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A93159	Mother Shiptons prophesie With three and XX more, all most terrible and wonderful, predicting strange alterations to befall this climate of England. Viz. 1. Of Richard the IIId. 2. Mr. Truswal recorder of Lincoln. 3. Lilly's predictions. 4. A prophesie alluding to the Scots last invasion. 5. Ignatius his prophesie. 6. Mrs. Whites prophesie. 7. Old Sybilla's prophesie. 8. Merlin's prophesies. 9. Mr. Brightman's. 10. Old Otwel Bins. 11. Paulus Grebnerus proph. 12. A prophesie in old English meeter. 13. Another ancient proph. 14. Another short, but pithy. 15. Another very obscure. 16. Saltmarsh his predict. 17. A strange prophesie of an old Welch-woman. 18. St. Bede's prophesie. 19. William Ambrose. 20 Tod's prophesie. 21. Thomas of Astledown. 22. Saunders his predictions. 23. A prophesie of David, Cardinal of France, &c.	Shipton, Mother (Ursula)	1678 (1678)	Wing S3448A; ESTC R217981	12,921	18

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 a● 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 ●●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-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