The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Mary Davis in Leigh's The Natural History (1700)
Full opening [Engraving].Click image for full-size. Subject of/in a work of artMary Davis (c.1596-fl. 1676) In Print: The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak in Derbyshire with an account of the British, Phoenician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. antiquities in those parts, 193 Description:From the engraving: "This is the Portraiture of Mary Davis, and inhabitnt of great Sanghaull near Chester, taken Ano Dom. 1688. Eatat. 72. When she was twenty eight years old, She had an excrescence upon her head which continued 32 years like to a Wenn; then grew into 2 horns: after 5 years she cast them: then grew 2 more: after 4 year she cast those. These upon her head have grown 4 year and are loos."