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The life and death of Mother Shipton : being not only a true account of her strange birth and most important passages of her life, but also all her prophesies, now newly collected and historically experienced 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 ... : strangely preserved amongst other writings belonging to an old monastary in York-shire, and now published for the information of posterity.
Van Pelt - Microtext STC II Reel 103:1.
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?
- Series:
- Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 103:1.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shipton, Mother (Ursula), approximately 1488-1561.
- Shipton.
- Prophets--England--Biography.
- Prophets.
- Prophecies.
- England.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 50 pages
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for B. Harris ..., 1677.
- Notes:
- Illustrated t.p.
- Signed on p. [4]: R. Head.
- Mother Shipton, reputed prophetess, is in all likelihood a wholly mythical personage, and the work an "imaginary biography". Cf. DNB.
- Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1963. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 103:1)
- Cited in:
- Wing H1257
- OCLC:
- 12159493
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