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Note to reader: the following excerpt newspaper article actually ran in the London Gazette between the times mentioned. However, for this story, I cleaned it up a little for grammar, because it was badly written - so it can be easily read here. However, the article reads for itself and credit is given to its author.
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THE LONDON GAZETTE - Published by Authority
From Monday, September 3, to Monday, September 10, 1666
Whitehall, Sept. 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 Majesty's good subjects who must need be concerned for the issue of so great an accident, to give this short, but true account of it.
On the second instant, at one o'clock in the morning (approximately), there happened to break out, a sad and deplorable fire in Pudding Lane, near New Fish Street, which falling out at that hour of the night, and in a quarter of town so close-built with wooden pitched houses, spread itself so far before day, and with such distraction to the inhabitants and neighbors, that care was not taken for the timely preventing and further diffusion of it, but pulling down houses, as ought to have been; so that this lamentable fire, in a short time, because too big to be mastered by any engines or working near 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 itself up to Grace Church Street and downwards from Cannon Street to the Water Side, as far as the "Three Cranes in the Vinery".
The people in all parts about it, distracted by the vastness of it, and their particular care to carry away their goods, many attempts were made to prevent the spreading of it by pulled down houses and making great intervals, but all in vain; the fire seizing upon the timber and rubbish, and so continuing it set even through those spaces, and raging in a bright flame all Monday and Tuesday. Notwithstanding, His Majesty's own and His Royal Highness's (Charles II) indefatigable and personal pains to apply all possible remedies to prevent it, calling upon and helping people with their Guards; and a great number of nobility and gentry tirelessly assisting therein, for which they were requited with a thousand blessings from the poor, distressed people.
