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THE HIST OR Y OF L ONDON  27

Newton’s Telescope Where to See
Physicist and astronomer
Sir Isaac Newton Restoration London
(1642–1727) Wren’s churches and his St Paul’s
formulated the Cathedral (see p51 and pp152–5) are,
law of gravity. with Inigo Jones’s Banqueting House
(see p84), London’s most famous
Samuel Pepys 17th-century buildings. Other fine
His exuberant examples are Lincoln’s Inn (see
diaries tell us p140) and Cloth Fair (see p168). The
much about The Tower of London Museum of London (see pp170–71)
courtly life was just out of the has a period interior. The British
of the time. fire’s reach. Museum (see pp128–31) and the
V&A (see pp214–17) have large
pottery, silver and textile collections.

Ham House (see p258) was built
in 1610 but much enlarged later
in the century. It has the finest
interior of its time in England.

The Great Fire of 1666
An unidentified Dutch artist painted this view of the fire,
which burned for five days, destroying 13,000 houses.

The Plague
During 1665, carts Peter Paul Rubens painted the
collected the dead ceiling in 1636 for Inigo Jones’s
and took them to Banqueting House (see p84). This
communal graves is one of its panels.
outside the city.

1664–5 Plague 1685 Charles II dies, 1692 First
kills 100,000 Catholic James II insurance market
becomes king opens at Lloyd’s
1666
Great Fire
1650 1660 1670 1680 1690
1660 Monarchy
restored under A barber’s bowl made by 1688 James ousted in
Charles II favour of Protestant 1694 First Bank of England set up
London potters in 1681. William of Orange by William Paterson

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