The true description of two monsterous chiildren : laufully begotten betwene George Steuens and Margerie his wyfe, and borne in the parish of Swanburne in Buckingham shyre, the. iiii. of Aprill. Anno Domini. 1566, the two children havuing both their belies fast ioyned together, and imbraycyng one an other with their armes: which children wer both a lyue by the space of half an hower, and wer baptized, and named the one John, and the other Joan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mellys, John.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballads, English--16th century.

Ballads, English.

Conjoined twins--Early works to 1800.

Conjoined twins.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Imprinted at London : By Alexander Lacy, for William Lewes: dwellyng in Cow lane aboue Holborne cundit, ouer against the signe of the Plough, [1566]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Signed: Iohn Mellys Nor.

Verse - "Read how affrique land was fraught".

Publication date from STC.

Woodcut illustration at head of title page.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1606:21) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

STC (2nd edition) 17803.

Access Restriction:

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