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Fire From Heaven

            In Fire from Heaven, Underdown talks of how many Catholics suffered greatly because of their beliefs during the late 16th and early 17th centuries in England. However, in the first chapter he describes how the devout Catholics believed that the hardships their oppressors encountered were brought on by God in retaliation for them persecuting his people, the Catholics. There are discrepancies however between the book and the historical account given by Hutchins. In the book Underdown talks of the first retaliation coming in 1597. He does not specify what happened however by reading the historical records we can see that a famine occurred during this approximate time period. We can infer that this is what he is referring to even though he does not specify. Next there was a fire in Dorset in August of 1613, which Underdown does not recognize here. The Catholics believed strongly this was again their God sticking up for them. The Catholics felt very strongly that this was a sign from their God to persevere. He uses the city records to show that many Catholics felt the way he stated they believed.
             The next footnote followed a hilarious lewd story. We learn of a man named Roger Buck who was burnt after exposing himself in the candlelight. He died a few months later. His death was possibly related to the burn that was sustained. The footnote referred me to William Whiteway's diary. In it I read of how two of the people who incited Roger Buck to expose himself received punishment. One of them had to spend a month in a sort of prison and both of them had to bare penance openly. The source here is used to prove his point that even after all these years of trying to keep away the merriment it could not be done. It was still around.
             We learn of the beggars and the hardships faced by the lower class of the citizens in Dorchester. Recorder Ashley put a certain man in the workhouse because he had been "loitering and begging two days together.


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