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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'and then with comfort to sit with my wife, and get her to read to me'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read of the principles of poperie out of one of their owne bookes'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then wrought, reed, and wrett tell diner tim'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then, towardes night, I wrett to my Cosine bouser, and reed of the Testement, and then went to priuat examenation and praier'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'and then, walkinge a litle and readinge of the bible in my Chamber, went to supper'Margaret Hoby [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1600-1699'and thence home, and my wife to read to me and W. Hewer to set some matters of accounts right at my chamber; to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and thence home, where to supper and then to read a little; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'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 DrydenThe Rival LadiesPrint: Book
1600-1699'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 CavendishThe life and death of Thomas Woolsey, Cardinal ......Print: Book
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: Book
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 John HerneThe law of charitable uses, wherein the statute of...Print: Book
1600-1699'and there got Balty to read to me out of Sorbiere's observations in his voyage into England; and then to bed.'Balthasar St Michael Samuel de Sorbierevoyage into EnglandPrint: Book
1600-1699'and there hired my wife to make an end of Boyles book of Forms tonight and tomorrow'Elizabeth Pepys Robert BoyleThe origin of formes and qualitiesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and there however I got her to read to me the "History of Algier", which I find a very pretty book.'Elizabeth Pepys John Davies [transl]The history of Algiers and its slaveryPrint: Book
1600-1699'and there I made my boy to read to me most of the night, to get through the "Life of the Archbishop of Caterbury".' Peter HeylynCyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and...Print: Book
1600-1699'And there I saw this new play my wife saw yesterday; and do not like it, it being very smutty, and nothing so good as "The Maiden Queen" or "The Indian Imperour", of his...Elizabeth Pepys Madame de Scud?riIbrahim, ou L'illustre BassaPrint: Book
1600-1699'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 MortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1600-1699'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: Unknown
1600-1699'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...Matthew Wren Samuel Pepys[paper on naval business]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and there to read and talk with my wife, and so to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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