wiki-illiam #109: q7

[dubdobdee]

7.

i: Who, in his delusion, discovered on a dateless day, that he was the King of Spain?
ii: Which narrator enjoyed oysters, cake, and cheese following the burial of his brother on 18 March?
iii: Which diarist described a new pastime on Wednesday 13 January, namely, filling packets with powdered gravy?
iv: In which travelogue were the erratic movements of a goat, chased by a dog, a boy and his parents, witnessed on Saturday 24th?
v: Which self-styled intellectual wrote of driving through Glasgow at 11am on 26 August and counting 27 drunks in one mile?
vi: In what journal does the author boast of eating a penny twelfth cake on Thursday 6 January at every suitable shop between St Paul's and the Exchange?
vii: Which diarist sorrowfully quoted from Pablo Neruda, following the death of the best man of the force, and one of its pillars, on 25 April?
viii: Which traveller, having earlier witnessed the hanging of two men, determined on 22 October to petition for the repeal of the law?
ix: Who pondered on 27 April on the peculiarity of Going's always coming and Cummings' always going?
x: Who recorded being shown the Onacratulus of Pliny at Rotterdam on 13 August?

Diarists real and fictional

i: Poprishchin in Nikolai Gogol's Diary of a Madman, 43 April, 2000, googled by alextiefling
ii: is Samuel Pepys, known googled or guessed by flapwing
iii: Anne Frank, known by jauntyalan
v: Adrian Mole in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4, by Sue Townsend, guessed and confirmed by katstevens
vi: Boswell, gutenberged by twitter-user petrajane
vii: Che Guevara in The Motorcycle Diaries, guessed by dubdobdee, confirmed by kerrypolka
ix: Mr Pooter in The Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith, known by dubdobdee
x: John Evelyn was shown the relevant Onocratalas, as googled by twitter-user petrajane