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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'and so home and to my office a while to read my vowes. The home to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
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][vowes]Unknown
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'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'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'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'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'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'Then into the garden to read my weekly vowes.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'This day my wife showed me bills printed, wherein her father, with Sir John Collidon and Sir Edwd. Ford, hath got a patent for curing of smoking chimnys. I wish they may...Samuel Pepys [unknown][bills advertising a cure for smoking chimneys]Print: Handbill
1600-1699'Up and to my office, where all the morning - and part of it Sir J Mennes spent as he doth everything else, like a fool, reading the Anatomy of the body to me, but so sil...Sir John Mennes [or Minnes] [unknown][anatomy of the body]Print: Book
1600-1699'And read very seriously my vowes, which I am fearful of forgetting by my late great expenses - but I hope in God I do not. And so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home and my wife and I together all the evening, discoursing; and then after reading my vowes to myself... we hastened to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home to prayers, and then to read my vowes and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'my wife, it being a cold day and it begin to snow, kept her bed till after dinner. And I below by myself looking over my arithmetique books and Timber Rule.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][Arithmetic books]Print: Book
1600-1699'To church; where after sermon, home and to my office before dinner, reading my vowes;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'He gone, I to my office and there late, writing and reading; and so home to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then I begin to read to my wife upon the globes, with great pleasure and to good purpose, for it will be pleasant to her and to me to have her understand those thing...Samuel Pepys [unknown][on the globes]Print: Book


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