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Fatal Vespers
The Fatal Vespers is the name given to a disaster in, Blackfriars, London, at the French ambassador's house in the year 1623. The floor of an upper room in the house collapsed under the weight of three hundred people who were attending a religious service, leading to nearly a hundred casualties.
==Event==
On the afternoon Sunday, 5 November (N.S.) 1623 about three hundred persons assembled in an upper room at the French ambassador's residence, Hunsdon House, Blackfriars, for the purpose of participating in a religious service by Robert Drury and William Whittingham, two Jesuits.〔"26th October, 1623, ''stilo antiquo'', and the 5th November, ''stilo novo'' "〕
While Drury was preaching the great weight of the crowd in the old room suddenly snapped the main summer-beam of the floor, which instantly crashed in and fell into the room below. The main beams there also snapped and broke through to the ambassador's drawing-room over the gate-house, a distance of twenty-two feet. Part of the floor, being less crowded, stood firm, and the people on it cut a way through a plaster wall into a neighbouring room. The two Jesuits were killed on the spot. About ninety-five persons lost their lives, while many others sustained serious injuries.
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