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7 delivered of this trange birth, which afterwards was o famous by the name of Mother Shipton; nor could the tempet affright the woman more than the prodigious phyiognomy of the child; the body was long and very harp and fiery, a noe of unproportionable length having in it in many crooks and turnings, adorned with great pimples, and which like vapours of brimtone, gave uch a lutre in the night, that her nure needed no other candle to dres her by; and beides this uncouth hape, it was obeved, that as oon as he was born, he fell a laughing and grining after a jeering manner, and immediately after the tempet ceaed. CHAP. III.

By what name Mother Shipton was chritened and how her Mother went into a Monaftery. THE child being thus brought into the world, under such trange circumtances; was though not without ome oppoition, ordered at lat, by the Abbot of Beverly, to be chritened,