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Author Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?

Title The life and death of Mother Shipton [microform] : being not only a true account of her strange birth; the most important passages of her life; but also all her prophecies, now newly collected, and historically explained, from the time of her birth, in the reign of King Henry the Seventh, until this present year 1667. Containing the most important passages of state during the reign of these kings and queens of England following, viz. Henry the Fighth. Edward the Sixth Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth. King James King Charles the First. King Charles the Second. Strangely preserved amongst other writings belonging to an old monastry in York-shire, and now published for the information of posterity. Licens'd and entred according to order.

Imprint London : Printed for W. Harris, and are to be sold by him, 1687.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Basement Library of English Literature Microfiche Cabinets  LEL 40162    ---  Available
Description [6], 30 p. : ill.
Series Library of English literature ; LEL 40162
Note Includes table of contents.
Decorative head- and tailpieces.
Preface signed: R. Head.
Mother Shipton, "reputed prophetess, is, in all likelihood, a wholly mythical personage. No reference to her of earlier date than 1641 is extant."--Dictionary of national biography.
Reproduction Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 40162)
Subject Shipton, Mother (Ursula)
Added Title Mother Shipton.

 
    
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