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8 which was performed by the name of Urula Seathiel, for the latter was her mother's and conequently her maiden irname; as for Shipton, it was the name of her busband whom he afterwards married, as will appear in the equel of this hitory, and in thee particulars mot of the authors I have read have been fully mistaken But to proceed, when he was about two years old, her mother coming to be enible of her evil, in holding a correpondence with a wicked fpirit, applying herelf to everal religious men of great note in thoe times, by whoe grave advice he grew truly penitent, and, according to the fahion of that age's devotion, put herelf into a neighbouring monatry, having put out her child, with a piece of money, to a friend, and o pent the remainder of her days in the famous convent of the order of St Bridget; near Nottingham, in prayers and tears, and other acts of penance to expiate the wickednes of her youth; but wonderful it is to relate the troubles that befel the nure he was put to; for her father the foul fiend, is reported everal times to have viited her;