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Record Nr.

UNISA996387161203316

Autore

Head Richard <1637?-1686?>

Titolo

The life and death of Mother Shipton [[electronic resource] ] : being not only a true account of her life but also of her strange birth, the most important passages of her life but also all her prophesies, 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 Eighth, 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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

Descrizione fisica

[10], 30 p. : ill., port

Soggetti

Prophets - England

Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603

Great Britain History Stuarts, 1603-1714

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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."  Cf. DNB.

"Licens'd and entered according to order."

Reproduction of original in Duke University Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0040