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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
 
1600-1699'So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; and so home to my office and there read over my vowes...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up and to my office; and then walked to Woolwich, reading Bacon's "faber Fortune", which the oftener I read the more I admire.'Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber FortunePrint: Book
1600-1699'And being in bed, made Will read and conster three or four Latin verses in the bible and chid him for forgetting the grammer.'Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'So down to Deptford, reading Ben Johnsons "Devil is an Asse".'Samuel Pepys Ben JohnsonDevil is an AssePrint: Book
1600-1699'walked to see Sir W. Penn at Deptford, reading by the way a most ridiculous play, a new one call[ed] "The Politician cheated".'Samuel Pepys Alexander GreenThe Politician cheatedPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence with Mr Moore to the Wardrobe and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr Townsend about his accounts an hour or two - we reading of a merry book against the ...Samuel Pepys Sir John BirkenheadCabala, or An impartial account of the non-conform...Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence with Mr Moore to the Wardrobe and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr Townsend about his accounts an hour or two - we reading of a merry book against the ...Henry Moore Sir John BirkenheadCabala, or An impartial account of the non-conform...Print: Book
1600-1699'I sat up an hour after Mr Coventry was gone to read my vowes - it raining a wonderful hard showre about 11 at night for an hour together. So to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home and at my office reading my vowes;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And so to prayers and to bed.'Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And so to prayers and to bed.'John Pepys [n/a][Greek Bible]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence by coach with my Lord Peterborough and Sandwich to my Lord Peterborough's house; and there, after an hour's looking over some fine books of the Italian buildings ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence home and examined a piece of Latin of Will's with my brother, and so to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys Will Hewer[piece of Latin, practice translation probably]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'and so we went to boat again and then down to the bridge and there tried to find a sister of Mrs Morrices, but she was not within neither, and so we went through bridge ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown - recipes]Print: Book
1600-1699'To church again; and so home to my wife and with her read "Iter boreale", a poem made just at the King's coming home but I never read it before, and now like it pretty w...Samuel Pepys [Robert] [Wild]Iter borealePrint: Book
1600-1699'and then abroad by water to White-hall and to Westminster-hall and there bought the first news-books of Lestrange's writing, he beginning this week; and makes methink bu...Samuel Pepys [Robert] [L'Estrange]The IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'This day I read a proclamacion for calling in and commanding everybody to apprehend my Lord Bristoll.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][proclamation]Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1600-1699'And then met my uncle Thomas by appointment, and he and I to the Prearogative Office in Paternoster Row and there searched and found my Uncle Day's will and read it over...Samuel Pepys John Day[Will]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'And then met my uncle Thomas by appointment, and he and I to the Prearogative Office in Paternoster Row and there searched and found my Uncle Day's will and read it over...Samuel Pepys Beatrice Day[Will]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'Then into the garden to read my weekly vowes.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown


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