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5
Sep
Wednesday 5th September – Hope at Last! Home; and whereas I expected to have seen our house on fire, it being now about seven o’clock, it was not. But to the fyre, and there find greater hopes than I expected; for my confidence of finding our Office on fire was such, that I durst not […]
Tags: The Great Fire of London 1666
4
Sep
Tuesday 4th September – The Fire at full fury! Now begins the practice of blowing up of houses in Tower-streete, those next the Tower, which at first did frighten people more than anything, but it stopped the fire where it was done, it bringing down the houses to the ground in the same places they […]
Tags: GRe, The Great Fire of London 1666
2
Sep
Here by ye permission of heaven, hell broke loose upon this Protestant city. Original Engraving on the Great Fire Mounment Jane called up about three in the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City. So I rose, and slipped on my night-gown and went to her window, and thought […]
26
Aug
Here by ye permission of Heaven, Hell broke loose on this protestant city. Before the Fire – early 1666. London, in early 1666, was a city still suffering from the great plague. The death rate was slowing down but new cases were still happening even up to the time of the fire. The King and […]