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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699For he was chosen, and sate as one of the Assessors and very often filled the Chair in the Moderators, absence, and such was his constant care, and conscientiousness in t...William Gouge [various]Print: Book
1600-1699And a Sermon of Mr. H. Hickman's at Oxford, much moved her (on Isa. 27. 11. It is a people of no understanding, therefore he that made them will not save them, &c.) The D...Margaret Charlton  Unknown
1600-1699When I was at any time from home, she would not pray in the Family, though she could not endure to be without it. She would privately talk to the servants, and read good ...Margaret Baxter [unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699She desired me to pray by her, and seemed quietly to join to the end: She heard divers Psalms, and a Chapter read, and repeated part, and sung part of a Psalm her self. T...Richard Baxter BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'God... did cast into my hand, one day, a book of "Martin Luther", his comment on the "Galathians", so old that it was ready to fall piece from piece, if I did but turn i...John Bunyan Martin LutherCommentary on the GalationsPrint: Book
1600-1699"Back I went by Mr. Downing's order, and stayed there til 12 o'clock in expectation of one to come to read some writings, but he came not, so I stayed all alone reading t...Samuel Pepys Dutch Ambassador[a speech]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699"Here Swan showed us a ballat to the tune of Mardike, which was the most incomparably writ in a printed hand; which I borrowed, but the song proved silly and so I did not...Samuel Pepys [ballad]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699"This morning my Lord showed me the King's declaration and his letter to the two Generalls to be communicated to the fleet. The contents of the letter are his offer of gr...Samuel Pepys Declaration of BredaPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill
1600-1699The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign langu...John Taylor Thomas MoreUtopiaPrint: Book
1600-1699The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign langu...John Taylor Plato RepublicPrint: Book
1600-1699The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign langu...John Taylor Michel Eyquem de MontaigneEssaysPrint: Book
1600-1699The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign langu...John Taylor Miguel de Cervantesprobably Don QuixotePrint: Book
1600-1699In Will of Robert Keayne of Boston: 'As my special gift to ... [his son] my little written book in my closet upon I Cor. II, 27, 28, which is a treatise on the sacrament ...Robert Keayne Treatise on I. Corinthians II.27, 28Manuscript: Codex, Leather bound pocketbook
1600-1699As temporary President in Virginia, John Smith 'had the "letters patent" [for governing of the colony] read aloud "each week" in order to bolster his authority.' Letters patent for governance of colonyUnknown
1600-1699At meeting of new representative assembly for colony of Virginia in 1619, 'The man appointed speaker, John Pory, a veteran of the House of Commons, began the meeting by r...John Pory AnonCharter of Virginia AssemblyUnknown
1600-1699'Rereading, some twenty years later, correspondence from the 1650s collected at Swarthmore Hall, [George] Fox crossed out passages he now deemed inappropriate ...'George Fox Quaker correspondenceManuscript: Letter
1600-1699" ... in Springfield when a printed copy of the code of laws of 1648 arrived in 1649, it was promptly 'published,' that is, read aloud to a gathering of the townspeople."...anon Code of Laws 1648Print: Unknown
1600-1699"In her course of Reading she was still laying in for use and practice. Her course was, when she read the Scriptures, to gather out passages, and sort and refer them to t...Elizabeth Baker ScripturesUnknown
1600-1699... between sixteen and seventeen years of age, by the serious reading of the Book called _The Saints Everlasting Rest_, she was more throughly awakened, and brought to s...Elizabeth Baker Richard BaxterThe Saints Everlasting RestPrint: Book
1600-1699"Writing about himself in the third person, Robert Boyle ... blamed his short attention span on poor reading habits: he complained that reading a romance as a boy had 'ac...Robert Boyle romancePrint: Unknown


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