...consisted principally of wood :—taking the words of Sir Henry Wotton, in a Letter to a Friend, " it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming,...within less than an hour, the whole house to the very ground ;" and in a letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Ralph Winwood, dated the twelfth of July 1613,...

...wherwith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and rart round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very ground. This...

...stuff wherewith one of them did light on the thatch, where being thonght at first but an idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled...train, consuming within less than an hour the whole bouse to the very ground. " This was the fatal period of that vertuons fabrique, wherein yet nothing...

...at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the stuff did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoke, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming within an hour the whole house to the very...

...King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and. certain canons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff wherewith one of them did light on the thatch, where being thought at lirsi but an idle stnoak , and their eyes more attentive...

...King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff, wherewith...the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming...

...house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff, wherwith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like atrain, consuming...

...King Henry mailing a masque at the Cardinal Woolsey's house, and certain canons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did lighten the thatch, where, being thought at first but an idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive...

...at the cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the stuff did light on the thatch, where, being thought at first but an idle smoke, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming, within an hour, the whole house to the...

...house, and certain cannons being shot off iit his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff, wherwith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round likeatrain, consuming...