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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

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

Bard they list to wear to themselves Who with the Lillies soon shall wed Somewhat before King James his Death a marriage was concluded on betwixt Prince Charles and the Lady Henrietta Maria Daughter to that Martial Prince Henry the fourth King of France but before the Consummation thereof King James dyed not long after his Funerals were over she was brought into England and solemnly married to King Charles who is hereupon said to wed the Lillies the Lillies being the Armes of France Then shall a Peasants bloody Knife Deprive a great man of his Life This is spoken of the Duke of Buckingham the greated man in favour of those times and thereupon as it is most commonly seen most bated of the People who laid the blame of all miscariages in the State upon him right or wrong he was sure to undergo their censure Being made General for the Relief of Rochel then besteged by the French Forces before he Imbarked at Portsmouth he was most villanously Stabbed by one Felton a discontented Officer in his army who was so far from flying for the same that though be might have passed away undiscovered he holdly avowed himself to be the man that did it alledging that he had therein done his Country good service but before his Death was better Principled and made sensible of the beinousnes of the sin of Murther recanting his former erronious Principles and dying very Penitently being banged in Chains at Portsmouth Anno 1627. Forth from the North shall mischief blow And English Hob shall add thereto This Prophesie alludes to that ancient Proverb From the cold North all ill comes forth and may be understood of our troubles commencing in 1639 taking their original rise from Scotland and fomented by several Factions Spirits in England the Dagon of Presbytery beginning then to appear in its own colours the Kirk of Scotland having so high an opinion of its own purity that it participated more of Moses his Platform in the Mount than other Protestant Churches being a Reformed Reformation so that the practice thereof might be divertory to othere and she fit to give not take write not receive Copies from any neighbouring Church desiring that all others were like unto them save only in their afflictions Hereupon they stood so high upon their pantoffles that they refused the Common-prayer disclaimed their Bishops raised Lumults and under the pretence of defending the Scotish Kirk raised a War against the English State the benom of which Poyson so infected the veins of the English who followed this Scottish President that it brake forth into a most bitter War and ended not but with the deaths of many thousands of people Then shall the Council great assemble Who shall make great and small to tremble By the great Council is meant the long-lasting Parliament so known to all posterity for the remarkable transactions therein It began November the 3d 1640 and may more properly be said to be the Parliament that wrought wonders then that in the time of King Henry the Third which had the same appellation By them sell the wise Stafford and Reverend Laud by them was Episcopary voted down and Presbytery voted up by them was the common-prayer denyed and the Directory exalted they were the first that brought that strange Kiddle into the World that a man might fight for and against his King by them was the Dath Ex Officio condemned and the covenant fat worse applauded in sum by them was the Church and State turned topsey turvey but this cannot be reported of all amongst them many of them hated their doings dissented from them and suffered by them Mars shall rage as he were wood And Earth shall drunken be with blood To repeat all the Skirmishes Fights and Battles that have happened betwixt the Kings and Parliaments Forces here intended by this Prophesie would of its self require a Volume in some of which viz. that at Marston-more eight thousand men were killed at a time so that the Earth might well be said to be Drunken with their Blood and which is the more pity was shed by English men of one Country Citizens against Citizens Neighbours against Neighbours nay one Kinsman against another and prosecuted with the greatest bigor that might be according to that of the Poet. The highest fury reigns in Civil warr And Country men in fight most cruel are As was verified all a long during our unnaturall Civil War none holding out with more obstinacy fighting more eagerly nor in the execution more bloody than they The White King then O grief to see By wicked hands shall Murthered be Spoken concerning the Execrable Murther of that Pious Prince King Charles the First the most Renowned for Piety Prudence and Patience of all his contemporary Princes throughout the whole World of whom when all is said that can be spoken yet doth all come far short of his deserved praises I shall therefore sum up all with this Epitaph made on him by a learned Pen. He that can spell a Sigh and read a Tear Pronounce amazement and accent wild Fear Having all grief by Heart He only he Is fit to Write and Read thy Elegie Unvalued Charles thou art so hard a Text Writ in one Age not understood i' th Next CHP. XV. The Reign of King Charles the second the Usurpation of Cromwell the strange Confusions of a Democrital Government the Restauration of the King the great Sickness the Burning of the City of London THe White King dead the Wolf shall then with blood possess the Lyons den But Death shall hurry him away Confusion shall a while bear sway But Fate to England shall restore A King to Reign as heretofore Mercy and Justice too likewise Hein his time shall exercise Great Death in London shall be though And Men on tops of Houses go These Prophesies being all fulfilled in the memory of man and so well known unto the World we shall be the briefer in the explanation of them The White King dead the Wolf shall then With blood possess the Lyons den By the White King as we said before is meant King Charles the First and by the Wolf Oliver Cromwel so termed by reason of his bloody disposition that beast being judged most greedy and ravenous of all others and therefore fitly resembled to Cromwel whose ambition was such that he left no means unattempted until he had got into the Lyons den that is to say untill he had attained the sole Government which being done he then plucked the Stairs down by which he had mounted turning the Rump out of dores making them his Servants who had formerly been his Masters exercising his cruelty upon Cavailiers which he deemed double Policy as being thereby rid of his Enemies and enriching his Coffers with their Wealth though it were in effect but Murther and Robbery and Proclaimed him to be a Blood-thirsty-Lyrant But Death shall hurry him away Very remarkable was the day in which the Protector dyed being the Third

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