London and the Kingdom - Volume 2 / A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.

by Reginald R. Sharpe

Pepys, Diary, 2 Sept., 1666.

Letter of John Rushworth, 8 Sept., 1666.—"Notes and Queries," 5th series, v. 307.

"London's lamentation on its destruction by a consuming fire, began Sept. 1, 1666...."—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1666-1667), p. 103 and Preface, pp. x, xi.

Pepys, Diary, 4 Sept., 1666; Evelyn, Diary, i, 393.

"History of the Monument," by Charles Welch, F.S.A., Librarian to the Corporation of London, 1893, p. 79.

"People do all the world over cry out of the simplicity of my lord mayor in generall; and more particularly in the business of the fire, laying it all upon him."—Pepys, Diary, 7 Sept.

Bludworth to [Williamson], 29 Sept.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1666-1667), p. 167.

Memorandum [by Williamson] that after careful examinations by the council and others, nothing had been found to argue the fire to have been caused otherwise than by the hand of God, a great wind and a very dry season. Sept., 1666.—Cal. State Papers Dom. (1666-1667), p. 175.

Journal 36, fo. 219.

Journal House of Commons, ix, 703.