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Yet the fellow, who,
though a mopish besotted fellow, did not speak like a madman, did
swear that he did fire it: and did not this like a madman; for
being tried on purpose and landed with his keeper at the Town-
Wharf, he could carry the keeper to the very house. Asking Sir
R. Viner what he thought was the cause of the fire, he tells me,
that the baker, son, and his daughter, did all swear again and
again, that their oven was drawn by ten o'clock at night: that
having occasion to light a candle about twelve, there was not so
much fire in the bakehouse as to light a match for a candle, so
that they were fain to go into another place to light it: that
about two in the morning they felt themselves almost choked with
smoke, and rising did find the fire coming upstairs; so they rose
to save themselves; but that at that time the bavins were not on
fire in the yard. So that they are, as they swear, in absolute
ignorance how this fire should come; which is a strange thing,
that so horrid an effect should have so mean and uncertain a
beginning.


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