Strange news from Ireland, or, A true and perfect relation of a famous fish taken at Kingsale the manner of its taking, and description of its horrible shapes / as it was certified in a letter from one Mr. Robinson, living in Kingsale, (an eye-witness) to Mr. John Davie a relation of his, living in Westminster. Robinson, Mr. 1677 Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 6 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2008-09 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A94009 Wing S5892A ESTC R42903 38875921 ocm 38875921 152429 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Monsters -- Ireland -- Early works to 1800. 2007-04 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-04 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-05 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-05 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion STRANGE NEWS FROM IRELAND : OR , A true and perfect RELATION Of a Famous FISH Taken at KINGSALE . The manner of its taking , and description of its horrible Shapes ; as it was certified in a Letter from one Mr. Robinson , living in Kingsale , ( an Eye-witness ) to Mr. John Davis a Relation of his , living in Westminster . With Allowance . Ro. L'Estrange . London : Printed for C. N. 1677. STRANGE NEWS FROM IRELAND : OR , A true and perfect Relation Of a famous FISH Taken at KINGSALE . ON the 26th of July last , one Thomas Davis and Andrew Simpson being at Four a Clock in the Morning about their honest vocation of Fishing , in which they laboured an hour to no purpose ; but at length they perceived afar off somewhat move in the water , of an unusual shape and bigness ; upon which they made unto it , but as soon as it saw them it dived down into the water : so that after a tedious and vain search , they returned back to the Town and informed one Mr. Rocke , a responsible Inhabitant there , of what they had seen ; who with Three of his Servants came forth with Muskets charged , one standing on the shore , and the other two in the Boat with the Fisher-men , with whom also was Mr. Rocke . They had not long rowed about the River , but they again perceived its head popping up and down , at which they discharged their Pieces , but to little effect : For it dived again out of their view , and did not appear in an hours time after ; but upon its rising again they shot it into the back ; whereupon it made with all possible speed towards land , where ( though with great difficulty ) it was taken . The description of its parts is as follows . On the head of this wonderful Creature ( which can be no nearer resembled to any thing , than the head of a man ) was long black Hair : its Face had the exact shape of a Lion ; so terrible and grim , that it struck terrour on all that beheld it . It had two fore-feet like those of a Bull , cloven ; it s hinder feet being like unto an Eagles Talons , with very long and sharp Nails ; so that where Nature commonly orders Fins , there were perfect Feet of other Creatures of a clean contrary Element . His mouth was guarded with three long sharp Horns , with which when he was on Land he so dangerously wounded one of the foresaid Mr. Rock's servants in the thigh , that he remains very ill of the same , insomuch that his Recovery is much doubted by all , notwithstanding the Advice and Assistance of the most skilful Chirurgeons in those parts . On its Back was the perfect resemblance of an Hour-glass , and the appearance ( as some fancied ) of a Spade and Deaths head , to the amazement of all its Spectators . It is in length Twelve Foot , and Five in bredth . On each side its Brest are two Paps , like unto those of women . It s Belly is smooth , being bespeckled with spots of divers colours . When this Letter came away it was not quite dead , though it had been much wounded ; but is with much ado brought into the aforesaid Town of Kinsale , where it now remains the Wonderment of all its numerous beholders . FINIS .