A monstrous birth: or, A true relation : of three strange and prodigious things like young cats, all speckled, which came from a woman dwelling at Wetwan in Yorkshire: and how the Devil kept her company. The relation of the thing is taken out of a letter which a gentleman dwelling neer the place lately wrote to a friend of his in London.

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