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Of her Birth and Parentage.

OTHER SHIPTON, as all hitories agree, was a Yorkhire woman. The particular place was very much diputed, becaue everal towns have pretended to the honour of her birth; but the mot credible and received opinion acribes it to Knareborough, near the the dropping well, in the aid county. Concerning her pedigree, or parentage, there is likewie very various reports; ome ay her father was a Necromancer, and that he had kill in the black art, which thereby became entailed on her by inheritance; but the