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The Jesuites firing-plot revived: or, A warning to house-keepers. : Being the full and true relation how Elizabeth Owen, on the 8th of this instant November, set fire to the house of one Mr. Cooper, living in Fleetstreet between S. Dunstans Church and Fetter-lane-end: she being a servant in the said house. With an account how she broke open and robbed several trunks, into which she put several lighted candles, which fired both the rafters and floors of the garrets. With the manner how it came to be discovered: and her cloathes found ready bundled up among other things. As also her examination, confession and commitment to Newgate, in order to her tryal