1 April 1689: Miraculous extinction of a roof fire at Thrybergh Hall
John Reresby. 1875. The Memoirs of Sir John Reresby of Thrybergh, Bart., M.P. for York, etc., 1634-1689. Ed. James J. Cartwright. London: Longmans, Green, and Company. Get it:
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A servant going into the lofts of Thrybergh Hall, discovered that a fire had been not long before begun there, occasioned by an end of a beam fixed in a chimney, which took fire from the heat, and was burnt down and all the ends of the spars which rested upon it, and yet by the mercy and providence of Almighty God, for all the said wood fell down burning amongst other wood and lathes (which made the roof of the rooms) it extinguished of itself and went no further, nobody knowing either when it began or when it ceased—a good omen; I hope that it is God’s will that Thrybergh house shall yet stand.
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Abbreviations:
- ER: East Riding
- GM: Greater Manchester
- NR: North Riding
- NY: North Yorkshire
- SY: South Yorkshire
- WR: West Riding
- WY: West Yorkshire
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A servant going into the lofts of Thrybergh Hall, discovered that a fire had been not long before begun there, occasioned by an end of a beam fixed in a chimney, which took fire from the heat, and was burnt down and all the ends of the spars which rested upon it, and yet by the mercy and providence of Almighty God, for all the said wood fell down burning amongst other wood and lathes (which made the roof of the rooms) it extinguished of itself and went no further, nobody knowing either when it began or when it ceased—a good omen; I hope that it is God’s will that Thrybergh house shall yet stand.
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