Alternatively, he was going to use his Lilliputian firehose.
Saturday 30 June, 1666
Samuel Pepys used a parenthetical aside to slam the Lord Mayor. His diary records that Sir Thomas Bludworth is "a silly man, I think".
Sunday 2 September, 1666
Bludworth is woken and told of the start of the Great Fire. He insists "a woman might piss it out". Pepys proven right.
Samuel Pepys used a parenthetical aside to slam the Lord Mayor. His diary records that Sir Thomas Bludworth is "a silly man, I think".
Sunday 2 September, 1666
Bludworth is woken and told of the start of the Great Fire. He insists "a woman might piss it out". Pepys proven right.