Natures wonder? Or, [An ac]count how the wife of one John Waterman an ostler ... was delivered of a strage monster upon the 26th of October 1664 ... It had two heads, foure armes, and two legs ... She had another child born before it ...which is yet living, and is a very comely child in all proportions. This is attested for truth, by several persons which were eye witnesses. The tune is, London prentice: Or, Jovial batchelor.

5. wonders in the month of July 1691 a faithful narrative of the several strange prodigious signs and wonderful appearances & accidents, which have lately hapned in several parts of England, both from the heavens, earth, and water : being a relation of I. A prodigious thunder and lightning at a place call'd Everton ..., II. A whale, or sea-monster, of prodigious size, near Newcastle ..., III. Of a strange and wonderful apparition of armies on the land, near the city of Exeter ..., IV. Of a terrible tempest ..., V. Of a most strange and wonderful apparition of armies in the air ...

January 1691

12 p."Licensed according to order."Advertisement: p. 12.Imperfect: tightly bound, with some loss of ...

Strange newes of a prodigious monster borne in the towneship of Allington in the parish of Standish in the Countie of Lancaster, the 17. day of Aprill last, 1613. Testified by the reuerend diuine Mr. W. Leigh, Bachelor of Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word at Standish aforesaid.

January 1613

[16] p. : ill.Printer's and bookseller's names from STC.Leigh is only cited as a witness by an anony...

A description of a strange (and miraculous) fish cast upon the sands in the meads, in the hundred of Worwell, in the county Palatine of Chester, (or Chesshiere. The certainty whereof is here related concerning the said most monstrous fish. To the tune of Bragandary.

M. P. (Martin Parker), d. 1656?

1 sheet ([2] p.) : ill.Signed: M. P., i.e. Martin Parker.A ballad.In two parts.Suggested publication...

The wonder of wonders, or, The strange birth in Hampshire being an exact, true and perfect relation of one A.B. living in a country parish neer the town of Rumsey in Hampshire, relating how the said person was strangely brought to bed the 18th of November last with a live toad, a terrible serpent, and a dead child having some part of its head and face and othe parts devoured by the serpent in the mothers womb ... tune of, My bleeding heart / by T.L.

Lanfiere, Thomas.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcut)Caption title.Attributed to Thomas Lanfiere. Cf. Wing (2nd ed.).Rig...

The strange monster or, true news from Nottingham-shire of a strange monster born at Grasly in Nottingham-shire, three miles from Nottingham with a relation of his strange and wonderful shape, the time his mother was in travail with him, with several other things of note. Together with a brief relation of several monstrous and prodigious births which happened heretofore in this our nation. Licensed according to order.

January 1668

[2], 6 p., platesWith a folded leaf of plates.Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Lib...

Signes and wonders from heaven. With a true relation of a monster borne in Ratcliffe Highway, at the signe of the three Arrows, Mistris Bullock the midwife delivering here thereof. Also shewing how a cat kitned a monster in Lombard street in London. Likewise a new discovery of witches in Stepney parish. And how 20. witches more were executed in Suffoke this last assise. Also how the divell came to Soffam to a farmers house in the habit of a gentlewoman on horse-backe. With divers other strange remarkable passages.

[2], 5, [1] p.With a t.p. woodcut.Publication date from Wing.Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aug: 5".R...

The worlds wonder! or, The prophetical fish.: Being a full description of this monster, its length & breadth with predictions on it. As it was taken by fisher-men in the port of Cucanga, neer the province and kingdom of China, in the year 1664. and sent to the emperour of Germany, and from thence convey'd to his Royal Majesty, the king of Greeat Brittain, &c. To the tune of, When stormy winds do blow.

3 leaves ([3] p.) : ill.Contains two illustrations.Second leaf has separate imprint, and appears to ...

The Hartford-shire wonder. Or, Strange news from vvare being an exact and true relation of one Jane Stretton the danghter [sic] of Thomas Stretton, of ware in the county of Hartford, who hath been visited in a strange kind of manner by extraordinary and unusual fits, her abstaining from sustenance for the space of 9 months, being haunted by imps or devils in the form of several creatures here described the parties adjudged of all by whom she was thus tormented and the occasion thereof with many other remarkable things taken from her own mouth and confirmed by many credible witnesses.

M. Y.

January 1669

[4], 12 p."Courteous reader" signed: M.Y.Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library

Strange and wonderful news of the birth of a monstrous child with two heads, and three arms which was lately born at Attenree, in the county of Meath, in Ireland.

E. B.

January 1685

1 sheet ([2]) p.Caption title.Signed at end: E.B.Imprint from colophon."Dublin, January the 31th. 16...

A wonder of wonders. Being a faithful narrative and true relation of one Anne Green, servant to Sir Tho. Reed in Oxfordshire, who being got with child by a gentleman, her child falling from her in the house or office, being but a span long, and dead born, was condemned on the 14. of December last, and hanged in the castle-yard in Oxford, for the space of half and hour, receiving many great and heavy blowes on the brests, by the but end of the souldiers muskets, and being pul'd down by the leggs, and was afterwards beg'd for an anatomy, by the physicians, and carried to Mr. Clarkes house, an apothecary, where in the presence of many learned chyrurgions, she breathed, and began to stir; insomuch, that Dr. Petty caused a warm bed to be prepared for her, let her blood, and applyed oyls to her, so that in 14 hours she recovered, and the first words she spake were these; behold Gods providence! Behold his miraculous and loving kindness! VVith the manner of her tryal, her speech and confession at the gallowes; and a declaration of the souldiery touching her recovery. Witnessed by Dr. Petty, and licensed according to order.

Burdet, W.

[2], 6 p.Signed at end: W. Burdet.Imprint from Madan.Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan: 10. 1650".Re...

A Letter from an eminent merchant in Ostend containing an account of a strange and monstrous birth hapned there : a woman being brought to bed of two children which are joined together by the crowns of their heads : he being an eye-witness thereof.

January 1682

1 sheet ([2] p.)Caption title.Imprint from colophon."Dated May 7, Old Stile."Reproduction of origina...

Monstrosity, monument and multiplication: The lamenting Lady Margaret of Henneberg (and her 365 children) in Early Modern England

Reid, Lindsay Ann

August 2018

Extraordinary and fantastical stories about Margaret of Henneberg, a cursed thirteenth-century Count...

The Strange and dreadful relation of a horrible tempest of thunder and lightning and of strange apparitions in the air, accompanied with whirlwinds, gusts of hail and rain which happened on the tenth of this instant June, at a place near Wetherby in the County of York, with the account how the top of a strong oak ... was taken off by a sheet of fire ... : as likewise, another strange relation of a monstrous child ... born ... on the nineteenth of May last.

4 p.Caption title."Attested and confirmed by several persons of known worth and integrity."Imperfect...

The most strange and wounderfull apperation of blood in a poole at Garraton in Leicester-shire, which continued for the space of foure dayes, the rednesse of the colour for the space of those foure dayes every day increasing higher and higher, to the infinet amazement of many hundreds of beholders of all degrees and conditions, who have dipped their handketchers in this bloody poole, ... As also the true relation of a miraculous and prodigious birth in Shoo-lane, where one Mistris Browne a cuttlers wife was delivered of a monster without a head or feet, and in stead of a head had a hollow out of which a child did proceed, which was little but lovely, perfect in all but very spare and leane. As also the Kings sending to his Parliament for hostage for the security of his person to come unto London and to sit with his parliament for the composing the diffirences in the kingdome.

8 p.Publication date from Wing.Annotation on Thomason copy: "7bre 30th 1645" [i.e. September 30].Rep...

The true description of two monsterous chiildren laufully begotten betwene George Steuens and Margerie his wyfe, and borne in the parish of Swanburne in Buckingham shyre, the. iiii. of Aprill. Anno Domini. 1566, the two children havuing both their belies fast ioyned together, and imbraycyng one an other with their armes: which children wer both a lyue by the space of half an hower, and wer baptized, and named the one John, and the other Joan.

Mellys, John.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.Signed: Iohn Mellys Nor.Verse - "Read how affrique land was fraught".Publicat...

5. wonders in the month of July 1691 a faithful narrative of the several strange prodigious signs and wonderful appearances & accidents, which have lately hapned in several parts of England, both from the heavens, earth, and water : being a relation of I. A prodigious thunder and lightning at a place call'd Everton ..., II. A whale, or sea-monster, of prodigious size, near Newcastle ..., III. Of a strange and wonderful apparition of armies on the land, near the city of Exeter ..., IV. Of a terrible tempest ..., V. Of a most strange and wonderful apparition of armies in the air ...

January 1691

12 p."Licensed according to order."Advertisement: p. 12.Imperfect: tightly bound, with some loss of ...

Strange newes of a prodigious monster borne in the towneship of Allington in the parish of Standish in the Countie of Lancaster, the 17. day of Aprill last, 1613. Testified by the reuerend diuine Mr. W. Leigh, Bachelor of Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word at Standish aforesaid.

January 1613

[16] p. : ill.Printer's and bookseller's names from STC.Leigh is only cited as a witness by an anony...

A description of a strange (and miraculous) fish cast upon the sands in the meads, in the hundred of Worwell, in the county Palatine of Chester, (or Chesshiere. The certainty whereof is here related concerning the said most monstrous fish. To the tune of Bragandary.

M. P. (Martin Parker), d. 1656?

1 sheet ([2] p.) : ill.Signed: M. P., i.e. Martin Parker.A ballad.In two parts.Suggested publication...

The wonder of wonders, or, The strange birth in Hampshire being an exact, true and perfect relation of one A.B. living in a country parish neer the town of Rumsey in Hampshire, relating how the said person was strangely brought to bed the 18th of November last with a live toad, a terrible serpent, and a dead child having some part of its head and face and othe parts devoured by the serpent in the mothers womb ... tune of, My bleeding heart / by T.L.

Lanfiere, Thomas.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcut)Caption title.Attributed to Thomas Lanfiere. Cf. Wing (2nd ed.).Rig...

The strange monster or, true news from Nottingham-shire of a strange monster born at Grasly in Nottingham-shire, three miles from Nottingham with a relation of his strange and wonderful shape, the time his mother was in travail with him, with several other things of note. Together with a brief relation of several monstrous and prodigious births which happened heretofore in this our nation. Licensed according to order.

January 1668

[2], 6 p., platesWith a folded leaf of plates.Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Lib...

Signes and wonders from heaven. With a true relation of a monster borne in Ratcliffe Highway, at the signe of the three Arrows, Mistris Bullock the midwife delivering here thereof. Also shewing how a cat kitned a monster in Lombard street in London. Likewise a new discovery of witches in Stepney parish. And how 20. witches more were executed in Suffoke this last assise. Also how the divell came to Soffam to a farmers house in the habit of a gentlewoman on horse-backe. With divers other strange remarkable passages.

[2], 5, [1] p.With a t.p. woodcut.Publication date from Wing.Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aug: 5".R...

The worlds wonder! or, The prophetical fish.: Being a full description of this monster, its length & breadth with predictions on it. As it was taken by fisher-men in the port of Cucanga, neer the province and kingdom of China, in the year 1664. and sent to the emperour of Germany, and from thence convey'd to his Royal Majesty, the king of Greeat Brittain, &c. To the tune of, When stormy winds do blow.

3 leaves ([3] p.) : ill.Contains two illustrations.Second leaf has separate imprint, and appears to ...

The Hartford-shire wonder. Or, Strange news from vvare being an exact and true relation of one Jane Stretton the danghter [sic] of Thomas Stretton, of ware in the county of Hartford, who hath been visited in a strange kind of manner by extraordinary and unusual fits, her abstaining from sustenance for the space of 9 months, being haunted by imps or devils in the form of several creatures here described the parties adjudged of all by whom she was thus tormented and the occasion thereof with many other remarkable things taken from her own mouth and confirmed by many credible witnesses.

M. Y.

January 1669

[4], 12 p."Courteous reader" signed: M.Y.Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library

Strange and wonderful news of the birth of a monstrous child with two heads, and three arms which was lately born at Attenree, in the county of Meath, in Ireland.

E. B.

January 1685

1 sheet ([2]) p.Caption title.Signed at end: E.B.Imprint from colophon."Dublin, January the 31th. 16...

A wonder of wonders. Being a faithful narrative and true relation of one Anne Green, servant to Sir Tho. Reed in Oxfordshire, who being got with child by a gentleman, her child falling from her in the house or office, being but a span long, and dead born, was condemned on the 14. of December last, and hanged in the castle-yard in Oxford, for the space of half and hour, receiving many great and heavy blowes on the brests, by the but end of the souldiers muskets, and being pul'd down by the leggs, and was afterwards beg'd for an anatomy, by the physicians, and carried to Mr. Clarkes house, an apothecary, where in the presence of many learned chyrurgions, she breathed, and began to stir; insomuch, that Dr. Petty caused a warm bed to be prepared for her, let her blood, and applyed oyls to her, so that in 14 hours she recovered, and the first words she spake were these; behold Gods providence! Behold his miraculous and loving kindness! VVith the manner of her tryal, her speech and confession at the gallowes; and a declaration of the souldiery touching her recovery. Witnessed by Dr. Petty, and licensed according to order.

Burdet, W.

[2], 6 p.Signed at end: W. Burdet.Imprint from Madan.Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan: 10. 1650".Re...

A Letter from an eminent merchant in Ostend containing an account of a strange and monstrous birth hapned there : a woman being brought to bed of two children which are joined together by the crowns of their heads : he being an eye-witness thereof.

January 1682

1 sheet ([2] p.)Caption title.Imprint from colophon."Dated May 7, Old Stile."Reproduction of origina...

Monstrosity, monument and multiplication: The lamenting Lady Margaret of Henneberg (and her 365 children) in Early Modern England

Reid, Lindsay Ann

August 2018

Extraordinary and fantastical stories about Margaret of Henneberg, a cursed thirteenth-century Count...

The Strange and dreadful relation of a horrible tempest of thunder and lightning and of strange apparitions in the air, accompanied with whirlwinds, gusts of hail and rain which happened on the tenth of this instant June, at a place near Wetherby in the County of York, with the account how the top of a strong oak ... was taken off by a sheet of fire ... : as likewise, another strange relation of a monstrous child ... born ... on the nineteenth of May last.

4 p.Caption title."Attested and confirmed by several persons of known worth and integrity."Imperfect...

The most strange and wounderfull apperation of blood in a poole at Garraton in Leicester-shire, which continued for the space of foure dayes, the rednesse of the colour for the space of those foure dayes every day increasing higher and higher, to the infinet amazement of many hundreds of beholders of all degrees and conditions, who have dipped their handketchers in this bloody poole, ... As also the true relation of a miraculous and prodigious birth in Shoo-lane, where one Mistris Browne a cuttlers wife was delivered of a monster without a head or feet, and in stead of a head had a hollow out of which a child did proceed, which was little but lovely, perfect in all but very spare and leane. As also the Kings sending to his Parliament for hostage for the security of his person to come unto London and to sit with his parliament for the composing the diffirences in the kingdome.

8 p.Publication date from Wing.Annotation on Thomason copy: "7bre 30th 1645" [i.e. September 30].Rep...

The true description of two monsterous chiildren laufully begotten betwene George Steuens and Margerie his wyfe, and borne in the parish of Swanburne in Buckingham shyre, the. iiii. of Aprill. Anno Domini. 1566, the two children havuing both their belies fast ioyned together, and imbraycyng one an other with their armes: which children wer both a lyue by the space of half an hower, and wer baptized, and named the one John, and the other Joan.

Mellys, John.

1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.Signed: Iohn Mellys Nor.Verse - "Read how affrique land was fraught".Publicat...

5. wonders in the month of July 1691 a faithful narrative of the several strange prodigious signs and wonderful appearances & accidents, which have lately hapned in several parts of England, both from the heavens, earth, and water : being a relation of I. A prodigious thunder and lightning at a place call'd Everton ..., II. A whale, or sea-monster, of prodigious size, near Newcastle ..., III. Of a strange and wonderful apparition of armies on the land, near the city of Exeter ..., IV. Of a terrible tempest ..., V. Of a most strange and wonderful apparition of armies in the air ...

January 1691

12 p."Licensed according to order."Advertisement: p. 12.Imperfect: tightly bound, with some loss of ...

Strange newes of a prodigious monster borne in the towneship of Allington in the parish of Standish in the Countie of Lancaster, the 17. day of Aprill last, 1613. Testified by the reuerend diuine Mr. W. Leigh, Bachelor of Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word at Standish aforesaid.

January 1613

[16] p. : ill.Printer's and bookseller's names from STC.Leigh is only cited as a witness by an anony...

A description of a strange (and miraculous) fish cast upon the sands in the meads, in the hundred of Worwell, in the county Palatine of Chester, (or Chesshiere. The certainty whereof is here related concerning the said most monstrous fish. To the tune of Bragandary.

M. P. (Martin Parker), d. 1656?

1 sheet ([2] p.) : ill.Signed: M. P., i.e. Martin Parker.A ballad.In two parts.Suggested publication...

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