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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 401 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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part of the See also:city burned. 1666. " The See also:Great See also:Fire,” See also:September 2-6. It began in a wooden See also:house in See also:Pudding See also:Lane, and burned for three days, consuming the buildings on 436 acres, 400 streets, lanes, &c., 13,200 houses, with St See also:Paul's See also:church, 86 See also:parish churches, 6 chapels, the guild-See also:hall, the royal ex-See also:change, the See also:custom-house, many hospitals and See also:libraries, 52 companies' halls, and a vast number of other stately edifices, together with three of the city See also:gates, four See also:stone See also:bridges, and the prisons of Newgate, the See also:Fleet, and the Poultry and See also:Wood See also:Street Compeers. The fire swept from the See also:Tower to Tgmple church, and from the N.E. See also:gate to See also:Holborn See also:bridge.,, Six persons were killed. The See also:total loss of See also:property was estimated at the See also:time to be £10,730,500. 1794. See also:London, 63o houses destroyed at Wapping. Loss above £r,000,000. 1834. „ Houses of See also:Parliament burned.

1861. „ Tooley Street wharves, &c., burned. Loss estimated at £2,000,000. 1873. „ Alexandra See also:

palace destroyed. 1137. See also:York, totally destroyed. 1184. See also:Glastonbury, See also:town and See also:abbey burned.

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