| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 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 ... | Samuel Pepys | Paul Rycault | The present state of the Ottoman Empire By Paul Rycault, Esq. secretary to his Excellency the Earl of Winchilsea, Embassadour Extraordinary for His Majesty Charles the Second etc. to Sultan Mahomet Han the Fourth, Emperour of the Turks | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to supper, and to read the book I bought yesterday of the Turkish Policy, which is a good book, well writ; an... | Samuel Pepys | Paul Rycault | The present state of the Ottoman empire | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and to read a little in my new History of Turky' | Samuel Pepys | Paul Rycault | The present state of the Ottoman empire | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | ''and so home; and they home, and I to read with satisfaction in my book of Turky and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | Paul Rycault | The present state of the Ottoman empire | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I to my chamber and there read a great deal in Rycault's Turks book with great pleasure, and so eat and to bed' | Samuel Pepys | Paul Rycault | The present state of the Ottoman empire | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Then down to my chamber and made an end of Rycaults "History of the Turkes", which is a very good book.' | Samuel Pepys | Paul Rycault | The present state of the Ottoman empire | Print: Book |