Home, with much ado to find a way, nor any sleep all this night to me nor my poor wife.
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Mrs. Turner and her husband supped with my wife and I, in the office, upon a shoulder of mutton from the cook’s, without any napkin or any thing, in a sad manner, but were merry.
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Walking into the garden, and saw how horridly the sky looks, all on a fire in the night, was enough to put us out of our wits; and, indeed, it was extremely dreadful, for it looks just as if it was at us; and the whole heaven on fire.
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I walked in the dark down to Tower-street, and there saw it all on fire, at the Trinity House on that side, and the Dolphin Tavern on this side, which was very near us; and the fire with extraordinary vehemence.
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Now begins the practice of blowing up of houses in Tower-street, 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 stood.
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W. Hewer went to see how his mother did, and comes home, telling us he hath been forced to remove her to Islington, her house in Pye-corner being burned; the fire is got so far that way, and the Old Bayly and was running down to Fleete-streete; and Paul’s is burned and Cheapside.
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I wrote to my father, but the post-house being burned, the letter could not go.
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I lay down in the office again upon W. Hewer’s quilt, being mighty weary, and sore in my feet with going till I was hardly able to stand.
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My wife calls me up and tells me of new cryes of fire, it being come to Barkeing Church, which is the bottom of our lane.
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I up, and finding it so, resolved presently to take my wife away, and did, and took my gold, which was about 2350l, W. Hewer, and Jane, down by Proundy’s boat to Woolwich.
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But, Lord! what sad sight it was by moon-light to see the whole City almost on fire, that you might see it plain at Woolwich, as if you were by it.
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There, when I come, I find the gates shut, but no guard kept at all, which troubled me, because of discourse now begun, that there is plot in it, and that the French had done it.
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I got the gates open, and to Mr. Shelden’s, where I locked up my gold, and charged my wife and W. Hewer never to leave the room without one of them in it, night, or day.
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Home; and whereas I expected to have seen our house on fire, it was not.
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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 ask any body how it was with us, till I come and saw it not burned.
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I find by the blowing up of houses, and the great help given by the workmen out of the King’s yards, there is a good stop given to it, as well as at Marke-lane end as ours; it having only burned the dyall of Barking Church, and part of the porch, and was there quenched.
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I up to the top of Barkeing steeple, and there saw the saddest sight of desolation that I ever saw; every where great fires, oyle-cellars, and brimstone, and other things burning.
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To Sir W. Pen’s, and there eat a piece of cold meat, having eaten nothing since Sunday, but the remains of Sunday’s dinner.
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Mr. Young and Whistler and I walked into the town, and find Fanchurch-street, Gracious-street, and Lumbard-street all in dust.
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The Exchange a sad sight, nothing standing there, of all the statues or pillars, but Sir Thomas Gresham’s picture in the corner.
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I did see a poor cat taken out of a hole in the chimney, joyning to the wall of the Exchange; with, the hair all burned off the body, and yet alive.
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Walked into Moorefields (our feet ready to burn, walking through the town among the hot coles), and find that full of people, and poor wretches carrying their goods there, and every body keeping his goods together; drank there, and paid twopence for a plain penny loaf.
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Homeward, having passed through Cheapside and Newgate Market, all burned, and seen Anthony Joyce’s house in fire.
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I took up a piece of glass of Mercers’ Chappell in the street, where much more was, so melted and buckled with the heat of the fire like parchment.
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So home, and find there good hopes of saving our office; but great endeavours of watching all night, and having men ready; and so we lodged them in the office, and had drink and bread and cheese for them.
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I met Mr. Gawden at the gate of the office to call our men to Bishop’s-gate, where no fire had yet been near, and there is now one broke out which did give great grounds to people, and to me too, to think that there is some kind of plot in this.
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It was pretty to see how hard the women did work in the cannells, sweeping of water; but then they would scold for drink, and be as drunk as devils. I saw good butts of sugar broke open in the street, and people go and take handsfull out, and put into beer, and drink it.
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I over to Southwarke, and took boat on the other side the bridge, and so to Westminster, thinking to shift myself, being all in dirt from top to bottom; but could not there find any place to buy a shirt or pair of gloves, Westminster Hall being full of people’s goods.
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To the Swan, and there was trimmed; and then to White Hall, but saw nobody; and so home.
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I did go with Sir W. Batten, and our neighbour, Knightly, to Sir R. Ford’s, and there dined in an earthen platter — a fried breast of mutton; a great many of us, but very merry, and indeed as good a meal, though as ugly a one, as ever I had in my life.
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Down to Deptford, and there with great satisfaction landed all my goods at Sir G. Carteret’s safe, and nothing missed I could see, or hurt.
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