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Curiosities and wonders - Early works to 1800
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A notable and prodigious historie of a mayden : who for sundry yeeres neither eateth, drinketh, nor sleepeth, neyther auoydeth any excrements, and yet liueth. A matter sufficiently opened and auerred, by the proceedings, examinations, and dilligent informations thereof, taken ex officio by the magistrate. And since by the order of the said magistrate printed and published in high Dutch, and after in French, and nowe lastlie translated into English. 1589.
Date: Anno. M.D.LXXXIX. [1589]- Books
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A strange and lamentable accident that happened lately at Mears-Ashby in Northamptonshire. 1642 : Of one Mary Wilmore, wife to Iohn Wilmore rough mason, who was delivered of a childe without a head, and credibly reported to have a firme crosse on the brest, as this ensuing story shall relate.
Locke, John, ClericDate: 1642- Books
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A Strange and wonderful relation of a clap of thunder : which lately set fire to the dwelling-house of one Widow Rosingrean, living in the town of Ewloe, in the parish of Howerden in the county of Flint ... : also another relation of a sow of one John Bartington's of Broad-Lane in the same town.
Date: 1677