James's Park, and there met my wife and Creed and Wood and his
wife, and walked to my boat; and there upon the water again, and
to the fire up and down, it still encreasing, and the wind great.
So near the fire as we could for smoke; and all over the Thames,
with one's faces in the wind, you were almost burned with a
shower of fire-drops. This is very true: so as houses were
burned by these drops and flakes of fire, three or four, nay,
five or six houses, one from another. When we could endure no
more upon the water, we to a little ale-house on the Bankside,
over against the Three Cranes, and there staid till it was dark
almost, and saw the fire grow, and as it grew darker, appeared
more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between
churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the
City, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine
flame of an ordinary fire. Barbary and her husband away before
us. We staid till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one
entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and
in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made
me weep to see it.
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