A short history of England . eordinary arrangements for funerals were no longer practicable, andwagons were sent by the city authorities through the streets atnight, the driver ringing a bell and calling out, Bring out yourdead. The Plague has been made familiar through the well-known description contained in Drydens poem Annus Mirabilis,and in the account written afterwards by Defoe, the author ofRobinson Crusoe. 441. The Great Fire.—One of the other events which ledDryden to speak of 1665-1666 as the wonderful year wasthe terrible fire which raged for three days over the most closelybuilt pa
A short history of England . eordinary arrangements for funerals were no longer practicable, andwagons were sent by the city authorities through the streets atnight, the driver ringing a bell and calling out, Bring out yourdead. The Plague has been made familiar through the well-known description contained in Drydens poem Annus Mirabilis,and in the account written afterwards by Defoe, the author ofRobinson Crusoe. 441. The Great Fire.—One of the other events which ledDryden to speak of 1665-1666 as the wonderful year wasthe terrible fire which raged for three days over the most closelybuilt parts of London. Almost the whole of the ancient city wasswept away. St. Pauls Cathedral and most of the other buildings 494 A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND which had made up the London of the middle ages, of QueenElizabeth, and of the early Stuart period were destroyed. Lon-don, therefore, has fewer mediaeval remains than any other oldcity of Europe. The fire caused terrible loss and privation, but there were some St. Pauls Cathedral In the first place the germs ofthe Plague wereeffectually de-stroyed, and in thesecond place thestreets were madewider and thehouses morehealthful as thecity was rebuilt. 442. Architec-ture and Painting.— Plans weremade for a resto-ration of the cityon one great sys-tem, and, althoughthese were notcarried out, yet anadmirable oppor-tunity was givenfor the erectionof new was a time of much interest in architecture and there were in England severalarchitects of ability and originality. Of these Sir ChristopherWren was the most famous. He had been trained in Italy andwas imbued with admiration for the work of the Italian Renais-sance. The works on architecture also which had the greatestreputation at this time were written by Italians. Most of the RESTORATION AND REVOLUTION OF 168S 495 building of the later seventeenth century, therefore, both in thecountry and in the burned city, was of this style. St. PaulsCathedral as we
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