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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

absence of her Husband King Philip and others again for Calice taken not long before and that she should say if after she was dead they ripped her up they would find Calice written on her heart The Pontificial Priest signified Cardinal Pool who expired within sew hours after the death of Queen Mary This prelate was of princely extraction his Mother Margaret being Daughter to George Duke of Clarence when he was young be was brought up together with Queen Mary and being a zealous Catholick during King Edwards Reign suffered a voluntary exile for the same when the marriage with Prince Philip and Queen Mary was made up be returned into England was made Arch-Bishop of Canterbury more moderate than some othes of his fellow Bishops having a favourable inclination towards the Protestants He survived the Queen but few hours and was buried in his own Cathedral at Canterbury with this short and modest Epitaph on his Monument DE POSITUM CARDINALIS POLI. CHAP. XII Her Prophecys 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 Ireland the beheading the Earl of Esser c. THe Lyon fierce being dead and gone A Maiden Queen shall Reign anon Those who sighed then shall sing And the Bells shall Changes Ring The Papal power shall bear no sway Roms trash shall hence be swept away The Locusts sent from the seven Hills The English Rose shall seek to kill The Western Monarks Wooden Horses Shall be destroyed by the Drakes forces Troy novant's Triumphant Spir● Shall be consum'd with flames of Fire More wonders yet a Widowed Queen In England shall be headless seen The Harp shall give a better Sound An Earle without a Head be found Soon after shall the English Rose Unto a Male her place dispose These lines being a Prophecy of the most remarkable Actions during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth are to be interpreted after this manner The Lyon fierce being dead and gone A Maiden Queen shall Reign anon Queen Mary is here meant by the fierce Lyon so called not so much for the Cruelty done by Her as by the Bishops and Priests was done under her for take her in her self secluded from bloody Counsellors and she was a most Merciful Pious Iust Princess but in respect of the Blood that was shed and the persecutions then suffered she is here Termed a fierce Lyon After whom is said A Maiden Queen to Reign Anon meant by Queen Elizabeth one who was the Mirrour of her Set and Age who for above forty years to the admitation of enby it self mannaged the affairs of this Kingdom having when she began few friends that durst help and leaving no Foes when she died that could hurt her acting her part so well whilest here she Reigned that History canscarcely afford us one Prince to be matched to her Fame in all considerable particulars Those who sighed then shall sing And the Bells shall changes Ring Many who sat and sighed in the daies of Queen Mary by reason of the hot persecution being forced to forsake their Houses because they should not forsake their Religion now that Queen Elizabeth began to Reign their mourning was turned into joy their sighing into singing returning from their etile with Psalmes of thanksgiving in their mouthes where their Bells rang such Changes in Religion that the Mass was put down and the Common prayer set up Popery banished and reformation established the Ministers of the Bospel advanced and the Schaveling Priests Monks and Fryers depressed The Papal Power shall bear no sway Roomes trash shall hence be swept away Soon after the Queens coming to the Crown a Parliament began at Westminster wherein the Laws of King Henry the eighth against the See of Rome were renewed and those of King Edward the sixth in favour of the Protestants revived and the Laws by Queen Mary made against them repealed Uniformity of Prayer and Administration of Sacraments was enacted with a Restitution of first Fruits and Tenths to the Crown and the Queen acknowledged to be the only and Supream Governour of her Kingdomes The people in each place beating down Superstitious Pictures and Images which blind and misguided zeal had set up The Locusts sent from the seven Hill The English Rose shall seek to kill By the Locusts are meant the Priests Fryars and Iesuits who spread all the World over in greater numbers than the Locust did in the Land of Egypt and by the seven Hills is meant Rome which is built upon seven Hills and by the English Rose is signified Queen Elizabeth whom the Priest and Iesuits by their Instruments did often attempt to kill so that if we seriously consider her Reign we shall scarcely find any Prince whose life was so often attempted as hers of which to give you some examples would not be impertinent to our purpose and first in her Sisters Reign Stephen Gardiner Bishoy of Winchester and other Romanists offended with her Religion so wrought with Queen Mary suggesting that she was consenting to Wyats insurrection that she was sent prisoner to the Tower and as it is said a Warrant intended to be sealed for her execution had not king Philip interceeded After she came to the Crown she was as incident to troubles as the Month April is to showres Spain France and Scotland combining against her Pope Plus Quintus by his Bull deposes her in prosecution whereof the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland rise up in Rebellion being to have been assisted by the Duke D'alva out of the Low-Countries but out of these troubles she was delivered by their Confussion After these Leonard Dakers second San to William Lord Dakers of Gellesland endeavoured to bring her into trouble being intrusted by her with competent forces which he intending to have imployed to her detriment failed in his hopes and Power and brought both shame and ruine to himselfe Next did Thomas and Edward Stanley younger Sons to the Earl of Darbey with several others plot against her all which ended in their Ruine and her safety These failing Captain Stukley promised to perform wonders against her but his mountaines proved not so much as mole-bills he being stain in Barberry his design failed But to speak of personal attempts against her one Somervile drew his Sword in the Court to have slain her Doctor Parry a Spaniolized Italian intended to have Pistoled her as she walked in her privy Garden Savage Windsor Salisbury Tilney and others conspired to kill her the which they waited several times to effect one William Stafford by the instigation of the French Ambastador undertook to kill her Doctor Laper one of her sworn Physicians for a sum of money engaged to Poyson her and to conclude all one Edward Squire formerly belonging to her Stable with a mortifferous confection Poysoned the Pomel of her Saddle when she was riding out from all which

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