The life and death of Mother Shipton : 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.

Format:

• Microformat

Author/Creator:

• Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?

Series:

• Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 789:32.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Shipton, Mother (Ursula), approximately 1488-1561.
• Prophets--England--Biography.
• Prophets.
• Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603.
• Great Britain.
• History.
• Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714.
• England.

Genre:

• Biographies.

Physical Description:

• 10 unnumbered pages, 30 pages : illustrations, portrait
• 35 mm
• monochrome
• service copy
• positive

Place of Publication:

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

Notes:

• 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.
• Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1978. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 789:32)

Cited in:

Wing H1259

OCLC:

13650433