 As his body was being handed to the Company of Barber-Surgeons for dissection, it was torn apart by a crowd of Londoners.It was hoped that with Hubert's death, "the talk of plots and conspiracies might die with him".In 1667, after the need for scapegoats had died down, the fire was officially attributed to 'the hand of God, a great wind and a very dry season...'.