Great Fire of London the confession of a simple-minded French watchmaker named Robert Hubert, who claimed that he was an agent of the Pope and had started the Great Fire in Westminster. He later changed his story to say that he had started the fire at the bakery in Pudding Lane. Hubert was convicted, despite some misgivings about his fitness to plead, and hanged at Tyburn on 28 September 1666. After his death, it became apparent that he had been on board a ship in the North Sea, and had not arrived in London until two days after the fire started. These allegations that
Angel Street, London Angel Street, London Angel Street, once Angell Street, is a short street in the City of London that runs between King Edward Street in the west and St. Martin's Le Grand in the east. The street is recorded on John Ogilby and William Morgan's "Large Scale Map of the City As Rebuilt By 1676" which shows the plan of London after its rebuilding following the Great Fire of London in 1666. Today the street is made up on the north side of the former post office buildings of 1 St Martin's Le Grand and on the south side of the