The Flying serpent, or, Strange news out of Essex being a true relation of a monstrous serpent which hath divers times been seen at a parish called Henham on the Mount within four miles of Saffron-Walden : showing the length, proportion and bigness of the serpent, the place where it commonly lurks, and what means hath been used to kill it : also a discourse of other serpents, and particularly of a cockatrice killed at Saffron-Walden / the truth of thi[s] relation of the serpent is attested, by [brace] Richard Jackson ... [et al.].

The tragicocomedie of serpents. By Lodowik Lloid Esquier.

Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.

January 1607

[8], 97, [3] p."A curious collection, chiefly of classical and biblical fables"--DNB.Running title r...

A true narrative of a strange prodigious toad for size and shape full fourteen inches long, and ten over : the toad on the hinder-parts : with a tayl three times as long as his body, with a forked sting at the end. : Seen lately at a hunting about the Devils-Arse-oth'-Peak in Darbyshire. : The sculpture of which, in copper, will shortly be published, and examin'd as to both more narrowly by some who are now in the city and whose usual curiosity in things so rare, led them to this exactness of observation. / With allowance, R. L'Estrange.

L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.

8 p.Place of publication suggested by Wing.Errors in paging: 4-5 misnumbered 3-4.Imperfect: stained ...

A true and perfect relation of the taking and destroying of a sea-monster as it was attested by Mr. Francis Searson, surgeon, who was present at the killing of him.

Searson, Francis.

1 sheet ([1] p.).Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.)At head of sheet: Royal ar...

True and wonderfull A discourse relating to a strange and monstrous serpent (or dragon) lately discouered, and yet liuing, to the great annoyance and diuers slaughters both of men and cattell, by his strong and violent poyson, in Sussex two miles from Horsam, in a woode called S. Leonards Forrest, and thirtie miles from London, this present month of August. 1614. With the true generation of serpents.

A. R., fl. 1614.

[20] p."To the reader" signed: A.R.Printed by E. Allde. Cf. STC.With woodcut title vignette.Signatur...

The serpents subtilty discovered, or a true relation of what passed in the cathedrall church of Rochester, between divers ministers and Richard Coppin,: to prevent credulity to the false representation of the said discourse published by the said R. Coppin from Maidstone goale. / By Walter Rosewell minister of Chatham in Kent.

Rosewell, Walter.

January 1656

[12], 16 p.A reply to Coppin, Richard. Blow at the serpent. Cf. DNB.Annotation on Thomason copy: "Ju...

‘A creeping thing’: the motif of the serpent in Anglo-Saxon England

Charlotte Elizabeth Ball (7804112)

December 2017

The image of the serpent is pervasive in the art and literature of Anglo-Saxon England. In Old Engli...

The serpent's subtilty discovered in a plain answer to a lying scandalous paper, lately came from Leonard Letchford, who calls himself rector of Hurst-Pierpoint in the county of Sussex.

Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.

16 p.Caption title.Imprint from Wing; signed and dated at end: the 15. day of the 12. moneth called ...

The historie of serpents. Or, The second booke of liuing creatures wherein is contained their diuine, naturall, and morall descriptions, with their liuely figures, names, conditions, kindes and natures of all venemous beasts: with their seuerall poysons and antidotes; their deepe hatred to mankind, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, and destruction. Necessary and profitable to all sorts of men: collected out of diuine scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: amplified with sundry accidentall histories, hierogliphicks, epigrams, emblems, and ænigmaticall obseruations. By Edvvard Topsell.

Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?

January 1608

[12], 315, [9] p. : ill.In the title, the first word is xylographic.Leaves 2E3,4 are in two settings...

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...

Strange news from Gravesend and Greenwich. being an exact and more full relation of two miraculous and monstrous fishes first discovered in Rainham Creek, and afterwards pursued by fishermen up the river of Thames, who with harping irons and fish-spears kill'd the biggest of them at Gravesend, which after thousands of people had view'd it, they hew'd in pieces and boyl'd in cauldrons for the oyl. The other was taken and kill'd at Greenwich, which being measured, was found to be one and twenty foot in length, and sixteen foot over. And likewise a less than either of these which was in company with them, which made his escape from the fishermen, and got away to sea again. This relation being attested by many thousands of eye-witnesses, which have seen them both.

[4], 5, [1] p. : ill. (woodcut)Place of publication from Wing CD-ROM, 1996.Wing CD-ROM, 1996 fives r...

Sir Thomas Frankland, Thirkleby, [Yorkshire], to Sir James Edward Smith

Frankland, Sir Thomas, 6th baronet

Read [Thomas] Rackett's "Linnean Transactions" paper on red viper ['Observations on a Viper found in...

The Book of Snakes: A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world (1st UK edition)

O'Shea, Mark

May 2018

There are over 3,700 species of snake found on every continent except for Antarctica, ranging in siz...

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...

Serpent Mound aerial view

Ohio Federal Writers' Project

Reverse reads: "Aerial view of Serpent Mound largest serpent effigy mound in the world near Fort Hil...

The ‘Stronsay Beast’:testimony, evidence and authority in early nineteenth-century natural history

Jenkins, Bill

August 2023

When an unknown sea creature was washed ashore on the Orkney Islands in September 1808, the Edinburg...

The tragicocomedie of serpents. By Lodowik Lloid Esquier.

Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.

January 1607

[8], 97, [3] p."A curious collection, chiefly of classical and biblical fables"--DNB.Running title r...

A true narrative of a strange prodigious toad for size and shape full fourteen inches long, and ten over : the toad on the hinder-parts : with a tayl three times as long as his body, with a forked sting at the end. : Seen lately at a hunting about the Devils-Arse-oth'-Peak in Darbyshire. : The sculpture of which, in copper, will shortly be published, and examin'd as to both more narrowly by some who are now in the city and whose usual curiosity in things so rare, led them to this exactness of observation. / With allowance, R. L'Estrange.

L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.

8 p.Place of publication suggested by Wing.Errors in paging: 4-5 misnumbered 3-4.Imperfect: stained ...

A true and perfect relation of the taking and destroying of a sea-monster as it was attested by Mr. Francis Searson, surgeon, who was present at the killing of him.

Searson, Francis.

1 sheet ([1] p.).Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.)At head of sheet: Royal ar...

True and wonderfull A discourse relating to a strange and monstrous serpent (or dragon) lately discouered, and yet liuing, to the great annoyance and diuers slaughters both of men and cattell, by his strong and violent poyson, in Sussex two miles from Horsam, in a woode called S. Leonards Forrest, and thirtie miles from London, this present month of August. 1614. With the true generation of serpents.

A. R., fl. 1614.

[20] p."To the reader" signed: A.R.Printed by E. Allde. Cf. STC.With woodcut title vignette.Signatur...

The serpents subtilty discovered, or a true relation of what passed in the cathedrall church of Rochester, between divers ministers and Richard Coppin,: to prevent credulity to the false representation of the said discourse published by the said R. Coppin from Maidstone goale. / By Walter Rosewell minister of Chatham in Kent.

Rosewell, Walter.

January 1656

[12], 16 p.A reply to Coppin, Richard. Blow at the serpent. Cf. DNB.Annotation on Thomason copy: "Ju...

‘A creeping thing’: the motif of the serpent in Anglo-Saxon England

Charlotte Elizabeth Ball (7804112)

December 2017

The image of the serpent is pervasive in the art and literature of Anglo-Saxon England. In Old Engli...

The serpent's subtilty discovered in a plain answer to a lying scandalous paper, lately came from Leonard Letchford, who calls himself rector of Hurst-Pierpoint in the county of Sussex.

Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.

16 p.Caption title.Imprint from Wing; signed and dated at end: the 15. day of the 12. moneth called ...

The historie of serpents. Or, The second booke of liuing creatures wherein is contained their diuine, naturall, and morall descriptions, with their liuely figures, names, conditions, kindes and natures of all venemous beasts: with their seuerall poysons and antidotes; their deepe hatred to mankind, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, and destruction. Necessary and profitable to all sorts of men: collected out of diuine scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: amplified with sundry accidentall histories, hierogliphicks, epigrams, emblems, and ænigmaticall obseruations. By Edvvard Topsell.

Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?

January 1608

[12], 315, [9] p. : ill.In the title, the first word is xylographic.Leaves 2E3,4 are in two settings...

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...

Strange news from Gravesend and Greenwich. being an exact and more full relation of two miraculous and monstrous fishes first discovered in Rainham Creek, and afterwards pursued by fishermen up the river of Thames, who with harping irons and fish-spears kill'd the biggest of them at Gravesend, which after thousands of people had view'd it, they hew'd in pieces and boyl'd in cauldrons for the oyl. The other was taken and kill'd at Greenwich, which being measured, was found to be one and twenty foot in length, and sixteen foot over. And likewise a less than either of these which was in company with them, which made his escape from the fishermen, and got away to sea again. This relation being attested by many thousands of eye-witnesses, which have seen them both.

[4], 5, [1] p. : ill. (woodcut)Place of publication from Wing CD-ROM, 1996.Wing CD-ROM, 1996 fives r...

Sir Thomas Frankland, Thirkleby, [Yorkshire], to Sir James Edward Smith

Frankland, Sir Thomas, 6th baronet

Read [Thomas] Rackett's "Linnean Transactions" paper on red viper ['Observations on a Viper found in...

The Book of Snakes: A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world (1st UK edition)

O'Shea, Mark

May 2018

There are over 3,700 species of snake found on every continent except for Antarctica, ranging in siz...

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...

Serpent Mound aerial view

Ohio Federal Writers' Project

Reverse reads: "Aerial view of Serpent Mound largest serpent effigy mound in the world near Fort Hil...

The ‘Stronsay Beast’:testimony, evidence and authority in early nineteenth-century natural history

Jenkins, Bill

August 2023

When an unknown sea creature was washed ashore on the Orkney Islands in September 1808, the Edinburg...

The tragicocomedie of serpents. By Lodowik Lloid Esquier.

Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.

January 1607

[8], 97, [3] p."A curious collection, chiefly of classical and biblical fables"--DNB.Running title r...

A true narrative of a strange prodigious toad for size and shape full fourteen inches long, and ten over : the toad on the hinder-parts : with a tayl three times as long as his body, with a forked sting at the end. : Seen lately at a hunting about the Devils-Arse-oth'-Peak in Darbyshire. : The sculpture of which, in copper, will shortly be published, and examin'd as to both more narrowly by some who are now in the city and whose usual curiosity in things so rare, led them to this exactness of observation. / With allowance, R. L'Estrange.

L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.

8 p.Place of publication suggested by Wing.Errors in paging: 4-5 misnumbered 3-4.Imperfect: stained ...

A true and perfect relation of the taking and destroying of a sea-monster as it was attested by Mr. Francis Searson, surgeon, who was present at the killing of him.

Searson, Francis.

1 sheet ([1] p.).Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.)At head of sheet: Royal ar...

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