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A46355 The strange and wonderfull visions and predictions of William Juniper of Gosfield in Essex relating to the troubles of England, as they were by him delivered to Dr. John Gauden then at Bocking, and now Lord Bishop of Exon. Gauden, John, 1605-1662. 1662 (1662) Wing J1191; ESTC R10908 8,698 20

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but what was represented to him as true For Sir said he I fear God to whom I must give account of my words c. Having thus sounded the sincerity of the Good Man and finding him a true Nathaniel not only with out any feining guilt or affectation but so serious and consciencious so knowing in the Scriptures so judicious in his Religion so steddy in his Judgement so discreet in his Expressions and so pious in his Conversation I had then a further curiosity to see the bottom of his business and intreated him to tell me since what time he had perceived any of these impresions on his spirit or fancy or what he thought of them how they were upon review presented to him whether he had them Waking or Sleeping c. § The good man with great Veneration of God and more respect to me than I could deserve assuring me againe of the truth of what he should relate to me thus began § Sir The experiments I have had of these impressions at sundry times upon my mind in the night have been both sleeping and waking or as it were between both I suppose they begin in my sleep and when I am assuredly awake they do still continue with so quick and clear representations to me that I cannot well distinguish the difference of them as to my imagination either sleeping or waking They are alwayes so exactly the same in my mind and memory they make so deep impressions on me that I never forget them All particulars are still the same before me as they first appeared § I asked him what was the first instance in this kind which made him take notice of such Fancies beyond ordinary Dreams This he told me was thus I had been married Sir Seaven years and had no Child a blessing desirable to the poor as well as the rich for which I besought God with more then ordinary earnestness of devotion soon after I dreamed I had a Sonne and saw the Child in such a party coloured Garment according to the time of life which was his very words the Lord gave me a Child by my Wife who unwillingly made it's first Coat of a stuffe so coloured as I saw in my Dream which seemed to me as some speciall instance that this Child was a gift of God in answer to my prayers § After this the Troubles and Terrors of times comming on to the ruine of our Church and Kingdome I was quoth he much afflicted in my soul to see the sad dissentions raised between the King the two Houses of Parliament having learned in the word of God that the honour of true Christian Religion consists much in the patience and obedience of Subjects to their lawful Kings The War growing hot and little hope of Peace my heart being full of Fears I had this Dream in the Night Passing by such a Neighbours House to a Water-Mill which he named and having two little Beagles following me a sport of foot Hunting which he had sometimes used in his younger dayes there came out two great Dogs Full and Fat which fell on my Beagles and worried them exceedingly At which I was so moved that to preserve them I laid on as hard as I could with this Quarter staffe which was now in his hand as he used to walk with it upon the great Curs but in vain for they were so smooth and fat that no stroke would fix on them to make them feel the smart upon which I called to the Miller whose those Dogs were and asked him if he were not ashamed to see his great Curs thus abominably worry my two little Beagles he with indifferency answered it was no wonder for saith he my Dogs are called Will and Power upon this answer I was the more amaz'd because I bethought my self that my two Beagles were named Love and Obedience § I interrupted him Goodman Juniper would you call any Dogs by those Names of Love and Obedience No Sir replyed he God forbid but in my sleep they were thus presented to me as so nam'd the interpretation he easily made according as he thought the justice of the Causes and Merits of the parties would bear For he was a most Loyall Subject to his King and a most Religious Sonne of the Church of England a lover of Truth and Peace § After this as he then told me he had another Dream a good while before the King was destroyed in this manner I was walking in such fields naming them by the hedge side over which as I sometimes looked I saw a great company of people as Souldiers Horse and Foot in confused motions while I got on the higher ground to see more exactly what the matter was I saw men flying this and that way many faln and slain on the grounds and amidst the Corps one that lay higher than the rest by himself with Robes or Garments about him very goodly as if he were some great personage or Prince but besmeared with blood while I beheld with grief this spectacle I saw a Woman in a rich mantle of purple come riding amain to that dead Corps and casting her self upon it she rent her mantle tore her hair and fell into a most bitter Lamentation being forsaken of all This he told me seemed to him to represent the death of the King and the Church of England deploring it with such bitternesse as that Tradegy deserved which soon after came to passe After this as he proceeded the Year before King Charles the Seconds coming to Worcester I had another Dream My thoughts I saw a goodly young Lion in a large Field the other Beasts as Horses Bulls Bears Asses Wolfes Dogs Hares Foxes Apes with others that followed him with such a perulant and scornful importunity of gesture and noise as that they would be gladly rid of him and shewed they had reverence for him The Lion marched away without betraying any fear but yet so as he seemed not pleased with such rude company when he was quite gone out of sight all the beasts gathered together as in a round and sitting down on their hinder parts made their several noises as loud as they could bellowing or roaring or braying or howling or crying out in a kind of hideous triumph and joy that they had thus driven the Lion out of the Field and forced him to hide himself from them The event was so evident an interpretation and completion of this prediction as nothing could be more easie and obvious to the good man than to see how his thoughts were adapted to those things which he lived to see fulfilled § Soon after this when an horrible darknesse with all manner of licencious confusion and tyrannous oppression had covered the face of all things in Church and State the glory of England in its established Religion and excellent Lawes which were formerly carried on by the ancient ways of Government Regal and Episcopal being now quite departed in the same year He had another Dream