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A52515	The Predictions of Nostradamus, before the year 1558, foretelling the trial and death of Charles I, the parliamentary and Protectorian government, the burning of London in sixty six, the great plague & Dutch War at the same time, King James departure, King William and Qu. Maries reign, the humiliation of the King of France by the Confederacy, the reformation of that kingdom, and the return of the French Protestants considered in a letter to a friend.		1691 (1691)	Wing N1398; ESTC R16854	5,789	10

THE PREDICTIONS OF Nostradamus Before the Year 1558. FORETELLING The Trial and Death of CHARLES I. The Parliamentary and Protectorian Government The Burning of London in Sixty Six The Great Plague Dutch War at the same time King JAMES'S Departure King WILLIAM and Qu. MARIES Reign The Humiliation of the King of France by the present Confederacy The Reformation of that Kingdom And the Return of the French Protestants Considered in a Letter to a Friend AS for Nostradamus's Predictions I am satisfied from a thorough-examination of the Principles of Astrology that it is a very vain thing to build any thing upon that Art But there are some of his Rhapsodies that are confined to such individuating circumstances as I would fain hear your thoughts about them He has not mentioned England much above 20 times in his many thousand Verses and yet here are near half that number of Predictions which have been fulfilled in our Age to the greatest exactness tho they seem uncapable of being fulfilled above once by the confining Characters of them I will endeavour to render them more literally from the French than others have done that there may be no cavil about the sense of the words The Death of Charles I. is determined by these peculiar circumstances never known before in the world viz. The Death of a King of England by a Court of Justice and that also by the Parliament and this also after a time of Civil War in the Netherlands as that of Holland and Flanders was which ended at the Peace of Munster 1647. It is also made to be succeeded by the Parliamentary Government which no other King of England's Death or Deprivation had after it and the French Alliance with the Usurpers is also added to it just as the Royal Family was banished out of France Centurie 9. Quatraine 49. Gand Brusselles marcheuront contre Anvers Senat de Londres mettra a mort Ieur Roy Le Sel Vin luy seront a l'envers Pour eux avoir le Regne en desarroy Gainst Antwerp Gant shall Brussels with it bring The London Senate put to death their King The Salt and Wine shall then against Him be For them to have the Realm in Anaroloy By the Salt and Wine in the third Verse is meant France according to the use of that same term in Centur. 5. Quatr 34. and in Centur. 10. Quatr 7. And it is known that the great product of that Kingdom for the King's Revenue for Commerce with other Countreys as well as for the chief support of its own Inhabitants is their Wine and Salt but is more especially its character in distinction from other Countreys which it excels only in these two Commodities Gant and Brussels stand for the two general divisions of the Seventeen Provinces as it is usual in this Book for Cities to signifie Countreys The plainness of the terms in this Prediction and the particularizing circumstances of it fulfilled to exactness does strangely tempt one to be confident that it could be no guess at a venture and then it does also shew from the first and third Verses of it that the stile of this Author is both figurative and prophetical or mysterious This would make one very really believe that the Protectorian Government was also foretold in the following Quatraine Centur. 8. Quatr 76. Plus Macelin que Roy en Angleterre Lieu obscur nay par force aura l'Empire Lasche sans foy sans loy seignera terre Son temps s'approche si pres que je soupire In England King shall under Butcher truckle A mean man force the Realm to him to buckle Faithless and lawless he shall bleed the Land I sigh to think his time 's so near at hand Here we have an obscure person taking the Government upon him soon after the Butchery of a King of England and forcing the Nation to own him and that also against Oaths and Promises and the Law of the Land and this also further determined to the times near Nostradamus These circumstances shew the thing not capable of happening above once in the world But when we find it also fulfilled in the Age next to Nostradamus how is it possible not to be confident that these Verses can mean no other thing but that single event only And in this there is neither figurative nor mysterious expressions The fixing this to the same time of the King's Death with which the Parliamentary Government is joined in the former does also shew that the Protectorian Government must be just almost at the same time with that of the Parliament or force as it is said the Parliament to acknowledge it After this encouragement who would not verily believe that the burning of London in Sixty Six was signified in what follows Centur. 2. Quatr 51. Le sang du juste a Londres fera faute Bruslez par foudres de vingt trois les six La Dame Antique cherra de place haute De mesme secte plusteurs seront occis The just man's blood shall guist on London six By Lightning burnt of twenty threes the six The Ancient Lady shall fall from high place And many shall be slain of the same Race That which is rendred twenty threes does in the French signifie twenty three as well as twenty threes But the six in the French being plural determines it best to Threescore and six and being used without a Substantive it does in common use of speech denote only the date of years as Six without any thing else joined with it signifies in Seventy six or Eighty six and such an use of Numbers without any thing numbred is very frequent in the Predictions Admirables of Nostradamus The term of Lady in the third Verse must according to the use of Prophecy signifie either England or London which is the same as Babylon and Samaria are put for those Kingdoms and are called Women and Ladies and Queens And the character of falling from on high joined here with the burning of London is the same with those of Babylon in Revelat. chap. 18. together with the Antiquity and Greatness of it So also in Isaiah chap. 47. and elsewhere This prophetical use of these terms does determine their Application And then the slaughter of many of the same Sect or Race does well fit the Dutch War to the English loss To apply the Lady to the falling of St. Paul's Church is without example in the kind and is inconsistent with what is said of the Lady in the next Quatraine And that the next Quatraine does belong to the same things appears from the mention of all the same things in it which are in the former as that of just blood to be revenged The great Lady joined with a City which by the name of the City-port is the same with London in the former and lastly because it is the next Stanza to the former with all the same things in it as may now here be seen Centur. 2. Quatr 52. La

Grande Peste de Cité Maritime Ne cessera que mort ne soit vengée Du juste sang par pris damné sans crime De la Grande Dame par feinte n'outragée The City-Ports Great Plague shall not be ended Until the death of just blood be avenged Gailtless condemn'd for gain upon pretence To the Great Lady he had done violence Here the great Plague in Sixty Six is said to be for the same Crime that the Fire and War are said to be for in the former Quatraine And the King's accusation is here made to be a Charge of Treason against his Countrey under the name of the Great Lady This is a very determining circumstance but how can this signifie the profaning of Paul's Church These plain Predictions would make one take notice of Nostradamus's claim to inspiration in his Preface And these being so very plain one would expect something in him about so strange a change as the late Revolution was Consider then the following Quatraine which foretels the election of a King of England from the Low-Countreys upon the loss of a former King which cannot be conceived to be capable of being above once fulfilled Trente de Londres secret conjureront Contre leur Roy. Sur le Pont l'entreprize Luy Satallites la mort desgouteront Un Roy eleu blond natif de Frize Thirty of London ' gainst their King devise On him about the Bridge the Enterprize His Guards for 's death do with displeasure mourn Elected King a Dutch man fair-hair'd born The thing being a Prophecy The Death of a King may be only the loss of State and Dignity as it several times signifies in the Revelations The Bridge shews the King 's going away by water the Thirty of London agree well with the 29 Lords mentioned in the Gazette Decemb. 11 -88 at Guildhall the Secret Conspiracy is the term that Nostradamus and all Papists would give to that meeting The Queens Succession seems also to be plainly foretold Centur. 4. Quatr 96. La Soeur aisnée de l'Isle Britannique Quinze ans devant le frere aura naissance Per son promis moyennant verifique Succedera au Regne de Balance The eldest Sister of the British Throne Fifteen years older than her Mothers Son On promis'd terms fully unto agreed Unto the Balance-Kingdom shall succeed The determining Characters of this Prediction are 1. The eldest Daughter of England 2. Born 15 years before a Brother that is the Duke of Cambridge Anno 77. 3. Her admittance to the Throne upon condition or a Bill of Rights first declared 4. Succession as a Sovereign Queen 5. With the Title of France as Balance or Libra signifies here and in Quatraine 42 61 70. of Century the fifth And Orange is also in France why not then a Kingdom to be hoped for there That the Salique Law shall be abrogated in France is this Author's mind in Quatr 38. Centur. 5. And the present King of France's Humiliation in Orange by the present Consederacy seems fairly promised from hence Predictions Admirables 5. Celuy qui la Principauté Tiendra par grande cruauté A la fin verra grande Phalange Par coup de feu tres dangereux Par accord pourra faire mieux Autrement boira suc d'Aurange He who the Principality Shall keep with cruel Tyranny At last shall see a dreadful Troop Most dangerous for him to give fire Better b'agreement to retire Else juice of Orange he shall soop Orange in the last Verse fixes the Principality in the first Verse to that only And never was there such a Tyrant in it as now nor ever so dreadful a Troop of Confederates against him This is still further confirmed by these following Predictions Centr 6. Quatr 1. Autour des Monts Pyrenees grand amas De gent estrange secourir Roy nouveau Pres de Garonne du grand Temple du Mas Un Romain Chefle craindra dedant l'Eau About the Pyrenaean Hills great Bands T' assist a new-made King from Foreign Lands Hard by the Garonne the great Temple near A Roman Chief Him in the Sea shall fear The Garonne in the third Verse determines the signification of About the Pyrenaeans to any part of South-France Eastward And the Roman Chief must then be the King of France With this agrees Quatrain 9. Centur. 3. Bourdeaux Roüen la Rochelle joints Tiendront autour la grand Mer Oceanes Angleis Bretons les Flamans conjoints Les chasseront jusques aupres de Roūannes Bourdeaux and Roan and Rochell join'd shall be To keep the Coasts of the great Ocean Sea Dutch English and French Britains all-united Shall chase them to Rouannes sore afrighted In the following Quatraines we have the Reformation of the Kingdom of France about this time Centur. 5. Quatr 51. La gent de Dace d' Angleterre Polonne Et de Boeme feront nouvelle ligue Pour passer outre d' Hercules la Colonna Barcins Tyrrhens dresser cruelle brigue The English with the Poles and men of Dace And the Bohemians shall agree to pass Hercules Pillars by a new-made league Spaniards and Tuscans drive on the fierce Intrigue Quatr 52. Ibid. Un Roy sera qui donra l'opposite Les Exils elevez dessus le Regne De sang nager la gent cast Hippolyte Et florira long temps sous telle enseigne To this a King shall opposition make The Exiles into the chief places take In blood Hippolyt like the Chast Tribe lay And long time shall he flourish in that way The Opposition mentioned in the last Quatraine does necessarily tye it to that before it and the Confederacy in the first Quatraine had never any thing like it in the world but the present Confederacy against the King of France and the Turk It is a Confederacy from all parts of Europe East West North and South And from thence it appears that by passing Hercules Pillars must be meant the Latin use of that phrase that is To go to the end of the world which join'd with a great Confederacy must signifie in Prophecy a very great design of Conquest For that it is not to go to America appears from the scituation of some of these Countreys The King mentioned in the second Quatraine against whom this Confederacy is must be a Romish King who has Monks and Friers in his Kingdom as the Chast Tribe or People must signifie And then the King must be the King of France for there is no other Romish Prince excepted out of this Confederacy but He. Barcins or Barcelonians stand for Spaniards as one City is generally used in this Book for the whole People of that Nation So also may Tuscans stand for Italians Thus then do we see all here tied to this present juncture And then the raising the Exiles above all must signifie the advancement of the exil'd French Protestants to govern that Kingdom and the Chast Tribe slain must be the Monks and Friers for rebelling against the Change This is well expressed by likening it to the Case of Hippolytus who was torn in pieces for refusing to lie with his Mother-in-law the true Church being but the Mother-in-law to those people who will be pressed to enter into her Bosom and Embraces but will judge it to be Spiritual Adultery This agrees well with the 7000 to be slain upon the Ascension of the Witnesses in the 11th chap. Revelations ver 13. Upon this Reformation of France the King is said to flourish a long time in this way which intimates that the Conversion shall be lasting From a reflection upon the late Revolution compared with the other changes of the State of England within these hundred years we may observe the fulfilling of what follows contrary to all examples of the neighbouring Countreys round about us Centur. 3. Quair 57. Sept so is verrez changez gens Britanniques Taints en sang en deux cens nonante ans In ninety and two hundred years you 'll see England seven times with blood will changed be This Change of England must be either seven Conquests of it by Foreign Nations or seven Changes of the Governing Power of it within it self Seven Conquests of Foreign Nations is unconceivable and unparallell'd for that compass of years It must then be seven Changes of the Governing-Power of England Nostradamus wrote this in the time of Q. Elizabeth The first Change then was to Kings the next was the Parliament after the Death of Charles I. Then Protectors then Kings again for the bustles after the Protectors were but a state of Anarchy and struggles only for the King's return which began with Sir George Booth And besides the whole interval was so small not above one year and three Scuffles of unsettled Powers only in that time that none can account them settled Governments Wherefore Kings returned were the fourth Change and the late change to King and Sovereign Queen is the fifth and we see it necessary from thence to have one Change more and very likely two before this Generation passes away The Blood mentioned with the Changes may signifie only the trampling down all opposition against it or the end of the Plotters against the Government Thus you see with how little allowance for Prophecy or mysteririous expressions these things are verified But what to ascribe the Predicting Power to I leave to your self Nostradamus pretends to Inspiration as well as to Astrology and indeed as I see many lucky hits from Astrology without the least grounds from the force of its Principles why may there not be the hand of some unseen Spirits in it either for good ends or to draw in some to a too great trust in unreasonable ways The famous stories we have of Nickson's and other ordinary persons Predictions which can very hardly be doubted of do satisfie us That men need not be very Wise not be extraordinarily Holy to foretel things truly where they have no grounds or reasons for it However I hope I have given you some diversion in this and desire your opinion of all I am Your c. LICENS'D May 26. 1691. J. F. London Printed for John Cross and are to be Sold by R. B. in Warwick-Lane 1691.