The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-01-10

some Of them burned. their wings. and
fell down. Having staid. and In an
hours time seen the fire rage every
way and nobody. to my sight. endeav-
oring to quench 1t, but to remove their
goods and leave all to the fire; and
having seen it get as far as the
Steele yard, and the wind mighty high
and driving 1t into the city; and every
thing. after so long a drought. proving
combustible, even the very stones of
churches.
The King Commands.
II to White Hall with a gentle
man with me who desired TO 20 off
from the Tower, to see the fire, in my
boat; to White Hall and there up to
the Kings closett In the Chappell,
where people come about me and
did give them an account dismayed
them all, and word was carried in to
the King. So was called for, and did
tell the King and Duke of Yorke what
l saw, and that unless his Majesty
did command houses to be pulled down
nothing could stop the fire. They
seemed much troubled. and the King
commanded me to go to my Lord
Mayor from him, and command him
to spare no houses but to pull down
before the fire every way.
"Here meeting with Captain Cooke,
l In his coach which he lent me, and
Creed with me to Paul's, and there
walked along Waiting street as well as
/ could, every creature coming away
lOaden with goods to save, and here
and there sick people carried away in
beds. Extraordinary goods carried in
carts and on backs. At last met my
Lord Mayor in Canning street, like
man spent, with handkerchief about
his neck. To the Kings message he
cried, like fainting woman, Lord
what can l do? I am spent people
will not obey me. I have been pull
ing down houses; but the fire over
takes us faster than we can do itv
That he needed more soldiers, and
that, for himself he must go and re-
fresh himself. having been up all night.
So he left me, and him, and walked
and no manner of means used to
quench the fire. The houses, too, so
very thick Whereabouts and full of
matter for burning, as pitch and tarr,
in Thames street; and warehouses Of
oyle, wines, brandy, and other things.
and walked through the city, the
streets full of nothing but people and
horses and carts loaden with goods,
ready to run over one another and re-
moving goods from one house to an
other. They now removing out Of
Canning street and further; and
among others l 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 l to Paul's
wharf, where had appointed boat to
attend me, and took in Mr.. Carcasse
and his brother, whom | met in the
streets, and carried them below and
above bridge to and again to see the
fire, which was now got further, both
below and above. and no likelihood of
stopping 1t. Met with the King and
Duke of Yorke 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.
$50 near the fire as we could for
smoke; and all over the Thames, with
ones face in the wind, you were al.
most burned with shower of fire.
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 little ale house on the Bank.
side, over against the Three Cranes,
and there staid till it was dark al.
most, and saw the fire grow; and as
1t grew darker. appeared more and
more, and 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
ordinary fire.
We staid till, it being darkish, we
saw the fire as only one entire arch of
above a mile long: 1t made me weep
to see 1t. The churches, houses, and
all on fire and flaming at once; and
horrid noise the flames made. and the
cracking Of houses at their RUNE"
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