Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	day_n	king_n	time_n	8,754	5	3.5001	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95483	Two strange prophesies, predicting wonderfull events, to betide this yeere of danger, in this clymate, whereof some have already come to passe. Well worthy of note: the one being found in the reigne of King Edward the fourth: the other in the reigne of King Henry the eighth: named Mother Shipton.	Shipton, Mother (Ursula)	1642 (1642)	Wing T3537; Thomason E141_2; ESTC R16375	4,735	9

told him it was but eight miles thence he said that he will be soone there but being sent for by the King he died in the way to London at Liecester of a lask And Shiptons Wife said to Master Besley yonder is a fine stall built for the Cardinall in the Minster of Gold Pearl and precious stones goe and present one of the Pillars to King Henry and he did so Master Besley seeing these things fall out as shee had foretold desired her to tell him some more of her Prophesies Master said shee before that Owes Bridge and Trinitie Church meet they shall build on the day and it shall fall in the night until they get the highest stone of Trinitie Church to be the lowest stone of Owes Bridge then the day will come when the North shall rue it wondrous sore but the South shall rue it for evermore When Hares kindle on cold harth stones and Lads shall marry Ladies and bring them home then shall you have a yeare of pyning hunger and then a dearth without Corne A wofull day shall be seen in England a King and Queene the first comming of the King of Scots shall be at Holgate Town but hee shall not come through the Barre and when King of the North shall be at London Bridge his Tayle shall be at Edenborough After this shall wa●er come over Owes Bridge and a Windmill shall be set on a ●ower and an Elme-tree shall lye at every mans doore at that ●●me women shall weare great Hats and great Bands and when ●ere is a Lord Major at Yorke let him beware of a stab When ●wo Knights shall fall out in the Castle yard they shall never bee kindly all their lives after When all Colton Hagge hath born Crops of Corne seven yeares after you shall heare newes there shall two Iudges goe in and out at Mungate Barre Then warres shall begin in the Spring Much woe to England it shall bring Then shall the Ladies cry wel-away That ever we liv'd to see this day Then best for them that have the least and worst for them that have the most you shall not know of the Warre over night yet you shall have it in the morning and when it comes it shall last three yeares between Cadr●n and Aire shall be great warfare when all the world is as a lost it shall be called Christs crost when the battell begins it shall be where Crookback Richard made his fray they shall say To warfare for your King for halfe a Crowne a day but stirre not she will say to warfare for your King on paine of hanging but stirre not for he that goes to complaine shall not come back againe The time will come when England shall tremble and quake for feare of a dead man that shall be heard to speake then will the Dragon give the Bull a great snap and when the one is downe they will goe to London Towne Then there will be a great battell between England and Scotland and they will bee pacified for a time and when they come to Brammamore they fight and are againe pacified for a time then there wil be a great Battel at Knavesmore and they will be pacified for a while then there will be a great battell between England and Scotland at Stoknmore Then will Ravens sit on the Crosse and drinke as much bloud of Nobles as of the Commons then woe is me for London shall be destroyed for ever after Then 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 and she shall say to him what art thou and he shall say I am King of the Scots and she shall say goe with me to my house for there are three Knights and he will go with her and stay there three daies and three nights then will England be lost and they will cry twice of a day England is lost Then there will be three Knights in Petergate in Yorke and the one shall not know of the other there shall be a Childe borne in Pomfret with three thumbes and those three Knights will give him three Horses to hold while they winne England and all Noble bloud shall be gone but one and they shall carry him to Sheriffe Nuttons Castle six miles from Yorke and he shall die there and they shall chus● there an Earle in the field and hanging their Horses on a thorne And rue th● time that ever they were borne to see so much bloud shed Then they will come to Yorke to besiege it and they shall keepe them out three daies and three nights and a penny Loafe shall be within the Barre at halfe a Crown and without the Barre at a peny And they will sweare if they will not yeeld to blow up the Towne wals Then they will let them in and they will hang up the Major Shrie●fes 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 Tower or Bower for twenty one years 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 be 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 bee a thousand women there shall be a man sitting upon Saint James Church hill weeping his fill And after that a Ship come sayling up the Thames till it come against London and the Master of the Ship shall weepe and the Mariners shall aske him why he weepeth being he hath made so good a Voyage and he shall say A what a goodly City this was none in the World comparable to it and now there is scarce left any house that can let us have drink for our mony Vnhappy he that lives to see these daies But happy are the dead Shiptons wife saies In th' Worlds old age this woman did foretell Strange things should hap which in our times have fell FINIS