√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 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 Breda | Print: Broadsheet, Handbill |
| 1600-1699 | Adrian Johns notes Samuel Pepys's use of printed lawbooks "to inform himself of 'law-notions'" | Samuel Pepys | | books on laws and statutes | Print: 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 2 | Print: 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, 1659 | Print: 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 Tobit | Print: 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 Roma | Print: 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 Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: 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 dialogues | Print: 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] | Bible | Print: 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 Book | Print: 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 Speed | A prospect of the most famous parts of the world | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And before supper I read part of the Maryan persecution in Mr Fuller.' | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: 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 Scarron | The Fruitlesse Precaution | Print: 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 Scarron | The Fruitlesse Precaution | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So after supper and reading of some chapters, I went to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | Bible | Print: 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 Dauncey | The history of the thrice illustrious Princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon, Queen of England | Print: 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 Book | Print: 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 regicides | Print: 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 regicides | Print: 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 1661 | Print: 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 Tatham | The Rump, or The mirror of the late times | Print: 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 Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: 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 Randolph | Cornelianum Dolium | Print: 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 Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: 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 Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: 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 Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At home I fell a-reading of Fullers "Church History" till it was late, and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: 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 Tesauro | Patriarche, sive Christi servatoris genealogia, per mundi aetates traducta | Print: 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 Smith | The sea-man's grammar | Print: 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 Intelligencer | Print: 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 Bacon | Faber Fortunae sive Doctrina de ambitu vitae | Print: 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 Middleton | The Spanish Gypsy | Print: 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 Pepys | The Will of Robert Pepys of Brampton | Manuscript: 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 Pepys | The Will of Robert Pepys of Brampton | Manuscript: 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 Hooker | Of the lawes of ecclesiastical politie | Print: 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 Osborne | Advice to a son | Print: 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 Fuller | The historie of the holy warr | Print: 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 Hobbes | Of libertie and necessitie | Print: 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 Camden | Britannia | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'at the office all the afternoon, and at night home to read in "Mare Clausum" till bedtime' | Samuel Pepys | John Selden | Mare Clausum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'we returned and I settled to read in "Mare Clausum" till bedtime' | Samuel Pepys | John Selden | Mare Clausum | Print: 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 Selden | Mare Clausum | Print: 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 Grotius | Mare Liberum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home and to supper and to Selden "Mare Clausum" and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | John Selden | Mare Clausum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so I home, and sat late up, reading of Mr Selden. And so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | John Selden | Mare Clausum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So after my business was done and read something in Mr Selden, I went to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | John Selden | Mare Clausum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so left the table and went up to read in Mr Selden till church time;' | Samuel Pepys | John Selden | Mare Clausum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So we parted; and I home and to Mr Selden and then to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | John Selden | Mare Clausum | Print: 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 Seldon | Mare 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. Charles | Print: 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 Fuller | History of the worthies of England | Print: 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 Fuller | History of the worthies of England | Print: 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 Intelligencer | Print: 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 Graunt | Natural and political observations... made upon the bills of mortality | Print: 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 Bayly | Herba 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 divinity | Print: 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 Gentleman | Englands way to win wealth... with a true relation of the inestimable wealth that is yearely taken out of His Majesties seas by the Hollanders | Print: 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 Bartas | Divine weekes and workes | Print: 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 Chapman | Bussy D'Ambois | Print: 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 | Playford | Dancing Master OR English Dancing Master | Print: 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 Fletcher | A wife for a month | Print: 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 contributions | Print: 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 Heydon | Advice to a daughter in opposition to the advice to a sonne... by Eugenius Theodidactus | Print: 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 | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: 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 Bate | Elenchi motuum nuperorum in Anglia pars secunda | Print: 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 II | His 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 Brown | The use of the line of numbers, on a sliding (or glasiers) rule... for the measuring of timber, either round or square | Print: 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 Osborne | Advice to his son | Print: 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 precedents | Print: 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 Brown | Description and use of the carpenter's rule | Print: 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 Selden | Mare Clausum | Print: 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 Ussher | A body of divinitie | Print: 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 Intelligence | Print: 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 quality | Print: 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 | Aesop | Aesop's Fables | Print: 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 Fortrey | Englands 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 trade | Print: 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. Gerbier | Counsel and advise to all builders; for the choice of their surveyours... Together with several epistles to eminent persons, who may be concerned in building | Print: 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 Tuck | The Adventures of five houres | Print: 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 Tuck | The Adventures of five houres | Print: 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 Scriptures | Print: 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 Lily | A short introduction of grammar... of the Latine tongue | Print: 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 mode | Print: 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 Bacon | Faber Fortune | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So down to Deptford, reading Ben Johnsons "Devil is an Asse".' | Samuel Pepys | Ben Johnson | Devil is an Asse | Print: 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 Green | The Politician cheated | Print: 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 Birkenhead | Cabala, or An impartial account of the non-conformists' private design | Print: 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 boreale | Print: 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 Intelligencer | Print: 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 Fuller | Church-History | Print: 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 Fuller | Church History | Print: 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 Barclay | Argenis | Print: 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 Butler | Hudibras | Print: 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 Rushworth | Historical Collections | Print: 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 Rushworth | Historical Collections | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so after some reading in Rushworth, home to supper and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | John Rushworth | Historical Collections | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so to my office and to read in Rushworth; and so home to supper and to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | John Rushworth | Historical Collections | Print: 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 Rushworth | Historical Collections | Print: 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 Rushworth | Historical Collections | Print: 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 Olearius | The voyages and travels of the ambassadors from the Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia | Print: 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 Corraro | Rome exactly described... in two curious discourses | Print: 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 Corraro | Rome exactly described... in two curious discourses | Print: 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 Rushworth | Historical Collection | Print: 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 Rusthworth | Historical Collection | Print: 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 Pepys | Love a Cheate | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over "Theatrum Urbium" and "Flandria illustrata", with excellent ... | Samuel Pepys | J Blaeu | Theatrum civitatum... Italie [OR] Ubrium praecipuarum mundi theatrum quintum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over "Theatrum Urbium" and "Flandria illustrata", with excellent ... | Samuel Pepys | Antonius Sanderus | Flandria Illustrata | Print: 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 Bacon | Faber Fortunae | Print: 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 Davenant | The first day's entertainment at Rutland House, by declamations and music, after the manner of the ancients | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'calling at St Pauls churchyard and there looked upon a pretty Burlesque poem called "Scarronides, or Virgile Travesty... | Samuel Pepys | Charles Cotton | Scarronides, or Virgile Travesty | Print: 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 Spencer | A discourse containing prodigies; wherein the vanity of presages by them is reprehended, and their true and proper ends asserted and vindicated | Print: 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 Power | Experimental philosophy...containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical | Print: 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 Power | Experimental philosophy...containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical | Print: 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 Power | Experimental philosophy...containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical | Print: 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 Sucklings | Aglaura | Print: 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 Davenant | The Siege of Rhodes | Print: 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 Fletcher | The Custome of the Country | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'but I spent all morning reading of "The Madd Lovers" - a very good play' | Samuel Pepys | John Fletcher | The mad lover | Print: 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 Herne | The 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 statute | Print: 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 Herne | The 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 statute | Print: 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 Jonson | Cateline | Print: 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 Rushworth | Historical Collections | Print: 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 Hooke | Micrographia [?] | 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 King | A sermon preached the 30th of January...1664 | Print: 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 Newes | Print: 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 Intelligencer | Print: 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 I | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence to Brainford, reading "The Villaine" (a pretty good play) all the way.' | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Porter | The Villaine | Print: 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 Mortality | Print: 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 Mortality | Print: 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 Davenant | The Seige of Rhodes | Print: 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 Davenant | The Seige of Rhodes | Print: 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 Evelyn | Hortus Hyemalis | Manuscript: 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 Mortality | Print: 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 Stillingfleete | Origines Sacrae, or A rational account of the grounds of Christian faith, as to the truth and divine authority of the scriptures | Print: 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 Furetiere | Nouvelle Allegorique, ou Histoire des derniers troubles arrivez au royaume d'eloquence | Print: 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 Lawes | Ayres and dialogues | Print: 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 Williamson | Oxford Gazette | Print: 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 Taylor | A collection of polemical discourses, wherein the Church of England in its worst as well as more flourishing condition, is defended | Print: 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 mortality | Print: 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 II | His Majesties declaration against the French | Print: 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 Potter | An interpretation of the number 666 | Print: 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 mortality | Print: 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 Bacon | Faber Fortunae | Print: 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 Ridley | A view of the civile and ecclesiasticall law | Print: 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 Bussy | L'histoire amoureuse des Gaules | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Walked back again, reading of my civil law book.' | Samuel Pepys | Sir Thomas Ridley | A view of the civile and ecclesiasticall law | Print: 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 Ridley | A view of the civile and ecclesiasticall law | Print: 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 Bacon | Faber Fortunae | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I left them there and walked to Deptford, reading in Wallsinghams "manuall", a very good book.' | Samuel Pepys | Sir Francis Walsingham | Arcana 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 favorites | Print: 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 Middleton | The Mayor of Quinborough | Print: 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 | Corneille | Pompee: 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 Honour | Print: 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. Davila | Storia delle guerre civile di Francia | Print: 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 Dryden | The Rival Ladies | Print: 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 Pepys | Declaration of the proceedings of the victualling action | Manuscript: 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 Creed | The 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 Albemarle | Unknown |
| 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 Dryden | The Rival Ladys | Print: 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 Creed | The 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 Albemarle | Unknown |
| 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 Davenant | The Seige of Rhodes | Print: 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 Bacon | Faber Fortunae | Print: 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 Tuke | The Adventures of the five houres | Print: 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 Tuke | The Adventures of the five houres | Print: 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 Shakespeare | Othello | 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 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 Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: 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 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 | 'And by coach home, where I spent the evening in reading Stillingfleetes defence of the Archbishop, that part about Pu... | Samuel Pepys | Edward Stillingfleet | A rational account of the grounds of Protestant religion | Print: 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 Massinger | The Bondman | Print: 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 Webster | The Duchesse of Malfy | Print: 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 Potter | An interpretation of the number 666 | Print: 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 Webster | The Duchess of Malfy | Print: 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 Potter | An interpretation of the Number 666 | Print: 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 Glanvill | Some philosophical considerations touching the being of witches | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And the news-book makes that business nothing, but that they are all dispersed.' | Samuel Pepys | [n/a] | London Gazette | Print: 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 Gazette | Print: 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 Gazette | Print: 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 More | An antidote against atheism, or, An appeal to the naturall faculties of the minde of man, whether there be not a God | Print: 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 Marvell | Third Advice to a paynter | Manuscript: 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 Erasmus | De conscribendis epistolis | Print: 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 Dryden | Annus Mirabilis: the year of wonders, 1666; an historical poem | Print: 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 Hakewill | An apologie or declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the world | Print: 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 Jonson | Every Man in his Humour | Print: 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 Lloyd | The late apology in behalf of the papists, reprinted and answered in behalf of the royallists | Print: 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 Speed | The history of Great Britaine | Print: 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 Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: 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 Fuller | History of the worthies of England | Print: 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 Birchensha | Templum Musicum | Print: 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 Morely | A plaine and easie introduction to practicall musicke | Print: 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 Playford | A brief introduction to the skill of musick | 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 | '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 Mackenzie | Religio Stoici, with a friendly addresse to the phanaticks of all sects and sorts | Print: 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 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 | '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 Hooker | Works... in eight books of ecclesiastical polity | Print: 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 Dugdale | The Origines Juridiciales | Print: 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 Playford | Catch that catch can, or The musical companion | Print: 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 Dugdale | Origines Juridiciales | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and to read more in the Origines' | Samuel Pepys | William Dugdale | Origines Juridiciales | 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 | '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 Boyle | Experiments and considerations touching colours | Print: 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 Boyle | Experiments and considerations touching colours | Print: 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 Gazette | Print: 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 Rycault | The present state of the Ottoman empire | Print: 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 Walton | Life of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's Works | Print: 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 Walton | Life of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's Works | Print: 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 Scuderi | Artamene, ou Le grand Cyrus | Print: 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 Evelyn | Publick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's to solitude | Print: 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 Evelyn | Publick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's to solitude | Print: 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 Boyle | Experiments and considerations touching colours | Print: 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 Boyle | Experiments and considerations touching colours | Print: 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 Cavendish | The life and death of Thomas Woolsey, Cardinal ... written by one of his own servants, being his gentleman usher | Print: 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 Boyle | Hydrostatical Paradoxes | Print: 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 Majesty | Print: 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 Quevedo | Print: 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 Boyle | Hydrostatical Paradoxes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence we read and laughed at Lillys prophecies this month - in his almanac this year.' | Samuel Pepys | William Lilly | Merlini Anglici Ephemeris | Print: 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 Coke | The third part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: concerning High Treason, and other pleas of the Crown | Print: 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 Marvell | The second and third advice to a painter, for drawing the history of our navall actions, the last two years | Print: 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 Boyle | Hydrostatical Paradoxes | Print: 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 Speed | The history of Great Britaine | Print: 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 Boyle | Hydrostatical Paradoxes | 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 M... | Samuel Pepys | Katherine Phillips | Poems | Print: 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 Marvell | Directions to a painter for describing our naval business ... by an unknown author | 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 ... | 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 party | 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 t... | Samuel Pepys | Richard Rhodes | Flora's Vagaries | Print: 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 Speed | The history of Great Britaine | Print: 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 Garnet | The book of oaths ... very useful for all persons whatsoever, especially those that undertake any office of magistracy or publique employment | Print: 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 Lloyd | Memories of the lives ... of those noble ... personages | Manuscript: 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 Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: 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 slavery | Print: 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 Millot | L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialogues | Print: 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 Millot | L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialogues | Print: 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 Millot | L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialogues | Print: 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 Pepys | Memorandums and Conclusions of the Navy Board | Manuscript: 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 Newcastle | The 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 wife | Print: 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 Newcastle | The 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 wife | Print: 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 instructions | Unknown |
| 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 Heylyn | Cyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury | Print: 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 Wright | Five sermons in five several styles | Print: 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 Penn | Truth exalted; in a short, but sure, testimony against those religions, faiths and worships that have been formed and followed in the darkness of apostacy | Print: 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 |