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Fortunes of Fire
 
October 1598
Edmund Spenser(1552-1599)
Kilcolman Castle (including 3,000 acres) had been granted tothe poet Spenser, who refurbished and occupied the castle from
1588 to 1598, when Tyrone’
s rebellion burned Kilcolman.
Spenser’
s family fled, the poet soon dying in London, and thecastle was finally abandoned after a second fire after 1622.
 
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1613
 W. Shakespere(1564-1616)
During a performance of 
Henry VIII,
a cannon was used to markthe King
’
s entrance which fatefully set fire to a beam; in turnignited the thatch of the roof, and so set alight the entire Globetheatre, which was destroyed within an hour.
 
December
 
1621
 On December 9, 1621, the Fortune theatreburned to the ground, taking with it the acting
company’s stock of plays and
properties.
 
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September 1666
Sir Francis Bacon(1561-1626)
On September 1, 1666, a Saturday night or early Sunday
morning, Thomas Farriner, a King’s baker, came home and
would swear blind, a few dayslater, that he had swept theoven to make sure that therewere no embers there. In thenext few hours, the basementof his house began to fill with smoke. He was then forced tocrawl across the roofs of his house into his neighbour
’
s, andso started one of the greatest turning points in London'shistory, the
“
Great Fire of London.
”
In a direct line of the fire was Bacon
’s
House.
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1678 / 1684
Francis Bacon
’s chambers, says
historianPearce, were in No. 1 Coney Court,which formerly stood on the site of thepresent row of buildings at the west side
of Gray’s Inn Square adjoining the
gardens. The whole of Coney Court wasburnt down by a fire in 1678. Anotherfire further wounded the chambers whenMeautys (
Bacon’s
Secretary) tookpossession of them in 1684.
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