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head_n	arm_n	belly_n	leg_n	2,979	5	10.3355	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93963	A strange and lamentable accident that happened lately at Mears-Ashby in Northamptonshire. 1642. Of one Mary Wilmore, wife to Iohn Wilmore rough mason, who was delivered of a childe without a head, and credibly reported to have a firme crosse on the brest, as this ensuing story shall relate.	Locke, John, Cleric.	1642 (1642)	Wing S5819; Thomason E113_15; ESTC R13875	1,879	7

A STRANGE And Lamentable accident that happened lately at Mears-Ashby in Northamptonshire 1642. Of one Mary Wilmore wife to Iohn Wilmore rough M●son who was delivered of a Childe without a head and credibly reported to have a firme Crosse on the brest as this ensuing Story shall relate Hor Mirando cano Printed at London for Rich Harper and Thomas Wine and are to bee sold at the Bible and Harpe in Smithfield 1642. A strange and lamentable Accident that happened lately at Mears-Ashby in Northampton shire 1642. THis Kingdome once glorying in the flourishing title of Olbion which is as much as happinesse and tranquility tam Eccles quam Re●p●b but now being clouded and maskt with various distractions as are apparantly knowne and made manifest to the whole world in so much that she is made a laughing stocke and a scorne to all Nations may now with the Publican cry Lord have mercy on me a sinner or with Eccebolius chiefe Captain of the Apostates who in Constantines time to oke upon him the note of a zealous Christian in the reigne of Iulian he became a Pagan Iulian being dead then he would become a Christian but being sensible of his mutability and inconstancy prostrated himselfe flat upon the ground at the Porch of the Temple crying with a loud voyce Tread on me tread on me for I am unsavoury salt I feare me we have too too many of these unfavourable and wheeling Rotundities frequent amongst us but I pray God it happeneth not to them as it did to Iulian Uncle to Iulian the Apostate for their contemning and slighting Gods holy ordinances who comming into a Church at Antioch profaned the Lords Table by pissing upon it saying in scorne that the Divine Providence tooke no care of outward ceremonies But not long after divine Justice found him out for being taken with a disease that rotted his bowels his excrements leaving their wonted passage ran through his throat and blasphemous mouth in as stinking a manner as the poysoned trash and beggarly rudiments are fomented now adayes from the impudent mouthes of unlearned and ignorant Teachers the event of whose pernicious and illiterate doctrine will lead me to this ensuing story of Gods wrath and judgements to over curious and nice zelots of our times In Mears-Ashby in Nottingham shire on● Mary Wilmore wife of Iohn Wilmore rough Mason being great with childe and much perplext in minde to thinke that her childe when it pleased God she should be delivered should be baptized with the signe of the Crosse The Minister of the Parish being a very honest and conformable man not suiting with the vaine babling and erroneous Sycophants as there are too too many thereabouts inhabiting desires her husband to goe to Hardwicke a Village neare adjoyning to one Master Ba●nard a reverend Divine to know his opinion concerning the Crosse in Baptisme whose answer was That it was no wayes necessary to salvation but an ancient laudable and decent ceremony of the Church of England Which answer being related to her from 〈◊〉 husband it is reported she should say I had ●●ther my childe should bee borne without a head then to have a head to be signed with the signe of the Crosse Haply this woman through her weaknesse or too much confiding in the conventicling Sectaries Qui quicquid in buccam venerit blatterant might thinke she did well supposing as shee was taught by them the Crosse in Baptisme to bee a pernicious popish and idolatrous ceremony yet see Vzzah 2 Sam. 6.6 7. 1 Chron. 13.9 10. vid. Iudg. 8.27 though thy intent in doing a seeming good action be never so good yet if thou have not warrant for nor so doing thou and thine action may happly perish together as the sequell of this story will declare It pleased God about a month after shee was accordingly delivered of a Monster Rudes indegestáque moles a child without a head to the shame of the parents in not having that part whereon it might have been markt with that token whereof it should never after have beene ashamed What strange judgements of God have wee seene saith Pollychronus in the times of revolters as we may see in the third yeare of Queene Elizabeth of ever blessed memory when as in Moore and Geofferey two of the divells agents publisht their prodigious and hereticall tenents to the allurement of many faithfull and constant beleevers the yeare after was many monstrous births A man childe was borne at Chichester in Suffex the head armes and legs whereof were like Anatomy the brest and belly monstrous big from the navell about the necke a great coller of flesh and skin growing like to the double ruffes and neckerchiefes then in use and many more like accidents Qua nunc norandi non est locus Good Lord therefore which hast made and fashioned us and as there is one Lord one faith and one baptisme one God and Father of all even so Lord grant that wee may joyntly agree in love and that there remaine amongst us a godly consent and loving concord and that nothing bee done in contention and vainglory and suffer us not to exercise our selves in the workes of the flesh as hatred emulations contentions heresies seditions needlesse and unprofitable questions which tend to rebellion and discord breeding ungodlinesse and make dissention breake thou the bonds of Sathan and the malice of those who extinguish the bond of peace By Iohn Locke Cleric FINIS