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Mres Mansell killed a|n| yew Ewe that she thought had bene half rotten to eate him & he had 6 younge lābes in his belly. as big as pigs /1608.\

In Lowton there was an ewe yt had a lābe whose nose was like a male warpe, & his eyes & eares in his throate. 1608

In Glocester sheere there was an ewe \ hog sowe yt had/ yt {sic} earned 9. d piggs \apes/. & anothr yt yea{n}ed \had/ 9 dogs \puppyes.// 1608.

Calendared text from MS Ashmole 229, f. 30r (upper left part of page)

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘NOTE3792’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/notes/NOTE3792, accessed 29 October 2026.