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Show Mother Shipton Mother Shipton. say the ancient annals, was the child of peasant parents named Sowthiel or Sonthill. who lived In the latter part of the ; Fifteenth century near the Dropping Drop-ping well In Yorkshire Her mother, moth-er, Agatha, was reputed to he a witch. Agatha named her daiiL'h- i ter Ursula but the neighbors called ; the girl "the devil's, child." Despite the fact that Ursula was phenomenally phenom-enally u;ly, says the Chinese Daily News, Tobias Shipton, a builder of ' York, wed her when she was twen- I ty-four years old. Legend, antedating ante-dating by centuries the first appearance appear-ance of the fraudulent prophetic ditty, credits her with fulfilled predictions pre-dictions concerning certain statesmen states-men who flourished at the court of Henry VIII. Including the great Cf-dinal Cf-dinal V.'oNey. Ilnland not aiwa? tolerant of witches, let her d in bed whrn s!ie vns well h'-;, rin:1 tin ee-score and t.-i. S!:- .r: bnrit-d. it i. e;.id, at Clilton, shite, in H"''i. i |