Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	child_n	great_a	womb_n	2,712	5	9.4750	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04800	Strange nevves out of Kent of a monstrous and misshapen child, borne in Olde Sandwitch, vpon the 10. of Iulie, last, the like (for strangenes) hath neuer beene seene.		1609 (1609)	STC 14934; ESTC S120015	4,453	16

STRANGE NEWES out of Kent of a Monstrous and misshapen Child borne in Olde Sandwitch vpon the 30. of Iulie last the like for strangenes hath neuer beene seene Imprinted at London by T. C. for W. Barley and are to be sold at his shop in Gratious-streete 1609. â§ STRAVNGE NEWES OVT OF KENT OF A Monstrous and mis-shapen Childe borne in Olde Sandwitch vpon the 30. of Iulie last 1609. the like for strangenes hath neuer bene seene knowne nor heard of GOds wonders deare Countreymen of England daylie shewed amongst vs as well Celestiall as earthly may if any grace be within vs procure a continuall feare and trembling and the abortiue and prodigious byrths from time to time which many of vs haue bene eye witnesses of may sufficiently summon vs from sinne and speedily awaken vs from our dreames of securitie wherein wee lye carelesly sleeping God we see is highly offended with vs in that hee thus changeth the secret workings of nature as he lately shewed in the strange birth of a monstrous childe brought into the World at Sandwitch in Kent the strange shape and vnnatural proportion thereof not onely raised much feare fright and wonder to the inhabitants of that Countrey there dwelling which behelde it but also the reports now most trulie certified by men of credite and substantiall reputation may giue sufficient cause of terror and amazement to all people the whole Kingdome ouer and beeing rightly considered of by iudiciall censurers and men of vnderstanding it may without all doubt put each degree and estate in mind coÌ„sideration of the heauy wrath of our angrie God not onely by this his iudgement here expressed but diuers other waies threatned against vs for our sinnes transgressions therefore good Countrymen and you whose Christianlike mindes will relent at the relation hereof good Countrymen I say let mee intreat you that both your eyes and eares may bee gentle witnesses to the truth of this strange wonder in nature and that your hearts and mindes may be bent to a repentant vnderstanding for the discourse here following is both strange true fearefull and full of much wonder and because there shall be no doubt made of the veritie thereof I haue here placed downe the names of such personages of credite now dwelling in London that were eye-witnesses thereof and personably saw the same to their great hearts griefe and sorrow which I hope will be sufficient to approoue the truth Â¶ The names of such Witnesses that saw this Monstrous Child now dwelling in London 1. M. Bills at the signe of the Shippe in Thames streete 2. M. Dickson a Cooper in Thames streete neere to Saint Dunstons church 3. M. Smith a victualer in long-Southwark 4. Richard Rawson Waterman dwelling in East-Smithfield 5. Ales Smith dwelling in Byshops-gate-streete 6. Amie Ratcliffe of Shore-ditch with diuers others whose inward griefes there taken is yet fearcely worne away and cannot well for the strangenesse thereof be forgotten and this is the onely truth It is not vnknown to most part of the kingdome that Sandwitch is one of the principall townes in Kent bordering vpon the Sea rich and populous and well stored with substantiall and welthy inhabitants nere vnto which towne now standeth a very olde house being the dwelling place of one Goodwife Wattes whose husbaÌ„d is a shepheard which house is the onely remnant of an other towne which time hath ruinated worne away nowe called by the name of old Sandwitch in which house being some quarter of a mile from Sandwitch wherein as I said before dwelleth one Goodwife Watts a very honest poore old womaÌ„ wel-beloued of the country and of an honest conuersation amongst her neighbours one that takes great paines for her liuing and most willing to keepe her credit vpright Upon the thirty of Iuly last past 1609. being satterday there came vnto this old pore womans house a certaine wandring yong woman as it seemd great with child handsome and decently apparelled and being not well able to trauell further by reason of her great belly euen ready to be deliuered desired succour of this kind-harted old woman Mother Watts and that she would graunt her some help and comfort in this her extremitie and with weeping teares running downe her cheeks requested for Gods sake that some Christian-like charitie might be shewed her houseroome for that night offorded her for womanhood sake otherwise her selfe and the babe within her body were like to perish This request of hers seemed so reasonable and the regard of her bigge belly drew such pittie and womanly nature from this good old woman Mother Watts that she not onely granted her houseroome and lodging for that night but also sucker helpe and furtherance if it so stould happen at the painefull hower of her deliuerie to be short this bigge belly wandring yong woman hauing thus by her humble intreaties obtained lodging where the very first night of her lying there fel into a most strange labor where her wombe was tormented with such greeuous paine that it much affrighted the old woman Mother Watts and in her minde strook such a fear that she immediatly called in her neighbours being women all of a willing forwardnes in such a busines but through the inward laboring of the womans bodie not any of them all knew how to shift in such a dangerous case wherefore amazedly they looked one of another til such time as one goodwife Hatch the yoÌ„ger was sent for being a Midwife of a milde nature and of good experience who at her comming thither so cunningly shewed her skill that with the helping hand of God this distressed yong woman was speedily deliuered for which diligeÌ„t paines she gaue her vii shillings but her wombe yeelded forth into the world a kind of creature but no childe rightly shapt for it was most strange dreadful to behold and droue the Midwife goodwife Hatch and the rest of the company into a great fright euen readie all to sinke downe dead to the ground with feare whether it were for the sinnes of the Parents or that God would haue his Iustice in the estranging of nature for our sinnes here shewen let the wiser sort imagine but surely this vnknowne woman yeelded from her wombe such an abbortiue and prodigious fruit that this ages memorie cannot call to mind the like for it had no head nor any signe or proportion thereof there onely appeared as it were two faces the one visibly to be seene directly placed in the breast where it had a nose and a mouth and two holes for two eyes but no eyes all which seemed vgly and most horrible to be seene and much offenciue to humane nature to be lookt vpon the other face was not perfectly to be seene but retained a proportion of flesh in a great round lump like vnto a face quite disfigured and this was all of that which could be discerned The face mouth eyes nose and breast being thus framed together like a deformed

peece of flesh resembled no proportion of nature but seemd as it were a caios of coÌ„fusion a mixture of things without any discription from the breast downeward to the bowels it was smooth and straight all the other parts of the body retained a most strange deformitie for the armes grew out at the toppe of the shoulders hauing neither ioynt nor elbow but round and fleshy at the end of which armes grew two hands with fifteene fingers the one hand had eight the other seauen of a contrarie shape not like to the naturall fingers of new borne children also it had foureteene toes of each foote seauen beeing as it were like vnto geese or ducks feete The wast and middle as I said before was straight and without ioynts but the lower parts were al in a lump of flesh like vnto a lambs paunch or such liâ—e loathsome thing to be seene and withall the legges so short that they seemed to haue no proportion This miracle in nature or rather Gods wonder thus brought into the worlde quite disfigured from humaine creation as by the picture is rightly deciphered wrought such an amazement in the beholders hearts that for a time they were strucken almost sencelesse the Roome also where this childe lay smelled so earthly for it was dead borne that not anie of them all could hardly endure the sent thereof Among other remembrances this is to be obserued for a thing of strangenesse that the woman her selfe coÌ„fessed that this monster a little time before her deliuery moued in her belly not like vnto other naturall children but as shee had beene possessed with an euill spirit which put her to extreame torments Not many hours passed before the reports of this strange byrth was bruited abroade and the eares of the inhabitants there-about dwelling so filled with the newes thereof that they came in multitudes to behold it in such aboundance that it was wonderfull But now againe to our purpose On Sunday beeing the last of Iulie this new deliuered woman in reason seeming to bee weake and sicklie lying in her bed desired the olde woman her hostis Mother Wattes within whose house shee lay to goe into the towne to buy such necessaries as was needefull for a weake woman in child-bed to haue giuing her money for the same purpose the which mother Wats most willingly did But now marke what in tht meane time hapned let all women in such a case coÌ„sider what might be done how strongly nature in this newe deliuered woman preuailed for before Mother Wats could returne from Sandwitch which was in lesse time then two houres she had got vp out of her bed put on all her cloathes and was gone from the house leauing behinde her eight shillings lying vppon the Table the child being dead layde by it with an intent that the money should pay for the burial of the same all which at mother Wats her returne beeing found in this order seemed to bee an accident most strange wherevpon she immediatly called in her neighbors where making knowne vnto them all these aforesaid proceedings with a generall consent they certified the same vnto the Magistrates who vpon good consideration togither with the aduice of a reuerend and learned Minister of Saint Clements church in Sandwitch one M. Simons who verie charitably gaue it buryall withall giuing many godly admonitions to the people concerning this most straÌ„ge birth from such like terrible examples of Gods wrath sweet Iesus bee mercifull vnto vs for such like domb warnings of our owne ouerthrowes as this is if wee be not graceles may lead vs out of the pathway of perdition guide vs aright into the true way of happines Some other things concerning this wonder is to be considered of the one is that there was one of the Sergiants Wiues of Sandwitch that by the sight and corrupted smell proceeding from the child receiued such a conceit that to this day she is not scarce well but sickly and much decayed in health likewise in the time of this womans continuing in Mother Watses house it could not be knowne by any meanes what she was from whence she came nor whither she was going nor as yet it is not knowne for a truth to what place she is trauelled but for a certaintie she was proued to be a wanderer supposed to be ones daughter in the I le of Tennet but of what life and conuersation she hath bene and is of none can iustly say as yet but surely the birth of her wombe hath bredde much cause of feare God in his other creatures shewes the like examples onely to put vs in mind of repentance both by birds beasts foules and fishes as there hath bene diuers straunge birds and foules sent into the world with the likenes of great ruffes about their necks some with periwigs chaines and such like The Sea in like manner yeeldes forth her monsters in sundrie likenesses and deformed shapes London had lately a feareful patterne of the same by a huge deformed fish that would groane and roare contrary to his kind which by many people was seene at the Swanne within Newgate There be many I know that remembers the late groning tree neere Burndwood in Essex the sinking of the grouÌ„d in Sussex with a number such other like wonders wrought by the hand of God for our amendments yet carelesly we still run astray regarding nothing at all these larum-bels sent from our gentle redeemer And if we doe consider thereof aright we are to make our prayers to God daily that in mercie he would looke vpon vs and not in this manner make a deformitie of nature examples of his heauie indignation threatned against vs from such and all other the like God in his sweet mercie deliuer vs all Amen FINIS

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