A true and faithful account of the several informations exhibited to the hounourable committee appointed by the Parliament to inquire into the late dreadful burning of the city of London together with other informations touching the insolency of popish priests and Jesuites ...

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Title: A true and faithful account of the several informations exhibited to the hounourable committee appointed by the Parliament to inquire into the late dreadful burning of the city of London together with other informations touching the insolency of popish priests and Jesuites ...
Author: England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee to Enquire into the Burning of London.
Publication: [London? :: s.n.],; Printed in the year, 1667.
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Subject terms: Catholic Church -- Great Britain.; Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.; London (England) -- Fire, 1666 -- Sources.
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SIR,

HEaring that you are Chairman to the Committee for examining the Firing of London, I thought good to acquaint you with this Information that I have received.

William Champneys, a Hatband-maker, now living upon Horsly-Down, was upon Tuesday-morning, September the fourth 1666. in Shoe-Lane, and there met with a Constable who had apprehended a Frenchman whom he took firing a House there with Fire-balls, and charged the said Champneys to assist him, who carried the said Frenchman to Salisbury Court, hoping there to have found a Justice; but finding that Place burning down, returned into Fleet-street, who was presently called upon by the Commander of the Life-Guard, to know what the matter was: The Constable told him, he had ap∣prehended a Frenchman firing a House in Shoe-Lane; he examined the person and committed him to the Guard, and told the Constable he would secure him, and carried him along with him. The Con∣stable asked him whether he should go along with him to give in his Evidence: He replied, That he had done enough, and might go home. But what became of the Frenchman he knoweth not.

Your humble Servant, S. G.