Thomas Bludworth Quotes
Why did you wake me? A serving lady could piss out that fire.
The fire turned out to be The Great Fire of London which burned most of the city to the ground. Bludworth’s inaction and indecision are blamed as one of the reasons the fire got out of control.
Thomas Bludworth, 1693-1694, Lord Mayor of London, Question of his assistant who wakened him to see the fire that was burning in London, 1666
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