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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'Thence to Brainford, reading "The Villaine" (a pretty good play) all the way.'Samuel Pepys Thomas PorterThe VillainePrint: Book
1600-1699'Up, and walked to Greenwich reading a play, and to the office'Samuel Pepys [unknown][a play]Print: Book
1600-1699'Here I saw this week's Bill of Mortality, wherein, blessed be God, there is above 1800 decrease, being the first considerable decrease we have had.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]Bill of MortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
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'We spent most of the morning talking, and reading of "The Seige of Rhodes", which is certainly (the more I read it I think so) the best poem that ever was wrote.'Samuel Pepys Sir William DavenantThe Seige of RhodesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So after supper Captain Cocke and I and Temple on board the Bezan, and there to Cards for a while, and then to read again in "Rhodes" and so to sleep.'Samuel Pepys Sir William DavenantThe Seige of RhodesPrint: Book
1600-1699'but he showed me a bill which hath been read in the House making all breakng of bulk for the time to come felony; but it is a foolish Act and will do no great matter'Samuel Pepys [unknown][parliamentary bill]Print: Pamphlet
1600-1699'and then up, and fell to reading of Mr Eveling's book about Paynting, which is a very pretty book.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book about painting]Print: Book
1600-1699'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read...John Evelyn John EvelynElysium BritannicumManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read...John Evelyn John EvelynThersander [probably]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read...John Evelyn John Evelyn[poems]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read...Samuel Pepys John EvelynHortus HyemalisManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read...John Evelyn John EvelynCelia afraid of an eagleManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'The Bill of Mortality, to all our griefs, is encreased 399 this week, and the encrease general through the whole city and suburbs, which makes us all sad.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]Bill of MortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1600-1699'Thence back by water to Captain Cockes, and there he and I spent a great deal of the evening, as we had done the day, reading and discoursing over part of Mr Stillingfle...Samuel Pepys Edward StillingfleeteOrigines Sacrae, or A rational account of the grou...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so away to my Bezan again - and there to read in a pretty French book, "La Nouvelle Allegorique", upon the strife between Rhetorique and its enemies - very pleasant....Samuel Pepys Antoine FuretiereNouvelle Allegorique, ou Histoire des derniers tro...Print: Book
1600-1699'Up, and after being trimmed, I alone by water to Erith, all the way with my song-book singing of Mr Laws's long recitative Song in the beginning of his book.'Samuel Pepys Henry LawesAyres and dialoguesPrint: Book
1600-1699'This day the first of the "Oxford Gazettes" came out, which is very pretty, full of news, and no folly in it - wrote by Williamson.'Samuel Pepys Sir Joseph WilliamsonOxford GazettePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'but we had breakfasted a little at Mr Gawdens, he being out of town though; and there borrowed Dr Taylors Sermons, and is a most excellent book and worth my buying'Samuel Pepys Jeremy TaylorA collection of polemical discourses, wherein the ...Print: Book
1600-1699'I have read your Reyne Margerite and will retourne it you when you please. If you will have my opinion of her, I think she has a good deale of witt . . . But the storry ...Dorothy Osborne Marguerite de ValoisMemoires de la Reyne MargueritePrint: Book


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