HISTORIC NINEPINS; A Book of Curiosities, where old and young may read strange matters: containing characters and chronicles, doubts and difficulties, fictions and fabulous histories, ifs and incredibilia, legendary stories, marvels and misrepresentations, myths and mythologies, parallels and periods, popular errors, prophecies and guesses, pre-historic times, reckonings and refutations, tales and traditions, universal history: readings with new lights.