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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

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A True and Faithful ACCOUNT OF THE SEVERAL INFORMATIONS EXHIBITED To the Honourable 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 and the INCREASE of POPERY brought to the Honourable Committee appointed by the Parliament for that purpose Printed in the Year 1667. LONDONS Consumption by FIRE UPon the second of September 1666. the Fire began in London at one Farryners House a Baker in Pudding-Lane between the hours of one and two in the Morning and continued burning until the sixth of September following consuming as by the Surveyors appears in Print three hundred seventy three Acres within the Walls of the City of London and sixty three Acres three Roods without the Walls There remains seventy five Acres three Roods yet standing within the Walls unburnt Eighty nine Parish Churches besides Chappels burnt Eleven Parishes within the Walls yet standing Houses burnt thirteen thousand two hundred Per Jonas Moore Ralph Gatrix Surveyors Upon the eighteenth of September 1666. the Parliament came together And upon the 25th of the same month the House of Commons appointed a Committee to enquire into the Causes of the late Fire before whom the following Informations were given in and proved before the Committee as by their Report will more clearly appear bearing date the two and twentieth of January 66. and upon the eighth of February following the Parliament was Prorogued before they came to give their Judgement thereupon Die Martis 25 Septembris 1666. 18 Car. 2. Resolved c. THat a Committee be appointed to inquire into the Causes of the late Fire and that it be referred to Sir Charles Harbord Mr. Sandys Col. Birch Sir Robert Brook Sir Tho. Littleton Mr. Prin Mr. Jones Sir Solom Swale Sir Tho. Tomlins Mr. Seymour Mr. Finch Lord Herbert Sir John Heath Mr. Millward Sir Richard Ford. Mr. Rob. Milward Sir William Lowther Sir Richard Vatley Sir Rowland Beckley Sir Tho. Allen. Mr. Whorwood Mr. Coventry Serj. Maynard Sir Jo. Talbot Mr. Morley Mr. Garraway Sir Fran. Goodrick Col. Strangways Sir Edward Massey Sir Ed●… Walpool Sir Robert Atkins Sir Thomas Gower Mr. Trevor Sir Thomas Clifford Sir Hen. Caesar Sir John Monson Sir John Charlton Lord Ancram Mr. Pepis Sir Richard Everard Mr. Crouch Mr. Merrel Sir Will. Hickman Sir Richard Brown Mr. Maynard And they are to meet to morrow at two of the Clock in the afternoon in the Speakers Chamber and to send for Persons Papers and Records Will. Goldsbrough Cler. Dom. Com. October 9. 1666. Ordered That these Members following be added to the Committee appointed to enquire into the Causes of the late Fire Viz. Sir John Pelham Mr. Hugh Buseowen Mr. Giles Hungerford Sir William Lewis Sir Gilbert Gerrard Sir John Brampstone Mr. Milward Mr. Buscowen and all the Members that serve for the City of London Will. Goldesbrough Cler. Dom. Com. October 16. 1666. Ordered That Mr. Davies Sir Thomas Higgons Mr. St. John Sir Richard Franklin Sir Thomas Tomkins Mr. Devereux Mr. Millard Mr. Lewis Mr. Dowdswell Sir James Thyn Sir Edm. Pierse Mr. Coleman Sir Tho. Allen Mr. Giles Hungerford Mr. Churchill be added to the Committee appointed to enquire into the Causes of the late Fire VVill. Goldesbrough Cler. Dom. Com. THe Honourable Committee according to the fore-mentioned Orders of the House did meet in the Speakers Chamber and having chosen Sir Robert Brook for their Chairman proceded to receive many considerable Informations from divers credible Persons about the matter wherewith they were intrusted and thereupon did at last agree that Sir Robert Brook should make the ensuing Report to the Honourable House of Commons The Report of Sir Robert Brook Chair-man to the Committee that was appointed by the House of Commons to enquire into the Firing of the City of London made the Two and Twentieth of January 1666. IN a Letter from Alanson of the 23d of August 1666 New Stile written from one Dural to a Gentleman lodging in the House of one of the Ministers of the French Church in London called Monsieur Hera●●● there were these expressions Pray 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the truth of certain News which is common in this Country 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Fire from Heaven is fallen upon a City called Belke scituated on the side of the River of Thames where a world of People have been killed and burnt and Houses also consumed Which seemed a word of Cabal cast out by some that were knowing and others that might be ignorant of the signification of it Mris Elizabeth Styles informs That in April last in an eager discourse she had with a French Servant of Sir Vere Fan he hastily replied You English Maids will like the Frenchmen better when there is not a House left between Temple-Bar and London-Bridge To which she answered I hope your eyes will never see that He replied This will come to pass between June and October William Tisdale informs That he being about the beginning of July at the Greyhound in St. Martins with one Fitz-Harris an Irish Papist heard him say There would be a sad Desolation in September in November a worse in December all would be united into one Whereupon he asked him Where this Desolation would be He answered In London Mr. Light of Ratcliff having some discourse with Mr. Longhorn of the Middle-Temple Barrister reputed a zealous Papist about February 65 last after some discourse in disputation about Religion he took him by the hand and said to him You expect great things in Sixty Six and think that Rome will be destroyed but what if it be London Mr. Kitley of Barkin in Essex in forms That one Mris. Yazly a Papist of Ilford in the said County came unto his House August the 13th and being in discourse with his Mother said They say the next Thursday will be the hottest day that ever was in England She replied I hope the hottest season of the year is now past To which she answered I know not whether it be the hottest for Weather or for Action This Mris. Yazly coming to the same House the Week after the Fire Mr. Kitly said to her with some trouble I have often thought of your Hot Thursday To which she replyed It was not indeed upon the Thursday but it happened upon the Sunday was sennight after Mris. Yazly hearing this Evidence produced against her endeavoured to avoid the words saying That upon the 13th of August she did tell Mris Kitly That they say the next Thursday will be the darkest Thursday that ever was in England but not otherwise which she affirms to have received from one Finchman an old Woman of Ilford who being examined by a Justice of Peace to discover the truth thereof denied that ever she said any such words to Mris. Yazly or that she had discoursed with her about any such matter And as to the subsequent words she saith Mris Yazly denies ever to have spoken