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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53837	Observations, both historical and moral, upon the burning of London, September 1666 with an account of the losses, and a most remarkable parallel between London and Mosco, both as to the plague and fire : also an essay touching the easterly-winde : vvritten by way of narrative, for satisfaction of the present and future ages / by Rege Sincera.	Rege Sincera.	1667 (1667)	Wing O92; ESTC R1890	16,912	39

going and coming out so that for want of Air they all perished The poor Countrey people that had saved themselves in the City with their Cattel from Threescore miles round about seeing the conflagration ran all into the Market-place which is not paved of wood as the rest nevertheless they were all rosted there in such sort that the tallest man seemed but a child so much had the fire contracted their Limbs and this by reason of the great houses that were round about a thing more hideous and frightful then any can imagine In many places of the said Market the bodies were piled one upon another to the heighth of half a pike which put me into a wonderful admiration being not able to apprehend nor understand how it was possible they should be so heaped together This wonderful conflagration caused all the Fortifications of the Town wall to fall and all the Ordnance that were upon it to burst The walls were made of Brick according to the ancient way of building without either Fortifications or Ditches many that had saved themselves along them were nevertheless rosted so fierce and vehement was the fire among them many Italians and Walloons of my acquaintance while the fire lasted we thought that a million of Cannons had been thundering together and our thoughts were upon nothing but death thinking that the fire would last some days because of the great circumference of the Castle and Suburbs but all this was done in less then four hours time at the end of which the noise growing less we were curious to know whether the Tartarians of whom we stood in no less fear then of the fire were entred They are a Warlike people though they eat nothing but Roots and such other like substance and drink onely Water The greatest Lords among them feed upon Flesh baked between a Horse and the Saddle wherein rideth the Horseman nevertheless are they very strong lusty and inured to all hardship as also are their Horses who are wonderful swift and will travel further in one day eating nothing but Grass then ours will do in three feeding upon Oats therefore the Tartarians come so easily from so far to invade the Russians They have also that craft that they onely come in the Summer for the conveniency of their horses their Countrey is temperate from whence they come about the latter end of February that they may be in Russia about the beginning of June and go back again into their own countrey at the end of it least they should be overtaken by the winter in Russia which if i● should fall out they would be all starved because of the great deserts uninhabited containing above Three hundred German leagues and therefore void of all relief as well for themselves as for their horses there being then no grass upon the ground which constraineth them to make such a journey which is of above 1200 German leagues in four or five months time with all their Army which consisteth commonly of about 150000 or 200000 horses as good as can be but the horsemen are but slightly armed having for all weapons a jack of Mail a Dart and Bowe and Arrows they know nothing of what belongeth to Guns having in all heir Countrey but Two Cities wherein the Emperor keepeth his Court without any Villages or Houses but are contented to live under Tents which they remove to and fro as they see occasion But to come again to our Misery after we had hearkened a while we hard some Russians running to and fro through the smoak who were talking of walling the Gates to prevent the coming in of the Tartarians who were expecting when the fire went out I and my Interpreter being come out of the Magazine found the Ashes so hot that we durst scarce tread upon them but necessity compelling us we ran towards the chief Gate where we found Twenty five or Thirty men escaped from the fire with whom in few hours we did wall that Gate and the rest and kept a strict watch all that night with some Guns that had been preserved from the fire In the morning seeing that the place was not defensible with so few people as we were we sought the means to get into the Castle whose entry was then inaccessible the Governour was very glad to hear of our intention and cryed to us we should be very welcom but it was a most difficult thing to come in because the Bridges were all burnt so that we were fain to get over the wall having instead of Ladders some high Firr-trees thrown from the Castle to us wherein instead of rounds to get up they had made some notches with a hatchet to keep us from sliding we got up then with much adoe for besides the evident inconveniency of those rough Ladders we did carry about us the sum of 4000 Thalers besides some Jewels which was a great hindrance to us to climb along those high trees and that which did double our fear was that we saw before our eyes some of our company that had nothing but their bodies to save yet tumble down from the middle of those high trees into the Ditch full of burnt bodies so that we could not tread but upon dead corpses whose helps were so thick every where that we could not avoid to tread upon them as if it had been a hill to climb up and that which did augment our trouble was that in treading upon them the Arms and Legs broke like Glass the poor Limbs of these Creatures being calcined by the vehement heat of the fire and our feet sinking into those miserable bodies the bloud and the filth did squirt in our faces which begot such a stench all the Town over that it impossible to subsist in it The 25th of May in the evening as we expected in great perplexity what the Tartarians would attempt against us who were about Four hundred in the Castle the Tartarians whom we had saluted with our Guns and killed some of them that were come too neer one of the Castle-gates began to go back the same way that they came in with so much speed that the next morning all that torrent was drained up for which having given God thanks and set our business in order as well as the present calamity would permit we went away from that desolate place Now O London consider that thy Fate is not peculiar to thy self and that will allay the bitterness of thy sufferings Remember also that if thou sanctifiest this affliction to thy use the Lord promiseth by his Prophet that those shall reap in joy who did sow in tears Psal 126.6 Vbi Where SECT III. IN the richest City of Europe and perhaps of the world the greatest Magazine that could be found for all sorts of Merchandises incomparable for the salubritie of the Air and conveniency of scituation Magnificent in publique buildings Illustrious in good deeds Renowned for Hospitality Famous for government Venerable for antiquity having subsisted about