POPE JOAN English anti-Papacy pamphlet of the early 18th century, portraying the supposed Pope Joan giving birth to a child, in public. The doggerel beneal the illustration reads: A Woman Pope (as History doth tell) In High Procession Shee in Labour fell, And was Deliverd of a Baitard Son; Thens Rome some call The Whore of Baylon.

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