Record Number: 14094
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'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 then ever I made when I was a boy - and in rolls as long and longer than the whole hall by much.' Editor's note: 'The "Bacchus verses": compositions by the upper forms, hung up from the hooks which may still be seen on either side of the hall.'
Century:1600-1699
Date:26 Feb 1666
Country:England
Timedaytime
Place:city: Eaton
specific address: The Hall at Eaton College
(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:Admiralty, 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:[boys in the upper forms at Eaton]
Title:De pests [Bacchus verses]
Genre:Other religious, Poetry
Form of Text:Manuscript: Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceread in situ
Source Information:
Record ID:14094
Source:Samuel Pepys
Editor:Robert Latham
Title:The diary of Samuel Pepys
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1972
Vol:7
Page:59-60
Additional Comments:
Co-editor William Matthews
Citation:
Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (ed.), The diary of Samuel Pepys, (London, 1972), 7, p. 59-60, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=14094, accessed: 27 September 2024
Additional Comments:
None