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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

after shall the Lyon die And Mildness Usher Cruelty By the Lyon is meant King Edward who survived his Unkie the Duke of Somerset nor above two years grief for his death as it is generally conceived bringing him into a Consumption though some have reported him to be poysoned soon after his death Mass and Popery was restored again by Queen Mary for which cause many afterwards fryed in the flames berifying the last verse And Mildness Usher Cruelty CHAP. XI Her Prophecys concerning the Death of Lady Iane Grey the burning of the Martyrs of Wyats Rebellion the Death of Queen Mary and of Cardinal Pool BY Parents too ambitious Pride The Scaffold shall with Blood be Di'de A Vertuous Lady then shall die For being raised up too High Her death shall cause anothers joy Who will the Kingdom much anoy Miters shall rise Miters come down And streams of Blood shall Smithfield drown England shall joyn in League with Spain Which some to hinder strive in vain The Lyoness from Life retires And Pontificial Priest expires This Prophery is peruliarly applyed to the Reign of Queen Mary and may be interpreted after this manner By Parents too ambitious Pride The Scaffold shall with Blood be Di'de This is meant by the Lady Jane Grey daughter to the Duke of Suffolk who having Married the Lord Gilford Dudly Son to the Duke of Northumberland the ambition of Northumberland was so great that be practised much on King Edwards tender years who now was much weakned with sickness that excluding his two Sisters the Lady Mary and Lady Elizabeth He conveyed the Crown to the Lady Jane by that which we may call the Testament of King Edward and the Will of the Duke of Northumberland But the Commons taking part with the Lady Mary notwithstanding the Duke went with great forces against her yet his Souldiers differting him he was forced to tach about and with an unwilling mind Proclaim her Dueen whom in his heart be hated above all others A Vertuous Lady then shall die For being raised up too high The Lady Jane Grey who out of dutifulness to her Parents assuming the Title of Queen upon her for her offence lost her head This Lady Jane was a woman of most rare and incomparable perfections for besides her excellent beauty adorned with all bariety of bertues as a clear sky with Stars as a princely Diadem with Iewels she was the mirror of her time for her Religion and Education in the knowledg of the Liveral Sciences and skill in Languages for in Thealogy in Phylosophy in all the Liveral Arts in the Latine and Greek Longues and in the Vulgar Languages of divers near Nations she far exceeded all of her Sex and every one of her years Her Death shall cause anothers joy Who will the Kingdom much anoy The Death of the Lady Jane was supposed to be a rejoycing to Queen Mary and who by restoring Popery and the Persecutions that the Professors of the Gospel suffered in her time is said to bring the Kingdome to anoy Miters shall rise Miters come down And streams of Blood shall Smithfield drown By the Miters are meant the Bishops who in the Change of Religion found great Change very few of them keeping their Seats wherein they had been seated by King Edward the sixth the names of the Bishops thus put down were these Cranmer Arch Bishop of Canterbury Ridly Bishop of London Poynet Bishop of Winchester Holgate Arch-Bishop of York Bush Bishop of Bristol Bird Bishop of Chester Hoopen Bishop of Worcester and Glocester Barlo Bishop of Bath and Wells Scory Bishop of Chichester Ferrar Bishop of St. Davids Coverdale Bishop of Exeter Taylor Bishop of Lincoln and Harley Bishop of Hereford in the room of these Bishops thus put down several Bishops were raised as Cardinal Pool made Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Bonner Bishop of London Gardiner Bishop of Winchester Heath Arch-Bishop of York Holeman Bishop of Bristol Gotes Bishop of Chester Brook Bishop of Glocester Pates Bishop of Worcester Bourn Bishop of Bath and Wells Christopherson Bishop of Chichester Morgan Bishop of St. Davids Turbervile Bishop of Exeter White Bishop of Lincoln and Parfew Bishop of Hereford And streams of Blood shall Smithfield drown Great was the number of Martyrs burned in Smithfield in this Queens Reign under the Bloody bands of Bonner Bishop of London and Dr. Story Dean of St. Pauls the first persecuting by wholesale the second by retail the names of all those who in this place thus restified their Faith by the loss of their Lives would be too long here to recite the chief of them were Mr. John Rogers Mr. John Bradford Mr. Robert Glover c. England shall joyn in League with Spain Which some to hinder strive in vain Queen Mary intending to match her self with Philip King of Spain the bruit thereof being spread amongst the people was by them ill resented as dreading to be under the yoak of a stranger to hinder the same amongst others Sir Thomas Wyat a Kentish Knight took Armes with a great party assisting him The Queen bearing of his Commotion sent a Herald to him to desist which be refusing to do she resolves upon force sending the Duke of Norfolk with five hundered Londoners against him but these Souldiers bearing more affection to Wyats cause than the Queens forsook their Leader and their Loyalry together and joyned themselves to Wyats Faction who much elated with this supply presently resolves for London promising to himself easte entrance into that City and hearty entertainment therein but contrary to his expectation coming to Southwark he found all the Lowers of the Tower and the tops of the square Steeples neer the Bridg-foot on the other side planted with Ordnance against him so that both Church and State threatned his ruine so that seeing no good to be done there with a swift March having the Darkness of the Night for his Coverture he hasteth to Kingston passeth the River and comes to Knights-Bridg before almost any had notice of his Motion Here he divides his Army into two parts Five hundred of them wheels down towards White-Hall but could not force their passage into it Himself with the rest of the Army went directly to Charing-Cross where he met with some opposition but nothing daunted thereat he marched directly down the Strand and Fleet-street and coming to Ludgate promised himself entrance into the City but finding the Gate close shut and well fortified against him with Men and Ammunition his hopes then began to fail him retreating to Temple-Bar he was faced with some Norse where after a short Fight he submitted himself Prisoner being first carried to White-Hall to be examined from thence to the Tower and soon after to the Scaffold where he received the rewards of his Revellion The Lyoness from life retires And Pontificial Priest Expires By the Lyoness is meant Queen Mary who having Reigned five years and some odd months dyed of a Dropsie though others say of Grief for the

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