Chap-books of the eighteenth century . Thus all her Art at length could not her save. From deaths dire stroke, and mouldring in the Grave. THE HISTORY OF MOTHER SHIPTON. Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London, ( 89 ) THE HISTORY OF MOTHER SHIPTON. All tradition agrees with the Chap-book version, that MotherShipton was born at Knaresborough, in Yorkshire. Accordingto this Chap-book, her father was the devil, and she was bornin 1488, in a violent storm of thunder and lightning. Thestrange physiognomy of the infant frighted the gossips; itsbody was long, and very big boned, great goggl
Chap-books of the eighteenth century . Thus all her Art at length could not her save. From deaths dire stroke, and mouldring in the Grave. THE HISTORY OF MOTHER SHIPTON. Printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London, ( 89 ) THE HISTORY OF MOTHER SHIPTON. All tradition agrees with the Chap-book version, that MotherShipton was born at Knaresborough, in Yorkshire. Accordingto this Chap-book, her father was the devil, and she was bornin 1488, in a violent storm of thunder and lightning. Thestrange physiognomy of the infant frighted the gossips; itsbody was long, and very big boned, great goggling, sharp andfiery eyes, and unproportionable nose, full of crooks, turningsand red pimples, which gave such light that needed not acandle to dress her by ; as it was likewise observed that as soonas she was born, she fell a grinning and laughing after a jeeringmanner; and immediately the tempest ceased. This interestingchild was christened by the Abbot of Beverley by the name ofUrsula, and she took the surname of Sontibles, after her mother,who, when her child was two years old, repented of her evilways, and retired to the convent of St Bridget, near Nottingham
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