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city would become less. Hence, in 1682, the city's Recorder,
speaking on the _Quo Warranto_ case, mentions the number of
inhabitants for whom the municipal authorities had to supply markets
as a little over 50,000 (Journal 50, fo. 41).

M659 Naval engagement with the Dutch, June, 1666.

M660 A city loan of L100,000.

1301 Journal 46, fo. 99; Letter Book WW, fo. 78; Pepys, Diary, 10 and 21
June, 1666.

M661 The Fire of London, Sept., 1666.

1302 Repertory 71, fo. 172b.

1303 Cal. State Papers Dom. (1664-1665), p. 303.

1304 Charles II is said to have been the last English sovereign to occupy
rooms in the Tower of London, as he did on the night previous to his
coronation.

1305 Pepys, Diary, 2 Sept., 1666.

1306 Letter of John Rushworth, 8 Sept., 1666.--"Notes and Queries," 5th
series, v. 307.

M662 The extent of the ravages of the fire.

1307 "London's lamentation on its destruction by a consuming fire, began
Sept. 1, 1666...."--Cal. State Papers Dom. (1666-1667), p. 103 and
Preface, pp. x, xi.

1308 Pepys, Diary, 4 Sept., 1666; Evelyn, Diary, i, 393.

1309 "History of the Monument," by Charles Welch, F.S.A., Librarian to
the Corporation of London, 1893, p. 79.

M663 Lord Mayor Bludworth.

1310 "People do all the world over cry out of the simplicity of my lord
mayor in generall; and more particularly in the business of the
fire, laying it all upon him."--Pepys, Diary, 7 Sept.

1311 Bludworth to [Williamson], 29 Sept.--Cal. State Papers Dom.
(1666-1667), p. 167.

M664 The fire attributed to the Papists.

1312 Memorandum [by Williamson] that after careful examinations by the
council and others, nothing had been found to argue the fire to have
been caused otherwise than by the hand of God, a great wind and a
very dry season. Sept., 1666.--Cal. State Papers Dom. (1666-1667), p.
175.

1313 Journal 36, fo. 219.

1314 Journal House of Commons, ix, 703.

1315 Journal 49, fos. 156b, 224; Repertory 86, fos. 151, 162.

M665 Sir Patience Ward and the inscription on the Monument.

1316 "England's Reformation, from the time of Henry VIII to the end of
Oates's Plot," Canto iv, p. 100, ll. 21-32.

M666 The inscription finally removed, 1830.

1317 Resolution of Common Council, 16 Sept., 1689.--Journal 51, fo. 11.

1318 Journal 104, fo. 413b.

M667 Provisions ord