So to my closet to set things to rights, after
yesterday's cleaning. By and by Jane comes and tells me that she
hears that above 300 houses have been burned down to-night by the
fire we saw, and that it is now burning down all Fish-street, by
London Bridge. So I made myself ready presently, and walked to
the Tower, and there got up upon one of the high places, Sir J.
Robinson's little son going up with me; and there I did see the
houses at that end of the bridge all on fire, and an infinite
great fire on this and the other side the end of the bridge;
which, among other people, did trouble me for poor little Michell
and our Sarah on the bridge. So down with my heart full of
trouble to the Lieutenant of the Tower, who tells me that it
begun this morning in the King's baker's [His name was Faryner.]
house in Pudding-lane, and that it hath burned down St. Magnes
Church and most part of Fish-street already. So I down to the
water-side, and there got a boat, and through bridge, and there
saw a lamentable fire. Poor Michell's house, as far as the Old
Swan, already burned that way, and the fire running further, that
in a very little time it got as far as the Steele-yard, while I
was there.
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