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Record 21956

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I stayd till noone readinge in the Booke of Martirs'.
Century: 1600-1699
Date: 8 Mar 1666
Country: England
Time: morning
Place: city: Atherton
county: Lancashire
   
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:Roger Lowe
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation: Shopkeeper
Religion: Presbyterian
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: John Foxe
Title: Book of Martyrs
Genre: Other religious, History
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: read in situ

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 21956  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: William L. Sachse
  Title: The Diary of Roger Lowe
  Place of Publication: London, New York, Toronto
  Date of Publication: 1938
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 99
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: William L. Sachse (ed.), The Diary of Roger Lowe (London, New York, Toronto, 1938), p. 99, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21956, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

"Book of Martyrs" is the title by which Foxe's Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days was popularly known.

 

 

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