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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89074	Mercurius propheticus. Or, -a collection of some old predictions O! May they only prove, but empty fictions. Consensu populi regnum subsistit. That Kingdome will establisht be wherein the people well agree.	Shipton, Mother (Ursula)	1644 (1644)	Wing M1769; Thomason E33_19; ESTC R15806	9,015	15

gotten in by women Then shall be in the North that one woman shall say unto another Mother I have séen a man to day and for one man there shall be a thousand women There shall be a man sitting on Saint James Church hill wéeping his fill And after that a ship come sayling up the Thames till it come against London and the master of the ship shall wéep and the marriners shall ask him why he wéepeth being he hath made so good a voyage-and he shall say Oh what a goodly City this was none in the world comparable to it and now there is scarce left any house that can let us have drinke for our money Unhappy he that lives to see these dayes But happy are the dead Shiptons wife sayes An ancient Prophecy to be seen in Master Harr●es discourses upon Prophecyes printed anno 1588. Fathered upon Merlyn Anglia te prodit tua gens quia quaelibet odit Te circumfodit gens Scotica Gallia rodit Wallia minatur Hybernicus insidiatur Ecce repentina validis mors atque ruina Te citò prosternit nec gens tua talia cernit Pax simulata fluet pax haec pax falsò probatur Pax clam namque ruet graviorque poena paratur Enlished thus England thy proper native thee betrayes Because all Nations hate thee and thy wayes Scotland doth undermine thee France doth gnawe Wales threats the Irish thee by snares doth awe Thy bravest men do on a suddain dye And thou thy self doth wholly ruin'd lye Yet seest it not but under fayned peace Dost thine own misery still more increase The glosse upon the Text. Say gentle Muse is this a prophecy Or is' t a witty studious fained lye If it be true What state is England in If it be false 't is high time time to begin To prove it so nor is' t too late as yet Though a true Prophecy to frustrate it For Ninivy was thus foretold her end In forty dayes yet found a way to send Th' approaching ruine back and so mayest thou If thou like knee like heart to heaven bowe And then this prophecy do strayght present To heavens Vice-Gerent our high Parliament Where it may wisely be discust and try'd Whether in part it hath been verify'd As yet if so then how they may prevent The ill not come but likely consequent Another old Prophecy transcribed out of an ancient manuscript Flan Fran consurgent Hispani viribus urgent Scotus vastabit dum Wallicus arma levabit Inter nodosum mentem * 〈…〉 pontem fontemque petrosum Corruet Anglorum gens perfida fraude suorum Translation Flanders shall rise with France Spaine fight amaine The Scots wast all while Brittans arme in vaine Between a knotty mount and stony spring False England shall her men to slaughter bring Another translation of the same Flanders shall rise with France Spaine powers advance The Scots shall wast the land while Brittans armed stand 'Twixt knotty mountaine and a stony fountaine Perfidious English shall themselves extinguish This following Prophecy was shewed by Sir William Norris to King James upon the uniting of the two Crownes of England and Scotland under the name of Great Britaine A Peace shall be dissembled That Peace may well be trembled That Peace shall false be proved All Peace shall be removed For why A most grievous sight Shall rise up right Great Mars omnipotent He shall be vigilant His bloody brands of steel To whet thou shalt them feel So sore upon thy side That wo shall thee betide Nation shall rise with Nation And make confederation That all English scituation Shall be taught by operation To read upon the Passion Flanders shall joyne with France With bill speare gun and lance With Almany and Gassogny Spaine shall eke employ His force thee to destroy Thou shalt have the Brittans to annull thee The Scots to pluck and pull thee England thou shalt be sure These torments to endure An old Scotch Prophecy delivered many yeares since by the Bishop of Rosse to a great Lady When pride is in price And wit is in vice When robbery as rise as rie in the rise When great men are lawlesse And holy Kirk awlesse Gods body and blood not given the heeding And Laicks have the Kirke in leeding Then fall sorrow sit upon seele But fall fortune turne her wheele When the yeare of our Lord God is comed and ganne One thousand six hundred forty and twayne Then fall up what was down Then fall lettith weare the Crown i.e. Truth And zeale fall last for ever and aye Till the Sonne of God take all away To these may be added another Prophecy of great antiquity out of our famous Historiagrapher Henricus de Huntingdon which before the year of our Lord 1000. foretold thereby that this Kingdom of England for its manifold wickednesses should be conquered by the Normans and should also by the Scots be afterwards brought to a deserved chastizement c. He delivers the Prophecy thus Anno millesimo incarnatione Dom. c. Genti Anglorum predixit quidam vir dei Hen● H●● libr. 6. Sectio 1. quod ex scelerum suorū immanitate non solum quia semper caedi proditioni studebant verum etiam quia semper ebrietati negligentiae Domus Domini dediti erant eis insperatum a Francia adventurum dominium quod eorum excellentiam in eternum deprimeret honorem sine termine restitutionis eventilaret Praedixit etiam quod non ea gens solum verum Scottorum quos vilissimos habebant eis ad emeritam confusionem dominaretur Praedixit nihilominùs varium adeo saeculum creandum vt varietas quae in mentibus hominum latebat in actibus patebat multimoda variatione vestium indumentorum designaretur The first part of this Prophecy was notoriously verified in the yeare 1066. when the Normans under the conduct of William the Conquerour Invaded and Subdued this land This is also ancient though common In Germany begins a dance Which passeth through Italy Spaine and France But England shall pay the piper Another Prophecy very ancient in old Meeter In that same yeare that fully shall expire The sixth great wonder of the worlds Empire Then Tyders * i.e. Hen. Ed. Mar. Phil. Eliz. HEMPE shall end I dare aread Then * After Q. Eli. K. James E shall fall and I shall stand in stead In that same yeare a great plague shall raigne The which a thousand dayes shall remaine At Maries Masse a Court they hold The which in bloody Inke shall be inrolled There many a plea shall passe with brawling words And short daggers shall be better then long swords On Hunsloes heath soon after shall be seen A fierce fought battell by a King I weene Of Knights there shall be three thousand there Of which there shall but ten back again appeare There shall many a battaile and brawle be And then a huge host shall passe over the Sea Concluding a peace but in this wise Betwixt two C. C. two L. L. so long shall last two I. I. Another very ancient Prophesie When the eighth letter of the Christcrosse rowe eight times is past And every one at liberty to reason as he will Then the Church without sacrifice six years shall last Untill the follower of Gods lawes it do fulfill But then alas soon after it shall decay By the space of one Lustrum as stories doe say Then mark the day of the next desolation And count them as they lye in the grewe Take M. only with its signification And twice two C. C. which is very true And from that day as Stories do say The Sacrifice shall last for ever and aye Another Ever shall ⚅ be called the first of the dice When ⚀ shall beare up ⚅ Then shall England be clepid Paradise When ⚄ and ⚃ be set on side The name of ⚅ shall spring full wide And when ⚃ and ⚁ drive out ⚂ Then may England sing well away Then it is all shent For then shall be another Parliament ⚅ shall up and ⚀ shall under The Lyon the Rose the Flowerdeluce The lock shall undoe Then shall ⚅ beare the price And ⚀ shall help thereto This Prophecy is Fathered upon Ignatius and was long since found in St. Benets Monastery in Norfolk When Eighty eight be past then thrive Thou maist till forty four or five After the Maide is dead a Scot Shall govern thee and if a plot Prevent him not sure then his sway Continue shall till many a day The ninth shall dye and the first Perhaps shall reign but oh accurst Shal be the time when thou shalt see To sixteen joyned twenty three For then the Eagle shall have helpe By craft to catch the Lyons whelpe And hurt him sore except the same Be cured by the Maidens name In July month of the same yeare Saturn conjoyns with Jupiter Perhaps false Prophets shall arise And Mahomet shall shew his prize And sure much alteration Shall happen in Religion Beleeve this truly if then you see A Spaniard a Protestant to be FINIS

and Trinity Church meet they shall build in the day and it shall fall in the night untill they get the highest stone of Trinity Church to be the lowest stone of Owse bridge Then the day will come that Hares shall kennel on cold hearth (d) Supposed to be meant by the suppression of Abbies and other Religious Houses And at the Lord William Howards house at Naworth a Hare came and kinnelld in his Kitchin upon the hearth stones lads shall marry Ladies and bring them to their homes A joyful day will be séen in England a King and a Queen The first coming in of the King (e) This was fulfilled in K. James his comming in for such a multitude of people stood at Holgate Bar to behold him as that to avoid the prease he was forced to ride by another way of Scots shall be at Holgate Towne but he shall not come through the bar And when the King (f) When King James was at London his children were at Edenborough preparing to come into England of the North shall be at London bridge his tayle shall be at Edenborough Water (g) This is verifyed by the conducting of water into York streets through boared Elmes And the Conduit-house hath a Windmill on the top that draws up the water shall come over Owse bridge and a windmyll shall be set on a Tower and an Elme frée shall lye at every mans door At that day Women shall wear great hats and great bands When there is a Lord Major (h) A Lord Mayor whose house was in Mynster-Yard in YORK was killed with three stables living in Minster yard in York let him beware of a stab When two knights (i) Sir Thomas Wentworth and Sir John Sa●●●l in choosing Knights for the Shire in the Castle-yard at York did so fall out that they were never after well reconciled shall fall out in the Castle yard they shall never live kindly all their lives after When all Colton (k) Colton ●●g in her time was a Woodland ground full of trees which bore corne seven yeeres and the seventh yeere after that was the yeere of the comming in of the Scots and their taking of New-castle hag hath borne Crops of Corne seven yeares seven yeares after you shall hear newes There shall two Iudges (l) In the yeer 16 〈◊〉 Judges of Assize went out at a gate in York where never any Judges were known to go out before or since go in and out at Walmgate bar The day will come The North shall rue it wondrous sore But the South shall rue it for evermore When Wars shall begin in the spring Much wo to England it will bring Then shall the Ladies cry well-a-day That ever we liv'd to see this day Then best for them that have the least And worst for them that have the most You shall have a yeare of pining hunger and then a dearth without corne You shall not know of the war over night yet you shall have it in the morning and when it comes it shall last three yeares Between Codran and Are Shall be great warfare When all the world is aloft It shall be called Christs croft When the battell of warfare begins it shall be where (m) Neer Leicester where Richard the third was slaine in battell there Colonel Hastings was one of the first in arms endeavouring to settle the Commission of Array in opposition to others that were then setling the Militia Crookback Richard made his fray They shall say to warfare for your King for half a Crowne a day but stir not They will say to warfare for your King on paine of hanging but stir not For he that goes to complaine Shall not come back again The time will come when England shall tremble and quake for feare of a dead man that shall be heard to speake Then will the Dragon give the Bull a great snay And when this battaile is done they will all go to London town There will be a great battell betwéen England and Scotland and they will be pacified for a time and when they come at Braman more they fight and are again pacified for a time then there will be a great battell betwéen England and Scotland at Knavesmore then they will be pacified for a while then there will be a great battaile betwéen England and Scotland at Storcktonmore then will Kavens sit on the (n) It is to be noted admired that this Crosse in the North in Mother Shiptons dayes was a tall stone Crosse which ever since hath been by degrees sinking into the ground and now is sunk so low that a Raven may sit upon the top of it and reach her bill to the ground Crosse drink as much blood of Nobles as of the Commons then wo is me for London shall be destroyed for ever after Then will come a woman with one eye and she shall tread in many mens bloods to the knée and she shall méet a man leaning on a staffe and shall say to him what art thou and he shall say I am King of the Scots and she shall say go with me to my house for there are three Knights and he will go with her and stay there three dayes and three nights then will England be lost and they will cry twice in one day England is lost Then there will be three Knights in Petergate in Yorke and the one shall not know of the other there shall be a child borne in Pomfret with three thumbs and these three Knights will give their horses to this (o) There is a child not many yeers since born at Pomfrait with 3 thumbs child with three thumbes to hold whilest they win England again then come in clubs and clouted shooes and they with the three Knights win England again and all noble blood shall be gone but one and they shall carry him to Sherif Huttons Castle six miles from York and he shall dye there and they shall choose their Earle in the feild and hang their horses on a thorne and rue the time that ever they were borne to see so much blood shed Then they will come to York to beseige it and they shall keep them out for three dayes and three nights and a penny loaf shall be within the bar at half a Crowne and without the bar at a penny and they will swear if they will not yéeld to blow up the towne walls Then they will let them in and they will hang up the Major Sherifs and Aldermen there will three Knghts go in to Crouch Church and but one of them come out again and he will cause Proclamation to be made that any man may take house tower or bower for 21. yeares and while the world endureth there shall never be warfare again nor any more Kings or Quéenes but the Kingdome shall be governed by three Lords and then Yorke shall be London And after this shall be a white harvest of Corne