The life and death of Mother Shipton
Subtitle: being not only a true account of her life but also of her strange birth, the most important passages of her life but also all her prophesies, now newly collected and historically explained, from the time of her birth in the reign of King Henry the Seventh until this present year 1667 : containing the most important passages of state during the reign of these kings and queens of England following, viz., Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles the First, King Charles the Second : strangely preserved amongst other writings belonging to an old monastry in York-shire
Series: Early English books online; Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 789:32
Publisher: Printed for W. Harris and are to be sold by him ...
Published: 1687
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Prophets; Biography; History
Notes: Preface signed: R. Head.

Mother Shipton, "Reputed prophetess, is, in all likelihood, a wholly mythical personage. No reference to her of earlier date than 1641 is extant." Cf. DNB.

"Licens'd and entered according to order."

Wing H1259