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From the above it would appear that even in Head's days there was a desire for earlier manuscripts about Mother Shipton.

Chemists will appreciate the novelty of the distilling operation, in which, on the application of heat as described, water came over before alcohol.

The Richard Head, who has so long misdirected the thoughts of large numbers of people, was the son of a minister in Ireland. Head's father was massacred "with many thousands more" in 1641. Mrs. Head then brought her son to England, and he