A True relation of two prodigious births the like not hapning in many generations, the signification whereof is left to the judicious to contemplate. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A63738 of text R25693 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T3075A). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A63738 Wing T3075A ESTC R25693 09062421 ocm 09062421 42380 2248503436

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A63738) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 42380) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1296:65) A True relation of two prodigious births the like not hapning in many generations, the signification whereof is left to the judicious to contemplate. 1 broadside. Printed by T.D., London : 1680. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng Conjoined twins -- Early works to 1800. eebo A true relation of two prodigious births, the like not hapning in many generations, the signification whereof is left to the judicious to contemplate. [no entry] 1680 1 461 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-08 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A TRUE RELATION OF TWO Prodigious BIRTHS , The like not hapning in many Generations , the signification whereof is left to the judicious to contemplate .

NOt to be troublesom with a tedious Insignificant Preamble , irksom to a curious Reader , and usually the common Prologue to notorious Lyes . I shall here acquaint the Judicious Reader with Two Strange Births as any Age hath produced : And the Knowledge of them came to me on this Account :

A Friend , ( and considerable Citizen of London living in Cheap-side nigh the Nags-head Tavern , ) sending to a near Relation , in Summerset shire , an Account of the strange Hail , which fell in London , on Tuesday the 18th of May 1680. &c. of the which they had not heard in those parts : Answered his Kindness with a Relation of these Admirable Births ; as acceptable to him , as his to them viz.

On May 19. 1680.

IN Summerset-shire , near Taunton Dean , at a Place called Eill Brawars Was a woman brought to Bed with Two Children : They grow together side to side from the Arm-pits to the Hip-Bone ; They have two Fundaments whereby to avoid their Excrements ; They have also two Passages for their Urine ; yet have they but one Navel , by which both were nourished while in the Womb ; both suck together , or are both equally desirous of Nourishment together ; and as they equally covet Refreshment , so they are equally sensible of their Grief and Pain , for they weep and express their Sorrow together : They are both Christned , and called by the Names of Aquila and Priscilla .

Their Births being thus with their Bodies strangely united , hath proved very much Advantagious to their Parents , by the numerous Access of the Multitude , who come to see the Children from many Miles round about , and give the Parents considerably .

ALso , within a few Miles of this Town , which is likewise admirable , A Cow was Calving , but dying before she could bring forth , she was Cut open , and in her Body was found two Calves grown together , and were joyned by their Bellies , their Fore-legs clinched about each other : they have two Heads , 8 legs , and two Tails .

This hapned likewise about the same time when the woman was delivered . And hath beheld to Admirations . The Truth hereof will be certified at Mr. Jones ' s Coffee house behind the Exchange in Ship yard , in Bartholomew Lane .

LONDON , Printed by T. D. 1686.