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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
'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) till Mr Wren comes by'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'and then he to read to me the "Life of Archbishopp Laud", wrote by D. Heylin; which is a shrowd book, but that which I believe will do the Bishop in general no great good, but hurt - it pleads for so much Popish.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Gibson Print: Book
'and there I made my boy to read to me most of the night, to get through the "Life of the Archbishop of Caterbury".'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
'He gone, my wife and I to supper; and so she to read and made an end of the "Life of Archbishop Laud", which is worth reading, as informing a man plainly in the posture of the Church, and how the things of it were managed with the same self-interest and design that every other thing is, and have succeeded accordingly. So to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book