'Red sky at morning, shepherd’s warning…’ Friday 7th May 1585. In the small suburban town of Darlington, in the Bishopric of Durham, its residents were waking up to another hot and sultry day. A drought had been upon them for days, and as they looked up from their chamber-windows, they could see that the heavens were cast in dark crimson shades. God was angry. Little were they prepared for His vengeance for when at noon, that same day, their beloved town would be set ablaze, as if ‘sent by heaven’ itself...

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