Evidence: | 'And coming back I spent reading of the book of warrants of our office in the first Dutch war, and do find that my letters and warrants and method will be found another-gate's business than this that the world so much adores - and I am glad for my own sake to find it so.' |
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Century: | 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
Date: | 6 Sep 1668 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | afternoon daytime |
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Place: | city: London other location: in a boat on the Thames |
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Reader: | Samuel Pepys |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 23 Feb 1633 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Clerk of the Acts, Admiralty |
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 |
Author: | [unknown] |
Title: | [book of warrants in Cromwell's war, 1652-4] |
Genre: | Law |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 14927 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Samuel Pepys | |
Editor: | Robert Latham | |
Title: | The diary of Samuel Pepys | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
Vol: | 9 | |
Page: | 300 | |
Additional comments: | Co-editor William Matthews |
Citation: | Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (ed.), The diary of Samuel Pepys (London, 1970), 9, p. 300, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14927, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
His servant may have been reading the text to him. He writes at the end of this diary entry: 'My boy was with me, and read to me all day' |
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