| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1600-1699 | August 14. I had read Mr Whately of the new birth, and it affected mee exceedingly, and put mee upon prayer, and searc... | Isaac Archer | William Whately | The New-Birth:or, a treatise of regeneration, deli | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | May 3. I found a case putt in Mr A's Vindiciae Pietatis, about a violent inclination from natural temper (which suits ... | Isaac Archer | Richard Sibbes | The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | May 3. I found a case putt in Mr A's Vindiciae Pietatis, about a violent inclination from natural temper (which suits ... | Isaac Archer | Richard Alleine | Vindiciae Pietatis; or, a Vindication of Godliness | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Isaac Reeve: "After this I happened to read in the Newspaper of a quart silve... | Isaac Reeve | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1600-1699 | "When [Isaac] Newton arrived at Greenwich in September 1694, the astronomer [John Flamsteed] showed him 157 lunar posi... | Isaac Newton | John Flamsteed | astronomical calculations (lunar positions) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A few years ago the curate of the village called upon the old man to converse with him on religious matters; after so... | Isaac | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Whilst I was at home, I remember, my father would make mee read the Bible; which, through an eager desire of play, an... | Isaac Archer | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'When I was past the worst of my sicknes I would be almost continually reading the Bible or other books . . . I [would... | Isaac Archer | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I was diligent in reading the scriptures every day, and read them once through in a yeare for the 3 first yeares acco... | Isaac Archer | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I read Dr Wilkins of prayer, and in reading the Bible observed and wrote downe in a book notes for matter, method and... | Isaac Archer | John Wilkins | A Discourse Concerning the Gift of Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I read also Dr Taylour of practical repentance, and Dr Preston of faith, and found good by them'. | Isaac Archer | Jeremy Taylor | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I read also Dr Taylour of practical repentance, and Dr Preston of faith, and found good by them'. | Isaac Archer | John Preston | The Breast-Plate of Faith and Love | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandment... | Isaac Archer | William Whately | A Pithie, Short and Methodicall Opening of the Ten Commandments | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandment... | Isaac Archer | Lancelot Andrewes | The Moral Law Expounded | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandment... | Isaac Archer | William Perkins | Armilla Aurea, or The Golden Chain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'My heart was inclined to love and honour my father, especially when, by reading the history of China, I found that th... | Isaac Archer | anon | The Historie of China | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'November 30. I was reading, and meditating upon what I read in Mr Rogers his book of faith, viz. that there must be l... | Isaac Archer | Richard Rogers | Certain Sermons . . . to establish and settle all such as are converted in faith and repentance | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'October 19. I was reading the preface to Baxter's Rest, where he writes that we should mind our inheritance, and that... | Isaac Archer | Richard Baxter | The Saints Everlasting Rest | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | '[I was] not constant in meditation, I was loath to begin, but if I once began I found it so sweet that I could scarce... | Isaac Archer | Richard Baxter | The Saints Everlasting Rest | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | '[I was] not constant in meditation, I was loath to begin, but if I once began I found it so sweet that I could scarce... | Isaac Archer | Joseph Hall | The Art of Divine Meditation | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'May 6. I began seriously to read Dr Preston's sermons of faith; and that I might understand them the better, and that... | Isaac Archer | John Preston | The Breast-plate of Faith and Love. A treatise wherein the ground and exercises of faith and love . . . is explained. Delivered in 18 Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'August 26. By reading of Bishop Usher's Body of Divinity, I was convinced of my sinning against the commandments of G... | Isaac Archer | James Ussher | A Body of Divinitie | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'April 3. On the day when [his daughter Mary had been] borne last year, Easter fell; I had made a sermon of Abraham's ... | Isaac Archer | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'February 26. Looking over Mr Bifield's book called The Spirituall Touchstone, I noted severall signes of a good man, ... | Isaac Archer | Nicholas Byfield | The Spiritual Touchstone: or, the Signes of a Godly Man | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'May 11. I read the lives of some moderne divines, and I was ashamed to find how short I came of such examples for zea... | Isaac Archer | Samuel Clarke | The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'December 25. I had somewhat before, by accident, chosen a booke to read, which I had long by mee, but never did read ... | Isaac Archer | | [Commentary upon Ephesians: 3] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'September 2. I had bin grievously and causlessly defamed by one from whom I deserved it not; this day he came to quar... | Isaac Archer | Bishop Hall | Sermon on Ephesians 4:30 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray, 2 August 1810:
'I took the Q[uarterly]. R[eview]. with me. I like it well; and I do... | Isaac Disraeli | | Quarterly Review (no. 5) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair:
'Never, in my recollection, has any ... | Isaac Disraeli | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815):
'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [itali... | Isaac D'Israeli | Helen Maria Williams | Narrative of Events in France in 1815 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815):
'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [itali... | Isaac D'Israeli | Helen Maria Williams | Narrative of Events in France in 1815 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (December 1815):
'I find myself, this morning, so strangely affected by the perusal ... | Isaac D'Israeli | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Siege of Corinth | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray, 4 August 1818:
'Mr. Stewart [Mr. Murray's clerk] has been so attentive as to send m... | Isaac D'Israeli | | The Observer | Print: Newspaper |