The strange and wonderful prophecies of Mother Shipton: plainly setting forth her prodigious birth, life, death, and burial / [Anon].

  • Shipton, Mother (Ursula), approximately 1488-1561.
Date:
[1700?]
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Credit: The strange and wonderful prophecies of Mother Shipton: plainly setting forth her prodigious birth, life, death, and burial / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it Agatha, for that time, was difmis’d } d loon after (in the month of July, in . ,e fourth ]year of the reign of King bhnry VII. which was in the year of our lord 16S 8 was brought to bed of a daughter: Her travail was very grievous, and a mold terrible clap of thunder hap¬ pen'd juft as fhe was delivered of.this ft range birth, which afterwards was lo famous by the name of Mother Shipton • nor could the tempeft affright the w^rnan more than the prodigious phyfi. ^iiorny of the child • the body was long and very big boned, great gogling eyes, very fharp and fiery, a noie of unproportionable length, having in it many crooks and turnings, adorned with great pimples, and which, like vapours of brimftone, gave ; inch a luftre in the night, that her nurfe | needed no other candle to dreis her by ; land befides this nncooth fhspe, it was [oblerved, that as foon as fhe was t>orn, RfHe fell a laughing and grinning afrer a I, jeering manner, and immediately after the fembeft.