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Will Hewer

 

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[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'Thence by water home and to bed - having played out of my chamber-window on my pipe before I went to bed - and making Will read a part of a Latin chapter, in which I perceive in a little while he will be pretty ready, if he spends but a little pains in it.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'Home in the evening and to my office, where despatched business and so home. And after Wills reading a little in the Latin Testament, to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'then a Latin chapter of Will and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'So home and up to my lute long; and then after a little Latin chapter with Will, to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'And being in bed, made Will read and conster three or four Latin verses in the bible and chid him for forgetting the grammer.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And so to prayers and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer      Print: Book

  

[n/a] : [office letters]

'he and I all the afternoon to read over our office letters, to see what matter can be got for our advantage or disadvantage therein'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer      Manuscript: Letter

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home, and with W. Hewer with me, to read and talk'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: William Hewer      Print: Book

  

Samuel Pepys : [work on naval history]

'and so with W. Hewer to the Cock, and there he and I dined alone with great content, he reading to me, for my memory sake, my late collections of the history of the Navy, that I might represent the same by and by to the Duke of York'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: William Hewer      Manuscript: Unknown

 

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