Charles II
Books
- Pudding Lane The Great Fire of London, Hour by Hour · Liszt Think
In the early hours of September 2, 1666, a spark in Thomas Farriner’s Pudding Lane bakehouse ignited a catastrophe that consumed medieval London.
- The City of Wood and Pitch…govern a square mile of dense habitation that housed nearly eighty thousand souls. The plague had emptied the streets twelve months prior. Charles II and his court had fled to Salisbury in July 1665 as the death carts multiplied; Parliament had convened in Oxford. Now the King had returne…
- The King’s Peace and the Mayor’s Watch…. The oak desk held only paper, only precedents for deliberation. The spark would meet this. The Restoration had built this machinery. When Charles II rode into London on 29 May 1660 (his twenty-ninth birthday, his father’s birthday, the anniversary of his own deliverance), he found a capi…
- The Moment the Catastrophe Entered…. He was called for. The King received him in a room that looked eastward, though from this distance and angle the fire remained invisible. Charles II was thirty-six years old, restored to his father’s throne six years before. He had learned patience in exile and urgency in power. His brot…