The Washington Post, August 2nd, 1992
FIRE FROM HEAVEN Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century By David Underdown Yale. 308 pp. $28.50 ON AN AUGUST afternoon in 1613 the town of Dorchester, a few miles north of the English Channel in the county of Dorset, was nearly destroyed by fire. Only one person was killed but, David Underdown writes, "the impact of the disaster was still profound." About half the town's buildings burned to the ground and financial losses were considerable, but "the physical and financial impact of the great fire was . . . far less striking than its emotional and spiritual impact." Townspeople beli...
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