...ground. Miraculously, the diplomat Sir Henry Wotton wrote in a letter to his nephew Sir Edmund Bacon, 'nothing did perish but wood and straw and a few forsaken...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale.' Another account...

...than a hour the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale. (Quoted in...

...than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale. No injuries...

...house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet did nothing perish but wood and straw and a few forsaken cloaks,...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale.72 In Wotton's...

...than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,...had his breeches set on fire that would perhaps have broiled him if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale. Letter from...