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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    By what name Mother Shipton was co tjiewd. and how her nut her went bi o a monadry. TP H E child being thus brought into ** the world, ai ier f ich ffornge cir- cumftmces, was/ tho’ not without fopie oopofition ordered at lift, b/ the \b bpt of Beverley, tobechrifteaed, which was performed by the name of (Jrfula Sea- tbiel, for the latter was her mother's and confequently her maiden furname ; and as for Ship ton, it was the name of her hat¬ band, whom fhe afterwards married as will appear in the fequel of this hiftory ; and in this particular, moft of the authors I hive read have been fully miitaken. but to preceded: when fhe was about two years old, mother coming to be fen- fible of her evil, in holding a correfpoft- denev whkh a wicked ipirit, applying herfelf to feve-ral religious men oi great note in-.thofe times, by whole g^ve advice ihe grew true]y penitent, and according ..to the fafnion of that age’s devotion) put herfelf into a neighbouring monaftery, having firft put out her child, with a