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 following, viz. Henry the Eighth. Edward the Sixth Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth. King James. King Charles the First. King Charles the Second. Strangely preserve amongst other writings belonging to an old monastary in York-shire, and now published for the information of posterity

People / Organizations

• Richard Head (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for B. Harris, at the Stationers Arms in Sweethings-Ally near the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1677.

Publication year

1677

ESTC No.

R16009

Grub Street ID

63898

Description

[6], 50 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 4°

Note

The words "Henry the Eighth. ... Queen Elizabeth." are enclosed in brackets and the words "King James. ... King Charles the Second." are bracketed together on title page

With a title-page woodcut

Signed on A2v: R. Head

Mother Shipton, reputed prophetess, is in all likelihood a wholly mythical personage, and the work an "imaginary biography". Cf. DNB.

Uncontrolled note

Line 1 of imprint poorly printed. If possible, veryify "Sweethings-Ally"