Question

What does samuel pepys have to say about the lord mayor?

Answer 1

Sir William Bolton became Lord Mayor of London shortly after the fire in November 1666. He was responsible for the fire relief fund which had been collected at churches across the country on 10 October. Destitute Londoners could apply to him for money from the fund, though at only £12,000, it could not compensate for the estimated £10 million cost of the fire. Disgracefully, Bolton was convicted of embezzling large sums of money from the fund in December 1667, something which Pepys describes as 'the greatest piece of roguery that they say was ever found in a Lord Mayor'.