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    Historia ænigmatica, de gemellis Genoæ connatis, anno salutis nostræ, MDCXX in unum coalescentibus, quorum major Lazaz, minor Joh. Baptista, ad sacrum fontem nominatis : vivis hodie, & mercede Londini monstratis An. MDCXXXVII.
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    In verse. Printed beneath portrait: Printed for Robert Milbourne at the Vnicorne neare Fleet Bridge. In second column: Solutio ænigmatum. Reproduction of original in: Harvard University. Library.
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    The true description of a monsterous chylde, borne in the Ile of Wight, in this present yeare of oure Lord God, M. D. LXIIII. the month of October after this forme with a cluster of longe heare about the nauell, the fathers name is Iames Iohnsun, in the parys of freswater.
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    Barker, John, ballad writer.
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    A woodcut with letterpress verses. Publication date from STC. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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    Near Charing Cross, over against Northumberland (alias Suffolk) House, at a turners house, nigh the Golden Lyon Tavern, is to be seen the wonder of this present age
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    1687
    
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    "Published by authority." Reproduction of original in the British Library.
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    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.
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    1668
    
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    With a folded leaf of plates. Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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    Gods handy-vvorke in vvonders Miraculously shewen vpon two women, lately deliuered of two monsters: with a most strange and terrible earth-quake, by which, fields and other grounds, were quite remoued to other places: the prodigious births, being at a place called Perre-farme, within a quarter of a mile of Feuersham in Kent, the 25. of Iuly last, being S. Iames his day. 1615.
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    The earthquake described occurred 1 March 1615 (o.s.) in Vaud canton, Switzerland. With a title-page woodcut. Printer's and publisher's names from STC. Signatures: A-C⁴. The last leaf is blank. Reproduction of the original ...
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