Mother Shipton

(1530 fl.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Shipton, Mother (Ursula) DNB: Shipton, Mother (supp. fl. 1530), supposed witch and prophetess LBT ID: MoShipt1530 VIAF ID: 58000676 LOC ID: n83212363
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
A quasi-historical personage whose predictions are recorded in The Prophesie of Mother Shipton in the Raigne of King Henry the Eighth (1641).
REFERENCES TO Mother Shipton: Francis Hodgson to Henry Drury, [1813] in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: to 1806 Found 1: ¶ 47 “[Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron]” in Literary Gazette (16 January 1830) 33-38 Found 1: ¶ 20 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XII. 1812-13.