Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	richard_n	sir_n	william_n	14,936	5	8.9799	4	false

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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

they employed the same Instrument would give no Account thereof Newton Killingworth Esq informed That he apprehended a person during the fire about whom he found much combustible matter and certain black things of a long figure which he could not indure to hold in his hand by reason of their extream heat This Person was so surprized at first that he would not answer to any question But being on his way to White-hall he acted the part of a Mad-man and so continued while he was with him Sir John Maynard a Member of this House affirms That he had some of that combustible matter in his hands and though it were in its natural substance and unfired yet the heat of it was scarcely to be endured by the touch Mr. Freeman of Southwark Brewer whose House was lately fired informs That on the day his House was fired about a quarter of an hour before that happened a Paper with a Ball of Wildfire containing near a pound weight wrapped in it was found in the Nave of a Wheel in a Wheelers-yard where lay a great quantity of Timber How his House was fired he knoweth not but this he affirmed to the Committee That it could not be by accident because there had not been any Candle or Fire in the House where the Hay lay that whole day and that the Hay being laid in very dry and before Midsummer could not possibly be set on fire within it self Moreover he said That the Hay-loft was on fire on the top of the House and that the Fire spread from the one end of the Roof to another in an instant Mr. Richard Harwood informs That being near the Feathers Tavern by St. Pauls upon the fourth of September he saw something through a Grate in a Celler like Wild-fire by the sparkling and spitting of it he could judge it to be no other Whereupon he gave notice of it to some Souldiers that were near the place who caused it to be quenched I had order from the Committee to acquaint you That we traced several Persons apprehended upon strong suspition during the Fire to the Guards but could not make further discovery of them Thus far was the Report What follows was given in to the Committee but not by them Reported to the House at that time IN obedience to an Order directed to me from the Honourable Committee of the House of Commons then sitting in the Speakers Chamber of the second of October 1666. I did carry Robert Hubert to St. Katherines Tower by Water to let me know the place where the Swedish Ship lay that brought him and other Frenchmen from Stockholm and he brought me to the Dock over-against Mr. Corsellis his Brew-house and did then verifie to me and Mr. Corsellis That the Ship lay there until such time as he with Mr. Peidloe and others did go and set fire to a House And this Hubert did then further say That Mr. Peidloe did fix two Fire-Balls to a long Pole and put them into a Window and that he the said Robert Hubert did fire one in the same manner and put it in at the same Window But with all the inquiry and dilligence that I could use I could neither find nor hear of any such Vessel And from thence I carried the said Robert Hubert to Tower-Hill and did then desire him to shew me the House that they did fire and he said That it was near the Bridge So we went along Thames-street towards the Bridge but before we came to the Bridge the said Robert Hubert said That the House was up there pointing with his hand up Pudding-lane So I bid him go to the place and he went along the Bricks and Rubbish and made a stand Then did I ask one Robert Penny a Wine-Porter which was the Bakers House and he told me That was the House where the aforesaid Robert Hubert stood So I went to Robert Hubert and stood by him and turned my back towards the Bakers House and demanded of him which House it was that he fired directing to other Houses contrary to that House But he turning himself about said This was the House pointing to the Bakers House that was first fired Then by reason of his lameness I set him on a Horse and carried him to several other places but no other place he would acknowledge but rode back again to the Bakers House and said again That that was the House pointing at the Bakers House And this I do humbly certifie to this Honourable Committee By me John Lowman Keeper of his Majesties County-Goal for Surry SIR HEaring that you are Chairman to the Committee for examining the Firing of London I thought good to acquaint you with this Information that I have received William Champneys a Hatband-maker now living upon Horsly-Down was upon Tuesday-morning September the fourth 1666. in Shoe-Lane and there met with a Constable who had apprehended a Frenchman whom he took firing a House there with Fire-balls and charged the said Champneys to assist him who carried the said Frenchman to Salisbury Court hoping there to have found a Justice but finding that Place burning down returned into Fleet-street who was presently called upon by the Commander of the Life-Guard to know what the matter was The Constable told him he had apprehended a Frenchman firing a House in Shoe-Lane he examined the person and committed him to the Guard and told the Constable he would secure him and carried him along with him The Constable asked him whether he should go along with him to give in his Evidence He replied That he had done enough and might go home But what became of the Frenchman he knoweth not Your humble Servant S. G. In a Letter from Ipswich directed For the Honourable Sir Robert Brook it is intimated That about the 30th of August 1666 one of the Constables of Cotton in Hartsmer Hundred being about the survey of that Town about Hearth-money was told by one Mr. William Thompsan a Roman Catholick in that Town That though times were like to be sad yet if he found any cause to change his Religion he would see he should not want And further said to him What will you say if you hear that London is Burnt The Affidavits touching a Frenchman that said There were Three hundred of them engaged in Firing the City The Informations of Richard Bound of St. Giles in the Fields Ironmonger William Cotes Samuel Page Francis Cogny Edmond Dakins and Richard Pardoe taken the 8th day of Septemb 1666 by Sir Justinian Lewen Knight one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex upon Oath as followeth RIchard Bound saith That upon Tuesday night last about twelve or one of the clock there was a Frenchman brought by the Watch to this Informants Father's house being at the sign of the VVhite-Hart in King-street taken as a suspicious person The said person being questioned by them Whether he was not one of those that Fired the City or had a hand