Thomas Plater
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Aug
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Soon as dined, I and Moon away and walked through the city the streets full of nothing but people and horses and carts laden with goods, ready to run over one another, and removing goods from one burned house to another.
They now removing out of canning streets, which received goods in the morning, into Lombard Streets, and further, and among others I now saw my little goldsmith, 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 Carcass and his brother, whom I met in the streets and carried them below and above bridge too and again to see the water.
Yeah, yeah.
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 Queenhythe, and there called Sir Richard Brown to them.
Their order was only to pull down houses apace, and so below bridge the waterside, but little was or could be done, the fire coming upon them so fast.
Good hopes there was of stopping it at the three cranes above and at Butolf's Wharf below bridge, if care be used, but the wind carries it into the city, so as we know not by the waterside 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 virginals in it.
Having seen as much as I could now, I away to Whitehall by appointment, and there walked to St.
James's Parks, and there met my wife and Creed and Wood and his wife, and walked to my boat, and there upon the water again, and to the fire up and down it still increasing, and the wind great.
So near the fire as we could for smoke, and all over the Thames with one's face in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower of fire drops.
This is very true, so as houses were burned by these drops and flakes of fire, three or four nay, five or six houses, one from another,
When we could endure no more upon the water, we to a little ale house on the bankside, over against the three cranes, and there stayed till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow, and as it grew darker, appeared more and more, in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses as far as we could see up the hill of the city, in a most horrid, malicious, bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an order.
ordinary fire.
Barbara and her husband away before us.
We stayed till it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire, from this to the other side of the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long.
It made me weep to see it.
Behold now this vast city, a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection.
The shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving, new notions and ideas wherewith to present
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