The Diary of Samuel Pepys

What is Pepys’s reaction to the fire?

What is pepys’s reaction to the fire?

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Samuel's first reaction to the fire is to take a good look at it off in the distance and return to bed. He was not alarmed.

Some of our mayds sitting up late last night to get things ready against our feast to-day, Jane called us up about three in the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City. So I rose and slipped on my nightgowne, and went to her window, and thought it to be on the backside of Marke-lane at the farthest; but, being unused to such fires as followed, I thought it far enough off; and so went to bed again and to sleep.

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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 2 September 1666