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The fortune of France from the prophetical predictions of Mr. Truswell, the recorder of Lincoln, and Michael Nostradamus.
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Truswell, Mr.; Nostradamus, 1503-1566. Prophéties. English. Selections.
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1678
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Wing F1619; ESTC R6793
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great Battles among many Kings In that Day shall be the Bloody Field in which the Lilly shall lose his Crown wherewith the Son of Man shall be crowned and in the fourth year many Battles shall be for the Faith The Head of the World shall be brought to the Earth And the Son of Man with the Eagle shall be exalted And there shall be Universal Peace over all the World And the Son of Man shall receive a wonderful Sign And there shall be great plenty of all Fruits of the Earth And he shall go into the land of the Cross I do not find that this Prophesie hath been taken notice of except by an inconsiderable and little regarded person Arise Evans in a Book entituled A Voice from Heaven printed Anno 1652. and though he did strangely foretell many things and particularly was always positive about his Majesties happy Restauration and with him of the Church of England then trampled under foot by the prevailing Sects and Factions yet mentioning this Prophesie he has both given so false a Translation and an Interpretation no less impertinent than ridiculous in some things making the Lilly to be Mr. Lily the Astrologer and some such things as look like the effects of a weak or shattered Brain Nor do I remember any Conjuncture of Affairs which have been in Europe to which this Prediction could possibly be applicable except the present to which it seems plainly and perspicuously to direct and to threaten France with an inevitable fall from that Glory and Prosperity which now she does seem to enjoy According to the manner of all Prophesies and even this as well as the rest is wrapt up in a mysterious confusion which leaves us no more to work upon than matter of Connexion and Conjecture But however according to the judgment of persons much conversant in Writings of this nature there seems to be an agreement in Opinion that by the Son of Man who carries the wild Beasts in his Arms is intended the King and Kingdom of England which is so distinguishing a difference as no other Prince besides him can pretend to the Description And possibly he calls him the Son of Man with a regard to his Exile alluding to that place in Scripture That the Foxes have holes and the Birds of the Air have Nests but the Son of Man hath not where to hide his head He having had in that extremity of his Fortune no place of security or retreat capable to shelter him from the malice of his implacable Enemies whilst he was hunted by them from one Kingdom to another his Reception being made a sufficient ground of War as his Banishment was always an Article of Peace And he seems farther to explain this when he tells us He shall pass many Waters Which is both literally and prophetically true for his present Majesty was forced for his security to pass and re-pass the Seas But in the Figurative sense by Waters is always in the prophetical dialect understood Afflictions Instability of Fortune Dangers and Hazards from the People Now all the world is witness that even from his Infancy his Majesty of Great Britain sailed through a most tempestuous Ocean of Adverse Fortune And he shall come to the Land of the Lyon By the Lyon is here meant the Leo Belgicus the Belgick Lyon as the United Provinces and Spanish Netherlands from the figure of the Country as it lies in the Maps and from their ancient Ensigns are called and by that Name commonly known from both which Countries his Majesty expected Protection and Assistance and did in some measure receive it looking for help from the Beasts of his own Country that is expecting Assistances from the Scottish Nation to some of which the Name he gives them did but too well agree with that part of them who endeavoured to make a prey of him as before they had done of his Royal Father This he further explains in the foregoing words telling us and he shall come with a multitude of People which shews his Restauration and that he should come that is to be received with the universal desire and consent of his People into his Kingdom which Kingdom is the Land of the Moon either because it is surrounded with the water of the Ocean over whose fluxes and re-fluxes the Moon has such absolute Soveraignty and Dominion or to signifie the great Changes and Alterations the ebbing and flowing of the Tydes of Faction and Rebellion which should be in that Kingdom and especially in Ecclesiastical Affairs of which the Moon is even in Holy Prophesies not an unusual Significatrix the Church being often figured by the Moon as shining by a borrowed light Luna quasi luce lucens aliena and being frequently under great Changes and Alterations and never more bright and conspicuous than in the darkest nights of Persecutions Which Kingdom of the Moon is to be dreaded throughout the World he does not say England which here he calls the Land of the Moon shall have dominion over all the Earth an Island being altogether incapable of such a design or Dominion but it shall be dreaded which may well be understood to be meant in regard of the great Maritime Power and Naval Exploits of the English which has already made their name terribly known to all the world and which is to be hoped such care will be taken to increase and incourage that Power as well as to abate that of our Rivals and Enemies as in future Ages shall render England not only considerable but formidable to all the Earth so as to be able if not to give Laws yet to hold the Great Ballance so as to make England terrible to her Enemies who shall therefore dread their great Naval Power in regard of their Ability thereby to make sudden Invasions and Discents into the Maritime Countries of their Enemies and to stop their Trade and Commerce abroad Thus far the Prophesie appears plain and easie Events having in a great measure given us a clear Interpretation of it Now Affairs thus standing the Son of Man who bears the Wild-beasts in his Arms whose Kingdom is the Land of the Moon which is to be dreaded throughout the World being come through many Waters with a multitude of People he comes to discourse of the Lilly By the Lilly they interpret France whose Ensigns are the Lillies as they themselves discourse it by their Salique Law when they tell us the Lillies spin not excluding thereby the Distaff from all hopes of enjoying the Scepter Rather to destroy the pretensions of the English than that they are able to shew any such original and fundamental Law of their Crown The Lilly saith he shall remain in the better part that is France shall be in great Peace Glory Plenty and Prosperity which has been exactly verified ever since the conclusion of their last Domestick Wars by the Policy of that great Minister of State Cardinal Mazarin during the minority of the present King of