Evidence: | 'and so the women and W. Hewer and I walked upon the Downes, where a flock of sheep was, and the most pleasant and innocent sight that ever I saw in my life; we find a shepheard and his little boy reading, far from any houses or sight of people, the Bible to him. So I made the boy read to me, which he did with the forced Tone that children do usually read, that was mighty pretty; and then I did give him something and went to the father and talked with him; and I find he had been a servant in my Cosen Pepy's house, and told me what was become of their old servants.' |
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Century: | 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
Date: | 14 Jul 1667 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
Place: | city: near Epsom county: Surrey other location: in the fields |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | anon |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (agricultural) |
Occupation: | son of a shepherd |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
his father (a shepherd), Samuel Pepys, Will Hewer, and 'the women' (probably including Pepys's wife, Elizabeth Pepys) |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [n/a] |
Title: | Bible |
Genre: | Bible |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 14772 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Samuel Pepys | |
Editor: | Robert Latham | |
Title: | The diary of Samuel Pepys | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1974 | |
Vol: | 8 | |
Page: | 338 | |
Additional comments: | Co-editor William Matthews |
Citation: | Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (ed.), The diary of Samuel Pepys (London, 1974), 8, p. 338, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14772, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
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