The life and death of Mother Shipton. Being not only a true account 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, and now published for the information of posterity. Licens'd and entred [sic] according to order

People / Organizations

• Richard Head (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for W. Harris, and are to be sold by him in Dunnings-Alley, without Bishops-Gate, 1687.

Publication year

1687

ESTC No.

R337

Grub Street ID

116283

Description

[10], 30 p. : : ill., port. ; 4°.

Note

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.".