By Michael Mainelli Samuel Pepys fundamentally shaped how we think about the City, let’s celebrate him this Pepys day, writes Lord Mayor Michael Mainelli Jane called us up about three in the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City… I down to the water-side, and there got a boat and through bridge, and there saw a lamentable fire.” So wrote Samuel Pepys of the Great Fire of London which destroyed much of the City, 358 years ago today. He was not merely a witness to the fire; he was the one who brought the command from the King to the Lord Mayor at the time – Sir Thomas Bloodwor…