...and Cannon Street, where they saw the Lord Mayor like a man spent and out of his wits, who said — "Lord, what can I do? I am spent, people will not obey me. I have pulled down houses, but this fire overtakes us before we can do anything." Off he went to refresh himself,...

...the lord-mayor and give him this command. In Cannon-street he encounters the lord-mayor, who cries, like a fainting woman, "Lord! what can I do? I am spent. People will not obey me." He had been pulling down houses. He did not want any soldiers. He had been up all night, and must go...

...backs. At last met my Lord Mayor in Canning-street, like a man spent, with a handkerchcr about his neck. To the King's message he cried, like a fainting woman, " Lord ! what 1 St. Lawrence Poultney, of which Thomas Elborough w 2 Sir Thorns Bludworth See 3oth June, 1666. as...

...instructions. In Cannon Street he encountered the dazed and terrified magistrate, who exclaimed : " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent. People will not obey me." He had been pulling down houses, had been up all night, and weary and distraught, must go home and...

...pull them down everywhere before the fire/ he cried out ' like a fainting woman,' as Pepys recounts, ' Lord ! what can I do? I am spent; people will not obey me.' Meanwhile, great bodies of the citizens of all classes had been at work ; some upon the cumbrous engines,...

...last, "like a man spent with a handkercher about his neck," who, when he heard the king's message, " cried like a fainting woman, 'Lord! what can I do?...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." So he left me, and I him " Pepys goes on, and walked home, gazing at the distracted people, not forgetting...

...says, " At last met my Lord Mayor in Canning Street, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message he cried, like a fainting woman, 'Lord! what can 1 do? I am spent, people will npt obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes...

...backs. At last met my Lord Mayor in Canning-street, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message, he cried, like a fainting woman, " Lord 1 what can I do ? I 1 Sir Thomas Bludworth. VOL. 3 T am spent : people will not obey me. I have been...

...fire. The Lord Mayor (Sir Thomas Bludworth) seems to have been but a poor creature, for when he heard the King's message, he cried, like a fainting woman,...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." The King and the Duke of York showed themselves better men at this time. They were very active, and...

...flames. " Lord, what can I do ? " he lack-a-daisically exclaimed in answer to a message from the king ; " I " am spent ; people will not obey me. I have been...the fire overtakes us " faster than we can do it.'' 2 The inhabitants were 1 Charles II is said to have l)een the last English sovereign to occupy rooms...