Notes and Queries
Various correspondents and the editors
London weekly of questions and answers for antiquaries, founded in 1849. In 1872 a correspondent asked about a “Mother Shipton” rhyme dating the world’s end to 1881; in 1873 the editors reported Charles Hindley’s admission that he had fabricated it.
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Notes and Queries reports Charles Hindley’s admission that he fabricated the rhyme · commentary →
Edition and location
Notes and Queries, 4th series, vol. X (London), 7 December 1872, pp. 450–451, query “Mother Shipton’s Prophecy” signed Simeon Rayner, complete. Internet Archive periodical scan sim_notes-and-queries_1872-12-07_10_258, page images inspected. Verse lines kept as printed lines; small capitals (“Ancient Prediction,” “Simeon Rayner”) rendered in title case; spaces before semicolons and question marks closed; “that ’s” printed with a thin space, rendered “that’s”; whitespace normalized.
4th ser. X, pp. 450–451; XI, p. 355