The wonder of wonders. Or the strange birth in Hampshire. Being an exact, true, and perfect relation of one A.B. living in a country parish neer the town of Rumsey in Hampshire: relating how the said person was strangely brought to bed gthe 18th. of November last; with a live toad, a terrible serpent, and a dead child, having some part of its head and face, and other parts devoured by the serpent in the mothers womb, where at this strange birth the midwife and other women being more bolder in spirit took the toad and serpent and burned them, and buried the child i a decent manner: the said midwife and other women have testified for the truth of this relation. Tune of, My bleeding heart. By T.L
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London]: Printed for for J. Hose, and E. Oliver, and are to be sold at their shops, in Holbourn, and on Snow-hill, [1675?
- Publication year
- 1675
- ESTC No.
- R179341
- Grub Street ID
- 70805
- Description
- 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcut) ; obl. 1/2°.
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- T.L. = Thomas Lanfiere
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