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I saw good butts of sugar broke open in the
street, and people give and take handsfull out, and put into
beer, and drink it. and now all being pretty well, I took boat,
and 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 a pair of gloves, Westminster Hall being
full of people's goods, those in Westminster having removed all
their goods, and the Exchequer money put into vessels to carry to
Nonsuch [Nonsuch House near Epsom, where the Exchequer had
formerly been kept.] but to the Swan, and there was trimmed:
and then to White Hall, but saw nobody; and so home. A sad sight
to see how the River looks: no houses nor church near it, to the
Temple, where it stopped. At home, did go with Sir W. Batten,
and our neighbour, Knightly, (who, with one more, was the only
man of any fashion left in all the neighbourhood thereabouts,
they all removing their goods, and leaving their houses to the
mercy of the fire,) to Sir R.


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