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Now arrived Patty , in the autumn of 1706 , and Charles , in December , 1707 . A third was expected , and shortly , when in the night of February 9th , 1709 , the parsonage took fire again and burned to the ground in fifteen minutes . On Wednesday last , at half an hour after eleven at night , in a quarter of an hour 's time or less , my house at Epworth was burned down to the ground -- I hope by accident ; but God knows all . We had been brewing , but had done all ; every spark of fire quenched before five o'clock that evening -- at least six hours before the house was on fire . Perhaps the chimney above might take fire -LRB- though it had been swept not long since -RRB- and break through into the thatch . Yet it is strange I should neither see nor smell anything of it , having been in my study in that part of the house till above half an hour after ten . Then I locked the doors of that part of the house where my wheat and other corn lay , and went to bed .