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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'and after dinner, with my wife and Mercer and Jane by water all the afternoon as high up as Moreclacke, with great pleasure, and a fine day - reading over the second par...Samuel Pepys Sir William DavenantThe Seige of RhodesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so away home by water, with more and more pleasure every time, I reading over my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae".'Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber FortunaePrint: Book
1600-1699'So down the River, reading "The Adventures of five houres", which the more I read the more I admire.'Samuel Pepys Sir Samuel TukeThe Adventures of the five houresPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up, and betimes with Captain Erwin down by water to Woolwich, I walking alone from Greenwich tither - making an end of "The Adventures of five houres", - which when all ...Samuel Pepys Sir Samuel TukeThe Adventures of the five houresPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up and to Deptford by water, reading "Othello, Moore of Venice", which I ever heretofore esteemed a mighty good play; but having so lately read "The Adventures of five h...Samuel Pepys William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1600-1699'Anon to Sir W. Penn to bed, and made my boy Tom to read me asleep.'Tom [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'to Sir W. Coventry, and there read over my yesterday's work; being a collection of the perticulars of the excess in charge created by a war - with good content.'Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[manuscript on naval expenses]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and then home, and my wife and I to read in Fullers "Church History", and so to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then home, and my wife and I to read in Fullers "Church History", and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699'After dinner away home, Mr Brisband along with me as far as the Temple; and there looked upon a new book, set out by one Rycault, secretary to my Lord Winchelsea, of the...Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman Empire By Paul Ry...Print: Book
1600-1699'And by coach home, where I spent the evening in reading Stillingfleetes defence of the Archbishop, that part about Purgatory, a point I had never considered before what ...Samuel Pepys Edward StillingfleetA rational account of the grounds of Protestant re...Print: Book
1600-1699'So home to dinner, and to discourse with my brother upon his translation of my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae" which I gave him to do; and he hath done it but meanly, I am...John Pepys Francis BaconFaber FortunaePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of "The Bondman" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and begin "The Duchesse of Malfy", which seems a good pla...Samuel Pepys Philip MassingerThe BondmanPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of "The Bondman" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and begin "The Duchesse of Malfy", which seems a good pla...Samuel Pepys John WebsterThe Duchesse of MalfyPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and there begun to read Potters discourse upon 666, which peases me mightily; and then broke off, and to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys Francis PotterAn interpretation of the number 666Print: Book
1600-1699'and after Dinner down alone by water to Depford, reading "Duchess of Malfy", the play, which is pretty good - and there did some business'Samuel Pepys John WebsterThe Duchess of MalfyPrint: Book
1600-1699'I to dinner, and thence to my chamber to read, and so to the office'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home and read an hour, to make an end of Potters discourse of the Number 666, which I like all along, but his close is most excellent; and whether it be right o...Samuel Pepys Francis PotterAn interpretation of the Number 666Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home to supper and then to read the late printed discourse of Witches by a member of Gresham College, and then to bed - the discourse being well writ in good st...Samuel Pepys Joseph GlanvillSome philosophical considerations touching the bei...Print: Book
1600-1699'And the news-book makes that business nothing, but that they are all dispersed.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]London GazettePrint: Newspaper


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