a child, or rather a monster (I think Learna nor Egyptian Nile ever produced the like), with two heads growing severally, somewhat distant one from the other, bearing the similitude of man and woman, the one face being all overgrown with long hair, the other more smooth and more effeminate … From the secret parts (which showed it to be both male and female), downwards all hairy, like your Satyrs or Sylvan Gods … those that were eyewitnesses … standing amazed as if they had beholden Gorgon.

‘Good people’, says she, ‘pray for me as I do for myself. This judgement is questionless fallen upon me for my sins … for I have often wished this or some like judgement might befall me, which might not only be a terror to myself, but all other that should behold it, rather than any child born of my body should receive these Christian rites which by the laws and ancient customs of England and Scotland were given children at the font … And I confess that I did vehemently desire, being seduced by heretical factious fellows who go in sheep's clothing but are naught but ravening wolves, to see the utter ruin and subversion of all Church and State government, which too many in these times have desired, as the late unhappy differences can testify.