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Past, Present, and to Come: or, Mother Shipton’s Yorkshire Prophecy. Privately preserv’d in the Noble Family of the P--s’s for a Long Course of Years, and lately discovered amongst other valuabl


Book Description
First edition, [22], [2]pp., with the final advert leaf, engraved frontispiece, lightly soiled, disbound.
Dealer Notes
“Mother Shipton was Ursula Southill (or Sowthiel, or Southiel), the incredibly ugly daughter of Agatha Southill, known locally herself as a powerful witch. She is supposed to have been born in a cave at Dropping Well, Knaresborough, Yorkshire, in 1488, and because of her unfortunate appearance and reputed powers, was widely rumoured to be the child of Satan.
Sometime about 1512, she married a wealthy builder from York named Tobias Shipton. She soon attained considerable notoriety throughout England as “The Northern Prophetess,” and her prognostications received great public attention, were printed in pamphlets, and were widely distributed.”-James Randi, An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, 1995.
Sometime about 1512, she married a wealthy builder from York named Tobias Shipton. She soon attained considerable notoriety throughout England as “The Northern Prophetess,” and her prognostications received great public attention, were printed in pamphlets, and were widely distributed.”-James Randi, An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, 1995.
Author
MOTHER SHIPTON.
Date
1740
Publisher
London: Printed for F. Noble,
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