Source Book of London History, from the earliest times to 1800
History
Source Book of London History, from the earliest times to 1800
London (England) -- History
Isaake Houblon, the handsome man,
prettily dressed and dirty, at his door at Dow-gate, receiving some
of his brother's things, whose houses were on fire; and, as he says,
have been removed twice already; and he doubts (as it soon proved)
that they must be in a little time removed from his house also,
which was a sad consideration. And to see the churches all filling
with goods by people who themselves should have been quietly there
at this time. By this time it was about twelve o'clock; and so
home....
While at dinner Mrs. Batelier came to enquire after Mr Woolfe and
Stanes ... whose houses in Fish-Street are all burned, and they in a
sad condition. She would not stay in the fright. Soon as dined, I
and Moone away, and walked through the City, the streets full of but
people and horses and carts loaden with goods, ready to run over one
another, and removing goods from one burned house to another. They
now removing out of Canning-Street (which received goods in the
morning) into Lumbard-Street, and further; and among others I now
saw my little gold-smith, Stokes, receiving some friends goods,
whose house itself was burned the day after.
We parted at Paul's; he home, and I to Paul's Wharf, where I had
appointed a boat to attend me, and took in Mr. Carcasse and his
brother, whom I met in the streete, and carried them below and above
bridge to ... see the fire, which was now got further, both below
and above, and no likelihood of stopping it. Met with the King and
Duke of York in their barge, and with them to Queenhithe, and there
called Sir Richard Browne to them. Their order was only to pull down
houses apace, and so below bridge at the water side; but little was
or could be done, the fire coming upon them so fast. Good hopes
there were of stopping it at the Three Cranes above, and at
Buttolph's Wharf below bridge, if care be used; but the wind carries
it into the City, so as we know not by the water-side what it do
there. River full of lighters and boats taking in goods, and good
goods swimming in the water, and only I observed that hardly one
lighter or boat in three that had the goods of a house in, but there
was a pair of Virginalls in it.
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