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A Copie of a Certificate under the hand of Mr. Edward Fleetwood Minister of Kirkham Parish in Lancashire, concerning the Monster brought forth by Mrs. Haugh∣ton a Papist, living in that Parish.
AS we must tell no lye, so we should not conceal any truth; espe∣cially when it tends to Gods glory: There was a great Papist and of great Parentage, within the Parish of Kirkham, and his wives mother being of the same Religion, did usually scoffe and mocke the Roundheads, and in derision of Mr. Prinne, and others, cut off th•• the Cats eares, and called it by his name. But behold an example of the justice and equity of God in his judgements: As Adonibezeck was repaid in his own kinde: Haman hanged upon the same Gallowes he had prepared for Mordecai, and Pharaoh and all his Hoste drow∣ned in the Sea into which he had thought to have driven the Israelites, And likewise one of the Popish Prelates, who said he would not dine before Ridley and Latimore were burnt, was burned in his own ent∣trails. So (much what) alike, it fell out with this mans wise, a Po∣pish creature, who being great with childe, when the time of her deli∣very came, she brought forth a Monstrous childe without an head▪ ugly and deformed, the portraicture whereof (as near as we could de∣lineate) is here described, and my self,
EDWARD FLEETWOOD, Pastor▪ With the Midwife, and others who saw the Childe taken out of its grave; Witnesses hereof.