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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 any thing; but it
stopped the fire where it was done, it bringing down the houses
to the ground in the same places they stood, and then it was easy
to quench what little fire was in it, though it kindled nothing
almost. W.Hewer this day went to see how his mother did, and
comes late home, telling us how he hath been forced to remove her
to Islington, her house in Pye-corner being burned; so that the
fire is got so far that way, and to the Old Bayly, and was
running down to Fleet-street; and Paul's is burned, and all
Cheepside. I wrote to my father this night, but the post-house
being burned, the letter could not go.
5th. 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. About two in the morning my wife calls me up, and
tells me of new cryes of fire, it being come to Barking Church,
which is the bottom of our lane.


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