![]() ![]() Others recorded in journals, letters and official reports the key events and aftermath, but Pepys’s diary is uniquely human, honest and heartfelt. Samuel Pepys’s description of those four days and nights when the fire raged across the city is unmatched. In the words of Pepys, Medieval London was now ‘all in dust’ – yet would rise from the ashes in spectacular style. The fire, which broke out in the house of the King’s baker, Thomas Farynor, early in the morning of Sunday 2 September, decimated four-fifths of the city: over 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, 52 Livery Company Halls, the Guildhall, the Royal Exchange and St Paul’s Cathedral. Together with the epidemic of bubonic plague that hit the city the previous year, the Great Fire had an unimaginable impact on London and its people. Panoramas of the City of London before and after the Great Fire by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1666 (PAH9901) ![]()
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