BIB_ID
192901
Accession number
MA 4390
Creator
Arlington, Henry Bennet, Earl of, 1618-1685.
Display Date
[1666] September 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Mr. Robert Wood Johnson, IV, 1986.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28.8 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Written from "Whitehall....at nine at night."
Written in his capacity as Secretary of State two days after the end of the Great Fire, September 2-5, 1666.
Written from "Whitehall....at nine at night."
Written in his capacity as Secretary of State two days after the end of the Great Fire, September 2-5, 1666.
Provenance
Purchased by Robert Wood Johnson, IV from Maggs Bros, Catalog 1071, lot 63 in 1986.
Summary
Discussing two administrative matters and then reporting on the Great Fire and the apparent offer of assistance from Lord Townshend; saying "...taking notice of the unhappy Fire fallen here and desiring to know his Majesty's pleasure to ye in this great Exigency. To which his Majesty bids me answer, that seeing it hath pleased God miraculously to extinguish this raging fire, and that it hath not been accompanyed with any of those troublesome consequences from the disaffected party which wee might reasonably have apprehended, There will be no need for the present, of your Lordshipp's assembling any part of the Militia or further troubling the country there, whether your Lordshipp sees cause for it. If any appears here, your Lordshipp shall be timely advertised thereof. Which is all I have leisure now to say to you."
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