The Great Fire of London: A Baker’s Oven, a Buried Cheese and a Man Hanged for a Fire He Could Not Have Started
In September 1666 a fire broke out in the King’s baker’s house on Pudding Lane. In four days it burned most of the City of London. The Lord Mayor said “I am spent,” Samuel Pepys buried his parmesan, and a Frenchman who confessed was hanged, though he had landed two days after the fire began.