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Tom Edwards

 

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[unknown] : [Report of the reforming commission of 1618]

'Up, and to my office with Tom, whom I made read to me the books of Propositions in the time of the Grand Commission, which I did read a good part of before church'

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Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Edwards      

  

[unknown] : [Report of the reforming commission of 1618]

'and I to my office and there made an end of the books of Proposicions; which did please me mightily to hear read, they being excellently writ and much to the purpose, and yet so as I think I shall make good use of in defence of our present constitution.'

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Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Edwards [?]      

  

Samuel Pepys : [work on naval history]

'Thence home; and after dinner, by water with Tom down to Greenwich, he reading to me all the way, coming and going, my collections out of the Duke of York's old manuscript of the Navy, which I have bound up and doth please me mightily.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Edwards      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Samuel Pepys : [work on naval history]

'and home, where I made my boy to finish the reading of my manuscript; and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Edwards      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Gregorio Leti : Il nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes nephews from the time of Sixtus the IV to the death of the last Pope Alexander the VII. In two parts. Written originally in Italian, in the year 1667 and Englished by W.A.

'So home and to supper; and my wife to read, and Tom, my "Nipotisme", and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Edwards      Print: Book

 

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