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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75218	Shinkin ap Shone her Prognostication for the ensuing yeer, 1654. Fore-telling what admirable events are like to fall out in the horizon of Little Britain beyond Mawburn Hills, and in all other places in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. As also a true storie of the beginning of the Welsh-men, their rise and progresse, and how they came first to inhabit the Welsh mountains, never heretofore discovered either in print or writing, and even now published for the comfort and consolation of aul her countreymen now living, and for the nenefot of posterity. Likewise an astrological prediction, concerning the gazing star, seen by thousands of people in and about London, the 22. and 23 of February 1653.	Shone, Shinkin ap.	1654 (1654)	Wing A2385; Thomason E731_5; ESTC R206861	4,843	8

tat her countreymen sprang first of all from a horseturd left upon te top of Maburn-hills by Bucephulus Alexanders creat horse others of them say tat when Brutus first entred Wales her horse left a Surreverence upon te top of Mawburn-hills and from thence came her countrymen and terefore tey call her Countrymen Brutes as if they were Beasts others of tem say tat te first peginning of her countreymen sprang from a Baw Guithie or a Goose breathed upon Pigmalions Image te Poets feigning tat te gods made her alive and te first time she blew her nose she threw te snot from her which falling upon a Goose from that precious compound came te Welshman But in all tese tings tey are deceived not having read te writings of te Ancients For first her cannot finde in all her Welsh Histories tat ever Alexander te creat ever was in her Countrey and if ever her was at Mawburn-hills which her cannot peleeve Mawburne-hills is not in her Countrey and terefore tat can pee no disparagement to her or her Countrey-men and for calling her countreymen brutes or beasts her understands not in te least nor her thinkes no body els tat ever her knew or could ever hear of and therefore her will wave that and the rest and give her Countreymen a clear demonstration of her pedigree from the first inhabiting of Wales her Ancestors antient Inheritance and to the everlasting praise of her Countreymen be it spoken It is thus It was in ancient time but her thinks it was since Noahs Flood England was governed by severall Kings and at that time Carnwall was a Kingdome of it self distinct from the rest and the King of Cornwal having occasion to use a great number of Oars at Sea more then her own Domnions was able to furnish her withall whereupon the King of Cornwal called a Council together to advise with her about her business being of great weight to her small Common-wealth whereupon it was unanimously agreed that her Majesty of Cornwal should write a Letter in Cornish to her Majesty of France for a supply of French Oars for her Cornish Galleys but when her Majesty of France had received her Majesty of Cornwals Letters and her Majesty of France not well understanding the Cornish tongue understood these Oars to bee Whores of which kind of good creatures France did abound insomuch that they might be well spared her Majesty of France willingly consented and accordingly sent over to Cornwall eight ships wel fraught with French whores which when her Maiesty of Cornwall perceived her was horn mad especially for that her French whores were almost naked whereby her Maiesty knew that her had gotten a great number of idle people into her Territories more then her had though her Countrry was well provided before as her own Countrey is to this day But to proceed in her discourse her Maiesty of Cornwal being willing to cloath these French whores and to set them to work and there being little store of cloath in Cornwall because few good Huswives dwelt there her Maiesty of Cornwal writ a Letter to the King of Jreland in the Cornish Tongue to send him over as many Irish Rugs as would cloath those French whores but when her Majesty of Jreland had received her Letter and not well understanding the Cornish Tongue her understood the Rugs to be Rogues of which Ireland was well stored whereupon her Majesty of Jreland mustered up as many Rogues as was expressed in her Letter and more too because her would be rid of them and sent them over by shipping into Cornwall which when her Majesty of Cornwall perceived her was worse mad then before whereupon her called her Councel together to consult what was fit to be done in such a case whereupon after much time spent in debate some moving to hang them others opposing that alledged that would make Hemp dear and therefore in her judgment it was best and the cheapest way to throw them all into the Sea and drown them all But against that was alledged that that was the worst way that could be to dispose of them for that was the way to breed a scarcity of fish in all the Nations round about because the French whores and Irish rogues were such nasty stinking Cattel that if her Maiesty should throw them into the Sea they would poyson all the Fishes in the Sea and so not only bring famine into her own Territories but also provoke all the Princes round about her to war against her Crown and Kingdom and if her should hang them it would not only make Hemp dear but destroy all her loving Subiects with a pestilential air or ill smell and if her drown them it would poyson all the fishes in the Sea and bring famine upon all her Subiects to her exceeding great detrement wherefore there was a necessity to find out some other way whereupon it was resolved that forasmuch as Wales was not then inhabited and that it was but a short cut from Cornwall to Wales and that as there was many hils there could not choose but be some Dales and they being there they could neither make hemp dear nor poison the fish but if they poisoned any body they must poison one another For these and the like reasons it was unanimously agreed Nemine contra dissente that they should be forthwith sent over which was done accordingly and of their Off-spring came her welsh cosen and countreymen Who since by Procreation Are now become a nasty Nation Thus her hopes her have done her Countrey good service in freeing her Countrey-men from calumnies and aspersions also humbly craving pardon for her prolixity it being fery needfull to clear her self and her countreymen from such aspersions usually cast upon her and her countreymen by prophane and ignorant Englishmen and as her have been long and large in some things so her shall be prief and short in som other and so her comes to give her Iudgment to the gazing Star or Stella nova seen in and neer London about the 22 and 23 of February 1654. Her duz humbly conceive that this Star duz portend if any thing at all either peace or war or both but which her do not fery wel know because her have not consulted with her Authors because her Library was burnt at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorah which neither her self nor any body els for her is ever like to recover but her have borrowed one of the Modern Astrologers books which tells her that Stars at that time of the day signifie only fair and dry weather her duz confess if there be no rain it is like to be a dry summer but her can give no great credit to Modern Astrologie because things new are not always true but if her had her Library before spoken of her would undertake to resolve her all her doubts and so her bids her farewel FINIS