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Six Centuries of English Poetry

Note 2 — THE FIRE OF LONDON.

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source unknown. "It was ascribed by the rage of the people either to the Republicans or the Catholics, especially the latter. An inscription on the monument, intended to perpetuate this groundless suspicion, was erased by James II., but restored at the Revolution."—Warton.

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