with great pleasure' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'Yesterday came out the King's Declaracion of war against the French; but with such mild invitations of both them and [the] Dutch to come over hither, with promise of the... Samuel Pepys King Charles II His Majesties declaration against the French Print : Broadsheet, Pamphlet1600-1699 'Thence by coach, and falling by the way at my bookseller's for a book, writ about twenty years ago in prophecy of this year coming on, 1666, explaining it to be the mark... Samuel Pepys Francis Potter An interpretation of the number 666 Print : Book1600-1699 'Here the Duke, among other things, did bring out a book, of great antiquity, of some of the customs of the Navy about 100 years since, which he did lend us to read and d... Samuel Pepys James Humphrey [MS Collections] Manuscript : Unknown1600-1699 '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 : Unknown1600-1699 'And so to the Chapel and there saw, among other things, Sir H. Wottons stone, with this Epitaph -
"Hic Jacet primus hujus Sententiae Author.
Disputandi pruritus fit ... Samuel Pepys [unknown] [epitaph on memorial stone] Manuscript : Graffito1600-1699 '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 mortality Print : Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster1600-1699 '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 'Thence to walk all alone in the fields behind Grays Inne, making an end of reading over my dear "Faber Fortunae" of my Lord Bacon's' Samuel Pepys Francis Bacon Faber Fortunae Print : Book1600-1699 'Thence to the Exchange, that is, the New Exchange, and looked over some play-books, and entended to get all the late new plays.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'after dinner I and my boy down by water to Redriffe; and thence walked to Mr Evelin's, where I walked in his garden till he came from church, with great pleasure reading... Samuel Pepys Sir Thomas Ridley A view of the civile and ecclesiasticall law Print : Book1600-1699 'Thence by water to Redriffe, reading a new French book my Lord Brouncker did give me today, "L'histoire amoureuse des Gaules", being a pretty Libell against the amours o... Samuel Pepys Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy L'histoire amoureuse des Gaules Print : Book1600-1699 'Walked back again, reading of my civil law book.' Samuel Pepys Sir Thomas Ridley A view of the civile and ecclesiasticall law Print : Book1600-1699 'I walked both going and coming, spending my time in reading of my Civill and Ecclesiastical law-book.' Samuel Pepys Sir Thomas Ridley A view of the civile and ecclesiasticall law Print : Book1600-1699 'and so to Deptford to enquire after a little business there; and thence by water back again, all the way coming and going reading my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae", which... Samuel Pepys Francis Bacon Faber Fortunae Print : Book1600-1699 'I left them there and walked to Deptford, reading in Wallsinghams "manuall", a very good book.' Samuel Pepys Sir Francis Walsingham Arcana aulica, or, Walsingham's manual of prudenti... Print : Book1600-1699 'and then down to Woolwich Deptford to look after things...All the way down and up, reading of "The Mayor of Quinborough", a simple play.' Samuel Pepys Thomas Middleton The Mayor of Quinborough Print : Book1600-1699 'So to the Custome-house; and there with great threats got a couple [watermen] to carry me down to Deptford, all the way reading "Pompey the Great" (a play translated fro... Samuel Pepys Corneille Pompee: Pompey the Great, a tragedy. As it was act... Print : Book1600-1699 'This evening I had Davila brought home to me, and I find it a most excellent history as I ever read.' Samuel Pepys E.C. Davila Storia delle guerre civile di Francia Print : Book1600-1699 'and thence walked to Woolwich, reading "The Rivall Ladys" all the way and find it a most pleasant and fine-writ play.' Samuel Pepys John Dryden The Rival Ladies Print : Book1600-1699 'By and by the Duke of York comes and we had a meeting; and among other things, I did read my declaration of the proceedings of the Victualling action this year, and desi... Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys Declaration of the proceedings of the victualling ... Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 'Then with Creed, and read over with him the Narrative of the late [fight], which he makes a very poor thing of, as endeed it is, and speaks most slightingly of that whol... Samuel Pepys John Creed The victory over the fleet of the States General .... Unknown 1600-1699 'So home, and then down to Woolwich, reading and making an end of "The Rivall Ladys", and find it a very pretty play.' Samuel Pepys John Dryden The Rival Ladys Print : Book1600-1699 'But this morning, getting Sir W. Penn to read over the Narrative with me - he did sparingly, yet plainly, say that we might have intercepted their Zealand squadron comin... Samuel Pepys John Creed The victory over the fleet of the States General .... Unknown 1600-1699 'and after dinner, with my wife and Mercer and Jane by water all the afternoon as high up as Moreclacke, with great pleasure, and a fine day - reading over the second par... Samuel Pepys Sir William Davenant The Seige of Rhodes Print : Book1600-1699 'and so away home by water, with more and more pleasure every time, I reading over my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae".' Samuel Pepys Francis Bacon Faber Fortunae Print : Book1600-1699 'So down the River, reading "The Adventures of five houres", which the more I read the more I admire.' Samuel Pepys Sir Samuel Tuke The Adventures of the five houres Print : Book1600-1699 'Up, and betimes with Captain Erwin down by water to Woolwich, I walking alone from Greenwich tither - making an end of "The Adventures of five houres", - which when all ... Samuel Pepys Sir Samuel Tuke The Adventures of the five houres Print : Book1600-1699 'Up and to Deptford by water, reading "Othello, Moore of Venice", which I ever heretofore esteemed a mighty good play; but having so lately read "The Adventures of five h... Samuel Pepys William Shakespeare Othello Print : Book1600-1699 'to Sir W. Coventry, and there read over my yesterday's work; being a collection of the perticulars of the excess in charge created by a war - with good content.' Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys [manuscript on naval expenses] Manuscript : Unknown1600-1699 'and then home, and my wife and I to read in Fullers "Church History", and so to supper and to bed.' Samuel Pepys Thomas Fuller The church-history of Britain Print : Book1600-1699 'After dinner away home, Mr Brisband along with me as far as the Temple; and there looked upon a new book, set out by one Rycault, secretary to my Lord Winchelsea, of the... Samuel Pepys Paul Rycault The present state of the Ottoman Empire By Paul Ry... Print : Book1600-1699 'And by coach home, where I spent the evening in reading Stillingfleetes defence of the Archbishop, that part about Purgatory, a point I had never considered before what ... Samuel Pepys Edward Stillingfleet A rational account of the grounds of Protestant re... Print : Book1600-1699 'and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of "The Bondman" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and begin "The Duchesse of Malfy", which seems a good pla... Samuel Pepys Philip Massinger The Bondman Print : Book1600-1699 'and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of "The Bondman" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and begin "The Duchesse of Malfy", which seems a good pla... Samuel Pepys John Webster The Duchesse of Malfy Print : Book1600-1699 'and so home, and there begun to read Potters discourse upon 666, which peases me mightily; and then broke off, and to supper and to bed.' Samuel Pepys Francis Potter An interpretation of the number 666 Print : Book1600-1699 'and after Dinner down alone by water to Depford, reading "Duchess of Malfy", the play, which is pretty good - and there did some business' Samuel Pepys John Webster The Duchess of Malfy Print : Book1600-1699 'I to dinner, and thence to my chamber to read, and so to the office' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and then home and read an hour, to make an end of Potters discourse of the Number 666, which I like all along, but his close is most excellent; and whether it be right o... Samuel Pepys Francis Potter An interpretation of the Number 666 Print : Book1600-1699 'and then home to supper and then to read the late printed discourse of Witches by a member of Gresham College, and then to bed - the discourse being well writ in good st... Samuel Pepys Joseph Glanvill Some philosophical considerations touching the bei... Print : Book1600-1699 'And the news-book makes that business nothing, but that they are all dispersed.' Samuel Pepys [n/a] London Gazette Print : Newspaper1600-1699 'This day in the gazette was the whole story of defeating the Scotch Rebells, and of the creation of the Duke of Cambridge Knight of the Guarter.' Samuel Pepys [n/a] London Gazette Print : Newspaper1600-1699 'Thence home to dinner; and there W. Hewer dined with me, and showed me a Gazett in Aprill last (which I wonder should never be remembered by anybody) which tells how sev... Samuel Pepys [n/a] London Gazette Print : Newspaper1600-1699 'and so to supper and to read, and so to bed' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 '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 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 : Unknown1600-1699 'So home to supper, and then to read a little in Moore's "Antidote against Atheisme", a pretty book; and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys Henry More An antidote against atheism, or, An appeal to the ... Print : Book1600-1699 'And a little to my Lord Chancellors, where the King and Cabinet met, and there met Mr Brisband, with whom good discourse; to White-hall towards night, and there he did l... Samuel Pepys Andrew Marvell Third Advice to a paynter Manuscript : Unknown1600-1699 '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 Erasmus De conscribendis epistolis Print : Book1600-1699 'and then I home to supper, and to read a little and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and so after supper and reading a little, and my wife's cutting off my hair short, which is grown too long upon the crown of my head, I to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'I am very well pleased this night with reading a poem I brought home with me last night from Westminster hall, of Driden's upon the present war - a very good poem.' Samuel Pepys John Dryden Annus Mirabilis: the year of wonders, 1666; an his... Print : Unknown1600-1699 'how[ever], I fell to read a little in Hakewill's "apology", and did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world doth not grow old at all, but is... Samuel Pepys Dr George Hakewill An apologie or declaration of the power and provid... Print : Book1600-1699 'and I read the petty-warrants all the day till late at night, that I was very weary, and troubled to have my private business of my office stopped to attend this - but m... Samuel Pepys [unknown] [petty-warrants] Manuscript : Unknown1600-1699 'and then went home and read a piece of a play (Every Man in his Humour, wherein is the greatest propriety of speech that ever I read in my life); and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys Ben Jonson Every Man in his Humour Print : Book1600-1699 'I did this day, going by water, read the Answer to the "Apology for Papists", which did like me mightily, it being a thing as well writ as I think most things that ever ... Samuel Pepys William Lloyd The late apology in behalf of the papists, reprint... Print : Book1600-1699 'and then home to read the lives of Henry the 5th and 6th, very fine, in Speede; and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys John Speed The history of Great Britaine Print : Book1600-1699 'I home and there to read very good things in Fullers "Church History" and "Worthies", and so to supper' Samuel Pepys Thomas Fuller The church-history of Britain Print : Book1600-1699 'I home and there to read very good things in Fullers "Church History" and "Worthies", and so to supper' Samuel Pepys Thomas Fuller History of the worthies of England Print : Book1600-1699 'This day in the barge I took Berchensha's translation of Alsted his "Templum"; but the most ridiculous book, as he hath translated it, that I ever saw in my life; I decl... Samuel Pepys John Birchensha Templum Musicum Print : Book1600-1699 'and then up and to my chamber with a good fire and there spent an hour on Morly's "Introduction to Music", a very good but inmethodical book.' Samuel Pepys Thomas Morely A plaine and easie introduction to practicall musi... Print : Book1600-1699 'and then by water down to Greenwich and thence walked to Woolwich, all the way reading Playfords "Introduction to Musique", wherein are some things very pretty.' Samuel Pepys John Playford A brief introduction to the skill of musick Print : Book1600-1699 'So home to supper, and to read the book I bought yesterday of the Turkish Policy, which is a good book, well writ; and so owned by Dr Clerke yesterday to me, commending ... Samuel Pepys Paul Rycault The present state of the Ottoman empire Print : Book1600-1699 'and so back home again, all the way reading a little piece I lately bought, call[ed] "The Virtuoso or The Stoicke", proposing many things paradoxicall to our common opin... Samuel Pepys George Mackenzie Religio Stoici, with a friendly addresse to the ph... Print : Book1600-1699 'and so to my chamber, having little left to do at my office, my eyes being a little sore by reason of my reading a small printed book the other day after it was dark' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'Up, and to read a little in my new History of Turky' Samuel Pepys Paul Rycault The present state of the Ottoman empire Print : Book1600-1699 ''and so home; and they home, and I to read with satisfaction in my book of Turky and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys Paul Rycault The present state of the Ottoman empire Print : Book1600-1699 '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 Richard Hooker Works... in eight books of ecclesiastical polity Print : Book1600-1699 '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 William Dugdale The Origines Juridiciales Print : Book1600-1699 '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 Playford Catch that catch can, or The musical companion Print : Book1600-1699 'and I to my chamber and there spent the night in reading my new book, "Origines Juridiciales", which pleases me. So to supper and to bed.' Samuel Pepys William Dugdale Origines Juridiciales Print : Book1600-1699 'Up, and to read more in the Origines' Samuel Pepys William Dugdale Origines Juridiciales Print : Book1600-1699 'and I to my chamber and there read a great deal in Rycault's Turks book with great pleasure, and so eat and to bed' Samuel Pepys Paul Rycault The present state of the Ottoman empire Print : Book1600-1699 'After dinner by water, the day being mighty pleasant and the tide serving finely - I up (reading in Boyles book of Colours) as high as Barne Elmes' Samuel Pepys Robert Boyle Experiments and considerations touching colours Print : Book1600-1699 'and so home, and there to write down my Journall, and so to supper and to read and so to bed - mightily pleased with my reading Boyles book of Colours today; only, troub... Samuel Pepys Robert Boyle Experiments and considerations touching colours Print : Book1600-1699 'and then to the Change, where for certain I hear, and the newsbook declares, a peace between France and Portugal.' Samuel Pepys [n/a] London Gazette Print : Newspaper1600-1699 'and so after supper to read and then to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'Then down to my chamber and made an end of Rycaults "History of the Turkes", which is a very good book.' Samuel Pepys Paul Rycault The present state of the Ottoman empire Print : Book1600-1699 'and so a little at the office and home, to read a little and to supper and bed' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and at noon all of us to Kent's at the Three Tun tavern and there dined well at Mr Gawden's charge. There the constable of the parish did show us the picklocks and dice ... Samuel Pepys [unknown] [table-book] Manuscript : table-book1600-1699 'and then did get Sir W. Batten, J. Mennes and W. Penn together, and read it [Pepys's report on the case of Mr Carcasse] over with all the many papers relating to the bus... Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys [report on the case of Mr Carcasse] Manuscript : Unknown1600-1699 'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking' Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys [report on the case of Mr Carcasse] Manuscript : Unknown1600-1699 'I presented our report about Carcasse to the Duke of York, and did afterwards read it, with that success that the Duke of York was for punishing him, not only with turni... Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys [report on the case of Mr Carcasse] Manuscript : Unknown1600-1699 'I took leave of him, and directly by water home; and there to read the Life of Mr Hooker, which pleases me as much as anything I have read in a great while' Samuel Pepys Isaak Walton Life of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's W... Print : Book1600-1699 'They being gone, I to my book again and made an end of Mr Hooker's life, and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys Isaak Walton Life of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's W... Print : Book1600-1699 'and so to supper, and after a little reading, to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and then home to my wife, who is not well with her cold, and sat and read [a] piece of "Grand Cyrus" in English by her' Samuel Pepys Madeleine de Scuderi Artamene, ou Le grand Cyrus Print : Book1600-1699 'And after having been there so long, I away to my boat, and up with it as far as Barne Elmes, reading of Mr Eveling's late new book against Solitude, in which I do not f... Samuel Pepys John Evelyn Publick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's ... Print : Book1600-1699 'I to boat again and to my book; and having done that, I took another book, Mr Boyles of Colours, and there read where I left [28 April?], finding many fine things worthy... Samuel Pepys John Evelyn Publick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's ... Print : Book1600-1699 'I to boat again and to my book; and having done that, I took another book, Mr Boyles of Colours, and there read where I left [28 April?], finding many fine things worthy... Samuel Pepys Robert Boyle Experiments and considerations touching colours Print : Book1600-1699 'After supper, I to read and then to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'Being weary and almost blind with writing and reading so much today, I took boat at the Old Swan, and there up the River all alone, as high as Puttny almost; and then ba... Samuel Pepys Robert Boyle Experiments and considerations touching colours Print : Book1600-1699 'And there finding them all at church, and thinking they dined as usual at Stepny, I turned back, having a good book in my hand (the Life of Cardinal Wolsey, wrote by his... Samuel Pepys George Cavendish The life and death of Thomas Woolsey, Cardinal ...... Print : Book1600-1699 'and so walked to Stepny and spent my time in the churchyard looking over the gravestones, expecting when the company would come' Samuel Pepys [n/a] [gravestones] Manuscript : Graffito1600-1699 'and thence home, where to supper and then to read a little; and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'But I fell to read a book (Boyle's "Hydrostatickes") aloud in my chamber and let her talk till she was tired, and vexed that I would not hear her' Samuel Pepys Robert Boyle Hydrostatical Paradoxes Print : Book1600-1699 'And so home and there to the office a little; and thence to my chamber to read and supper, and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'This day I read (shown me by Mr Gibson) a discourse newly come forth, of the King of France his pretence to Flanders; which is a very fine discourse, and the turth is, h... Samuel Pepys [unknown] A dialogue concerning the rights of His Most Chris... Print : Book1600-1699 'and then to my boat again and home, reading and making an end of the book I lately bought, a merry Satyre called "The Visions", translated from Spanish by Le Strange; wh... Samuel Pepys Roger L'Estrange [translator] The visions of Don Francisco de Quevedo Print : Book1600-1699 'So I homeward, as long as it was light reading Mr Boyles book of "Hydrostatickes", which is a most excellent book as ever I read; and I will take much pains to understan... Samuel Pepys Robert Boyle Hydrostatical Paradoxes Print : Book1600-1699 'Thence we read and laughed at Lillys prophecies this month - in his almanac this year.' Samuel Pepys William Lilly Merlini Anglici Ephemeris Print : Book, almanac1600-1699 'and then home to my chamber to read and write; and then to supper and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'Up, and I to my chamber, and there all morning reading in my Lord Cooke's "Pleas of the Crowne", very fine noble reading.' Samuel Pepys Sir Edward Coke The third part of the Institutes of the Laws of En... Print : Book1600-1699 'and so away presently very merry, and fell to reading of the several "Advices to a Painter", which made us good sport; and endeed are very witty' Samuel Pepys Andrew Marvell The second and third advice to a painter, for draw... Print : Book1600-1699 'and so we home to supper, and I read myself asleep and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and so home to supper and to read myself asleep, and then to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and so with very much pleasure down to Gravesend, all the way with extraordinary content reading of Boyl's "Hydrostatickes", which the more I read and understand, the mo... Samuel Pepys Robert Boyle Hydrostatical Paradoxes Print : Book1600-1699 'and then to my chamber to read, and so to bed' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and so to my chamber and read the history of 88 in Speede, in order to my seeing the play thereof acted tomorrow at the King's House.' Samuel Pepys John Speed The history of Great Britaine Print : Book1600-1699 'and so home and to my chamber to read; and then to supper and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and I home to supper and to read a little and then to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and so home, and after some little reading in my chamber, to supper and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and then home and to my chamber to read' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and so walked to Barne Elmes, whither I sent Russell, reading of Mr Boyles "Hydrostatickes", which are of infinite delight.' Samuel Pepys Robert Boyle Hydrostatical Paradoxes Print : Book1600-1699 'and so parted at the New Exchange, where I stayed reading Mrs Phillips's poems till my wife and Mercer called me to Mrs Pierce's by invitation to dinner' Samuel Pepys Katherine Phillips Poems Print : Book1600-1699 'Only, here I met with a fourth "Advice to the painter", upon the coming in of the Dutch to the River and end of the war, that made my heart ake to read, it being too sha... Samuel Pepys Andrew Marvell Directions to a painter for describing our naval b... Print : Book1600-1699 'Here I also saw a printed account of the examinations taking touching the burning of the City of London, showing the plots of the papists therein; which it seems hath be... Samuel Pepys [unknown] London's Flames, or The discovery of such evidence... Print : Book1600-1699 'and here I read the Qu's to Knepp while she answered me, through all her part of "Flora's Figarys", which was acted today'
[She = Nell Gwyn] Samuel Pepys Richard Rhodes Flora's Vagaries Print : Book1600-1699 'and then to my chamber to read the true story in Speed of the Black Prince; and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys John Speed The history of Great Britaine Print : Book1600-1699 'and so away back home again, reading all the way the book of the Collection of Oaths in the several offices in this nation, which is worth a man's reading' Samuel Pepys Richard Garnet The book of oaths ... very useful for all persons ... Print : Book1600-1699 'all morning at the office finishing my letter to Sir Rob Brookes, which I did with great content; and yet at noon, when I came home to dinner, I read it over again after... Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys [letter to Sir Robert Brookes] Manuscript : Letter1600-1699 'After dinner by coach as far as the Temple and there saw a new book in Folio of all that suffered for the King in the late times - which I will buy; it seems well writ.' Samuel Pepys David Lloyd Memories of the lives ... of those noble ... perso... Manuscript : Unknown1600-1699 'Then home to read, sup and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'It is one of the most extraordinary accidents in my life, and gives ground to think of Don Quixot's adventures how people may be surprized' Samuel Pepys Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote Print : Book1600-1699 'he and I all the afternoon to read over our office letters, to see what matter can be got for our advantage or disadvantage therein' Samuel Pepys [n/a] [office letters] Manuscript : Letter1600-1699 'I read to her out of the "History of Algiers", which is mighty pretty reading' Samuel Pepys John Davies [transl] The history of Algiers and its slavery Print : Book1600-1699 'After dinner, up to my wife again, who is in great pain still with her tooth and cheek; and there, they gone, I spent most of the afternoon and night reading and talking... Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'Thence homeward by coach, and stopped at Martins my bookseller, where I saw the French book which I did think to have had for my wife to translate, called "L'escholle de... Samuel Pepys Michel Millot L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames,... Print : Book1600-1699 'and so I walked away homeward, and there reading all the evening; and so to bed' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'So he gone, I to read a little in my chamber, and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office, doing business and also reading a little of "L'escolle des Filles", which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss ... Samuel Pepys Michel Millot L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames,... Print : Book1600-1699 'and then they parted and I to my chamber, where I did read through "L'escholle des Filles"; a lewd book, but what doth me no wrong to read for information sake (but it d... Samuel Pepys Michel Millot L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames,... Print : Book1600-1699 'and then to my chamber and read most of the evening till pretty late, when, my wife not being well, I did lie below stairs in our great chamber' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'He gone, we home and there I to read, and my belly being full of my dinner today, I anon to bed' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and so home to supper and to read, and then to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'And with great joy I do find, looking over my Memorandum-books, which are now of great use to me and do fully reward me for all my care in keeping them, that I am not li... Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys Memorandums and Conclusions of the Navy Board Manuscript : Unknown1600-1699 'and there took a hackney and home and there to read and talk with my wife' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'Thence home; and there, in favour to my eyes, stayed at home reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wrote by his wife, which shows her to be a mad, conceit... Samuel Pepys Duchess of Newcastle The life of the thrice noble, high and puissant pr... Print : Book1600-1699 'and so home to read a little more in last night's book with much sport, it being a foolish book.' Samuel Pepys Duchess of Newcastle The life of the thrice noble, high and puissant pr... Print : Book1600-1699 'and she being gone, I to my chamber to read a little again, and then after supper to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'But Lord, to see among the young commanders and Tho Killigrew and others that came, how unlike a burial this was, Obrian taking out some ballets from his pocket, which I... Samuel Pepys [unknown] [street ballads] Print : Broadsheet, Handbill1600-1699 'and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at the Council Board, with great good liking' Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys [Report] Manuscript : Unknown1600-1699 'and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at the Council Board, with great good liking' Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys [Report] Manuscript : Unknown1600-1699 'Thence home and there with Mr Hater and W Hewer late, reading over all the Principal Officers' instructions in order to my great work upon my hand.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] Principal Officer's instructions Unknown 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 Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and... Print : Book1600-1699 'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and there read over this paper of my Lord Keeper's; wherein ... Samuel Pepys [unknown] [paper on the faults of the Navy] Manuscript : Unknown1600-1699 'Walked to St James and Pell Mell, and read over with Sir W. Coventry my long letter to the Duke of York and what the Duke of York hath from mine wrote to the board; wher... Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys [letter] Manuscript : Letter1600-1699 'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's contract' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [draft of the victualler's contract] Manuscript : Unknown1600-1699 'Going down I spent reading of the "Five Sermons of Five Several Styles"; worth comparing one with another, but I do think when all is done, that contrary to the design o... Samuel Pepys Abraham Wright Five sermons in five several styles Print : Book1600-1699 '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 : Unknown1600-1699 'And so home and to my business, and to read again and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and away home myself, and there to read again and sup with Gibson; and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'So home to read and sup; and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and after supper to read a ridiculous nonsensical book set out by Will Pen for the Quakers; but so full of nothing but nonsense that I was ashamed to read in it.' Samuel Pepys William Penn Truth exalted; in a short, but sure, testimony aga... Print : Book1600-1699 'and there to Mr Wren at his chamber at White-hall ... And there he and I did read over my paper that I have with so much labour drawn up about the several answers of the... Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys [paper on naval business] Manuscript : Unknown1600-1699 'So to read and talk with my wife, till by and by called to the office' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'This evening comes Mr Billup to me to read over Mr Wren's alterations of my draft of a letter for the Duke of York to sign, to the board; which I like mighty well, they ... Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys [letter with corrections by Matthew Wren] Manuscript : Letter1600-1699 'and then home to supper and read a little, and to bed.' Samuel Pepys unknown [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'So home and to supper and read' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and so home, and there with pleasure to read and talk' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and so my wife and I spent the rest of the evening in talk and reading, and so with great pleasure to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and to dinner and then to read and talk, my wife and I alone' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and so home and to supper and read' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'and so to read and to supper, and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book