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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'and so home, and after some little reading in my chamber, to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home and to my chamber to read'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so walked to Barne Elmes, whither I sent Russell, reading of Mr Boyles "Hydrostatickes", which are of infinite delight.'Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleHydrostatical ParadoxesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and, after, I hard a good booke reed by Mr Vrpeth, and sonne after I went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so to my chamber, and got her to read to me for saving of my eyes'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then my wife and I to my chamber, where through the badness of my eyes she was forced to read to me, which she doth very well; and was Mr Boyle's discourse upon the ...Elizabeth Pepys Robert BoyleSome considerations touching the style of the Holy...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so parted at the New Exchange, where I stayed reading Mrs Phillips's poems till my wife and Mercer called me to Mrs Pierce's by invitation to dinner'Samuel Pepys Katherine PhillipsPoemsPrint: Book
1600-1699'Only, here I met with a fourth "Advice to the painter", upon the coming in of the Dutch to the River and end of the war, that made my heart ake to read, it being too sha...Samuel Pepys Andrew MarvellDirections to a painter for describing our naval b...Print: Book
1600-1699'Here I also saw a printed account of the examinations taking touching the burning of the City of London, showing the plots of the papists therein; which it seems hath be...Samuel Pepys [unknown]London's Flames, or The discovery of such evidence...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home and my wife read to me as last night, and so to bed'Elizabeth Pepys Robert BoyleSome considerations touching the style of the Holy...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so parted and to bed - after my wife had read something to me (to save my eyes) in a good book.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'In the evening read [a] good book, my wife to me'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and here I read the Qu's to Knepp while she answered me, through all her part of "Flora's Figarys", which was acted today' [She = Nell Gwyn]Samuel Pepys Richard RhodesFlora's VagariesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then to my chamber to read the true story in Speed of the Black Prince; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SpeedThe history of Great BritainePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so away back home again, reading all the way the book of the Collection of Oaths in the several offices in this nation, which is worth a man's reading' Samuel Pepys Richard GarnetThe book of oaths ... very useful for all persons ...Print: Book
1600-1699'By and by I got him to read part of my Lord Cooke's chapter of Treason, which is mighty well worth reading and doth inform me in many things; and for aught I see, it is ...Henry Moore Sir Edward CokeInstitutes of the laws of EnglandPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then home without strangers to dinner, and then my wife to read, and then I to the office'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then home and got my wife to read to me out of Fuller's "Church History"'Elizabeth Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699'and there to save my eyes, got my wife at home to read again, as last night, in the same book, till W. Batelier came and spent the evening talking to us'Elizabeth Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then home to supper and my wife to read; and then to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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