world with a company of people he shall pass many waters shal come to the land of the Lion looking for help with the beasts of his own country And in that year there shall come aâ— Eagle out of the East his wings spread with the beams of the son of man that year shall be destroyed Castles upon Thames and there shall be great fears over the whole world and in a part of the land there shal be great battels among many Kingdoms This day shal be the bloudy field the Lilly shall â—â—se his Crown therewith shall be crown'd the Son of man And in the 40 years many Battels shall be for the Faith and most of the World shall be … pen but the Son of man with the Eagle shall be preserved and there shall be an universal 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 go to the Land of the Cross Mr. Lilly in the 59 and 60 Page of his Astronomical Predictions foretels THat the Scots intend to invade us again but shall not set a foot so far as York in a hostile manner The child is now born that shall see that a most flourishing City If they come they must not expect so fair an Enemy as Cromwel nor so good Quarter as lately they found Jockey Jemmy and Moggy that the Souldiers must then to the Sword Fire Famine and Destruction following them to the walls and heart of Edenborough it self A Prophesie of the Scots Invasion VVHen you have had hard work to do And added Five to Forty two You shall perceive a goodly Play spoil'd And by unworthy Actors foyl'd The Scene transpos'd the Act confus'd The Poet shamefully abus'd The first intention of the Plot By their confusion's quite forgot Yea them to Tragick acts design'd Who entred with a Comick mind Some personating double parts With double tongues and double hearts Shall from one side to t'other run Till they are scorn'd of every one And by their means when Peace seems near The troubles which did first appear In Thirty nine prolong'd will be Till fifty two and fifty three And now what courses will be took When those years wheel about go look Ignatius his Prophesie IF Eighty eight be past then thrive Thou mayst till Thirty four or five After that E is Dead a Scot Shall govern there and if a Plot Prevent him not then sure his sway Continue shall till many a day The Ninth shall dye young and the first Perhaps shall Reign 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 whelp And hurt him sore except the same Be cured by the Maidens name In July month of the same year Saturn conjoyns with Jupiter Perhaps false Prophers shall arise And Mahomet shall shew his prize And sure much alteration Shall happen in Religion Believe this truly if then you see A Spaniard a Protestant to be Mrs. White a Welchwoman Prophesied as follows on the Month of May. THe 25th of this Month of May Shall be a sad disastrous day And they that Charles his patt doth take Shall dearly suffer for his sake And many of his Friends shall fly Like dust before the Enemy But in the pleasant Month of June The Birds shall sing another tune A glorious splendor shall appear And so protect our Soveraign dear Dieu cathee whee Guenthelin White aged 112 years The Prophesie of old Sybilla VVHen Scotlands 109 unconquer'd Kings The sixteenth hundred thirty and nine Into his age of thirty nine shall Reign Then shall the Papal overthrow appear Which all the Arts of Europe shall admire For Scotland shall that blessed work begin Then shall the Whore of Babel had here Be banisht quite which Bishops did bring in Then thou brave England which was led so blind By their perverse Episcopal pride And Iretands shameful superstitious fin Shall be supprest who cruelly have cry'd So that that sacred Prophetess Sybilla Shall shortly come to pass she tells Tom Milla And Tom tells me and I must tell 't again Through Scotland England Ireland France and Spain Merlin's Prophesie ON Borcas wings then hither shall be born Through Week o'r Tweed a Princely Unicorn Who brought into the world his own fat Crest A rampant Lyon figured on his brest And to his arms six Lyons more shall quarter With six French flowers invironed with the Garter Joyning by fates unchangeable dispose The Northern Thistle in the Southern Rose He shall the true Apostolick Faith maintain With pious zeal during his blessed Reign That Lincoln was that London is and York shall be Brave London prays those days she ne'r may see The Prophesie of Orwel Bins kept by Mr. Smith Vicar of Hudderfield 40 years THen James shall see a second Crown In pulling Pope and Papists down But James shall vanish from their face At half Elizabeth's Royal Race ' Then using foreign policies Grudgings and discontents arise Yet shall they ' ssemble at the seat Of Parli'ment for a work most great But strange Opinions there shall sow Dissentions that too high shall grow And Laodicea's England's Church Of grace and beauty some shall lurch And Smiths of policy shall invent To cast new molds of Government While vulgar Birds of weaker wing Grow stout against their Eagle King Whose just integtous 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 down An aspirer that assum'd the Crown That he whose power did Laws contemn Might find a grave no Diadem Some Comick Scenes shall then be acted By vulgar Players much distracted The Gospel from a Tub or Tun Shall preached by Mechanicks run Petticoats shall in Pulpits preach And Women be allowed to teach And in those gloomy dogged days They shall tread off the Muses bays Thus strife and envy shall encrease And Round-heads shall disturb the peace Of Religion while they it toss In blankets and pull down the Cross The Brownists shall no old Prayers brook Sermons shall drown the Service-book Then all men in those times shall see Great troubles and calamity Then on the Irish Bogs and Heath Many a man shall taste of death The souldiers wages shall encrease Till Wars at last in Conquest cease To such as are good Landlords known In hostile times some love is shown But for all such as have great store They 're in less safety then the poor Then twenty pounds of coyn in hand Is worth so much of yearly land From Ireland then there shall come one Must lose his head upon a stone But when England shall swim in flouds Of plenty and grow proud of goods Then from their sleep they shall be waked To know themselves both blind and naked Christs Church must know
with three stabs Lord Major at York let him beware of a stab When two Knights (i) Sir T. Wentworth and Sir John Savil in choosing Knights to the Shire in the Castle-yard at York did so fall out that they were never well reconciled shall fall out in the Castle-yard they shall never be kindly all their lives after When all (k) Colton-hag in her time was Wood land ground full of Trees which bore Corn seven years and the seventh years after that was the year of the coming in of the Scots and their taking of Newcastle Colton-hag hath born crops of Corn seven years after you shall hear News there shall two Iudges (l) In the year 1616 two Judges of Assize went at a Gate in York where never any Judges were known to go out before go in and out at Walmgate-bar Then VVars shall begin in the Spring Much woe to England it shall bring Then shall the Ladies cry well 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 now of the War over night yet you shall have it in the morning and when it comes it shall last three years Between Cardon and Air shall be great warfare when all the world is lost it shall be called Christ's Cross When the Battel begins it shall be where (m) Near Licester where Richard the 3. was slain in battel the Col. Hastings was one of the first in arms endeavouring to settle the Commission of Array in opposition to others that were setling the Militia Crook-back Richard began his fray They shall say To warefare for our King for half a crown a day but stir not they will say to warfare for our King on pain of hanging but stir not for be that goes to complain shall not come back again The time will come when England shall tremble and quake for fear of a dead man that shall be heard to speak Then will the Dragon give the Bull a great snap and when the one is down they will go to London town Than there will be a great battel between England and Scotland and they will be pacified for a time when they come to Brammamore they fight and are again pacified for a cime Then there will be a great battel between England and Scotland at Stockmore Then will a Raven sit on the (n) It is to be noted and admired that this Cross in Shipton days was a tall stone Cross which ever since hath been by degrees sir king into the ground and now is sunk so low that a Raven may sit upon the top of it and reach with her hill to the ground Cross and drink as much bloud of Nobles as of the Commonâ— Then woe is me for London shall be 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 staff by her she shall say to him Who art thou And he shall say I am the King of Scots And she shall say Go with me to my house for there are three Knights And he will go with her and stay there three days 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 Child born in Pomfret with (e) There is a Child not many years since born at Pomfret with three thumbs three thumbs and those three Knights will give him three horses to hold while they win England and all Noble bloud shall be gone but one and they shall carry him to Sheriff Huttons Castle six miles from York and he shall die there and they shall chuse there an Earl in the field hanging their horses on a thorn will rue the time that ever they were born to see so much bloud shed Then they will come to York to besiege it and they shall keep them out three days and three nights and a penny-loaf shall be within the Bar at half a crown and without the Bar at a penny and they will swear if they will not yield to blow up the Town-walls Then they will let them in and they will hang up the Mayor Sheriffs and Aldermen and they will go into Crouch Church there will three Knights go in and but one come out again and he will cause Proclamation to be made that any man may take house tower or bower for 12 years and while the world endureth there shall never be warfare again nor any more Kings or Queens but the Kingdom shall be governed by three Lords and then York shall be London And after this shall be a white Harvest of Corn gotten in by Women Then shall be in the North that one woman shall say unto another Mother I have seen a man to day and for one man there shall be a thousand women There shall be a man sitting on St. James's Church-hill weeping his fill And after that a Ship come sailing up the Thames till it come against London and the Master of the Ship shall weep and the Marriners shall ask him why he weepeth being he hath made so good a voyage And he shall say Ah! what a goodly City was this none in the world comparable to it and now there is left scarce any house that can let us have drink for our money Unhappy he that lives to see those days But happy are the dead Shipton's Wife says In the worlds old age this woman did foretel Strange things shall hap which in our time have fell A Prediction of K. Richard the Third IN the reign of K. Richard III his Majesty with his Army lay at Leicester the night before the battel of Bosworth field was fought It happen'd in the morning as the King rode through the South-gate a poor blind man by profession a Wheel-wright sate begging and hearing of his approach said That if the Moon changed twice that day having by her ordinary course changed in the morning K. Richard should lose his Crown and be slain And riding over the Bridge his left foot struck upon a stump of wood which the old man hearing said Even so shall his head at his return back hit on the same place which so came to pass And a Nobleman that carried the Moon for his Colours revolted from K. Richard whereby he lost that Day his Life Crown and Kingdom which verified the presages of that poor blind old man Mr. Truswal's Recorder of Lincoln THe Lilly shal remain in a merry world he shal be moved against the seâ—d of the Lion c he shall stand on one side amongst Thrones of his Kingdom Country And there shall come the Son of man bearing 3 wild Beasts in his Arms which Kingdom is the Lord of the Moon which is to be dread throughout all the
some misery Then shall be a doleful Tragedy 〈…〉 Prophesie WHen Englands Church grows Englands shame Full of luke-warmness glory vain The worst in works and outward form And with contrary factions torn When Romish Rites by Reformation Shall be expell'd out of this Nation Lord Beggar Bishops then shall come To ruine and be overthrown The Priests shall be vile to each Wight Their downfal read with much delight For God will not the guiltless hold That have been neither hot nor cold The Scotch Church shall be in condition A Virgin free from superstition They shall be joyn'd in Covenant ' Gainst which the world shall boast and vant But England's Church must feel the storm Until she truly her self reform Such hurly-burly and such stir No form of Church shall remain in her But Reformation shall take breath From the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Paulus Grebnerus his Prophesie presented to Q. Elizabeth anno 1682 concerning those times THat a Northern King shall Reign Charls by name who shall take to Wife Mary of the Popish Religion whereupon he shall be a most unfortunate Prince Then the people of his Dominion shall chuse to themselves another Commander for Governour v z. an Earl whose Government shall last three years or thereabout And afterwards the same people shall chuse another Commander or Governour viz. a King not of the same Family or Dignity And after him they shall chuse none at all Then after him shall appear one Charls descending from Charls the First and shall govern his Father's Kingdoms wonderful happily and shall bear rule far and near and shall be greater then Charls the Great A Prophesie very ancient in old Meeter IN the same year that fully shall expire The sixth great wonder oâ— the world's Empire THen Tyders * i. e. Hen. Edw. Mar. Phil. Eliz. HEMPE shall end I dare a read Then * after Q. Elizabeth King Iames. E shall fall and J shall stand in stead In the same year a great Plague shall reign The which a thousand days it shall remain At Mary's Mass in Court they hold The which a bloudy ink shall be inroll'd There many a plea shal pass with brawling words And short daggers shall be better then long swords On â—…unslow-heath soon 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 again appear O here shall many a battel and braul be And then a huge host shall pass over the Sea Concluding a Peace but on this wise Betwixt C C two L L so long shall last two I I Another EVer shall âš… be call'd the first of Dice When ⚀ shall bear up Then shall England be ecleped Paradise When âš„ and ⚃ be set on side The name of ⚃ shall spring full wide And when ⚃ and âš drive out âš‚ Then may England sing well-away Then it is all shent For then shall be another Parliament âš… shall up and ⚀ shall under The Lion the Rose the Flower-de-luâ—â— The lock shall undo Then shall âš… bear the prime And ⚀ shall help thereto Another short but pithy IN Germany begins a Dance Which passeth through Italy Spain and France And to Ireland is a Leaper There the Dance lyeth at a stand Till it ventures o're into Scotland But England shall pay the Piper Another ENgland thy proper Native thee betrays Because all Nations hate thee and thy wayes Spain doth undermine thee France doth grow Wales threats the Irish thee by snares doth awe And bravest men do on a sudden dye And thou thy self dost wholly ruin'd lye Yet seest it not but under feigned Peace Dost thine own misery still more increase Mr. Saltmarsh's Predictions declared to his Excellency the Lord Fairfax and the Councell of his Army the motives that occasion'd it and the manner of his death HE being at his house at Yilford in Essex December 4. 1647. told his wife that he had received a Command from God to make known to the Armies what the Lord had revealed unto him the like he said to Sir H. M. Knight a Member of the House of Commons as soon as he arrived at Lonâ—â—â— The next day being the Lord's day he found some difficulty to procure a horse but after dinner he got one and rid alone towards Windsor but missing his way lodged at night seven miles short where he declared That the great and dreadful day of the Lord is near when all men shall be judged by Jesus Christ and then shall the ways and actions of all men appear c. Early the next day Decemb 6. he again missed his way in a Forest but espying a house rid to it to demand his way and there made known that God was purposed to destroy the wicked and draw the Saints to himself with much more After which he departed and about nine of the clock came to Windsor where Mr. A. aâ— Adjutator saluted him He said Mr. A. depart from these Tents lest you perish with them for the Lord hath revealed unto me that he is angry with this Army because they have forsaken him Another a Captain asked him how he did To whom he replied that he had nothing from God to say to him because he had always been a seeker under specious pretence Then seeing one E. D. another Officer he said he could not own him for he was for distinction Then he went to â—he general Council where many Officers were met in expectation of the General he told them that he was come thither to reveal the Lords command that though God had done much for them and by them yet he had left them and their Councels because they had forsaken him that God would not prosper their consultations but destroy them by divisions amongst themselves that formerly he came like a Lamb but now God had raised in him the spirit of a Lion because they had sought to destroy the Prophet of God Some said that he look'd like one distracted and that he had been sick and was not well recovered To whom he replied that he had been sick but was well in health then and sensible of what he said and that should be the last time that ever he should speak to them Afterwards he went to the General not moving his hat and told him that he had no command from God to honour him that he had honoured him so much as he offended God in doting on his person and that God would no longer prosper him c. Then going to the L. Gen. who asked him how he did he without any respect answered him that God was very angry with him for abusing the godly and that the Armies falling from their first principles would occasion their ruine and destruction c. After which he departed and on Tuesday Decemb. 7. he went again to the L. Gen. and declared that he was sorry to see such obstinacy in him and wished him to be mindful of what God