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1450-1945

Listing for Reader: Samuel Pepys

 

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1600-1699"Back I went by Mr. Downing's order, and stayed there til 12 o'clock in expectation of one to come to read some writin...Samuel Pepys Dutch Ambassador[a speech]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699"Here Swan showed us a ballat to the tune of Mardike, which was the most incomparably writ in a printed hand; which I ...Samuel Pepys [ballad]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699"This morning my Lord showed me the King's declaration and his letter to the two Generalls to be communicated to the f...Samuel Pepys Declaration of BredaPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill
1600-1699Adrian Johns notes Samuel Pepys's use of printed lawbooks "to inform himself of 'law-notions'"Samuel Pepys books on laws and statutesPrint: Book
1600-1699'I rose early this morning, and looked over and corrected my brother John's speech which he is to make the next Apposi...Samuel Pepys John Pepys[speech]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, thoug...Samuel Pepys John Pepys[speech]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, thoug...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Pontificale romanum Clementis VIII, part 2Print: Book
1600-1699'Back I went by Mr Downing's order, and stayed there till 12 a-clock in expectation of one to come to read some writin...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'I called at St Paul's churchyard, where I bought Buxtorfes Hebrew Grammar and read a declaration of the gentlemen of ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]The humble address and hearty desires of the gentlemen, ministers and free-holders of the county of Northampton, presented to his Excellency the Lord General Monck, at his arrival at Northampton January, 24, 1659Print: Broadsheet
1600-1699'To their church in the afternoon, and in Mrs Turner's pew my wife took up a good black hood and kept it. A stranger p...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Book of TobitPrint: Book
1600-1699'This morning I lay long abed; then to my office, where I read all the morning my Spanish book of Rome.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]Las cosas maravillosas della sancta ciudad de RomaPrint: Book
1600-1699'...and back to Pauls churchyard, where I stayed reading in Fullers history of the Church of England an hour or two...'Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699'...and with them to Marshes at Whitehall to drink, and stayed there a pretty while reading a pamphlet, well-writ and ...Samuel Pepys Roger L'Estrange [? probably]A plea for limited monarchy, as it was established in this nation, before the late war. In a humble address to his Excellency, General Monck
1600-1699'My Lord and the ship's company down to Sermon. I stayed above to write and look over my new song-book, which came las...Samuel Pepys [Playford]Select ayres and dialoguesPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I r...Samuel Pepys [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I r...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Common Prayer BookPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up to my chamber to read a little, and write my Diary for three or four days past.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'In the evening to the office, where I fell a-reading of Speeds geography for a while.'Samuel Pepys John SpeedA prospect of the most famous parts of the worldPrint: Book
1600-1699'And before supper I read part of the Maryan persecution in Mr Fuller.'Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699'And so home, where I fell to read "The fruitlesse precaution" (a book formerly recommended by Dr Clerke at sea to me)...Samuel Pepys Paul ScarronThe Fruitlesse PrecautionPrint: Book
1600-1699'but went home again by water, by the way reading of the other two stories that are in the book that I read last night...Samuel Pepys Paul ScarronThe Fruitlesse PrecautionPrint: Book
1600-1699'So after supper and reading of some chapters, I went to bed.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'To Westminster-hall and bought, among other books, one of the Life of our Queene. Which I read at home to my wife; bu...Samuel Pepys John DaunceyThe history of the thrice illustrious Princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon, Queen of EnglandPrint: Book
1600-1699'In Pauls churchyard I called at Kirton's; and there they had got a Masse book for me, which I bought and cost me 12s....Samuel Pepys [unknown]Masse BookPrint: Book
1600-1699'At night Mr Moore came and sat with me, and there I took a book and he did instruct me in many law=notions, in which ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][law book?]Print: Book
1600-1699'Home and fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were hanged for the King's death; and found good satisfac...Samuel Pepys [unknown]An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... trial ... of nine and twenty regicidesPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home by Coach and read late in the last night's book of the Tryalls...'Samuel Pepys [unknown]An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... trial ... of nine and twenty regicidesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So to Pauls churchyard and there bought "Montelion", which this year doth not prove so good as the last was; and so a...Samuel Pepys [John] [Phillips?]Montelion, the prophetical almanac for the year 1661Print: almanac
1600-1699'So to Pauls churchyard and there bought "Montelion", which this yeardoth not prove so good as the last was; and so af...Samuel Pepys John TathamThe Rump, or The mirror of the late timesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So we parted, and I and Mr Creed to Westminster-hall and looked over a book or two, and so to My Lord's...'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'To church in the afternoon. And after sermon took Tom. Fuller's "Church History" and read over Henry the 8ths life - ...Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699'After he was gone, I fell a-reading "Cornelianum Dolium" till 11 a-clock at night, with great pleasure; and after tha...Samuel Pepys Thomas RandolphCornelianum DoliumPrint: Book
1600-1699'I fell a-reading in Fuller's "history of Abbys" and my wife in "Grand Cyrus" till 12 at night, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699'After that home and to bed - reading myself asleep while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'All evening at my book; and so to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699'and I, before and after supper, to my Lute and Fullers "History", at which I stayed all alone in my Chamber till 12 a...Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699'At home I fell a-reading of Fullers "Church History" till it was late, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699'I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's "Patriarchae".'Samuel Pepys Francis Osborne[works]Print: Book
1600-1699'I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's "Patriarchae".'Samuel Pepys Emanuel TesauroPatriarche, sive Christi servatoris genealogia, per mundi aetates traductaPrint: Book
1600-1699'And God forgive me, did spent it in reading some little French Romances.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][French Romances]Print: Book
1600-1699'and I home and stayed there all day within - having found Mr Moore, who stayed with me till at night, talking and rea...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Good books]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then by linke home - and there to my book awhile and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then home - I to read.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then to reading and at night to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book]Print: Book
1600-1699'earley up in the morning to read the "Seamans grammar and dictionary" I lately have got, which doth please me exceedi...Samuel Pepys John SmithThe sea-man's grammarPrint: Book
1600-1699'This day I find in the news-Booke that Rogr. Pepys is chosen at Cambridge for the towne, the first place that we hear...Samuel Pepys [n/a]The Kingdomes IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'And then I up to my chamber to read.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and after a little reading, to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And in the garden reading "Faber fortunae" with great pleasure. So home to bed.'Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber Fortunae sive Doctrina de ambitu vitaePrint: Book
1600-1699'Having writ letters into the country and read something, I went to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'The afternoon, while Will is abroad, I spent in reading "The Spanish Gypsy", a play not very good, though commended m...Samuel Pepys Thomas MiddletonThe Spanish GypsyPrint: Book
1600-1699'In the morning my father and I walked in the garden and read the Will; where though he gives me nothing at present ti...Samuel Pepys Robert PepysThe Will of Robert Pepys of BramptonManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'Home at noon, and there find Mr Moore and with him to an ordinary alone and dined; and there he and I read my Uncles ...Samuel Pepys Robert PepysThe Will of Robert Pepys of BramptonManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'And then came home with us Sir W. Pen and drank with us and then went away; and my wife after him to see his daughter...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'At night fell to read in Hookers "Ecclesiastical policy" which Mr Moore did give me last Wednesday, very handsomely b...Samuel Pepys Richard HookerOf the lawes of ecclesiastical politiePrint: Book
1600-1699'...which makes me remember my father Osborne's rule for a gentleman, to spare in all things rather than in that.'Samuel Pepys Francis OsborneAdvice to a sonPrint: Book
1600-1699'and all the day, as I was at leisure, I did read in Fuller's "Holy Warr" (which I have of late bought) and did try to...Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe historie of the holy warrPrint: Book
1600-1699'Dined at home; and so about my business in the afternoon to the temple, where I find my chancery bill drawn against T...Samuel Pepys [unknown][chancery Bill drawn against Trice]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his "liberty and necessity", and a little but a ve...Samuel Pepys Thomas HobbesOf libertie and necessitiePrint: Book
1600-1699'So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his "liberty and necessity", and a little but a ve...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown- little but shrewd piece]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'and so I left them with him and went with Mr Moore to Grayes Inne to his chamber, and there he showed me his old Camb...Samuel Pepys William CamdenBritanniaPrint: Book
1600-1699'at the office all the afternoon, and at night home to read in "Mare Clausum" till bedtime'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'we returned and I settled to read in "Mare Clausum" till bedtime'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'This morning as I was in bed, one brings me T. Trices answer to my bill in Chancery from Mr Smallwood, which I am gla...Samuel Pepys T Trice[answer to Pepys's bill]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'I am now full of study about writing something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; and so am altogethe...Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'I am now full of study about writing something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; and so am altogethe...Samuel Pepys Hugo GrotiusMare LiberumPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to supper and to Selden "Mare Clausum" and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'And so I home, and sat late up, reading of Mr Selden. And so to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'So after my business was done and read something in Mr Selden, I went to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so left the table and went up to read in Mr Selden till church time;'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'So we parted; and I home and to Mr Selden and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so up to my study and read the two treatys before Mr Selden's "Mare Clausum"; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SeldonMare Clausum
1600-1699'and so up to my study and read the two treatys before Mr Selden's "Mare Clausum"; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]Additional evidences... relating to the reigns of K. James and K. CharlesPrint: Unknown
1600-1699'And so home by Coach and I late reading in my Chamber; and then to bed, my wife being angry that I keep the house up ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Hence home and to read; and so to bed, but very late again.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'so home - to read - supper and to prayers; and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then to Pauls churchyard, and there I met with Dr: Fullers "Englands worthys" - the first time that I ever saw it; an...Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerHistory of the worthies of EnglandPrint: Book
1600-1699'My cold being increased, I stayed home all day, pleasing myself with my dining-room, now graced with pictures, and re...Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerHistory of the worthies of EnglandPrint: Book
1600-1699'This day in the news-booke, I find that my Lord Buckhurst and his fellows have printed their case as they did give in...Samuel Pepys [n/a]The Kingdomes IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'I up to my chamber to read and write, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'went to Westminster-hall and there bought Mr Grant's book of observations upon the weekly bills of Mortality - which ...Samuel Pepys John GrauntNatural and political observations... made upon the bills of mortalityPrint: Book
1600-1699'At night to my chamber to read and sing; and so to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home; and no sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Fields (with whom we have lately had...Samuel Pepys Fields[petition]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'...and so took boat again and got to London before them. All the way, coming and going, reading in "The Wallflower" w...Samuel Pepys Thomas BaylyHerba Parietis or The wall-flower, as it grew out of the stone chamber belonging to Newgate, being a history which is partly true, partly romantick, morally devine, whereby a marriage between reality and fancy is solemnized by divinityPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up earely; and after reading a little in Cicero, I made me ready and to my office - where all the morning busy.'Samuel Pepys Cicero[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'At my office all the morning, reading Mr Holland's discourse of the Navy, lent me by Mr Turner; and am much pleased w...Samuel Pepys John Holland[discourse on Naval administration]Print: Book
1600-1699'He being gone, I to my study and read; and so to eat a bit of bread and cheese and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'This night Tom came to show me a civil letter sent him from his mistress.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][letter]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'Then we fell to reading of a book which I saw the other day at my Lord Sandwichs, entended for the late King, finely ...Samuel Pepys Tobias GentlemanEnglands way to win wealth... with a true relation of the inestimable wealth that is yearely taken out of His Majesties seas by the HollandersPrint: Book
1600-1699'My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's "Imposture" and other parts, which my wife of...Samuel Pepys Guillaume de Salluste du BartasDivine weekes and workesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to supper. And after reading part of "Bussy D'Ambois", a good play I bought today - to bed.'Samuel Pepys George ChapmanBussy D'AmboisPrint: Book
1600-1699'So I made Gosnell [sing] and we sat up, looking over the book of Dances till 12 at night, not observing how the time ...Samuel Pepys PlayfordDancing Master OR English Dancing MasterPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then to the office and there examining my Copy of Mr Hollands book till 10 at night; and so home to supper and bed.'Samuel Pepys John Holland[discourse on Naval administration]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so to the office again and made an end of examining the other of Mr Hollands books about the Navy, with which I a...Samuel Pepys John Holland[second discourse on Naval administration]Print: Book
1600-1699'It being cold, Mr Lee and [I] did sit all the day, till 3 a-clock, by the fire in the Governors house; I reading a pl...Samuel Pepys John FletcherA wife for a monthPrint: Book
1600-1699'And so went home, taking Mr Leigh with me; and after drunk a cup of wine, he went away and I to my office, there read...Samuel Pepys [anon]A treatise of taxes and contributionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so up and by the fireside we read a good part of the "Advice to a Daughter", which a simple Coxcombe hath wrote a...Samuel Pepys John HeydonAdvice to a daughter in opposition to the advice to a sonne... by Eugenius TheodidactusPrint: Book
1600-1699'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having calle...Samuel Pepys OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so to my office, practising arthmetique alone and making an end of last night's book, with great content, till 11...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So to the office till 10 at night upon business, and numbering and examining part of my Sea=manuscript with great ple...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[Sea Manuscript]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'This day I bought the second part of Dr Bates's "Elenchus", which reaches to the fall of Richard and no further, for ...Samuel Pepys George BateElenchi motuum nuperorum in Anglia pars secundaPrint: Book
1600-1699'This day I read the King's speech to the parliament yesterday; which is very short and not very obliging, but only te...Samuel Pepys King Charles IIHis Majesties gracious speech to both Houses of Parliament on Wednesday, February the 18th, 1662
1600-1699'Towards noon there comes a man in, as if upon ordinary business, and shows me a Writt from the Exchequer, called a Co...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Writ]Unknown
1600-1699'While my wife dressed herself, Creed and I walked out to see what play was acted today, and we find it "The Sleighted...Samuel Pepys [unknown][playbill]Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster, playbill
1600-1699'and I to my office till the evening, doing one thing or other and reading my vowes as I am bound every Lord's day'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Print: BookUnknown
1600-1699'Thence home and to my office till night, reading over and consulting upon the book and Ruler that I bought this morni...Samuel Pepys John BrownThe use of the line of numbers, on a sliding (or glasiers) rule... for the measuring of timber, either round or squarePrint: Book
1600-1699'staying a little in Paul's churchyard at the forreigne booksellers, looking over some Spanish books and with much ado...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Spanish books]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up and spent the morning till the Barber came in reading in my chamber part of Osborne's "Advice to his Son" (which I...Samuel Pepys Francis OsborneAdvice to his sonPrint: Book
1600-1699'While that [dinner] was prepared, to my office to read over my vowes, with great affection and to very good purpose.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Print: BookUnknown
1600-1699'So home to my office, alone till dark, reading some part of my old "Navy precedents", and so home to supper.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]Navy precedentsPrint: Book
1600-1699'to my office and there made an end of reading my book that I have had of Mr Barlows, of the Journall of the Comission...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Report of the proceedings of the commission of 1618]Print: Book
1600-1699'I walked back again, all the way reading of my book of Timber measure, comparing it with my new Sliding rule, brought...Samuel Pepys John BrownDescription and use of the carpenter's rulePrint: Book
1600-1699'Up betimes and to my office, where I first ruled with red Inke my English "Mare clausum"; which, with the new Orthodo...Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home; and after reading my vowes, being sleepy, without prayers to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'Thence to the Temple and sat there till one a-clock, reading at Playford's in Dr Ushers "Body of Divinity" his discou...Samuel Pepys James UssherA body of divinitiePrint: Book
1600-1699'Scotland: it seems, for all the news-book tells us every week that they are all so quiet and everything in the Church...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Kingdom IntelligencePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'And so walk and by water to White-hall, all our way by water, both coming and going, reading a little book said to be...Samuel Pepys [unknown]A vindication of the degree of gentry in opposition to titular honours, and the humour of riches being the measure of honours. Done by a person of qualityPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home and read to my wife a Fable or two in Ogleby's "Aesop"; and so to supper and then to prayers and to bed'Samuel Pepys AesopAesop's FablesPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence by water to Chelsy, all the way reading a little book I bought of Improvement of trade, a pretty book and many...Samuel Pepys Samuel FortreyEnglands interest and improvement consisting in the increase of...trade [or] Short notes and observations drawn from the present decaying condition of this kingdom in point of tradePrint: Book
1600-1699'At the Coffee-house in Exchange=alley I bought a little book, "Counsell to Builders", written by Sir Balth. Gerbier; ...Samuel Pepys Sir Balth. GerbierCounsel and advise to all builders; for the choice of their surveyours... Together with several epistles to eminent persons, who may be concerned in buildingPrint: Book
1600-1699'And after dinner up and read part of the new play of "The Five houres adventures"; which though I have seen it twice,...Samuel Pepys Samuel TuckThe Adventures of five houresPrint: Book
1600-1699'Begun again to rise betimes, by 4 a-clock. And made an end of "The Adventures of five houres", and it is a most excel...Samuel Pepys Samuel TuckThe Adventures of five houresPrint: Book
1600-1699'I to my office and there read all the morning in my Statute-book, consulting among others the statute against seeling...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Statute book]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up and to read a little;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I went up vexed to my chamber and there fell examining my new "Concordance" that I have bought with Newmans, the best...Samuel Pepys [Samuel] [Newman]A concordance to the Holy ScripturesPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up betimes and fell to reading my Latin grammer, which I perceive I have great need of, having lately found it by my ...Samuel Pepys William LilyA short introduction of grammar... of the Latine tonguePrint: Book
1600-1699'and then I to my office and read my vowes seriously and with content; and so home to supper, to prayers, and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Print: BookUnknown
1600-1699'At noon my physic having done working, I went down to dinner. And then he [Mr Creede] and I up again and spent the mo...Samuel Pepys Cicero[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So to the reading of my vowes seriously, and then to supper.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'Myself very studious to learn what I can of all things necessary for my place as an officer of the Navy - reading lat...Samuel Pepys [unknown][books on timber measuring and tides]Print: Book
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; a...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; a...Samuel Pepys [Thomas] [Southland]Love a la modePrint: Book
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; a...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up and to my office; and then walked to Woolwich, reading Bacon's "faber Fortune", which the oftener I read the more ...Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber FortunePrint: Book
1600-1699'So down to Deptford, reading Ben Johnsons "Devil is an Asse".'Samuel Pepys Ben JohnsonDevil is an AssePrint: Book
1600-1699'walked to see Sir W. Penn at Deptford, reading by the way a most ridiculous play, a new one call[ed] "The Politician ...Samuel Pepys Alexander GreenThe Politician cheatedPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence with Mr Moore to the Wardrobe and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr Townsend about his accounts an h...Samuel Pepys Sir John BirkenheadCabala, or An impartial account of the non-conformists' private designPrint: 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 f...Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home and at my office reading my vowes;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'Thence by coach with my Lord Peterborough and Sandwich to my Lord Peterborough's house; and there, after an hour's lo...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence home and examined a piece of Latin of Will's with my brother, and so to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys Will Hewer[piece of Latin, practice translation probably]Manuscript: Sheet
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 wa...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown - recipes]Print: Book
1600-1699'To church again; and so home to my wife and with her read "Iter boreale", a poem made just at the King's coming home ...Samuel Pepys [Robert] [Wild]Iter borealePrint: Book
1600-1699'and then abroad by water to White-hall and to Westminster-hall and there bought the first news-books of Lestrange's w...Samuel Pepys [Robert] [L'Estrange]The IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
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'And then met my uncle Thomas by appointment, and he and I to the Prearogative Office in Paternoster Row and there sea...Samuel Pepys John Day[Will]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'And then met my uncle Thomas by appointment, and he and I to the Prearogative Office in Paternoster Row and there sea...Samuel Pepys Beatrice Day[Will]Manuscript: Sheet
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 p...Samuel Pepys [unknown][bills advertising a cure for smoking chimneys]Print: Handbill
1600-1699'At night fell to reading in the "Church History" of Fullers, and perticularly Cranmers letter to Queen Elizabeth, whi...Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerChurch-HistoryPrint: 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...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 hast...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'Thence home and I spent most of the evening upon Fullers "Church History" and Barcklys "Argenis"; and so after supper...Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerChurch HistoryPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence home and I spent most of the evening upon Fullers "Church History" and Barcklys "Argenis"; and so after supper...Samuel Pepys John BarclayArgenisPrint: Book
1600-1699'And so I home to dinner, and thence abroad to Pauls churchyard and there looked upon the second part of "Hudibras", w...Samuel Pepys Samuel ButlerHudibrasPrint: Book
1600-1699'After a little discourse with him, I took coach and home, calling upon my booksellers for two books, Rushworths and S...Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
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...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Arithmetic books]Print: Book
1600-1699'I to my office and spent an hour or two reading Rushworth; and so to supper home, and to prayers and bed'Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so after some reading in Rushworth, home to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so to my office and to read in Rushworth; and so home to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'In the evening, he gone, I to my office to read Rushworth upon the charge and answer of the Duke of Buckingham, which...Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: 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 being gone, and I mightily pleased with his discourse, by which I alway[s] learn something, I to read a little in ...Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'I went to the Temple and there spent my time in a bookseller's shop, reading in a book of some Embassages into Moscov...Samuel Pepys Adam OleariusThe voyages and travels of the ambassadors from the Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of PersiaPrint: Book
1600-1699'And so home with great ease and content, especially out of the content which I met with in a book I bought yesterday;...Samuel Pepys Angelo CorraroRome exactly described... in two curious discoursesPrint: Book
1600-1699'At night made an end of the discourse I read this morning, and so home to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys Angelo CorraroRome exactly described... in two curious discoursesPrint: Book
1600-1699'There parted in the street with them, and I to my Lord's; but he not being within, took Coach, and being directed by ...Samuel Pepys [n/a][bill advertising cockfight]Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster
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...Samuel Pepys [unknown][on the globes]Print: Book
1600-1699'In the evening to the office, where I stayed late reading Rushworth, which is a most excellent collection of the begi...Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionPrint: Book
1600-1699'So to my office, writing letters, and then to read and make an end of Rushworth; which I did, and do say that it is a...Samuel Pepys John RusthworthHistorical CollectionPrint: Book
1600-1699'so home to dinner with my poor wife; and after dinner read a lecture to her in Geography, which she takes very pretti...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then through Bedlam (calling by the way at an old bookseller's, and there fell into looking over Spanish books an...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Spanish books]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home, reading all the way a good book;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after supper, to read a lecture to my wife upon the globes, and so to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][lecture on the globes]Print: Book
1600-1699'This evening, being in an humour of making all things even and clear in the world, I tore some old paper; among other...Samuel Pepys Samuel PepysLove a CheateManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over "Theatrum Urbium" and "Flandria illustrata", with excellent ...Samuel Pepys J BlaeuTheatrum civitatum... Italie [OR] Ubrium praecipuarum mundi theatrum quintumPrint: Book
1600-1699'I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over "Theatrum Urbium" and "Flandria illustrata", with excellent ...Samuel Pepys Antonius SanderusFlandria IllustrataPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so after dinner, by water home, all the way going and coming reading "Faber fortunae", which I can never read too...Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber FortunaePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so up to my wife and with great mirth read Sir W Davenents two speeches in dispraise of London and Paris, by way ...Samuel Pepys Sir DavenantThe first day's entertainment at Rutland House, by declamations and music, after the manner of the ancientsPrint: Book
1600-1699'calling at St Pauls churchyard and there looked upon a pretty Burlesque poem called "Scarronides, or Virgile Travesty...Samuel Pepys Charles CottonScarronides, or Virgile TravestyPrint: Book
1600-1699'This day Mrs Turner did lend me, as a rarity, a manuscript of one of Mr Wells, writ long ago, teaching the method of ...Samuel Pepys John Wells[manuscript on ship building]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'We spent the day in pleasant talk and company one with another (reading in Dr Fullers book what he says of the family...Samuel Pepys Thomas Fuller[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'He gone, I down by water to Woolwich and Deptford to look after the despatch of the ships, all the way reading Mr Spe...Samuel Pepys John SpencerA discourse containing prodigies; wherein the vanity of presages by them is reprehended, and their true and proper ends asserted and vindicatedPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence walked with Mr Coventry to St James's and there spent by his desire the whole morning reading of some old Navy...Samuel Pepys [unknown][books about the Navy]Unknown
1600-1699'So stayed within all day, reading of two or three good plays.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][plays]Print: Book
1600-1699'And after dinner to the Change a little and then to Whitehall, where anon the Duke of York came and a Committee we ha...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[contract]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'We read over the contract together and discoursed it well over and so parted'Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[contract]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'Thence home and to my office; wrote by the post, and then to read a little in Dr Powre's book of discovery by the Mic...Samuel Pepys Henry PowerExperimental philosophy...containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magneticalPrint: Book
1600-1699'After dinner, to my chamber and made an end of Dr Powre's book of the Microscope, very fine and to my content'Samuel Pepys Henry PowerExperimental philosophy...containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magneticalPrint: Book
1600-1699'After supper I up to read a little, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so to supper anon and then to my office again a while, collecting observations out of Dr Powres book of Microscop...Samuel Pepys Henry PowerExperimental philosophy...containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magneticalPrint: Book
1600-1699'After dinner I down to Woolwich with a galley, and then to Deptford and so home, all the way reading Sir J Suck[l]ing...Samuel Pepys Sir John SucklingsAglauraPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home and late reading "The Siege of Rhodes" to my wife, and then to bed - my head being in great pain and my palat...Samuel Pepys William DavenantThe Siege of RhodesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So anon they went away and then I to read another play, "The Custome of the Country", which is a very poor one methin...Samuel Pepys John FletcherThe Custome of the CountryPrint: Book
1600-1699'but I spent all morning reading of "The Madd Lovers" - a very good play'Samuel Pepys John FletcherThe mad loverPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up and by water with Mr Tooker (to Woolwich first, to do several businesses of the King's); and then on board Captain...Samuel Pepys [Captain] [Fisher?][papers]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'At night home to supper, weary and my eyes sore with writing and reading - and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1600-1699'and there fitted myself and took a hackney-coah I hired (it being a very cold and fowle day) to Woolwich, all the way...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Ichthyothera; or the royal trade of fishing [probably]Print: Book
1600-1699'and there fitted myself and took a hackney-coah I hired (it being a very cold and fowle day) to Woolwich, all the way...Samuel Pepys John HerneThe law of charitable uses, wherein the statute of 43. Eliz. chap. 4 is set forth and explained; with directions how to sue out and prosecute commissions grounded upon that statutePrint: Book
1600-1699'Going out of the gate, an ordinary woman prayed me to give her room to London; which I did, but spoke not to her all ...Samuel Pepys John HerneThe law of charitable uses, wherein the statute of 43. Eliz. chap. 4 is set forth and explained; with directions how to sue out and prosecute commissions grounded upon that statutePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home and with her [wife] all the evening, reading and at musique with my boy, with great pleasure; and so to s...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home to dinner and then to my chamber to read Ben Johnson's "Cateline", a very excellent piece.'Samuel Pepys Ben JonsonCatelinePrint: Book
1600-1699'Then home to dinner; and after dinner to read in Rushworths "Collections" about the charge against the late Duke of B...Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr Hooke's "Microscopicall Observacions", the...Samuel Pepys Robert HookeMicrographia [?]Print: Book
1600-1699'I sat down and read over the Bishop of Chichesters sermon upon the anniversary of the King's death - much cried up bu...Samuel Pepys Dr Henry KingA sermon preached the 30th of January...1664Print: Book
1600-1699'and by and by comes a letter from Mr Coventry's own hand to him; which he never opened (which was a strange thing) bu...Samuel Pepys Sir William Coventry[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'This day the News-book (upon Mr Moores showing Lestrange Captain Ferrers letter) did do my Lord Sandwich great right ...Samuel Pepys [n/a]The NewesPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'at night home to look over my new books, and so late to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I met this noon with Dr Burnett, who told me, and I find in the news-book this week that he posted upon the Change, t...Samuel Pepys [n/a]The IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'and so we set out for Chatham - in my way overtaking some company, wherein was a lady, very pretty, riding single, he...Samuel Pepys [unknown][copy of verses]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'At night home and supped; and after reading a little in Cowley's poems, my head being disturbed overmuch with busines...Samuel Pepys Abraham Cowley[poems]Print: Book
1600-1699'At night to read, being weary with this day's great work.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after supper to read melancholy alone, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so home to supper; and after reading a good while in the Kings "works", which is a noble book - to bed.'Samuel Pepys [King] [Charles I]The workes of Charles IPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence to Brainford, reading "The Villaine" (a pretty good play) all the way.'Samuel Pepys Thomas PorterThe VillainePrint: Book
1600-1699'Up, and walked to Greenwich reading a play, and to the office'Samuel Pepys [unknown][a play]Print: Book
1600-1699'Here I saw this week's Bill of Mortality, wherein, blessed be God, there is above 1800 decrease, being the first cons...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Bill of MortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1600-1699'and there sent for the Weekely Bill and find 8252 dead in all, and of them 6978 of the plague - which is a most dread...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Bill of MortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1600-1699'We spent most of the morning talking, and reading of "The Seige of Rhodes", which is certainly (the more I read it I ...Samuel Pepys Sir William DavenantThe Seige of RhodesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So after supper Captain Cocke and I and Temple on board the Bezan, and there to Cards for a while, and then to read a...Samuel Pepys Sir William DavenantThe Seige of RhodesPrint: Book
1600-1699'but he showed me a bill which hath been read in the House making all breakng of bulk for the time to come felony; but...Samuel Pepys [unknown][parliamentary bill]
1600-1699'and then up, and fell to reading of Mr Eveling's book about Paynting, which is a very pretty book.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book about painting]Print: Book
1600-1699'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; wh...Samuel Pepys John EvelynHortus HyemalisManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'The Bill of Mortality, to all our griefs, is encreased 399 this week, and the encrease general through the whole city...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Bill of MortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1600-1699'Thence back by water to Captain Cockes, and there he and I spent a great deal of the evening, as we had done the day,...Samuel Pepys Edward StillingfleeteOrigines Sacrae, or A rational account of the grounds of Christian faith, as to the truth and divine authority of the scripturesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so away to my Bezan again - and there to read in a pretty French book, "La Nouvelle Allegorique", upon the strife...Samuel Pepys Antoine FuretiereNouvelle Allegorique, ou Histoire des derniers troubles arrivez au royaume d'eloquencePrint: Book
1600-1699'Up, and after being trimmed, I alone by water to Erith, all the way with my song-book singing of Mr Laws's long recit...Samuel Pepys Henry LawesAyres and dialoguesPrint: Book
1600-1699'This day the first of the "Oxford Gazettes" came out, which is very pretty, full of news, and no folly in it - wrote ...Samuel Pepys Sir Joseph WilliamsonOxford GazettePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'but we had breakfasted a little at Mr Gawdens, he being out of town though; and there borrowed Dr Taylors Sermons, an...Samuel Pepys Jeremy TaylorA collection of polemical discourses, wherein the Church of England in its worst as well as more flourishing condition, is defendedPrint: Book
1600-1699'and at the Dukes, with great joy, I received the good news of the decrease of the plague this week to 70, and but 253...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Bill of mortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1600-1699'I went therefore to Mr Boreman's for pastime, and stayed an hour or two, talking with him and reading a discourse abo...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Discourse on the River Thames]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'He set me down at Mr Gawden's, where nobody yet come home... So I took a book and into the gardens and there walked a...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Yesterday came out the King's Declaracion of war against the French; but with such mild invitations of both them and ...Samuel Pepys King Charles IIHis Majesties declaration against the FrenchPrint: Broadsheet
1600-1699'Thence by coach, and falling by the way at my bookseller's for a book, writ about twenty years ago in prophecy of thi...Samuel Pepys Francis PotterAn interpretation of the number 666Print: Book
1600-1699'Here the Duke, among other things, did bring out a book, of great antiquity, of some of the customs of the Navy about...Samuel Pepys James Humphrey[MS Collections]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'To the hall, and there find the boy's verses "De peste"; it being their custom to make verses at Shrovetide. I read s...Samuel Pepys [boys in the upper forms at Eaton] De pests [Bacchus verses]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'And so to the Chapel and there saw, among other things, Sir H. Wottons stone, with this Epitaph - "Hic Jacet primu...Samuel Pepys [unknown][epitaph on memorial stone]Manuscript: Graffito
1600-1699'But blessed be God, a good Bill this week we have - being but 237 in all and 42 of the plague, and of them, but 6 in ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Bill of mortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1600-1699'I was at it till past 2 a-clock on Monday morning, and then read my vows and to bed'Samuel Pepys [vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'Thence to walk all alone in the fields behind Grays Inne, making an end of reading over my dear "Faber Fortunae" of m...Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber FortunaePrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence to the Exchange, that is, the New Exchange, and looked over some play-books, and entended to get all the late ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after dinner I and my boy down by water to Redriffe; and thence walked to Mr Evelin's, where I walked in his garden t...Samuel Pepys Sir Thomas RidleyA view of the civile and ecclesiasticall lawPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence by water to Redriffe, reading a new French book my Lord Brouncker did give me today, "L'histoire amoureuse des...Samuel Pepys Roger de Rabutin, Comte de BussyL'histoire amoureuse des GaulesPrint: Book
1600-1699'Walked back again, reading of my civil law book.'Samuel Pepys Sir Thomas RidleyA view of the civile and ecclesiasticall lawPrint: Book
1600-1699'I walked both going and coming, spending my time in reading of my Civill and Ecclesiastical law-book.'Samuel Pepys Sir Thomas RidleyA view of the civile and ecclesiasticall lawPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so to Deptford to enquire after a little business there; and thence by water back again, all the way coming and g...Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber FortunaePrint: Book
1600-1699'I left them there and walked to Deptford, reading in Wallsinghams "manuall", a very good book.'Samuel Pepys Sir Francis WalsinghamArcana aulica, or, Walsingham's manual of prudential maxims for the states-man and courtier : to which is added Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, her times and favoritesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then down to Woolwich Deptford to look after things...All the way down and up, reading of "The Mayor of Quinborou...Samuel Pepys Thomas MiddletonThe Mayor of QuinboroughPrint: Book
1600-1699'So to the Custome-house; and there with great threats got a couple [watermen] to carry me down to Deptford, all the w...Samuel Pepys CorneillePompee: Pompey the Great, a tragedy. As it was acted by the servants of His Royal Highness the Duke of York. Translated out of French by certain Persons of HonourPrint: Book
1600-1699'This evening I had Davila brought home to me, and I find it a most excellent history as I ever read.'Samuel Pepys E.C. DavilaStoria delle guerre civile di FranciaPrint: Book
1600-1699'and thence walked to Woolwich, reading "The Rivall Ladys" all the way and find it a most pleasant and fine-writ play.'Samuel Pepys John DrydenThe Rival LadiesPrint: Book
1600-1699'By and by the Duke of York comes and we had a meeting; and among other things, I did read my declaration of the proce...Samuel Pepys Samuel PepysDeclaration of the proceedings of the victualling actionManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'Then with Creed, and read over with him the Narrative of the late [fight], which he makes a very poor thing of, as en...Samuel Pepys John CreedThe victory over the fleet of the States General ... in the late engagement begun the 25 of July inst., as it came from His Highness Prince Rupert and His Grace the Duke of AlbemarleUnknown
1600-1699'So home, and then down to Woolwich, reading and making an end of "The Rivall Ladys", and find it a very pretty play.'Samuel Pepys John DrydenThe Rival LadysPrint: Book
1600-1699'But this morning, getting Sir W. Penn to read over the Narrative with me - he did sparingly, yet plainly, say that we...Samuel Pepys John CreedThe victory over the fleet of the States General ... in the late engagement begun the 25 of July inst., as it came from His Highness Prince Rupert and His Grace the Duke of AlbemarleUnknown
1600-1699'and after dinner, with my wife and Mercer and Jane by water all the afternoon as high up as Moreclacke, with great pl...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 o...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;...Samuel Pepys William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: 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 c...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'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 RycaultThe 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 TurksPrint: Book
1600-1699'And by coach home, where I spent the evening in reading Stillingfleetes defence of the Archbishop, that part about Pu...Samuel Pepys Edward StillingfleetA rational account of the grounds of Protestant religionPrint: 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 b...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 b...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...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 the...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 hi...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 th...Samuel Pepys Joseph GlanvillSome philosophical considerations touching the being of witchesPrint: Book
1600-1699'And the news-book makes that business nothing, but that they are all dispersed.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]London GazettePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'This day in the gazette was the whole story of defeating the Scotch Rebells, and of the creation of the Duke of Cambr...Samuel Pepys [n/a]London GazettePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'Thence home to dinner; and there W. Hewer dined with me, and showed me a Gazett in Aprill last (which I wonder should...Samuel Pepys [n/a]London GazettePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'and so to supper and to read, and so to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And I to my closet, there to read and agree upon my vowes for next year; and so to bed - and slept mighty well.'Samuel Pepys [vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'And so home and to supper, and then saw the Catalogue of my books which my brother hath wrote out, now perfectly Alph...Samuel Pepys [Samuel and John] Pepys[Catalogue of his books]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'So home to supper, and then to read a little in Moore's "Antidote against Atheisme", a pretty book; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys Henry MoreAn antidote against atheism, or, An appeal to the naturall faculties of the minde of man, whether there be not a GodPrint: Book
1600-1699'And a little to my Lord Chancellors, where the King and Cabinet met, and there met Mr Brisband, with whom good discou...Samuel Pepys Andrew MarvellThird Advice to a paynterManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'so did not enlarge, but took leave and went down and sat in a low room reading Erasmus "de scribendis Epistolis", a v...Samuel Pepys Desiderius ErasmusDe conscribendis epistolisPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then I home to supper, and to read a little and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so after supper and reading a little, and my wife's cutting off my hair short, which is grown too long upon the c...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I am very well pleased this night with reading a poem I brought home with me last night from Westminster hall, of Dri...Samuel Pepys John DrydenAnnus Mirabilis: the year of wonders, 1666; an historical poemPrint: Unknown
1600-1699'how[ever], I fell to read a little in Hakewill's "apology", and did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the sa...Samuel Pepys Dr George HakewillAn apologie or declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the worldPrint: Book
1600-1699'and I read the petty-warrants all the day till late at night, that I was very weary, and troubled to have my private ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][petty-warrants]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and then went home and read a piece of a play (Every Man in his Humour, wherein is the greatest propriety of speech t...Samuel Pepys Ben JonsonEvery Man in his HumourPrint: Book
1600-1699'I did this day, going by water, read the Answer to the "Apology for Papists", which did like me mightily, it being a ...Samuel Pepys William LloydThe late apology in behalf of the papists, reprinted and answered in behalf of the royallistsPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then home to read the lives of Henry the 5th and 6th, very fine, in Speede; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SpeedThe history of Great BritainePrint: Book
1600-1699'I home and there to read very good things in Fullers "Church History" and "Worthies", and so to supper'Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerThe church-history of BritainPrint: Book
1600-1699'I home and there to read very good things in Fullers "Church History" and "Worthies", and so to supper'Samuel Pepys Thomas FullerHistory of the worthies of EnglandPrint: Book
1600-1699'This day in the barge I took Berchensha's translation of Alsted his "Templum"; but the most ridiculous book, as he ha...Samuel Pepys John BirchenshaTemplum MusicumPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then up and to my chamber with a good fire and there spent an hour on Morly's "Introduction to Music", a very goo...Samuel Pepys Thomas MorelyA plaine and easie introduction to practicall musickePrint: Book
1600-1699'and then by water down to Greenwich and thence walked to Woolwich, all the way reading Playfords "Introduction to Mus...Samuel Pepys John PlayfordA brief introduction to the skill of musickPrint: 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 RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so back home again, all the way reading a little piece I lately bought, call[ed] "The Virtuoso or The Stoicke", p...Samuel Pepys George MackenzieReligio Stoici, with a friendly addresse to the phanaticks of all sects and sortsPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so to my chamber, having little left to do at my office, my eyes being a little sore by reason of my reading a sm...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up, and to read a little in my new History of Turky'Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: 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 RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1600-1699'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the follo...Samuel Pepys Richard HookerWorks... in eight books of ecclesiastical polityPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the follo...Samuel Pepys William DugdaleThe Origines JuridicialesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the follo...Samuel Pepys John PlayfordCatch that catch can, or The musical companionPrint: Book
1600-1699'and I to my chamber and there spent the night in reading my new book, "Origines Juridiciales", which pleases me. So t...Samuel Pepys William DugdaleOrigines JuridicialesPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up, and to read more in the Origines'Samuel Pepys William DugdaleOrigines JuridicialesPrint: 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 RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1600-1699'After dinner by water, the day being mighty pleasant and the tide serving finely - I up (reading in Boyles book of Co...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleExperiments and considerations touching coloursPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and there to write down my Journall, and so to supper and to read and so to bed - mightily pleased with ...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleExperiments and considerations touching coloursPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then to the Change, where for certain I hear, and the newsbook declares, a peace between France and Portugal.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]London GazettePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'and so after supper to read and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]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 RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so a little at the office and home, to read a little and to supper and bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and at noon all of us to Kent's at the Three Tun tavern and there dined well at Mr Gawden's charge. There the constab...Samuel Pepys [unknown][table-book]Manuscript: table-book
1600-1699'and then did get Sir W. Batten, J. Mennes and W. Penn together, and read it [Pepys's report on the case of Mr Carcass...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[report on the case of Mr Carcasse]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[report on the case of Mr Carcasse]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'I presented our report about Carcasse to the Duke of York, and did afterwards read it, with that success that the Duk...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[report on the case of Mr Carcasse]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'I took leave of him, and directly by water home; and there to read the Life of Mr Hooker, which pleases me as much as...Samuel Pepys Isaak WaltonLife of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's WorksPrint: Book
1600-1699'They being gone, I to my book again and made an end of Mr Hooker's life, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys Isaak WaltonLife of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's WorksPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so to supper, and after a little reading, to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home to my wife, who is not well with her cold, and sat and read [a] piece of "Grand Cyrus" in English by her'Samuel Pepys Madeleine de ScuderiArtamene, ou Le grand CyrusPrint: Book
1600-1699'And after having been there so long, I away to my boat, and up with it as far as Barne Elmes, reading of Mr Eveling's...Samuel Pepys John EvelynPublick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's to solitudePrint: Book
1600-1699'I to boat again and to my book; and having done that, I took another book, Mr Boyles of Colours, and there read where...Samuel Pepys John EvelynPublick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's to solitudePrint: Book
1600-1699'I to boat again and to my book; and having done that, I took another book, Mr Boyles of Colours, and there read where...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleExperiments and considerations touching coloursPrint: Book
1600-1699'After supper, I to read and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Being weary and almost blind with writing and reading so much today, I took boat at the Old Swan, and there up the Ri...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleExperiments and considerations touching coloursPrint: Book
1600-1699'And there finding them all at church, and thinking they dined as usual at Stepny, I turned back, having a good book i...Samuel Pepys George CavendishThe life and death of Thomas Woolsey, Cardinal ... written by one of his own servants, being his gentleman usherPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so walked to Stepny and spent my time in the churchyard looking over the gravestones, expecting when the company ...Samuel Pepys [n/a][gravestones]Manuscript: Graffito
1600-1699'and thence home, where to supper and then to read a little; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'But I fell to read a book (Boyle's "Hydrostatickes") aloud in my chamber and let her talk till she was tired, and vex...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleHydrostatical ParadoxesPrint: Book
1600-1699'And so home and there to the office a little; and thence to my chamber to read and supper, and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'This day I read (shown me by Mr Gibson) a discourse newly come forth, of the King of France his pretence to Flanders;...Samuel Pepys [unknown]A dialogue concerning the rights of His Most Christian MajestyPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then to my boat again and home, reading and making an end of the book I lately bought, a merry Satyre called "The...Samuel Pepys Roger L'Estrange [translator]The visions of Don Francisco de QuevedoPrint: Book
1600-1699'So I homeward, as long as it was light reading Mr Boyles book of "Hydrostatickes", which is a most excellent book as ...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleHydrostatical ParadoxesPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence we read and laughed at Lillys prophecies this month - in his almanac this year.'Samuel Pepys William LillyMerlini Anglici EphemerisPrint: Book, almanac
1600-1699'and then home to my chamber to read and write; and then to supper and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up, and I to my chamber, and there all morning reading in my Lord Cooke's "Pleas of the Crowne", very fine noble read...Samuel Pepys Sir Edward CokeThe third part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: concerning High Treason, and other pleas of the CrownPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so away presently very merry, and fell to reading of the several "Advices to a Painter", which made us good sport...Samuel Pepys Andrew MarvellThe second and third advice to a painter, for drawing the history of our navall actions, the last two yearsPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so we home to supper, and I read myself asleep and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home to supper and to read myself asleep, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so with very much pleasure down to Gravesend, all the way with extraordinary content reading of Boyl's "Hydrostat...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleHydrostatical ParadoxesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then to my chamber to read, and so to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so to my chamber and read the history of 88 in Speede, in order to my seeing the play thereof acted tomorrow at t...Samuel Pepys John SpeedThe history of Great BritainePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to my chamber to read; and then to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and I home to supper and to read a little and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
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 de...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleHydrostatical ParadoxesPrint: 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 M...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 w...Samuel Pepys Andrew MarvellDirections to a painter for describing our naval business ... by an unknown authorPrint: Book
1600-1699'Here I also saw a printed account of the examinations taking touching the burning of the City of London, showing the ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]London's Flames, or The discovery of such evidence as were deposed before the Committee of Parliament etc, with the insolences of the Popish partyPrint: 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 t...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 n...Samuel Pepys Richard GarnetThe book of oaths ... very useful for all persons whatsoever, especially those that undertake any office of magistracy or publique employmentPrint: Book
1600-1699'all morning at the office finishing my letter to Sir Rob Brookes, which I did with great content; and yet at noon, wh...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[letter to Sir Robert Brookes]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'After dinner by coach as far as the Temple and there saw a new book in Folio of all that suffered for the King in the...Samuel Pepys David LloydMemories of the lives ... of those noble ... personagesManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'Then home to read, sup and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'It is one of the most extraordinary accidents in my life, and gives ground to think of Don Quixot's adventures how pe...Samuel Pepys Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1600-1699'he and I all the afternoon to read over our office letters, to see what matter can be got for our advantage or disadv...Samuel Pepys [n/a][office letters]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'I read to her out of the "History of Algiers", which is mighty pretty reading'Samuel Pepys John Davies [transl]The history of Algiers and its slaveryPrint: Book
1600-1699'After dinner, up to my wife again, who is in great pain still with her tooth and cheek; and there, they gone, I spent...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence homeward by coach, and stopped at Martins my bookseller, where I saw the French book which I did think to have...Samuel Pepys Michel MillotL'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialoguesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so I walked away homeward, and there reading all the evening; and so to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So he gone, I to read a little in my chamber, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office, doing business and also reading a little of "L'escolle des Fill...Samuel Pepys Michel MillotL'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialoguesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then they parted and I to my chamber, where I did read through "L'escholle des Filles"; a lewd book, but what dot...Samuel Pepys Michel MillotL'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialoguesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then to my chamber and read most of the evening till pretty late, when, my wife not being well, I did lie below s...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'He gone, we home and there I to read, and my belly being full of my dinner today, I anon to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home to supper and to read, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And with great joy I do find, looking over my Memorandum-books, which are now of great use to me and do fully reward ...Samuel Pepys Samuel PepysMemorandums and Conclusions of the Navy BoardManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and there took a hackney and home and there to read and talk with my wife'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence home; and there, in favour to my eyes, stayed at home reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wro...Samuel Pepys Duchess of NewcastleThe life of the thrice noble, high and puissant prince, William Cavendishe, Duke ... of Newcastle .. written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, Duchess of Newcastle, his wifePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home to read a little more in last night's book with much sport, it being a foolish book.'Samuel Pepys Duchess of NewcastleThe life of the thrice noble, high and puissant prince, William Cavendishe, Duke ... of Newcastle .. written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, Duchess of Newcastle, his wifePrint: Book
1600-1699'and she being gone, I to my chamber to read a little again, and then after supper to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'But Lord, to see among the young commanders and Tho Killigrew and others that came, how unlike a burial this was, Obr...Samuel Pepys [unknown][street ballads]Print: Broadsheet, Handbill
1600-1699'and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at ...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[Report]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at ...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[Report]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'Thence home and there with Mr Hater and W Hewer late, reading over all the Principal Officers' instructions in order ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Principal Officer's instructionsUnknown
1600-1699'I walked to the Temple and stayed at Starky's my bookseller's (looking over Dr Heylins new book of the life of Bishop...Samuel Pepys Peter HeylynCyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of CanterburyPrint: Book
1600-1699'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and ther...Samuel Pepys [unknown][paper on the faults of the Navy]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'Walked to St James and Pell Mell, and read over with Sir W. Coventry my long letter to the Duke of York and what the ...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's c...Samuel Pepys [unknown][draft of the victualler's contract]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'Going down I spent reading of the "Five Sermons of Five Several Styles"; worth comparing one with another, but I do t...Samuel Pepys Abraham WrightFive sermons in five several stylesPrint: Book
1600-1699'And coming back I spent reading of the book of warrants of our office in the first Dutch war, and do find that my let...Samuel Pepys [unknown][book of warrants in Cromwell's war, 1652-4]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'And so home and to my business, and to read again and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and away home myself, and there to read again and sup with Gibson; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home to read and sup; and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after supper to read a ridiculous nonsensical book set out by Will Pen for the Quakers; but so full of nothing bu...Samuel Pepys William PennTruth exalted; in a short, but sure, testimony against those religions, faiths and worships that have been formed and followed in the darkness of apostacyPrint: Book
1600-1699'and there to Mr Wren at his chamber at White-hall ... And there he and I did read over my paper that I have with so m...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[paper on naval business]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'So to read and talk with my wife, till by and by called to the office'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'This evening comes Mr Billup to me to read over Mr Wren's alterations of my draft of a letter for the Duke of York to...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[letter with corrections by Matthew Wren]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'and then home to supper and read a little, and to bed.'Samuel Pepys unknown[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home and to supper and read'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and there with pleasure to read and talk'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so my wife and I spent the rest of the evening in talk and reading, and so with great pleasure to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and to dinner and then to read and talk, my wife and I alone'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to supper and read'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so to read and to supper, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book

 

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