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A97349	The Strange and wonderful history of Mother Shipton plainly setting forth her prodigious birth, life, death, and burial, with an exact collection of all her famous prophecys, more compleat than ever yet before published, and large explanations, shewing how they have all along been fulfilled to this very year.		1686 (1686)	Wing S5848; ESTC R217360	8,121	24

never see York Nay says one present ●our Eminence is misinformed she said you should ●ee it but not come at it Then he vow'd to burn● her when he came there which was but eight ●iles distant but behold immediately he was ●ent for back by the King and dyed of a vio●ent Loosness at Leicester CHAP. 7. ●ome other Prophecies of Mother Shiptons relating to these times AT divers other times when persons of Quality came to visit her she delivered the se●eral prophecies following that is to say 1 Prophecy Before Owse-bridge and Trinity-Church meet ●hey shall build in the day and it shall fall in the night ●ntil they get the highest stone of Trinity-Church the ●●swest stone of Owse-bridge Explanation This came to pass for Trinity Steeple in York was ●own down with a Tempest and Owse-bridge bro●en down with a Flood and what they did in the ●ay-time in repairing the Bridge fell down in the ●ight till at last they laid the highest Stone of the ●eeple for the Foundation of the Bridge 2. Prophecy The North shall Rue it wondrous sore But the South shall Rue it for evermore 3 Prophecy You shall have a year of pining Hunger shall no●●now of the Wars over-night yet shall you have it i● the Morning and when it happens it shall last thre● years then will come a woman with one Eye and sh● shall tread in many mens blood up to the Knee 4 Prophecy Then may a Man take House or Bower Land o● Tower for one and twenty years but afterwards shal● be a white Harvest of Corn gotten in by Women the● shall it be that one Woman shall say to another Mother I have seen a Man to day Vnhappy he that lives to see these days But happy are the dead Shipton's wife says 5 Prophecy A time shall happen when a Ship shall come sailing up the Thames till it come against London and the Master of the Ship shall weep and the Mariners of the Ship shall ask him why he weeps since he hath mad● so good a Voyage and he shall say Ah! what goodly City this was none in the world comparable to it and now there is scarce left an House that can let us have drink for our money Explanation These last words were sadly verified afte● the dreadful Fire of London 1666. when ther● was not an House left all along Thames-side from the Tower to the Temple As for th● words before they being darkly delivered ●re not like to be understood till time that ●oth discovers and absconds all things shall ●ring the matters signified to light CHAP. 8. Her Prophecies in Verse to the Abbot of Beverly THe Abbot of Beverly giving her a Visit one day told her That as he had found ●everal things that she had formerly said to be ●xactly true so he was perswaded she was not Ig●orant in those which for the future were to in●ue and therefore requested her to impart some of ●er fore-knowledge to him for which Favour ●tho ' more than his deserts could command yet ●●all he neither want a Tongue to acknowledge nor 〈◊〉 Heart to endeavour a Requital for so great an ●bligation Mr. Abbot saies she leave off com●lementing I am an old Woman who will neither ●●●tter nor be flatter'd by any yet shall answer our Desires as for as I may And thereupon ●●d in mystick Verses discover to him the ●reatest Accidents that have happen'd in England from that day to this as in the following Explanations will appear Prophecy When the Cow doth ride the Bull Then Priest beware thy Skull Explanation By the Cow was meant H. 8. who gave the Cow in his Arms as Earl of Richmond and th● Bull betoken'd Madam Ann of Bulloigne no● only as the first syllable of her name but because her Father gave the black Bulls-Head i● his Crest and when the King married her immediately after hapned the Dissolution o● Monasteries and restraints laid on the Priests Prophecy For a sweet pious Prince make room And in each Kirk prepare a Broom Explanation This is meant of King Edward the sixth i● whose time the Protestant Religion wa● established and the Popish Superstition swept out of the Kirk an old word used sti●● in Scotland for the Church Prophecy Alecto next assumes the Crown And streams of blood shall Smithfield drown Explanation These Lines decipher Q. Mary called Alecto a name of one of the Furies for her Cruelty ●o the Protestants of whom great numbers ●ere then burnt in Smithfield Prophecy A Maiden Queen full many a year Shall Englands War-like Scepter bear Explanation Spoken of Q. Elizabeth who Reigned ex●eamly Beloved by her Subjects and drea●ed by her Enemies above Forty Years Prophecy The Western Monarch's Wooden Horses Shall be destroyed by the Drakes Forces Explanation The King of Spain's mighty Navy in 88. ●estroyed by the English Fleet under Cap●●in Drake Prophecy The Northern Lyon over Tweed The Maiden Queen shall next succeed And joyn in one two mighty States Then shall Janus shut his Gates Explanation This relates to King James who having been many Years King of Scotland the Crown of England by Queen Elizabeths Death fell to him whereupon he came over Tweed to take up his Residance here and so joyned the two Kingdomes under one Government And as for Janus shutting his Gates you must know Janus was one of the Heathen gods that ha● a Temple at Rome the Gates of which were never shut but in times of Peace alluding to which our Prophetess here declares the peaceful Reign of King James Prophecy Forth from the North shall mischief blow And English Hob shall add thereto Mars shall rage as he were wood And Earth shall drunken be with blood Explanation This relates to our Late lamentable Civ● Wars Prophecy But tell 's what 's next Oh cruel Fate A King made Martyr at his Gate Meaning the Execrable murther of th● most Excellent Prince Charles the First The just King dead the Woolfe shall then With blood usurp the Lyons Den. But Death shall hurry him away Confusion shall a while bear sway Till fate to England shall restore A King to Reign as heretofore Who mercy and justice likewise Shall in his Empire exercise These Prophecies we have seen fulfilled ●y Cromwel's Usurpations the Committee ●f Safetys Confusions and our Gracious So●eraign's Miraculous Restauration Prophecy Triumphant Death rides London through And men on tops of Houses go Explanation The first Line points out the great Sick●●ss in London 1665. And the second the ●eadful Fire the Year following Let this suffice the night comes on You must depart and I be gone Apollo does forbid my Rhimes For to unvail succeeding times Having said this Mother Shipton arose and the ●dmiring Abbot who took all these Prophecies ●ou must conceive in writing giving her many Thanks returned home CHAP. 9. Of Mother Shiptons Death Burial and Epitaph THis famous Prophetess continued several years esteemed as the Sybil or Oracle of these Times At last being Threescore and Thirteen ●ears of Age she found the time in the black Book ●f Destiny approaching wherein she must give a ●●nal adieu to the World which she foretold to a ●ay to divers people and at the hour predicted ●aving taken solemn leave of her friends laid ●er self down on her Bed and dyed on whom 〈◊〉 Poet of this Age bestowed this EPITAPH Here lies she who never ly'd Whose Skill so often has been try'd Her Prophecies shall still survive And ever keep her Name alive FINIS Books Sold by J. Conyers a little abov● St. Andrews Church in Holbourn 1. MErry Jests of poor Robin the Sadler o● Walden 2. The Figure of Seven new printed 3. The new Academy of Complements VVith a new Garland of Fifteen Songs 4. The History of Reynard the Fox 5. The History of Fortunatus 6. The History of Doctor Faustus 7. A new Book of Cookery 8. Lilly's new Erra Pater 9. Two Groatsworth of wit for a penny Mole● and Dreams 10. Mother Shiptons Life and Prophecies 11. An Hundred notable things for a penny 12. The new Parliament of women 13. The Rules of Civility or the Art of goo● Breeding 14. The English Mountebank a Book of mer●y Conceits 15. The Maids Complaint and Batchellor's An●wer 16. Dr. Lilly's last Legacy A Book of choice Receipts of Physick and Chyrurgery 17. The Distressed VVelshman At the above-mentioned place any Chapmen may be ●urnished with all sorts of small Books