Thirteen thousand two hundred houses, one with another, at twenty-five pounds rent, at the low rate of twelve years' purchase3,960,000
Eighty-seven parish churches, at eight thousand pounds each[5]696,000
Six consecrated chapels, at two thousand pounds each12,000
The Royal Exchange50,000
The Custom House10,000
Fifty-two halls of companies, most of which were magnificent structures and palaces, at fifteen hundred pounds each78,000
Three city gates, at three thousand pounds each9,000
Jail of Newgate15,000
Four stone bridges6,000
Sessions House7,000
Guildhall, with the courts and offices belonging to it40,000
Blackwell Hall3,000
Bridewell5,000
Poultry Compter5,000
Wood Street Compter3,000
Toward rebuilding St. Paul's Church, which, at that time, was new building; the stonework being almost finished2,000,000
Wares, household stuff, monies, and moveable goods lost and spoiled2,000,000
Hire of porters, carts, waggons, barges, boats, &c., for removing wares, household stuff, &c., during the fire, and some small time after200,000
Printed books and papers in shops and warehouses150,000
Wine, tobacco, sugar, plums, &c., of which the city was at that time very full1,500,000
Cutting a navigable river to Holborn Bridge27,000
The Monument14,500
£10,730,500

Besides melioration money paid to several proprietors who had their ground taken away, for the making of wharves, enlarging the old, or making new streets, market places, &c.

The fire spread itself, beside breadth, from almost Tower-hill, to St. Dunstan's church in Fleet-street. After it had burnt almost three days and three nights, some seamen taught the people to blow up some of the next houses with gunpowder; which stopped the fire: so that, contrary to the inscription on the Monument, there were human counsels in the stopping of the fire. It stopped at Holborn Bridge, at St. Sepulchre's church, when the church was burnt, in Aldgate and Cripplegate, and other places on the wall; in Austin Friars, the Dutch church stopped it, and escaped. It stopped in Bishopsgate-street, in Leadenhall-street, in the midst of Fenchurch-street, and near the Tower. Alderman Jefferies lost tobacco to the value of twenty thousand pounds.

Extract from the certificates of the Surveyors appointed to survey the ruins.

The fire began September 2nd, 1666, at Mr. Farryner's, a baker, in Pudding-lane, between one and two in the morning, and continued burning till the 6th; did overrun three hundred and seventy-three acres, within the walls. Eighty-nine parish churches, besides chapels burnt. Eleven parishes, within the walls standing. Houses burnt, thirteen thousand and two hundred.

Jonas Moore, }
Ralph Gatrix, } Surveyors.


The superstition and zeal of those times made canonization much cheaper in a Protestant than a Popish Church. A vehement preacher was a chief saint among the godly, and a few warm expressions were esteemed little less than prophecies.

In the dedication to the Rev. Mr. Reeves's sermon, preached 1655, are the following queries:—

"Can sin and the city's safety, can impenitency and impunity stand long together? Fear you not some plague? Some coal blown with the breath of the Almighty, that may sparkle and kindle, and burn you to such cinders, that not a wall or pillar may be left to testify the rememberance of a city?"