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Record 22134

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'October 19. I was reading the preface to Baxter's Rest, where he writes that we should mind our inheritance, and that because God tossed and tumbled us about in this world to make us weary of it. And this have I often experienced . . . '
Century: 1600-1699
Date: 19 Oct 1664
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Chippenham
county: Cambridgeshire
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Isaac Archer
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 23 Dec 1641
Socio-economic group: Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation: Minister in Church of England
Religion: Church of England
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Richard Baxter
Title: The Saints Everlasting Rest
Genre: Other religious
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1649
Provenance: owned
Probably owned by reader

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 22134  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Matthew Storey
  Title: Two East Anglian Diaries 1641-1729: Isaac Archer and William Coe
  Place of Publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk
  Date of Publication: 1994
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 98
  Additional comments: The orginal source is a manuscript journal, Cambridge University Library, Additional Manuscript 8499

Citation: Matthew Storey (ed.), Two East Anglian Diaries 1641-1729: Isaac Archer and William Coe (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1994), p. 98, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22134, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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