In a short time the fire spread to other houses, and a strong wind blew the flames towards the west. More and more people fire moved quickly through the old city. The houses were made of wood, and were built very close together in narrow streets. As the not cross the River Thames. After some time, it reacher the buildings beside the river where rich businessmen kept strange and exciting thing from across the seas. Then London began to smell of hot pepper, and burning brandy began to flow like a river through the streets!
We have some very good description of the fire that night. Samuel Pepys was an important man in the government of King Charles, and every day he wrote a diary about his life in London at that time. He wrote that one of the women in his house 'called us up about three in the morning, to tell us of a great fire in the city. So I rose... And went to her window