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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

neither flatter nor be flattered by any and for what you came about I shall not be squeamish to fulfil your request let me therefore desire you to lend me your attention and thereupon after some short pause she thus began A Prince that never shall be Born Shall make the Shaved Heads forlorn Then shall Commons rise in Armes And Womens Malice cause much harmes O deadly Pride O hateful Strife Brothers to seek each others Life Ambition shall so deadly spread The Griffin fierce shall lose his Head Soon after shall the Lyon die And mildness usher Cruelty These ten lines being prophecies of the Actions in King Edwards Reign for the Readers benefit before we proceed any further in her Predictions we will unfold the meaning of them by themselves that we may not too much burthen their memory but by variety add a pleasure to the reading of them A Prince that never shall be born Shall make the Shaved Heads forlorn By the Prince that never shall be born is meant King Edward the Sixth of whom all reports do constantly run that be was not by Natural Passage delivered into the World but that his Mothers Body was opened for his Birth that she died of the Incision the fourth day following and by the Shaved Heads is understood the Monks Fryers c. who are said to be become forlorn the Reformation beginning with the beginning of King Edwards Reign and the Popes Priests put down as his Supremacy was before Then shall commons rise in Armes King Edward having set out certain Injunctions for the Reformation of Religion as the Commissioners passed to divers places for the establishing of them many scorns were cast upon them and the farther they went from London as the people were more uncivil so did they more rise into insolency and contempt for in Cornwal the Commons flocked together having killed one of the commissioners and albeit Iustice was done upon the offenders the principal of them being Executed in several places yet could not their boldness be beaten down with their severity but that the mischief spread farther in Wiltshire and Somerset-shire where the people supposeing that a Common-wealth could not stand without Commons beat down Inclosures and said Parks and Fields Champion The like Commotions followed in Sussex Hamp-shire Kent Glocester-shire Warwickshire Essex Hartford-shire Lecester-shire Worcester-shire and Rutland-shire but the greatest of all was in Devon-shire and Norfolk the one Headed by Henry Arundel Esquire Governour of the Mount in Cornwal the other by Robert Ket a Tanner of Windham in Norfolk Those of Devon-shire were accounted above ten thousand who with a close and smart Siege Surrounded the City of Exeter which they brought to extream misery having a potent Foe abroad and Famine sorely rageing within insomuch as they were fain to bake Bran and Meal moulded up in Clothes for otherwise it would not stick together at last the Rebels were routed from thence by the Lord Privy Seal with the loss of a Thousand of their Number and soon after totally routed at a place called Clift-heath These of Norfolk were judged to be more dangerous both because their strength was great being estimated to be above Twenty Thousand as also the City of Norwich was a friend unto them or at least wished them no harm This rude rout Encamped on Monshold-hill a place Impregnable in some sort being neer to Norwich against whom was sent the Marquess of Northampton and afterwards the Carl of Warwick who made many Sallies upon the Rebels with various success had the Rebels kept in this Fort they might have tired out the Earl his Horse being useless against them but they relying on an old prophecy came down into Dassin Dale and quitted the Fort the words of the prophecy were these The Country Knuffs Hob Dic and Hic With Clubs and Clouted Shone Shall fill up Dassin-Dale with Blood Of slaughtred Bodies soon Which they Interpreted to be of their Enemies Bodies though it proved of their own for the Earl setting upon them after a stout resistance they were overcome two thousand stain upon the place Ret with his Brother and nine others Executed the rest taken unto mercy And Womens malice cause much Harms Lamentable was the effects occasioned by the malice of two Women in this Kings Reign which that you may the better understand we shall declare the Original grounds thereof The King had two Unkles Brothers to Queen Jane his deceased Mother Edward Duke of Somerset Lord Protector c. and Thomas Lord Seymor Baron of Sudly High Admiral of England The Lord Sudly had taken to Wife Katherine Parr Queen Dowager last Wife to King Henry the Eighth The Duke had Married the Lady Ann Stanhope a Woman for many Imperfections intollerable This Woman did bare such invincible bate first against the Queen Dowager for light causes and Womens quartels especially for that she had Precedency of place before her that albeit the Queen Dowager dyed by Child-birth yet would not her malice either die or decrease but hated the Lord Sudly for her sake and left buzzing fears and jealousses in her Husbands Pate who was of an easie belief that within few days the Lord Sudley was arrested and sent to the Tower and in very short time after Condemned by Act of Parliament and within few days after his Condemnation a Warrant was sent under the hand of his Brother the Duke whereby his Head was delivered to the Axe which verified what was before predicted O deadly Pride O hateful Strife Brothers to seek each others Life O Wives the most sweetest Poyson the most destred Evil in the World certainly as it is true as Syracides faith that there is no Malice to the Malice of a Woman so no Mischief wanteth where a Malicious Woman beareth sway a Woman was first given to Man for a Comforter but not for a Counseller much less a Controler and Director and therefore in the first sentence against Man the cause is exprest Because thou obeyest the voice of thy Wife And doubtless the Protector by being thus ruled to the Death of his Brother seemed with his left hand to have cut off his right for hereby he left himself now unguarded from the Malice of his Enemies the Earl of Warwick etc. who being ambitious of ingrossing all power into his own hands soon wrought the confusion of the Duke as it follows in the Prophecy Ambition shall so deadly spread The Griffin fierce shall lose his Head For the Earl of Warwick espying opportunity shewing himself and knowing that in troublesome times the obedience of great persons is most easily shaken drew about eighteen of the Privy Council to knit with him against the Lord Protector These he did to wind up his purpose that they withdrew from the Court fell to private Consultations and so ordered the matter that at length they brought the Protector upon the Scaffold wherein fine he had his Head cut off figured here by the name of the Griffin Soon