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Title: A Plan of the City and Liberties of London shewing the extent of the dreadful Conflagration in the year 1666. Publication: A New History of London including Westminster and Southwark …Author: Noorthouck. John, Printed for: R Baldwin Description: The following is an extract from Noorthouck's History. 'The London Gazette, Nr. 85, Published by Authority. From Monday, September 3, to Monday, September 10, 1666. Whitehall, September 8. ... "The ordinary course of this paper having been interrupted by a sad and lamentable accident of fire lately happened in the city of London: it hath been thought fit for satisfying the minds of so many of his majesties good subjectswho must needs be concerned for the issue of so great an accident, to give this short, but true accompt of it. On the second instant, at one of the clock of the morning, there happened to break out a sad and deplorable fire, in Pudding-lane neer Fishstreet, which falling out at that hour of the night, and in a quarter of the town so close built with wooden pitched houses, spread itself so far before day, and with such distraction to the inhabitants and neighbours, that care was not taken for the timely preventing the further diffusion of it, by pulling down houses, as ought to be done; so that this lamentable fire in a short time became too big to be mastered by any engines or working neer it. It fell out most unhappily too, that a violent easterly wind fomented it, and kept it burning all that day, and the night following, spreading to the water-side, as far as the Three Cranes in the Vintry."...' Noorthouck's History of London is quite scarce and so too is this plan. The engraving has been professionally cleaned and pressed.
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