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A93156	Fourteene strange prophesies: besides Mother Shiptons, and Mr. Salmarsh, predicting wonderfull events to betide these yeares of calamity, in this climate, whereof divers are already come to passe, worthy of observation. 1. A prophesie of K. Richard the 3. 2. Mother Shiptons prophesie. 3. Mr. Truswels, recorder of Lincolne. 4. Sibyllaes prophesies. 5. Ignatius prophesie. 6. Merlins prophesie. 7. Orwel Bins prophesies. 8. Mr. Brightmans prophesies 6. [sic] Ancient prophesies in meeter. Whereto is added the predictions of Mr. John Saltmarch, to his Excellency, and the counsell of his army. And the manner of his death. Printed by an exact true copy, with new marginall notes on Mother Shiptons prophesies.		1648 (1648)	Wing S3444; Thomason E527_7; ESTC R205665	11,395	10

during his blessed reigne That Lincolne was that London is that York shall b● Brave London prayes those dayes she ne're may see The Prophesies of old O●wel Bins kept by Mr. Smith Vicar of Hudderfield 40. Yeares THen Iames shall seeke a second Crowne In pulling Pope and Papists downe But Iames shall vanish from their face At halfe Elizabeths Royall race Then using forraine policies Grudgings and discontents arise Yet shall they assemble at the seate Of Parliament for a worke most great But strange op●nions there shall sow Discentions that too high shall grow And La●dicea's Englands Church Of grace and beauty some shall lurch And Smiths of policie shall invent To cast new molds of government While vulgar birds of weakest wing Grow stout against their Eagle King Whose just integrous heart shall prove The Adamant of Subjects love Then pride shall some in prison lock And lop a head off on a block By honest power they shall bring downe An aspirer that assum'd a Crowne That he whose power did Lawes contemn ●ight finde a grave no Diadem ●ome Co●ick Seenes shall then be acted ●y vulgar players much distracted The Gospel from a tub or tun ●hall broached by Mechan●cks r●n ●etucoats shall in Pulpits preach And women be allowed to teach And in these gloomy dogged daies They shall tread off the Muses bayes Thus strife and fury shall encrease ●nd Round heads shall disturbe the peace Of Religion while they it toffe 〈◊〉 blankets and pull downe the Crosse The Brownists shall no old prayers brooke ●ermons shall drowne the Service Booke Then all men in those times shall see ●reat troubles and calamitie Then on the Irish bogs and heath ●any a man shall taste of death The Souldiers wages shall encrease Till wars at last in conquest cease To such as are good Land-lords knowne 〈◊〉 hostile times some love is showne ●●t for all such as have great store ●hey are in lesse Afety then the poore ●hen twenty pounds of coyne in hand 〈◊〉 worth so much of yearely Land ●●om Ireland then there shall come one ●ust lose his head upon a stone ●ut when England doth swim in flouds Of plenty and growes proud of goods Then from their sleope they shall be waked To know themselves both blind and naked ●hrists Church must know some misery There shall be a dolefull tragedy The Lord abroad his sword will send ●●lesse they w●●ning take t' amend Yet Germany France and Brkeny This last act of my tragedy Good dayes will follow bad ones ce●s● There shall be plenty and great pence The whore of Romes nose shall be ●●t And of her rich attire be stript In the meane time Bishops shall be Throwne downe from all their dignity● Their Hierarchy and their traine Shall ne're recover strength againe Nor is Romes City only Rome But all the Popes dominion So that Rome feels her annoy'd While she in Ireland is destroy'd In forty one by computation The Pope shall fall by Reformation A Clergy man shall then suffice His pride with one poore Benefice● Then Cambridge and the Oxonian Shall be scorn'd by the Rotundian And some that cannot say nor sing Shall drink much at a troubled springs And Coblers then shall leave their last In Sermons up their gall to cast Magpies and Parrets then shall prace Both of the Aegle and the State Untill they bring things in conclusion To much disorder and confusion Rebels and men most seditious Shall make the time prove pernicious Rich men shall doe things unbefitting An upright Judge be scarce found sitting Upstart honour shall prove dreames And Bishops Seas prove little streames While many a feather'd fowle shall fli● Beyond the Seas for jeopardy Rumours shall be of wars and armes And there shall be of Sects great swarmes A sort of mad rude common people Shall pull the Crosse from every steeple The King while they doe thus presume Unto this Realme that right shall doome He shall this Kingdome wisely guide And other Kingdomes more beside Then Peers and Commons shall elect Whose Lawes shall ever take effect No man shall Lawyers counsell crave For men at home their right shall have And Officers each towne within Shall right their wrongs and punish sin Worthies be nine and reckon me And this the tenth and last shall be The Moone obseur'd full sixty yeare Shall then get light and shine full cleare● While England then for joy shall sing And blesse the reigne of their good King Mistris Whi●e● a Welch woman on the third of May last Prophesied at follow●●● THE 15 of this Month of May Shall be a sad disastrous day And they that Charle● his part do take Shall deerely suffer for his sake And many of his friends shall fly Lake Dust before the Enemy But in the pleasant Month of Iune The Byrds will sing another tune A Glo●ious splender shall appeare And so protect our Severaigne deare Diew cathee whee Guenthlen White Aged 112 yeares Mr. Brightmans Prophesie VVHen Engands Church growes Englands shame Full of luke warmnesse glory vaine The worst in workes and outward forme A●d with contrary factions torne When Romish Rites by Reformation Shall be expel'd out of this Nation Lord begg●r Bishops then shall come To ruine and be overthrowne The Priests shall be vile to each wite Their downfall read with much delight For God will not the guiltlesse hold That have been neither hot nor cold The ●cotch Church shall be in condition A Virgin free from superstition They shall be joyn'd in Covenant ' Gainst which the world shall boast and vaunt But Englands Church must feele the storme Untill she truely her selfe reforme Such hurly burly and such stir No forme of Church shall remaine in her But reformation must take breath From the reigne of Queene Elizabeth Another Prophesie very ancient in old Meeter IN the same yeere that fully shall expire The sixth great wonder of the worlds Empire Then Tyders * i. e. Hen. Ed. Mar. Phi. Eliz. HEMPE shall end I dare arread Then * After Q. Eliz. K. l. E shall fall and I shall stand instead In the same yeere a great plague shal reign The which a thousand dayes shall remain At Maries Masse a Court they hold The which in bloody Inke shal be enrolled There many a plea shall passe with brawling words And short daggers shall be better then long swords On Hunsl●es heath soone after shall be seen A fierce battel fought by a King I ween Of Knights there shall be three thousand there Of which there shall but ten back againe appeare There shall many a battell and brawle be And then a huge host shall passe over the sea Concluding a p●ace but in this wise Betw●xt C. C. two L. L. so long shall last two I. I. Another ENgland thy proper native thee betrayes Because all Nations hate thee and thy wayes Spaine doth undermine thee France doth grow Wales threates the Irish thee by snares doth awe Thy B●avest men doe on a sudden dye And thou thy selfe dost wholy rain'd lye Yet seest it not but under seigned peace Dost thine owne misery still more increase Another out of an ancient Manuscript VVHen pride is in price And wit is in vice When Robbery as rife as Rye in the Rice When great men are Lawlesse And holy Kirke awlesse Gods body and bloud not given the heeding And laicks have the Church in leading Then shall sorrow set upon seele But sal Fortune turne her wheele When the yeere of our Lord is commen and gan One thousand six hundred forte and twain Then zeale sal last for ever and aye Til the Sonne of God take all away Another short but pithy IN Germany begins a Dance Which passeth through Italy Spaine and France And to Ireland is a Leaper There the Dance lieth at a stand Till it ventures ore into Scotland But England shall pay the Piper Another Ever shal ⚅ be call'd the first of the Due When ⚀ shall beare up Then shall England be clepid Paradise When ⚄ and ⚃ be set on side The name of ⚅ shall spring full wide And when ⚃ and ⚁ drive out ⚂ Then may England sing well away Then it is all shent For then shall be another Parliament ⚅ Shall up and ⚀ shall under The Lyon the Rose the Flower-de-l●●e The Lock shall undoe Then shall ⚅ beare the price And ⚀ sh●ll helpe thereto FINIS

Then there will be a great battaile betweene England and Scotland and they will be pacified for a time and when they come to Brammamore they fight and are againe pacified for a time then there will be a great battell between England and Scotland at Stockmore Then will Ravens sit on the (n) It is to be noted and admited that this Crosse in the North in Mother Shiptons dayes was a tall stone Crosse which ever since hath been by degrees sinking into the ground and now is sunke so low that a Raven may sit upon the top of it and reach her bill to the ground Crosse and drink as much bloud of Nobles as of the Commons then woe is me for London shall bee destroyed for ever after There will come a woman with one eye and she shall tread in many mens bloud to the knee and a man leaning on a staffe by her she shall say to him what art thou and he shall say I am the King of Scots and she shall say goe with me to my house for there are three Knights and hee will goe with her and stay there three dayes and three nights then will England be lost and they will cry twice a day England is lost Then there will be three Knights in Peter-gate in York and the one shall not know of the other there shall be a childe borne in Pomfret with three thumbs and those three Knights will give him three horses (o) There is a childe not many yeares since borne at Pomfret with three thumbs to hold while they winne England and all Noble bloud shall be gone but one and they shall carry him to Sheriffe Huttons Castle sixe miles from York and he shall dye there and they shall chuse there an Earle in the Field and hanging their horses on a thorne and rue the time that ever they were borne to see so much bloud shed Then they will come to Yorke to besiege it and they shall keep them out three dayes and three nights and a penny loafe shall be within the Bar at halfe a Crowne and without the Bar at a penny and they will sweare if they will not yeild to blow up the Towne walls Then they will let them in and they will hang up the Major Sheriffes and Aldermen and they will goe into Crouch Church there will three Knights goe in and but one come out againe and he will cause Proclamation to be made that any man may take house towre or bower for 21. yeares and whilst the world endureth there shall never be warfare againe nor any more Kings or Queenes but the Kingdome shall bee governed by three Lords and then Yorke shall bee London And after this shall be a white harvest of Corne gotten in by women Then shall be in the North that one woman shall say unto another Mother I have seene a man to day and for one man there shall be a thousand women there shal bee a man sitting on St. Ia●es Church hill weeping his fill And after that a Ship came sailing up the Thames till it came against London and the Mr. of the Ship shall weepe and the Marriners shall aske him why he weepeth being he hath made so good a voyage and he shall say Ah what a goodly City this was none in the world comparable to it and now there is le●t scare any house that can let us have drinke for our money Vnhappy he that lives to see these dayes But happy are the dead Shiptons wife sayes In the worlds old age this woman did foretell Strange things should hap which in our times have fell Mr. Truswels Recorder of Lincolne THe Lilly shall remaine in a merty world and he shall be moved against the seed of the Lyon and he shall stand on one side amongst thrones of his Kingdome and Countrey and there shall come the Son of man beating three wild beasts in his Armes which Kingdome is the Land of the Moone which is to be dread throughout all the world with a company of people he shall passe many waters and he shall come to the Land of the Lyon looking for helpe with the beasts of his owne Countrey And in that yeere there shall come an Eagle out of the Bast and his wings spread with the beames of the Sonne of man And that yeere shall be destroyed Castles upon Thames and there shall be great feare over the whole world and in a part of the Land there shall be great battells amongst many Kingdomes That day shall be the bloody field and the Lilly shall lose his Crowne and therewith shall be crowned the Sonne of man And in the fourth yeere many battells shall be for the Faith and most of the world shall be stoopen but the Sonne of man with the Eagle shall be preferred and there shall be universall peace over the whole world Then shall the Son of man receive a marvellous token and there shall be great plenty of all manner of fruits and then shall he goe to the land of the crosse The Prophesie of old Sybilla VVHen Scotland hundred and ninth unconquered King The sixteenth hundred thirty and ninth yeere Into his age of thirty nine shall reigne Then shall the Papall overthrow appeare Which all the Arts of Europe shall admire For Scotland shall that blessed worke begin Then shall the whore of Babel we had here Be banisht quite which Bishops did bring in Then thou brave England which wast led so blinde By their perverse Episcopall pride And Irelands shamelesse superstitious sin Shall be supprest who cruelly have cried So that that Sacred Prophetesse Sybilla Shall shortly come to passe she tells Tom Milla. And Tom tell 's me and I must tell 't againe Through Scotland England Ireland France Spain Ignatius Prophesie If eighty eight be past then thrive Thou maiest till thirty foure or five After the ● is dead a Scot Shall governe there and if a plot Prevent him not then sure his sway Continue shall til many a day The ninth shall die yong and the first Perhaps shall reigne but oh accurst Shall be the time when thou shalt see To sixteen joyned twenty three For then the Eagle shall have help● By craft to catch the Lyons whelpe And hurt him sore except the same Be cured by the maidens name In July month of the same yeare Saturne conjoynes with Jupiter Perhaps false Prophets shall arise And Mahomet shall shew his prise And sure much alteration Shall happen in Religion Believe this truely if then you see A Spaniard a Protestant to be Merlins Prophesies ON Boreas wings then hither shall be borne Through Weeke ore Tweed a Princely Unicorne Who brought into the world his owne faire Crest A rampant Lyon figured on his breast And to his arms six Lyons more shall quarter With six French flowers inv●ron'd with the garter Joyning by fates unchangeable dispose The Northerne Thistle in the Southerne Rose He shall the true Apostolick Faith maintaine With pious zeale