[Picture: Pie Corner]
West Smithfield, where you see the white projecting house, as it was left
after the fire of London, which took place at midnight, 2d September,
1666, and burnt with unabated fury till the 10th of the same month.
There is also, at the corner of the lane, against a public house called
the Fortune of War, a figure of a boy carved in wood, on which was
painted an inscription to commemorate the event, and also stating the
calamity to have been a punishment on the city for the sin of gluttony;
but this being since considered a vulgar error, is not painted on the new
figure, which in other respects is exactly like the old figure first put
up.