Chowles and Judith were among the sufferers, and in the alarm of the moment lost all the booty they had obtained.
Soon after this the whole street was on fire.

All idea of preserving their property was therefore abandoned by the inhabitants, and they thought only of saving themselves.

Hundreds of half-naked persons of both sexes rushed towards Thames-street in search of a place of refuge.
The scene was wholly without parallel for terror.

Many fires had occurred in London, but none that raged with such fierceness as the present conflagration, or promised to be so generally destructive.

It gathered strength and fury each moment, now rising high into the air in a towering sheet of flame, now shooting forward like an enormous dragon vomiting streams of fire upon its foes.