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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63385	A true and faithful account of the several informations exhibited to the hounourable committee appointed by the Parliament to inquire into the late dreadful burning of the city of London together with other informations touching the insolency of popish priests and Jesuites ...	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee to Enquire into the Burning of London.	1667 (1667)	Wing T2470; ESTC R23835	24,194	34

wherein the dreadful fire brake out in Pudding-Lane which consumed the City hearing the general out-cry that the City was fired by Papists and French I repaired to the top of a Church Steeple near the Three Cranes in the Vintrey where my self and several others observed the motion of the Fire for two or three hours together and we all took notice that the Fire did break forth out of several houses when the houses which were then burning were at a good distance from them every way and more particularly I saw the fire break out from the inside of Lawrence-Pountney Steeple when there was no fire near it These and such like Observations begat in me a Perswasion that the Fire was maintained by design Upon Munday I repaired again into the City and found as the day before that the Fire did break forth in fresh houses at a great distance one from another And as I was returning home passing through Watling-Street by a Tobacco Merchants house I saw the Master of the house come down staires driving a young fellow before him saying to him You Rogue do you come to Rob me what did you do in my Garret or words to that purpose and pushed him out of doors All which I observed and he seemed to be a Frenchman He was a short black fellow of about 22 years of Age and as soon as he was out of the house he having a loose coat on in a way of Privacy Shuffles something under his Coat whereupon I laid hold of him and said Sirrah what have you there The fellow replyed What is that to you the Master of the House knows me Upon that I asked the Mr. of the House whether he knew the fellow he answered he knew him not Whereupon I searched the fellow and found a horn of powder about him and as soon as the powder was discovered he fell a rubbing his hands they being all black with powder He had also about him a Book intituled The Jewish Government I charged him that he was a Frenchman because he spake broken English but he denyed it and did much Vaunt himself There coming a Constable by with his Staffe I Required him to carry him to Prison and I would assist him So we conveyed him to Old Bridewel and by the way the People were ready to kill him calling him French-Rascal I prayed them to forbear for Justice would give him his Reward I told the fellow he would be hanged he made slight of it saying If I dye my Soul shall be Saved but yours shall be Damned And when he was put into Bridewel I desired that he might be secured and none suffered to speak with him till he were Examined before a Magistrate because the Tobacco-Merchants House was presently Burned upon it But so it happned on the next day that the fire came on and consumed my House and Goods so that I was forced with my Family to fly into the Country and what became of the Fellow I know not Old Bridewel being burnt also And understanding that the Parliament hath appointed a Committee to enquire after the Actors in and Fomenters of that Terrible Fire I thought good to inform the Honourable Committee thereof that they may send for the Keeper of the said Bridewel to know what became of the Fellow that he might receive Justice according to his demerit Thus much I thought my self obliged to do as in Duty bound to God and my Country All which I am ready to affirm upon Oath when I shall be thereunto called Tho. Midleton IN the time of the Fire near Bridewell there was a man sadly bemoaning the great Loss he was like to sustain the Fire then being within five or six houses of him did beseech the people for Gods sake they having no Goods of their own in danger to come in and help him to throw out Trunks Chests Beds c. out at a window having procured two Carts or Waggons to carry them away Whereupon I ran into his House with several others broke down his Windows threw out his Goods and loaded the Carts and there being some interval of time before the return of the Carts and seeing a Room wherein were many Books and loose Papers which seemed to be a Library I went in and took down a Book which proved to be Ovids Metamorphosis and while I was looking upon it there came into the same Room an Old Man of low stature with a white Frock who looked also on the Book as it was in my hand I took him in my mind to be some Groom come out of a Stable and thought him to be presumptuously foolish supposing such a mean-like old man ignorant of that language in which the Book was written it being Latine but I spoke not to him In the mean time there brake forth a Fire amongst the Papers which were behind us there being none in the Room but he and I Whereupon the rest of the people coming in cryed out we had set the Room on fire and rushing in upon us put out the fire with their feet whereupon I took hold of the Old Man by the buttons under the throat and said How now Father it must either be you or I must fire these Papers There was a small thing of a Black matter which looked like a piece of a Link burning which questionless set fire on the Papers but it was immediately trod out A multitude of people thronged in and when I said How now Father took hold of him he said Parce mihi Domine The people which did not understand it cryed out He is a Frenchman kill him and with pulling of him his Perriwig fell off then appeared a bald Skull and under his Frock he had black Clothes I think of Bishops Sattin whereupon he seemed to be a grave Ecclesiastick Person I had much ado to save him from the people but at last brought him before the Duke of York we found in his pocket a bundle of Papers closed up with Wax like a Packet which was delivered to the Duke of York I know not what was written in them neither do I know what Country-man he was but methoughts he looked something Jesuitical-like This I am certain of that when I went into the Room there was no fire in it and it was fired when there was none but he and I in it yet I cannot say I saw him do it though I cannot but suspect he did it and the rather because there were several houses untouched betwixt this house and where the fire was coming on when the Papers in the Library were thus on fire as I have related What became of this fellow after we had delivered him to his Royal Highness the Duke of York I have not heard John Stewartt Thus for concerning the Report and Informations about the Fire Now follow a true account of what was represented to another Committee of Parliament touching the Insolency of Popish Priests and Jesuites and the increase of