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A49257	The strange and wonderful predictions of Mr. Christopher Love, minister of the Gospel at Laurence Jury, London who was beheaded on Tower-hill, in the time of Oliver Cromwell's government of England. Giving an account of Babylon's fall, and in that glorious event, a general reformation over all the world. With a most extraordinary prophecy, of the late revolution in France, and the downfall of the antichristian kingdom, in that country. By M. Peter Jurieu. Also, Nixon's Chesire prophecy.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.; Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.; Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554.; Wallace, Lady, fl. 1651.; Nixon, Robert, fl. 1620? Nixon's Cheshire prophecy at large.	1651 (1651)	Wing L3177A; ESTC R217305	41,319	88

enti●led A short work of the Lord 's in the latter age of the world Great earthquakes and commotions by sea and land shall come in the year of God 1779. Great wars in Germany and America in 1780. The destruction of popery or Babylon's fall in the year 1790. God will be known by many in the year 1795. This will produce a great man The stars will wander and the moon turn as blood in 1800. Africa Asia and America will tremble in 1803. A great earthquake over all the world in 1805. God will be universally known by all Then a general reformation and peace for ever when the people shall learn war no more Happy is the man that liveth to see this day PROPHECY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION FROM A PUBLICATION BY THE LATE MR. PETER JURIEU IN 1687. Rev. xi 13. And the same hour was there a great earthquake and the tenth part of the City fell and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand and the remnant were affrighted and gave glory to God NOW what is this tenth part of this city which shall fall we cannot doubt that 't is France This kingdom is the most considerable part or piece of the ten horns or states which once made up the great Babylonian city it fell this does not signify that the French Monarchy shall be ruined it may be humbled but in all appearance Providence does design a great elevation for her afterward 'T is highly probable that God will not let go unpunished the horrible outrages which it acts at this day Afterward it must build its greatness upon the ruins of the papal empire and enrich itself with the spoils of those who shall take part with the papacy They who at this day persecute the protestants know not whither God is leading them this is not the way by which he will lead France to the height of glory If she comes thither 'tis because she shall shortly change her road Her greatening will be no damage to protestant states on the contrary the protestant states shall be enriched with the spoils of others and be strengthened by the fall of Antichrist's empire This tenth part of the city shall fall with respect to the papacy it shall break with Rome and the Roman religion One thing is certain that the Babylonian empire shall perish through the refusal of obedience by the ten Kings who had given their power to the beast The thing is already come to pass in part The kingdoms of Sweden Denmark England and several sovereign states of Germany have withdrawn themselves from the Iurisdiction of the Pope They have spoiled the h●rlot of her riches They have eaten her flesh ie seized her benefices and revenues which she had in their countries This must go on and be finished as it began The Kings who yet remain under the empire of Rome must break with her leave her solitary and desolate But who must begin this last revolt 'T is most probable that France shall Not Spain which as yet is plunged in superstition and is as much under the tyranny of the clergy as ever Not the Emperor who in temporals is subject to the Pope and permits the Archbishop of Strigonium in his states to teach that the Pope can take away the Imperial crown from him It cannot be any country but France which a long time ago hath begun to shake off the yoke of Rome 'T is well known how solemnly and openly war hath been declared against the Pope by declaration of the King ratified in all the parliaments by the decisions of the assembly of the French clergy by a disputation against the authority of the Pope managed in the Sorbon solemnly and by order of the Court. And to heighten the affront the theses were posted up even upon the gates of his Nuncio Nothing of this kind had h●●herto happened at least in a time of peace and unless the Pope had given occasion by his infolencies Besides this superstition and idolatry lose their credit much in France There is a secret party though well enough known which greatly despiseth the popular devotions images worship of Saints and is convinced that these are human inventions God is before-hand preparing for this great work To this it may be objected that for the last fifty years the Pope's empire hath not been made up of ten Kings because England Sweden Denmark c. have thrown off his government and consequently France is not at this day the tenth part of the Babylonian empire for 't is more than a tenth part of it But this is no difficulty for we must know that things retain the names which they bore in their original without regarding the alterations which time does bring along Though at this day there are not ten kingdoms under the Babylonian empire 't is notwithstanding certain that each Kingdom was called and ought to be called in 〈◊〉 prophecy the tenth part because the prophet having described this empire in its beginning by its ten horns or ten Kings 't is necessary for our clear understanding that every one of these ten Kings and kingdoms should be called one of the ten Kings or of the ten kingdoms with respect to the constitution of the Antichristian empire Seeing the tenth part of the city that must fall is France this gives me some hopes that the death of the two witnesses hath a particular relation to this kingdom 'T is the street or place of this city i. e. the most fair and eminent part of it The witnesses must remain dead upon this street and upon it they must be raised again And as the death of the witnesses and their resurrection have a relation to the kingdom of France it may well fall out that we may not be far distant from the time of the resurrection of the witnesses seeing the three years and a half of their death are either begun or will begin shortly And in the earthquake were slain seven thousand in the Greek it is seven thousand names of men and not seven thousand men I consess that this seems somewhat mystericus in other places we find not this phrase names of men put simply for men Perhaps there is here a figure of grammar called hypallage casus so that names of men are put for men of name i. e. of raised and considerable quality be it on account of riches or of dignity or of learning But I am more inclined to say that here these words names of men must be taken in their natural signification and do intimate that the total Reformation of France shall not be made without bloodshed nothing shall be destroyed but names such as are the names of Monks of Carmelites of Augustines of Dominicans of Iacobins of Franciscans Capuchins Iesuites Minimes and an infinite company of others whose number 't is not easy to define and which the Holy Ghost denotes by the number seven which is the number of perfection to signify the number of monks and

nuns shall perish for ever This is an institution so degenerated from its first original that 't is become the arm of Antichrist These orders cannot perish one without another These great events deserve to be distinguished from all others for they have changed and shall change THE WHOLE FACE OF THE WORLD INTRODUCTION TO NIXON's CHESHIRE PROPHECY BY THE AUTHOR of his LIFE THIS remarkable Prophecy has been carefully revised ●orrected and improved also some account given of our author Robert Nixon who was but a kind of ideot and used to be employed in following the plough He lived in some farmers ' families and was their drudge and jest At last Thomas Cholmondeley of Vale-Royal Esq. took him into his house and he lived there when he composed this Prophecy which he delivered with as much gravity and solemnity as if he had been an oracle and it was observed that though the fool was a driveler and could not speak common sense when he was uninspired yet in delivering his Propecies he spoke plainly and sensibly how truly will be seen in the following pages As to the credit of this Prophecy I dare say it is as well attested as any of Nostradamus's or Merlin's and come to pass as well as the best of Squire Bickerstaff's It is pain enough that great men have in all ages had recourse to prophecy as well as the vulgar I would not have all grave persons despise the inspirations of Nixon The late French King gave audience to an inspired farrier and rewarded him with an hundred pistoles for his prophetical intelligence though by what I can learn he did not come near our Nixon for gifts The simplicity the circumstances and history of the Cheshire Prophecy are so remarkable that I hope the public will be as much delighted as I was myself By the way this is not a prophecy of to-day it is as old as the Powder plot and the story will make it appear that there is as little imp●sture in it as the Jacobites pretend there is in the person it seems to have an eye to but whether they are both impostures alike or not I leave to the reader to determine J. OLDMIXON THE PROPHECY IN the reign of King James the First there lived a man generally repu●ed a fool whose name was Nixon One day when he returned home from ploughing in the field he laid the things down which he had in his hands and continuing for some time in a seemingly deep and thoughtful meditation at length he pronounced in a loud voice Now I will prophesy And spoke as follows When a Raven shall build in a stone Lion's mouth on the top of a Church in Cheshire then a King of England shall be driven out of his kingdom and never return more When an eagle shall sit on the top of the house then an heir shall be born to the Cholmodeley's family and this heir shall live to see England invaded by foreigners who shall proceed so far as a town in Cheshire but a miller named Peter shall be born with two heels on one Foot and at that time living in a mill of Mr Cholmondeley's he shall be instrumental in delivering the nation The person who then governs the nation will be in great trouble and 〈◊〉 about The invading King shall be killed laid across a horse's back like a calf and led in triumph The miller having been instrumental in it shall bring forth the person that then governs the kingdom and be knighted for what he has done and after that England see happy days A young new set of men shall come who shall prosper and make a flourishing Church for two hundred years As a token of the truth of all this a wall of Mr. Cholmondeley's shall fall If it fall downwards the Church shall be oppressed and rise no more but if upwards next the rising hill on the side of it then it shall flourish again Under this wall shall be found the bones of a British King A pond shall run with blood three days and the Cross-stone Pillar in the Forest su●k so low into the ground that a crow from the top of it shall drink of the best blood in England A boy shall be born with three thumbs and shall hold three King's horses while England shall be three times won and lost in one day THE original may be seen in several families in Cheshire and in particular in the hands of Mr. Egerton of Oulton with many other remarkable circumstances as that Pecferton Wind mill should be removed to Ludditon Hill that horses saddled should run about 'till their girts rotted away But this is sufficient to prove Nixon as great a prophet as Partridge and we shall give other proofs of it before we have done Now as for authorities to prove this Prophecy to be genuine and how it has hitherto been accomplished I might refer myself to the whole county of Chester where it is in every one's mouth and has been for these forty years As much as I have of the manuscript was sent me by a person of sense and veracity and as little disposed to believe visions as any body There is something so very odd in the story and so pat in the wording of it that I cannot help giving it as I found it The family of the Cholmondeley's is very ancient in this county and takes its name from a place so called near Nantwich There are also Cholmton and Cholmondeston but the feat of that branch of the family which kept our Prophet Nixon is at Vale Royal on the river Weaver in Delamere forest It was formerly an Abbey founded by Edward I. and came to the Cholmondeley's from the famous family of the Holcro●ts When Nixon prophesied this family was near being extinct the heir having married Sir Walter St. John's daughter a lady not esteemed very young who notwithstanding being with child fell in labour and continued so for some days During which time an eagle fat upon the house-top and flew away when she was delivered which proved to be a son A Raven is also known to have built in a Stone Lion's mouth in the steeple of the Church of Over in the forest of Delamere Not long before the abdication of King James the wall spoken of fell down and fell upwards and in removing the rubbish were found the bones of a man of more than ordinary size A pond at the same time ran with water that had a reddish tincture and was never known to have done so before or since Headless Cross in the Forest which in the memory of man was several feet high is now sunk within half a ●oot of the ground In the parish of Budworth a boy was born with three thumbs he had also two heels on one foot Lady Egerton wishing well to another restoration often instigated her husband to turn Peter the miller of Negenshire mills out of the mills but he locoked upon it as a whimsy and so permitted Peter still

which remain unfulfilled so when they come to pass some other circumstances may be added which are not convenient to be told now for private reasons but will shortly appear If I had a mind to look into the antiquities of this county I might ●ind that Prodigies and Prophecies are no unusual things there Cambden tells us that at Brereton not many miles from Vale Royal which gave name to a famous antient numerous and knightly family there is a thing as strange as the perching Eagle or the falling of the wall which he says was attested to him by many persons and was commonly believed that before any heir of this family dies there are s●en in a lake adjoining the bodies of trees swimming upon the water for several days together He likewise adds that near the Abbey of St. Maurice in Burgundy there is a fish-pond in which a number of fishes are put equal to the number of Monks of that place and if any one of them happens to be sick there is a fish seen floating on the water and in case the fit of sickness proves fatal to the Monk the fish foretells it by its own death some days before This the learned Cambden relates in his description of Cheshire and the opinion of the trees swimming in the lake near Brereton prevails all about the country to this day only with this difference that some say 't is one log that swims and some say many J. OLDMIXON Strange and Remarkable Prophecies and Predictions Of the Holy Learned and Excellent JAMES USHER Late Lord Bishop of ARMAGH And Lord Primate of IRELAND Giving an Account of his Foretelling I. The Rebellion in Ireland forty Years before it came to pass II. The Confusions and Miseries of England in Church and State III. The Death of King Charles the First IV. His own Poverty and Want V. The Divisions in England in Matters of Religion Lastly of great and terrible Persecutions which shall fall upon the Reformed Churches by the Papists wherein the Pope should be chiefly concerned Written by the Person who heard it from this excellent Man 's own Mouth and now published e●rnestly to persuade us to that Repentance and Reformation which can only prevent our ruin and Destruction And the Lord said Shall I hide from Abraham the Thing which I do Gen. xviii 17. Strange and Remarkable PREDICTIONS Of that Holy Learned and Excellent Bishop JAMES USHER Late Lord Primate of IRELAND THE Author of the Life of this excellent and worthy Primate and Archbishop gives an Account that among other extraordinary Gifts and Graces which it pleased the Almighty to bestow upon him he was wonderfully endued with a Spirit of Prophecy whereby he gave out several true Predictions and Prophecies of Things a great while before they came to pass whereof some we have seen fulfilled and others remain y●t to be accomplished And though he was one that abhorred Enthusiastic Notions being too learn●d rational and knowing to admit of such idle Freaks and Whimsies Yet he professed That several Times in his Life he had many Things impressed upon his Mind concerning future Events with so much Warmness and Importunity that he was not able to keep them secret but lay under an unavoidable Necessity to make them known From which Spirit he foretold the Irish Rebellion forty Years before it came to pass with the very Time when it should break forth in a Sermon preached in Dublin in 1601 where from Ezek. iv 6 discoursing concerning the Prophets bearing the Iniquity of Iudah forty Days the Lord therein appointed a Day for a Year He made this direct Application in relation to the Connivance at Popery at that Time From this Year says he will I reckon the Sin of Ireland that those whom you now embrace shall be your R●in and you shall bear this ●niquity Which Prediction proved exactly true for from that Time 1601 to the Year 1641 was just forty Years in which it is notoriously known that the Rebellion and Destruction of Ireland happened which was acted by those Popish Priests and other Papists which were then connived at And of this Sermon the Bishop reserved the Notes and put a Note thereof in the Margin of his Bible and for twenty years before he still lived in the Expectation of the fulfilling thereof and the nearer the Time was the more confident he was that it was near Accomplishment though there was no visible Appearance of any such Thing and says Dr. Bernard the Year before the Rebellion broke forth the Bishop taking his Leave of me being then going from Ireland to England he advised me to a serious Preparation for I should see heavy Sorrows and Miseries before I saw him again which he delivered with as great Confidence as if he had seen it with his Eyes which seems to verify that of the Prophet Amos iii. 7. Surely the Lord will do nothing but he will reveal it to his Servants the Prophets From this Spirit of Prophecy he foresaw the Changes and Miseries of England in Church and State for having in one of his Books called De Prim. Eccl. Brit. given a large Account of the Destruction of the Church and State of the Britons by the Saxons about ●50 Years after Christ He gives this among ●ther Reasons why he insisted so largely upon 〈◊〉 that he foresaw that a like Judgment was ●●et behind if timely Repentance and Reforma●●on did not prevent it and he would often ●ourn upon the Foresight of this long before it ●ame From this Spirit he gave mournful Intima●●ons of the Death of our Sovereign Charles the 〈◊〉 of whom he would be often speaking 〈◊〉 Fear and Trembling even when the King 〈◊〉 the greatest Success and would therefore 〈◊〉 pray and gave all Advice possible 〈◊〉 prevent any such Thing From this Spirit he foresaw his own Poverty in worldly Things and this he would often speak 〈◊〉 with Admiration to the Hearers when he was in his greatest Prosperity which the Event did most certainly verify From this Spirit he predicted the Divisions and Con●usions in England in Matters of Religion and the sad Consequences thereof some of which we have seen fulfilled and I pray God the rest which he feared may not also be accomplished upon us Lastly From this Spirit he foretold That the grea●●st Stroke upon the Reformed Church●s was yet to come and that the Time of the utter Ruin of the See of Rome should be whe● she thought herself most secure And as to thi● last I shall add a brief Account 〈◊〉 the Person 's own Hand who was concerned therein which followeth in these Words The Year before this Learned and Holy Primate Archbishop Usher died I went to him an● earnestly desired him to give me in Writing his Apprehensions concerning Justification an Sancti●ication by Christ because I had for merly heard ●im preach upon those Point● wherein he seemed to make those great Mysteries more intelligible to my mean Capacity tha● any thing which I had

ever heard from 〈◊〉 other But because I had but an imperfect 〈◊〉 confused Remembrance of the Particulars took the Boldness to importune him that 〈◊〉 would please to give a brief Account of them 〈◊〉 Writing whereby I might the better impri●● them in my Memory of which he would 〈◊〉 have excused himself by declaring his 〈◊〉 of not writing any more adding That if he did write any thing it should not exceed above a Sheet or two But upon my continued Importunity I at last obtained his Promise He coming to Town some Time after was pleased to give me a Visit at my own House where I failed not to challenge the Benefit of the Promise he had made me He replied That he had not writ and yet he could not charge himself with any Breach of Promise For said he I did begin to write but when I came to write of Sanctification that is of the New Creature which God formeth by his Spirit in every Soul which he doth truly regenerate I found so little of it wrought in myself that I could speak of it only as Parrots by Rote and without the Knowledge and Understanding of what I might have expressed and therefore I durst not presume to proceed any further upon it And when I seemed to sta●d amazed to hear such an humble Confession from so great and experienced a Christian He added I must tell you We do not well understand what Sanctification and the New Creature are It is no less than for a Man to be brought to an entire Resignation of his Will to the Will of God and to live in the Offering up of his Soul continually in the Flames of Love as a whole burnt Offering to Christ and how little says he are many of those who profess Christianity experimentally acquainted with this Work on their Souls By this Discourse I conceived he had very excellently and clearly discovered to me that par● of Sanctification which he was unwilling to write I then presumed to enquire of him what his present Apprehensions were concerning a very great Persecution which should fall upon the Church of God in these Nations of England Scotland and Ireland of which this reverend Primate had spoken with great Confidence many Years before when we were in the highest and fullest State of outward Peace and Settlement I asked him whether he did believe those sad Times to be past or that they were yet to come To which he answered That they were yet to come and that he did as confidently expect i● as ever he had done adding That this sad per●ecution would fall upon all the Protestan● Churches of Europe I replied That I did hope it might have been past as to these Nations of ours since I thought that th●ugh we who are the People thereof have been punished much less than our Sins have deserved and that our late Wars had made far less Devastations than War commonly brings upon those Countries where it pleaseth God in Judgment to suffer it yet we must needs acknowledge that many great Houses had been burnt ruined and left without Inhabitants many great Families impoverished and undone and many Thousand Lives also had been lost in that bloody War and that Ireland and Scotland as well as England had drank very deep of the Cup of God's Anger even to the Overthrow of the Government and the utter Desolation almost of a very great Part of those Countries But this Holy Man turning to me and fixing his eyes upon me with that serious and ireful look which he usually had when he spake God's Word and not his own and when the Power of God seemed to be upon him and to constrain● him to speak which I could easily discern much to differ from the countenance wherewith he usually spake to me He said thus Fool not yourself with such hopes for I tell you all you have yet seen hath been but the beginning of Sorrows to what is yet to come upon the Protestant Churches of Christ who will ere long fall under a sharper persecution than ever yet was upon them and therefore said he to me look you be not found in the outward Court but a Worshiper in the Temple before the Altar for Christ will measure all those that profess his name and call themselves his People and the outward Worshippers he will leave out to be trodden down by the Gentiles The outward Court says he is the formal Christian whose Religion lies in performing the outside duties of Christianity without having an inward Life and Power of Faith and Love uniting them to Christ and these God will leave to be trodden down and swept away by the Gentiles but the Worshippers within the Temple and before the Altar are those who do indeed worship God in spirit and in truth whose souls are made his Temples and he is honoured and adored in the most inward Thoughts of their Hearts and they sacrifice their lusts and vile affections yea and their own wills to him and these God will hide in the hollow of his hand and under the shadow of his wings and this shall be one great diffe●●nce between this last and all the other preceding Persecutions for in the former the most eminent and spiritual Ministers and Christians did generally 〈◊〉 most and were most v●olently fallen upon but in this last Persecuti●● these shall be preserved by God as a Seed to p●rtake of that glory which shall immediately fo●●ow and come upon the Church as soon as eve● this storm shall be over for as it shall be the ●●arpest so it shall be the short●st Persecution 〈◊〉 them all and sha●l only take away the gross ●●ypocrites and formal Professors but the 〈◊〉 spiritual Believers shall be preserved till 〈◊〉 calamity be 〈◊〉 I then asked him by what means or instruments this great trial was to be brought on ●e answered by the Papists I replied that it 〈◊〉 to me very improbable they should be able to do it since they were now little countenan●ed and 〈◊〉 in these nations and that the hea●●s o● the People were m●re set against 〈◊〉 than eve● 〈◊〉 the Reformation He 〈◊〉 again That it would be by the hands of Pa●is●s in a time when they would be in gr●at power and in the way of a sudden 〈◊〉 and that the Pope should be the chief instrument of it All this he spake with so great assurance and with the same serious and concerned 〈…〉 which I have before observed him to have when I have heard him foretel some things which in all human appearance were very unlikely to come to pass which yet I myself have lived to see happen according to his prediction and this made me give the more earnest attention to what he then uttered He then added That the Pa●ists were th● Gentiles spoken of in the 11th of the Revelations to whom the outward Court should be left that they might tread it under foot they having received the Gentiles worship in their

to ontinue there in hopes of becoming as good a knight as Sir Philip his landlord was Of this Peter I have been told that the Lady Narcliff of Chelsea and the lady St. John of Battersea have often been heard to talk and that they both asserted the truth of our Prophecy and its accomplishment with particulars that are more extraordinary than any I have yet mentioned The noise of Nixon's predictions reaching the ears of King James the First he would needs ●ee this fool who cried and made a●o that he might not go to Court and the reason that he gave was That he should be starved A very whimsical fancy of his Courts are not places where people use to starve in when they once come there whatever they did before The King being informed of Nixon's refusing to come said he would take particular care that he should not be starved and ordered him to be brought up Nixon cried out He was sent for again and soon after the messenger arrived who brought him up from Cheshire How or whether he prophesied to his Majesty no body can tell but he is not the first fool that has made a good Court Prophet That Nixon might be well provided for 't was ordered that he should be kept in the kitchen where he grew so troublesome in licking and picking the meat that the cooks locked him up in a hole and the King going on a sudden from Ham●ton Court to London they forgot the fool in the hurry and he was really starved to death There are a great many passages of this Fool-Phrophet's life and sayings transmitted by tradition from father to son in this county palatine as that when he lived with a farmer before he was taken into Mr. Cholmondeley's family he gored an ●x so cruelly that one of the ploughmen threatened to beat him for abusing his master's beast Nixon said My master's beast will not be his three days A life in an estate dropping in that time the Lord of the manor took the same ox for an herriot This account as whimsical and romantic as it is was told to the Lady Cowper in the year 1670 by Dr. Parric● late Bishop of Ely then Chaplain to S●r Walter St. John and that Lady had the following farther particulars relating to this Prophecy and the fulfilling of many parts of it from Mrs Chute fister of Mrs. Cholmondeley of Vale-Royal who affirmed that a multitude of people gathering together to see the Eagle before mentioned the bird was ●rightened from her young that she herself was one of them and the cry among the people was Nixon's Phrophecy is fulfil●ed and we shall have a foreign King She declared that she read over the prophecy many times when her sister was with child of the heir who now enjoys the estate She particularly remembered membered that King James II. was plainly pointed at and that it was foretold he would endeavour to subvert the laws and religion of this kingdom for which reason they would rise and turn him out that the Eagle of which Nixon prophesied perched in one of the windows at the time her sister was in labour She said it was the biggest bird she ever saw that it was in a deep snow and that it perched on the edge of a great bow-window which had a large border on the outside and she and many others opened the window to try to scare it away but it would not stir till Mrs Cholmondeley was delivered after which it took flight to a great tree over against the room her sister lay in where having staid about three days it flew away in the night She affirmed further to the Lady Cowper that the falling of the garden-wall was a thing not to be questioned it being in so many people's memory That it was foretold that the heir of Vale-Royal should live to see England invaded by foreigners and that he should fight bravely for his King and his country That the Miller mentioned is alive and expects to be knighted and is in the very mill that is foretold That he should kill two invaders who would come in the one from the West and the other from the North That he from the North should bring with him of all nations Swedes Danes Germans and Dutch and that in the solds of his garments he should bring fire and famine plague and murder That many great battles should be fought in England one upon London Bridge which would be so bloody that people would ride in London streets up to their horses bellies in blood that several other battles should be sought up and down most parts in Cheshire and that the last that ever would be fought in England should be on Delamere fo●est That the heir of Oalton whose name is E n and has married Earl Cholmondeley's si●ter shall be hanged up at his own gate Lastly He foretels great glory and prosperity to those who stand up in defence of their laws and liberties and ruin and misery to those that should betray them He says the year before this would happen bread-corn would be very dear and that the year following more troubles should begin which would last three years that the first would be moderate the second bloody and the third intolerable that unless they were shortened no mortal could bear them and that there were no mischiefs but what poor England would feel at that time But that George the son of George shall put an end to all That afterwards the Church should fl●uri●h and England be the most glorious nation upon Earth The same Lady Cowper was not content to take these particulars from Mrs. Chute but she inquired of Sir Thomas Aston of the truth of this Prophecy and he attested it was in great reputation in Cheshire and that the facts were known by every one to have happened as Nixon said they would adding that the morning before the garden-wall fell his neighbour Mr. Cholmondeley going to ride out a hunting said Nixon seldom fails but now I think he will for he foretold that this day ●y garden wall would fall and I think it looks as if it would stand these forty years that he had not been gone a quarter of an hour before the wall split and fell upwards against the rising of the hill which as Nixon would have it was the presage of a flourishing church As to the removal of Pecserton mill it was done by Sir John Crewe the mill having lost its trade there for which he ordered it to be set upon Ludditon hill and being asked if he did it to fulfill the Prophecy he declared he never thought of it I myself have inquired of a person who knows Mr. Cholmondeley's pond as well as Rosamond's in St. James's Park and he assured me the falling of the wall and the pond running blood as they call it are facts which in Cheshire any one would be reckoned mad for making the least question of As there are several particulars in this Prophecy