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 husband 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 woman , 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 yonger , 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 diligent 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 confusion , 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 li●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 .