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A43162	The life and death of Mother Shipton being not only a true account of her strange birth and most important passages of her life, but also all her prophesies, now newly collected and historically experienced from the time of her birth, in the reign of King Henry the Seventh until this present year 1667, containing the most important passages of state during the reign of these kings and queens of England ... : strangely preserved amongst other writings belonging to an old monastary in York-shire, and now published for the information of posterity.	Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?	1677 (1677)	Wing H1257; ESTC R16009	35,932	55

Shiptons and knocking at the door she being within called to him and said come in Mr. Abbot for you are not so much disguised but the For may be seen through the Sheeps skin it is not those Cloaths makes you a Lay-person no more than a Long-Town makes a man a Lawyer come take a stool and sit down for you shall not go away unsatisfied of what you destre and thereupon she began to utter forth her Prophecys in this sort When the Cow doth ride the Bull Then Priest beware thy Soul And when the lower Shrubs do fall The great Trees quickly follow shall The Miter'd Peacocks lofty Pride Shall to his Master be a Guide And one great Court to pass shall bring What was neer done by any King The Poor shall Grieve to see that Day And who did Feast must Fast and Pray Fate so Decreed their Overthrow Riches brought Pride and Pride brought Woe These Prophesies were thus Explained by the Cow was meant King Henry who gave the same by reason of the Earldom of Richmond which was his Inheritance and the Bull betokeneth Mrs. Anne Bulloign whome the King took to Wife in the room of Queen Catharine her Father gave the Black Bulls head in his Cognizance and was his Beast and when the King had married Queen Anne then was fulfilled the second line of the Prophecy viz. Then Priest beware thy Scul for what a number of Priests Religious and Secular lost their heads for offending of those Laws made to bring this matter to pass And when the Lower Shrubs do fall The great Trees quickly follow shall The Miter'd Peacocks lofty pride Shall to his Master be a Guide Cardinal Wolsey who is here intended by the Miter'd Peacock in the height of his Pride and vastness of his undertakings intending to erect two fair Colledges one at Ipswich where he was born the other at Oxford where he was bred and finding himself unable to endow them at his own Charges be obtained License of Pope Clement the Seventh Anno 1525 to suppress forty small Monasteries in England and to lay their old Lands to his new Foundations which was done accordingly and the poor People that lived in them turned out of doors many of the Clergy were very much against this action of Wolseys especially John Fisher Bishop of Rochester alledging for the same an Apologue out of Aesop that the Iron Head of the Axe craved a handle of the Wood of Oaks only to cut off the seere boughs of the Tree but when it was a compleat instrumental Axe it felled all the Wood applying it That the suppressing of those smaller Houses would in fine prove Destructive to all the rest which came to pass accordingly for King Henry seeing the Cardinals power to extend so far as to suppress these lower Shrubs be thought his Prerogative might stretch so far as to fell down the Great Trees and soon after dissolved the Priory of Christ's Church nigh Aldgate in London now known by the Name of Dukes-place and which was the richest in Lands and Ornaments of all the Priories in London or Middlesex and which was a fore-runner of the Dissolution of all the rest and which not long after came to pass And one great Court to pass shall bring What was ne're done by any King By the Great Court is meant the Parliament the Supreamest Court of England who in the Twenty seventh of King Henry's Reign Anno 1539. To support the Kings States and supply his wants contented on the Crown all Religious Houses which were not able clearly to expend above two hundred pounds a year the great ones not long after following the same fortune of the smaller which was ne're done though attempted by any King before The Poor shall Grieve to see that day The Abbots and Priors being most bountiful House-keepers relieving all comers and goers got themselves much reputation for their Hospitality And who did Feast must Fast and Pray By the Dissolution of these Houses many thousands were driven to seek their fortunes in the wide World and become utterly exposed to want when Monkish profession was without possession many a young Nun proved an old Beggar and were forced to fast for want of Victuals who formerly had it provided for them to their hands Fate so Decreed their overthrow Riches brought Pride and Pride brought woe The great Riches and Pride of the Monks and Eryers was no doubt the main cause of their overthrow for whatsoever was the pretence questionless profit was the Rope which pulled these Religious Houses down All these things coming to pass before such time as this Abbot died caused him to have a great esteem of Mother Shipton and to value her Prophecys more than ordinary conjectures though at the first he could not tell what to make of her Ambiguous Lines which like the Oracles formerly delivered at Delphos rather brought one into a Labyrinth of confused conjectures then satisfied the expectation until by the Clue of Time the Riddles were manifest and that which at first seemed so hard now appeared to the understanding as easie However be at present kindly thanked Mother Shipton and liverally rewarded her Maid who else would have put him in mind of his neglect much admiring that she should be so clear-sighted as to see through his counterfeit Dress resolving afterwards to be more informed by her concerning future events be at that time took his solemn leave of her and returned home CHAP. X. Her Prophecys concerning King Edward the Sixth The Rebellion of the Commons The Death of the Duke of Somerset with other things NOt long had the Abbot been at home but his Abby was visited by some Instruments employed by the Lord Cromwel for that purpose He who knew what was intended by this Complement thought it not safe to strive against the Stream and therefore quietly surrendred his Monastary into the Kings hands And now perceiving Mother Shiptons Prophecy plainly fulfiled in the downful of those Houses which were judged Impregnable against all the assaults of Malice and time Considering the strange Revolutions of so short a space he was very desirous to be more fully informed of the future In this Resolution be repairs again to Mother Shiptons whom he now accosts more familiarly than he did before making himself plainly known unto her telling her that as what she had formerly spoken he had found to be true in the event so his Iudgment perswaded him she was not ignorant of those things which were for the future to ensue and therefore desired her she would not be nice in imparting of this her fore-knowledg unto him for which so great favour though it were more than his deserts could command yet should there never in him be wanting a grateful tongue to acknowledge and a grateful heart to be thankful unto her for so great a favour Mr. Abbot said she leave off Complementing as more fit for Courtiers and Lovers and not agreeable to an old Woman who will

The Life and Death of Mother Shipton Being not only a true Account of her strange Birth and most important Passages of her Life but also all her Prophesies now newly Collected and Historically Experienced from the time of her Birth in the Reign of King Henry the Seventh until this present Year 1667 Containing the most Important Passages of State during the Reign of these Kings and Queens of England following Viz. Henry the Eighth Edward the Sixth Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth King James King Charles the First King Charles the Second Strangely preserved amongst other Writings belonging to an old Monastary in York-shire and now published for the Information of Posterity LONDON Printed for B. Harris at the Stationers Arms in Swe●things-Ally near the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1677. Beloved Countrey-men THe great Fame and general received Opinion of Mother Shipton with the Credit she hath obtained by those several Prophesies uttered by her which since in the greatest measure have come to pass These considerations I say put me upon a Resolution to search out by my best endeavour the Parents Place and Time wherein this Mother Shipton Flourished Many old Manuscripts and rusty Records I turned over but all in vain at last I was informed by a Gentleman whose Ancestors by the Gift of King Henry the Eighth enjoyed a Monastary in those parts that he had in his keeping some ancient Writings which would in that point satisfie my desire were they not so injured by Time as now not legible to Read however I not despairing to find out their meaning with much Importunity desired to have a sight of them which having obtained I took of the best Galls I could get beat them grosly and laid them to steep one day in good white-Wine that done I distilled them with the Wine and with the distilled Water that came off them I wetted handsomly the old Letters whereby they seemed as fresh and fair as if they had been but newly written here did I find her Life and Prophesies copied out by an impartial hand which I have in this Book presented to thy view together with an Exposition upon her Prophesies for the better understanding of them and which may serve to them whose leisure will not permit to read or want of money forbid to buy more Voluminous Authors this I say may serve to them instead of a Chronicle wherein they may find related the chiefest matters performed in each King and Queens Reign since the time wherein she flourished much more might be added but least I should exceed the bounds of an Epistle and like the Citizens of Mindium make my Gates too bigg for my City I shall here break off abruptly wishing thee as much pleasure in the Reading thereof as I had in the VVriting of it and so Farewel R. Head POSTSCRIPT COurteous Reader let me desire thee Candidly to pass over some seemingly Impossibilities in the first sheet allowing the Author Licentia Poetica in her description and some Actions performed in her Minority and only to weigh the more serious parts of her Prophesies wherein if thou bee'st rational I doubt not but thou wilt receive ample satisfaction The Contents CHAP. I. WHat her Father and Mother were and what wonderful things happen'd at her Birth as also the place of her Nativity CHAP. II. How the Devil constantly visited her in what forms and shapes what strange things she did to those that offended her harming some and making sport with others CHAP. III. How Agatha Shipton was apprehended and brought before a Justice what her Confession was her Mittimus being made to be sent to Prison how she escaped by the help of her friend the Fiend she is retaken and found with Child is bail'd CHAP. IV. What kind of shape Mother Shipton had when she was born how she was put to Nurse at the charge of the Parish and what strange things were seen in the house where she was Nurst during the space of four years CHAP. V. How Mother Shipton whilst but very young at Nurse was daily visited by Spirits in divers shapes and forms and what prancks they plaid during her abode there CHAP. VI. How Mother Shipton was put to School learning more in a day than other Children could in a Month how she was jeer'd by her School-fellows for having such a monstrous long Nose and what prancks she plaid upon them by way of Revenge she now growing very famous CHAP. VII How several persons came to Mother Shipton for her Predictions and how a rich Heiress being deceived by her Maid fell sick and dyed CHAP. VIII Mother Shipton's Prophesies concerning Henry the Eighth's journey into France of Gardinal Woolsey and other things CHAP. IX Her Prophesies to the Abbot of Beverly concerning the downfal of Abbyes Nunneries Priories c. with other things CHAP. X. Her Prophesies concerning King Edward the Sixth the Rebellion of the Commons the Death of the Duke of Somerset with other things CHAP. XI Her Prophesies concerning the Death of Jane Grey the burning of the Martyrs of Wyats Rebellion the Death of Queen Mary and Cardinal Pool CHAP. XII Her Prophesies concerning the Reign of Queen Elizabeth the change of Religion the attempts of the Papists upon the Queen the Spanish Invasion the burning of Pauls Steeple the death of the Queen of Scots the reducing of Ireland the beheading the Earl of Essex c. CHAP. XIII The Prophesies of the Reign of King James his uniting England and Scotland his peaceable Reign a Learned time the Powder Treason the Marriage with the Prince Elector and Lady Elizabeth the Death of Prince Henry CHAP. XIV The Prophesies of the Reign of King Charles the First his Marriage with France the Murther of the Duke of Buckingham the Scottish troubles of the long Parliament Bloody Warr ensuing after the Execrable Murther of the King CHAP XV. The Reign of King Charles the Second the Vsurpation of Cromwel the strang Confusion of a Democratical Government the Restauration of the King the great Sickness the Burning of the City of London THE LIFE and DEATH OF MOTHER SHIPTON CHAP. I. What her Father and Mother were and what Wonderful things happened at her Birth as also the place of Her Nativity IN the Second Year of King Henry the Seventh which was in the Year of our Lord One thousand Four hundred Eighty and six there lived a Woman called Agatha Shipton at a place called Naseborough near the Dropping-Well in York-shire She came of poor Parentage who died and left her to shift for her self at the Age of fifteen After their decease she still inhabited in the Old House but being now deprived of those helps she formerly enjoyed conducible to a lively-hood she was constrained to seek relief from the Parish which she did but with so much regret and grief that she seemed in her begging rather to command Alms then in an humble manner to desire it At length she arrived to that pass that she was upon the matter