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which was performed by the name of Urſula Seathiel, for the latter was her mother's and conſequently her maiden ſirname; as for Shipton, it was the name of her busband whom ſhe afterwards married, as will appear in the ſequel of this hiſtory, and in theſe particulars moſt of the authors I have read have been fully mistaken But to proceed, when ſhe was about two years old, her mother coming to be ſenſible of her evil, in holding a correſpondence with a wicked fpirit, applying herſelf to ſeveral religious men of great note in thoſe times, by whoſe grave advice ſhe grew truly penitent, and, according to the faſhion of that age's devotion, put herſelf into a neighbouring monaſtry, having put out her child, with a piece of money, to a friend, and ſo ſpent the remainder of her days in the famous convent of the order of St Bridget; near Nottingham, in prayers and tears, and other acts of penance to expiate the wickedneſs of her youth; but wonderful it is to relate the troubles that befel the nurſe ſhe was put to; for her father the foul fiend, is reported ſeveral times to have viſited her; par-
