The Great Fire of London (1666) broke out at Master Farryner’s, the king’s baker, in Pudding Lane, and after three nights and three days was arrested at Pie Corner. St. Paul’s Cathedral, eighty-nine other churches, and 13,200 houses were burnt down.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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