The  fecond  efcape  from  death,  when  ^  babe,
^as  a^  follows :  Being  one  pight  faft  alleep  in  bed^

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the  maid  who  attended  me^  aad  conftafDtly  lay  by
mc,  ncgledling  to  extinguiQi  her  candle  when  (he  lay
<lown,  the  candleftick  being  fp  placed  by  the  mai^
that  the  candle  burning  down  nea,r  the  focket^  or
by  fome  accidental  motion  of.  hers,  when  afleep,
throwing  the  candle  down  into  the  bed,  the  fheets
and  other  bedclothes  took  fire,  which  prevailed
fo  far,  that  the  bed,  Iheets,  rugg,  and  mat,  were
fpoiled  and  unfit  for  uft  ever  afterwards.     The  maid
and  I  faft  aflcep,  both  infenfible  of  the  apparent
danger  wc  were  in,  it  plcafed  God  that  my  father,
being  awakened  in  bed,  fmelt  the  fcent  of  burnings
which  wa$  fo  hot  in  his  nofe^i  that  he  feared  danger
by  fire,  it  being  in  the  dead  of  the  night.     The
whole  family  buried  in  fleep  except  himfelf,  he  could
not  reft,  but  gets  up  in  his  (hirt,  goes  from  chamr
ber  to  chamber  to  fearch  out  where  the  fire  ftiould
be  i  and,  coming  at  length  to  the  chamber  where  I
lay,  he  finds  the  room  all  in  a  fmother,  the  bed  and
clothes  all  on  fire,  and  the  maid  and  I  faft  afleep.
