[Sethinge Lane.] I up; and
finding it so, resolved presently to take her away, and did, and
took my gold, which was about 2350l. W. Hewer, and Jane, down by
Proundy's boat to Woolwich; but Lord! what a sad sight it was by
moone-light to see the whole City almost on fire, that you might
see it plain at Woolwich, as if you were by it. There, when I
come, I find the gates shut, but no guard kept at all; which
troubled me, because of discourses now begun, that there is a
plot in it, and that the French had done it. 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. So back again, by the way seeing my
goods well in the lighters at Deptford, and watched well by
people. 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
fire, 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 was
not burned.
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