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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'Then by linke home - and there to my book awhile and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then home - I to read.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then to reading and at night to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book]Print: Book
1600-1699'And then I up to my chamber to read.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and after a little reading, to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Having writ letters into the country and read something, I went to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And then came home with us Sir W. Pen and drank with us and then went away; and my wife after him to see his daughter that is lately come out of Ireland. I stayed at hom...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Dined at home; and so about my business in the afternoon to the temple, where I find my chancery bill drawn against T. Trice; which I read, and like it.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][chancery Bill drawn against Trice]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his "liberty and necessity", and a little but a very shrewd piece.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown- little but shrewd piece]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'and so up to my study and read the two treatys before Mr Selden's "Mare Clausum"; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]Additional evidences... relating to the reigns of ...Print: Unknown
1600-1699'And so home by Coach and I late reading in my Chamber; and then to bed, my wife being angry that I keep the house up so late.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Hence home and to read; and so to bed, but very late again.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'so home - to read - supper and to prayers; and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I up to my chamber to read and write, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'At night to my chamber to read and sing; and so to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'He being gone, I to my study and read; and so to eat a bit of bread and cheese and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'This night Tom came to show me a civil letter sent him from his mistress.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][letter]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'and so to my office, practising arthmetique alone and making an end of last night's book, with great content, till 11 at night; and so home to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'at night my wife read "Sir H. Vanes trial" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, worth reading, and him to have been a very wise man.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown]The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., at the Kings Ben...Print: Unknown
1600-1699'at night my wife read "Sir H. Vanes trial" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, worth reading, and him to have been a very wise man.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown]The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., at the Kings Ben...Print: Unknown


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