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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

is nothing here will harm you To be short the Nurse was so continually terrified by these apparitions that she resolved to complain to the parrish and having made known the truth of what had past in commiseration to the woman almost distracted they removed Mother Shipton to another place where she was put to School being of an age now fitting for it CHAP. VI. How Mother Shipton was put to School learning more in a day then other Children in a Moneth How she was jeered by her School-fellows for having such a monstrous long Nose and what pranks she plaid upon them by way of Revenge growing now very famous MOther Shipton was now grown a lusty Girl and as she was left to the care of the Parish so the Parish took care that she should have the common sort of Learning that is to say Reading and Writing bestowed upon her Comming to School her Mistriss began to instruct her as other Children beginning with the Cris-cross-row as they call'd it showing and naming only three or four Letters at first but to the amazement and astonishment of her Mistris she exactly pronourced every Letter in the Alphabet without teaching Hereupon her Mistris shewed her a Primmer which she read as well at first sight as any in the School and so proceeded in any Book was shown her As this produced wonder in her School-Mistris so hatred and enby in her Comrades some flouted her for her monstrous long Nose others endevoured to heat her and all strove to mischief her but she valued them not revenging her self upon every one of them that intended her harm Some were pinch't and yet no hand seen that did it others struck speechless when they were about to say their Lessons not being able to utter a word and none escaped from being served one scurby trick or other This so inraged the Parents of these Children looking on Mother Shipton the sole cause hereof that she was discharged the School and so lest to the wide World She hath been often seen when alone to laugh hartily at other times to talk by her self uttering very strange riddles which occasioned some of the more sober sort to converse with her receiving such strange things from her as required a long study to find out the meaning Never a day passed wherein she related not something very remarkable and required the most serious consideration And now it was that people flockt to her far and near her fame was so great to be resolved of their Doubts all returning wonderfully satisfied in the Resolution of their questions CHAP. VII How several persons came to Mother Shipton for her Predictions and how a Rich Heire being deceived by her Maid fell sick of Grief and dyed ANd now Mother Shipton beginning to grow Famous in the World for her notable Iudgment in things to come There reforted to her House a number of people of all sorts both old and young rich and poor Especially of the Female Sex viz. Young Maids and Wenches who have alwaies a great Itching desire to know when they shall be Married as also what manner of Husbands they shall have to which she gave such satisfactory answers both for the Persons and time that no sooner could a young Maid get into the Teens but She would presently Trott to Mother Shiptons to be resolved of her doubt Now though she were not Mercenary her self but refused great Gifts when proffered unto her yet did she keep a young Wench who rather then fail if they forgot to open their purse to her she would remember to open her mouth to them and tell them that her Dame Shipton nor she could not be maintained with thanks but that the belly required meat to feed it and that it was money which made the Mare to go One day there came a certain young Heir thither whose Father was sick to be resolved by her whether he should live or die but Mother Shipton could by no means be wrought upon to tell him any thing whereupon he proffered the Maid great store of Money if she could by any means perswade her Dame to fulfil his request the Wench greedy of Money promised him fair and that if he would come the next Morning he should be certain to be resolved in the mean time she importuned her Dame with the most cunning Rhetorick that she could invent but she was deaf to all entreaties and would by no means be induced thereto whereupon the Wench resolved with her self rather than to lose the money to give him an answer of her own intention which the next morning she performed in these words The Grave prepared hath a Room Prepare for Death thy hour is Come The young Gentleman having received this answer went home joyfully hoping presently to reap the Golden Crop which his Father had sown and to be in an instant possessed of all his vast estate but the sequel proved quite contrary for by that time he came home great hopes of amendment appeared in his Father who each day grew better and better so that in a short time he became perfectly well This unexpected recovery of the old man struck such a dump in our young Heir that he presently took his Bed fell extream sick and in a short time grew extraordinary ill that all the symptoms of a dying man appeared in him The old man who had carked and cared all his life time for his Son having no more Children but he was very desious of his life and to know whether be should recover whereupon he sent to Mother Shipton about the same who knowing by her Art what her Maid bad done sufficiently did chide her for the same threatning upon such another offence to turn her out of her service In the mean time the Messenger was come to her House who having delivered his errant was turned back with this answer For others Deaths who do gape out Their own unlook't for comes about Earth he did seek e're long shall have Of Earth his fill within his Grave The old man having received this answer was much troubled as thinking his own Death predicted thereby not imagining in the least what his Son had done but he was soon quit of that suspicion for within two daies the young man dyed when by a Servant who knew the passages he was informed the truth of the whole matter CHAP. VIII Mother Shipsons Prophecies concerning King Henry the Eighth's journey into France of Cardinal Wolsey and other things ABout this time some differences arising betwixt King Henry the Eighth and the French King great preparations of War were made in England the Drums beating in every County to summon Voluntary Valour to express it self indefence of their King and Country Many Heroick Spirits who made Honour their Aime not dreading any dangers for the attaining thereof now listed themselves Bellona's followers so many appearing under Mars his Banner that he who was furnished with Limbs and an Estate to decline the Service was adjudged

notwithstanding though she were maliciously Poysoned she was miraculously preserved and died in peace maugre all the malice of her enemies The Western Monarchs Wooden Horses Shall be destroy'd by the Drakes Forces By the Western Monarchs Wooden Horses is meant the King of Spains great Armado in the year 1588 by them termed Invincible though the success of it answered not the name being by Sr. Francis Drake and others brave Sons of Neptune and Soldiers of Mars met withal fought with and really vanquisht most of them sook and the rest destitute and scatter'd being chased by our Ships past the 57 degree of Northern Latitude and there left to be pursued by hunger and cold a victory so remarkable that time nor age will ever weare the remembrance thereof away Troy novant's Triumphant spire Shall be consum'd with Flames of Fire By Troy novant is meant London which in ancient writings is called Troy novant and the Triumphant Spire signifies Pauls-steeple which in the year 1561 the fourth of June strangly fell on fire burning for the space of five full hours in which time it melted all the Lead off the Church only the Stone Archer escaping the fury thereof sundry causes were attributed by sundry persons of this fire some that it was casually blasted with Lightning others that it was mischievously done by Art Magick and others which was most likely done by the negligence of a Plummer carelesly leaving his coals therein The Queen was much grieved for this mischance but by her bounty the Cities liberality and a Contribution from the Clergy it was afterwards repaired only the blunt Tower had not the top thereof sharpened into a spire as before More wonders yet a Widowed Queen In England shall be headless seen The Widowed Queen signifies the Queen of Scots the Mother of king James who was beheaded at Fotheringhay-Castle some say by the privity others to the great discontent of Queen Elizabeth A Lany of a sharp wit undaunted spirit comely person Beautiful face Majestick presence a fluent Orator and an excellent Poet as may appear by several things now extant amongst others of her Verses this was one which she wrote with a pointed Diamond in a window during her Imprisonment in Fortheringhay-Castle From the top of all my trust Mishap hath laid me in the Dust She was beheaded the _____ day of _____ Anno 1587 and was first buried in the Quire of Peterborough afterwards by her Son King James solemnly removed from thence to Westminster where in the South side of the Chappel of King Henry the seventh be exected a stately monument to her Memory The Harp shall give a better Sound The Harp signifies Ireland as being the Armes of that Country which Queen Elizabeth by reducing to a better obedience made it give a better Sound that is made it more civilized and profitable to the Exchequer then ever before An Earl without a Head be found This was spoken of the Earl of Essex one who was the favourite of the Queen and darling of the poeple two things which seldome come together and yet could not both of them protect him from the Scaffold but that thereon he left his Head Soon after shall the English Rose Unto a Male her place Dispose By the English Rose is meant Queen Elizabeth as we said before by whose Death the Right and Title to the Crown came to James the sirth King of Scotland as lineally descended from Margaret the Eldest Daughter to King Henry the seventh the issue Male failing by the death of Queen Elizabeth and here is to be remembred the Policy of King Henry the seventh who having two Daughters Married the oldest of them to the King of Scotland and the Youngest to the King of France that if his issue Male should happen'd to fail as it afterwards did then Scotland might wait upon England as the greater Kingdom and not England upon France as the lesser Besides there was an old Prophecy which intimated King James his coming to the English Crown for when King Edward the first baraced Scotland amongst other things he brought from thence their Ropal Chair still preserved at the Abby in Westminster upon which Chair these verses were writ If Fates go right where ere this Chair is Pight The Regal Race of Scots shall rule that Place Which by the Coronation of King James there performed made good the words of the Prophecy CHAP. XIII The Prophesies of the Reign of King Iames 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 THe Northern Lyon over Tweed The Maiden Queen shall then succeed And joyn in one two mighty States Ianus then shall shut his Gates Mars shall yeild to Mercury All things tend to Prosperity Hells power by a fatall blow Shall seek the Land to overthrow Which by mistake shall be reverst And heads from shoulders be disperst The British Olive next shall twine In mariage with the German Vine The Ninth to Death his power shall yeild Death Conquers all he winns the Feild Next follows the remarkable actions of King James's Reign predicted in the foregoing lines which may be thus explained The Northern Lyon over Tweed The Maiden Queen shall then succeed And joyn in one two mighty States By the Northern Lyon is meant King James and by the Maiden Queen Queen Elizabeth whom King James being King of Scotland succeeded in the English Crown joyned thereby the two Nations of England and Scotland which had been often attempted before not only by Conquest but by Marriage once by Conquest by King Edward the first who subdued their Armies took their strong places and made their Nobles yield him obeisance yet what they thus lost by him they recovered of his Son King Edward the second the other of Marriage was by King Henry the Eighth who endeavoured to have matched his Son Prince Edward with the Heiress of Scotland and had proceeded very far therein when Death cut him off and though afterwards attempted by the Duke of Somerset Lord Protector and the Scots beaten at Musselborough-field yet all would not prevail God having decreed their union to be afterwards in a more peaceable manner Janus then shall shut his Gates Janus was one of the gods belonging to the ancient Romans whose Temple was never shut but in the days of Peace which happened not above twice in the space of two thousand years King James his Reign being a very peaceable time when Swords rusted in their Sheaths for want of using them Mother Shipton in her Prophesse alludes thereto Mars shall yield to Mercury All things tend to prosperity War shall give place to Peace Fighting to pleading the Sword to the Gown the Pike to the Pen Barbarism to Learning c. this Peace shall cause Plenty Plenty work prosperity c. Hells power by a fatal Blow Shall seek the Land to overthrow Which by mistake shall be reverst