claiming to have been an eye-witness at the time, produced an explicitly providentialist account in The Fatal Vespers: A True and Full Narrative of that Signal Judgement of God upon the Papists, by the Fall of the House in Black Friers, London, Upon Their Fifth of November, 1623 (London, 1657; reprinted 1817). Notes References Alexandra Walsham, "Fatal Vespers", Past & Present 144 (1994), pp. 36–87. Attribution Disasters in London 1623 in England Building collapses in the United Kingdom 17th century in London History of the City of London 1623 disasters