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FIRE FROM HEAVEN: The Life of an English Town in the Seventeenth Century

FIRE FROM HEAVEN: The Life of an English Town in the Seventeenth Century - 1992

by Underdown, David

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London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1992. Pp. xii+308, upper endpaper map and pictorial lower endpapers, notes, index; med. 8vo; brown boards, spine lettered in gilt, the boards a trifle canted, bottom fore-corner of lower board slightly bruised; dust wrapper; name in ink at head of upper free endpaper, a little light foxing; HarperCollins Publishers, London, 1992. First edition. *In August 1613, much of the town of Dorchester was destroyed in a conflagration which its inhabitants regarded as a 'fire from heaven'. This book 'traces the way in which the tolerant, paternalistic Elizabethan town oligarchy was quickly replaced by a group of men who had a vision of a godly community in which power was to be exercised according to religious commitment, rather than wealth or rank. The succeeded, briefly, in making Dorchester a place which could boast systems of education and of assisting the sick and needy nearly three hundred years in advance of their time' [wrapper blurb].
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