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A34487	The Coppie of a letter sent from one of the queenes servants at the Hague to a gentleman in Westminster dated the second of May, 1642 whereunto is added two strange prophesies concerning these times : with the predictions of Henry of Huntington / written by Tho. Asladowne in the year of our Lord 1556.	Asladowne, Thomas. A prophesie of Tho. Asladowne written in the year of our Lord 1556.; M. M.; Henry of Huntingdon, 1084?-1155.	1642 (1642)	Wing C6144A; ESTC R29718	2,671	9

THE COPPIE OF A LETTER SENT FROM ONE OF THE QVEENES SERVANTS AT THE Hague to a Gentleman in Westminster Dated the second of May. 1642. VVHEREVNTO is added two strange Prophesies concerning these times With the predictions of Henry of Huntington Written by Tho Asladowne in the year of our Lord 1556. LONDON Printed for I. T. 1642. A Letter from the Hague Sir GIue me leave to assure you that you have further obleiged me by your paines already taken in writing to me then ●rom this place you can expect to have any satisfactory requitall in that way There hapned a very sad disastrous accident on Friday the 15. of this instant Aprill vnto the sonne of the Lady Kingsmels who was servant to the Prince Elector and had rem●ined in the Emperours Co●rt a Prisoner with Pr nce Robert during the time of his restraint there And thus it was there had passed a quarrell and single Duell betwixt one M. Stepkins a Cavelere who came over when we came whom I remember I had lately seene in England and M. Cutts sonne to the Lady Morton and it so falling out that they were to meete a second time upon some aggravations had beene given by way of report from Stepkins as that he had disarmed Cutts and given him his life in the intrim M. King smell being an intimate frind of Master Cutts unluckily interposed and unnecessarily ingageth himselfe to fight with Stepkins and paid his life for it that morning on the strand at Skeiveling close by the Sea side little more then a myle from the Hague The Q eene was yesterday entertained by the Prince of Orange at his House at Hounslow-dike the same place she dined at the day she came to the Hague She did returne the last night againe and is to see Roterdam on Munday next which is not above 3. or 4. houers goeing by land or water And they say returnes the same night which I hardly beleive About a fortnight after that she resolves to see Amsterdam which will be about the time the Pri●ce goes to the Feild Then after we have seene Virick and Leyden and other places I suppose the returne will be to the Hague The Imperiall City Cullen in Germany is straitly beseiged by the French and Hollanders and it is presumed they will take it the bearer hereof one of the Queenes footemen returnes againe suddainly I pray you write at large So presenting my love to you and all my freinds I rest yours M. M. Hague the 2. of May 1642 A PROPHECIE CONCERNING these Times VVHen Iames shall seek a second Crown as in white Armour ore the Down Iames needs not crosse the brinish seas but take the fatall stone with ease High consultations when they hold best counsell oft shall be controll'd and false in heart grow strong and bold But the harm that they for others hatch shall be a snare themselves to catch A marriage shall be gone about not without danger fear and doubt They shall misse the mark yet all is well but when they hit the times shall tell Though Iames be wise and learn'd withall yet stumble in the end he shall And Iames shall vanish from their face at halse Elizabeths royall Race High Courts of head and members knitting are now not thought so much befitting But using Forraign policies grudgings and discontents arise Yet shall they assemble to that seat about some work of moment great But there shall such dissentions grow that each at other gloves shall throw Which strife shall so encrease that they in fury all depart away Who shall their Tenants and their men with all their forces gather then And lead them forth to our great Heath where many a man shall taste of death Then proclamation shall be made to gather forces for their ayde The Souldiers shall full fast encrease foure severall times till silver cease First twelve pence then four groats is cride then twenty pence to help their side Two shillings then they cry for ayd but yet this last shall ne're be payd for ere they come an end is made Thus shall they greater forces crave though maintainance want for those they have Then each to other shall complain a Princes power who can maintain Then one shall looke upon another and by some means confer together And secretly appoint a day to take their Leaders lives away Before those times a Plague shall raign and even then shall still remain which with the number of the slain Such as in those times live shall see great trouble and calamitie To such as are good Land-lords known perhaps some favour shall be shown And such as have plenty of store are in lesse safety then the poore Then twenty pound of money in hand is better then so much yearly land A loafe a cloake a privy clough exceed six Oxen and a plough When Forraine Countries gaine what tribulation we sustaine Then one from France shall claime pretend who on a blocke his life must end From Scotland then one needs be chiefe which there must dye without reliefe From Ireland likewise shall be one must lose his head upon a stone A childe with his Chaplaine then shall come which to this Realm his right shall doome He shall this Kingdome wisely guide and other Kingdomes nine beside Then foure great Dukes he shall elect whose Lawes shall ever take effect No man shall Lawyers counsell crave for men their right at home shall have And Officers each Towne within shall right the wrong and punish sin He shall bring down Romes godlesse pride and spread Christs Gospel far and wide the Turke shall not his force abide Worthies be nine so reckon we and this the tenth and last shall be The Moone obscured sixty yeare Shall get her light and shine full cleare Henr. Huntingdonensis Hist l. 6. initio PRedixit etiam eis quidam vir Dei quod exscelerum suorum immunitate non solum quia semper caedi proditioni studebunt verum etiam quia semper ebrietati negligentiae Domus Domini dediti erant eis insperatum A Franciae adventurum Dominum quod eorum excellentium in aeternum deprimeret honorem sine termino restitutionis eventilarent Predixit etiam quod non eagens solum verum etiam Scotorum quos vilissimos habebant eis ad emeritano confusionem dominaretur Praedixit Nihilominus varium edeo saeculum creandum ut varietas quae in mentibus hominum latebat in actibus ptaebat multimodo variatione vestium in Damentorum designaretur A PROPHECIE OF Tho Asladovvne Written in the yeare of our Lord 1556. THe time shall come that there shall bee shewed many strange things First the peaching of Traytors of divisions in divers Realmes Great rising of Merchants Confusion of Money-makers great stealing The destruction of Traytors and of rich men much witchcraft great plenty of Wormes Rats and Frogs ingendied in the Ayre great hunger amongst the People great dearth and scarcenesse of divers things Namely in the Land of Britaine and in England and France great oppression of bloud imprisonments of many men In England shall be much Battaile so that there shall be few or no quiet place to abide in and the counsell of Aged men shall not be set by The men of the Church Princes and Lords shall forsake righteousnesse The common people shall not know for feare which way to turne themselves The Father and the Mother shall be hated of their Children Men of Worship shall have no reverence of their Subjects Chastitie shall be broken with Maydens wedded-Women Men and Widdowes and also with men of Religion Many Sects and Heresies shall arise in those times and great desolations shall be fall by the sword which is the greatest evill with much more then I can tell from the which Almightie God defend and bring us to thy blisse sweete Iesus FJNJS