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Sir William Coventry
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Thomas Cross : Sternhold and Hopkins Psalms
'So soon as word was brought me that Mr Coventry was come with the barge to the Tower, I went to him and find him reading of the psalmes in short-hand (which he is now busy about); and had good sport about the long marks that are made there for sentences in Divinity, which he is never like to make use of.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Coventry Print: Book
Samuel Pepys : [letter]
'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 Duke of York hath from mine wrote to the board; wherein he is mightily pleased, and I perceive to put great value upon me.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Coventry Manuscript: Letter
Sir William Coventry : [record of discourse upon business of Lord Clarendon]
'But by this discourse he was pleased to show me and read to me his account, which he hath kept by him under his own hand, of all his discourse and the King's answers to him upon the great business of my Lord Clarendon'
