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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

is nothing here will harm you To be short the Nurse was so continually terrified by these apparitions that she resolved to complain to the parrish and having made known the truth of what had past in commiseration to the woman almost distracted they removed Mother Shipton to another place where she was put to School being of an age now fitting for it CHAP. VI. How Mother Shipton was put to School learning more in a day then other Children in a Moneth How she was jeered by her School-fellows for having such a monstrous long Nose and what pranks she plaid upon them by way of Revenge growing now very famous MOther Shipton was now grown a lusty Girl and as she was left to the care of the Parish so the Parish took care that she should have the common sort of Learning that is to say Reading and Writing bestowed upon her Comming to School her Mistriss began to instruct her as other Children beginning with the Cris-cross-row as they call'd it showing and naming only three or four Letters at first but to the amazement and astonishment of her Mistris she exactly pronourced every Letter in the Alphabet without teaching Hereupon her Mistris shewed her a Primmer which she read as well at first sight as any in the School and so proceeded in any Book was shown her As this produced wonder in her School-Mistris so hatred and enby in her Comrades some flouted her for her monstrous long Nose others endevoured to heat her and all strove to mischief her but she valued them not revenging her self upon every one of them that intended her harm Some were pinch't and yet no hand seen that did it others struck speechless when they were about to say their Lessons not being able to utter a word and none escaped from being served one scurby trick or other This so inraged the Parents of these Children looking on Mother Shipton the sole cause hereof that she was discharged the School and so lest to the wide World She hath been often seen when alone to laugh hartily at other times to talk by her self uttering very strange riddles which occasioned some of the more sober sort to converse with her receiving such strange things from her as required a long study to find out the meaning Never a day passed wherein she related not something very remarkable and required the most serious consideration And now it was that people flockt to her far and near her fame was so great to be resolved of their Doubts all returning wonderfully satisfied in the Resolution of their questions CHAP. VII How several persons came to Mother Shipton for her Predictions and how a Rich Heire being deceived by her Maid fell sick of Grief and dyed ANd now Mother Shipton beginning to grow Famous in the World for her notable Iudgment in things to come There reforted to her House a number of people of all sorts both old and young rich and poor Especially of the Female Sex viz. Young Maids and Wenches who have alwaies a great Itching desire to know when they shall be Married as also what manner of Husbands they shall have to which she gave such satisfactory answers both for the Persons and time that no sooner could a young Maid get into the Teens but She would presently Trott to Mother Shiptons to be resolved of her doubt Now though she were not Mercenary her self but refused great Gifts when proffered unto her yet did she keep a young Wench who rather then fail if they forgot to open their purse to her she would remember to open her mouth to them and tell them that her Dame Shipton nor she could not be maintained with thanks but that the belly required meat to feed it and that it was money which made the Mare to go One day there came a certain young Heir thither whose Father was sick to be resolved by her whether he should live or die but Mother Shipton could by no means be wrought upon to tell him any thing whereupon he proffered the Maid great store of Money if she could by any means perswade her Dame to fulfil his request the Wench greedy of Money promised him fair and that if he would come the next Morning he should be certain to be resolved in the mean time she importuned her Dame with the most cunning Rhetorick that she could invent but she was deaf to all entreaties and would by no means be induced thereto whereupon the Wench resolved with her self rather than to lose the money to give him an answer of her own intention which the next morning she performed in these words The Grave prepared hath a Room Prepare for Death thy hour is Come The young Gentleman having received this answer went home joyfully hoping presently to reap the Golden Crop which his Father had sown and to be in an instant possessed of all his vast estate but the sequel proved quite contrary for by that time he came home great hopes of amendment appeared in his Father who each day grew better and better so that in a short time he became perfectly well This unexpected recovery of the old man struck such a dump in our young Heir that he presently took his Bed fell extream sick and in a short time grew extraordinary ill that all the symptoms of a dying man appeared in him The old man who had carked and cared all his life time for his Son having no more Children but he was very desious of his life and to know whether be should recover whereupon he sent to Mother Shipton about the same who knowing by her Art what her Maid bad done sufficiently did chide her for the same threatning upon such another offence to turn her out of her service In the mean time the Messenger was come to her House who having delivered his errant was turned back with this answer For others Deaths who do gape out Their own unlook't for comes about Earth he did seek e're long shall have Of Earth his fill within his Grave The old man having received this answer was much troubled as thinking his own Death predicted thereby not imagining in the least what his Son had done but he was soon quit of that suspicion for within two daies the young man dyed when by a Servant who knew the passages he was informed the truth of the whole matter CHAP. VIII Mother Shipsons Prophecies concerning King Henry the Eighth's journey into France of Cardinal Wolsey and other things ABout this time some differences arising betwixt King Henry the Eighth and the French King great preparations of War were made in England the Drums beating in every County to summon Voluntary Valour to express it self indefence of their King and Country Many Heroick Spirits who made Honour their Aime not dreading any dangers for the attaining thereof now listed themselves Bellona's followers so many appearing under Mars his Banner that he who was furnished with Limbs and an Estate to decline the Service was adjudged

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