Record Number: 14398
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'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): 'Thence I to my new bookseller's and there bought Hookers "Policy", the new edition, and Dugdale's history of the Inn's of Court, of which there was but a few saved out of the Fire - and Playford's new sketch-book, that hath a great many new fooleries in it.'
Century:1600-1699
Date:16 Apr 1667
Country:England
Timeafternoon
evening: before supper
city: London
location in dwelling: at home
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:23 Feb 1633
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Admirality, Clerk of the Acts
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Works... in eight books of ecclesiastical polity
Genre:Other religious
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1666 (new edition)
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:14398
Source:Samuel Pepys
Editor:Robert Latham
Title:The diary of Samuel Pepys
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1974
Vol:8
Page:169
Additional Comments:
Co-editor William Matthews
Citation:
Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (ed.), The diary of Samuel Pepys, (London, 1974), 8, p. 169, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=14398, accessed: 05 October 2024
Additional Comments:
None