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Pen's, who did give me a bed; but without curtains or
hangings, all being down. So here I went the first time into a
naked bed, only my drawers on; and did sleep pretty well: but
still both sleeping and waking had a fear of fire in my heart,
that I took little rest. People do all the world over cry out of
the simplicity of my Lord Mayor in generall; and more
particularly in this business of the fire, laying it all upon
him. A proclamation is come out for markets to be kept at
Leadenhall and Mile-end-greene, and several other places about
the town; and Tower-hill, and all churches to be set open to
receive poor people.
8th. I stopped with Sir G. Carteret to desire him to go with us,
and to enquire after money. But the first he cannot do, and the
other as little, or say "When we can get any, or what shall we do
for it?" He, it seems, is employed in the correspondence between
the City and the King every day, in settling of things. I find
him full of trouble, to think how things will go. I left him,
and to St. James's, where we met first at Sir W.


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