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A88548	The Lord Merlins prophecy concerning the King of Scots: foretelling the strange and wonderfull things that shall befall him in England. As also, the time and manner of a dismal and fatall battel; the event and success thereof: a great blowe to be given, and the Northern Chicken inforced to flie to forraign countries for aid & succour. Also, King James his dream. and Queen Ann's prophecy touching the King, and the redusing of England, Scotland, and Ireland from monarchy. With the Lady Sybilla's prophecy, touching the destroying of the nobility, and what shall afterwards befall this nation in government and discipline. Likevvise, the prophecy of Paul Grebner (a German) concerning Charles son of Charles the Emp: foretelling his greatness and victorious conquests. Presented to Queen Elizabeth anno 1582. and recorded in the library of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, by Dr. Nevill, clerk of her Majesties closet.	Merlin Ambrosius, attributed name.; Grebner, Paul.; Anne, Queen, consort of James I, King of England, 1574-1619, attributed name.; James I, King of England, 1566-1625, attributed name.	1651 (1651)	Wing L3053; Thomason E640_15; ESTC R202765	10,907	18

mettront a mort leur Roy In English thus The Senate or Parliament of London shall put to death their K. There is another significant prophecie now extant which hath been reserved in several Libraries of this Nation even unto this day which I shall here present according to the Original as followeth Carolus Anglorum ultimus Britannorum Rex When one named Charles shall be King of the English he shall be the last King of the Brittans Mr. Iohn Fox also foretels and shewes the causes of the Northern Rebellion and in the year 1549. prophecied That the time should come when no King should reign in England the Noblemen to be destroyed and the Nation to be ruled by four Governours to be elected and appointed by the Commons holding a Parliament in Commotion to begin at the South and North Seas of England All the Kings that have reigned in England since Wil the Conquerour have descended from his Issue but this Prophet affirms that in these dayes there shall be an end of his Line and that his posterity shall fail of enjoying the Crown of England Again Remember M D. C. L X Vand I then ne're a REX Calculated thus In 1666 there will be no King here or pretending to the Crown of England For Charles the white King of Brittains Diadem Shall most unfortunately lose his Realm By evill Counsel and his Kingly head And life shall part from body not in bed His wife shall flee unto her native Nest His Bearn's both rob'd of honour means and rest His son successive to the Crown shall be Enforced unto forraign parts to flee For ayd his right and Crown for to regain Many shall promise help yet prove all vain And false to him for thus it is decreed No King from hence shall rule on this side Tweed An Irish man speaking of King Iames and his Issue he bursts out Et semen regis erit mendicum in terra aliena in aeternum viz. The Off-spring of the King shall be poor and for ever after live in a strange Country So Merliu in an ancient Prophecie saith That his seed shall become fatherless in a strange Land for evermore Yet notwithstanding Prophet Carion a German Writer affirmeth That the Church shall be restored and reformed by a Charles and that there shall arise an Emperour named Charles who shall rule imperially in Europe by whom the decayed estate of the Church shall be reformed and the ancient glory of the Empire again restored for there shall come a people without an head and then wo shall be unto Priests Horrible mutations of all Kingdome 〈◊〉 then 〈◊〉 hand The beast of the West and the Lyon of the East shall be 〈◊〉 rule over all the world This in no wayes reflects upon Charles Stuart Nostradamus the ancient Prophet further saith That there shall arise in the last times a Prince sprung from the Emperour Charles which shall recover the Land of Promise and shall be Emperour of Europe And Iohannes Amatus likewise saith That in the latter dayes there shall be great wars and bloudshed the fary of the wars shall last a long time whole Provinces shall be left naked of Inhabitants many Cities forsaken of people the Nobility slaughter'd the Gentry ruined and great changes of Kings Common wealths and Rulers The North prevaileth against the South a learned and eloquent Prince by little and little shall attain the Empire and a new King shall surmount all the rest he shall make change of Religion when he holds thereynes of the Empire Somewhat neere these times also shall a great Eagle arise and shall have power given him of the most High He shall carry with him by Conquest three Kingdoms He shall foyl the Lillies in the Land of Virgo the Sun it felf shalt mourn with the Lyon c. By what I have delivered out of many reverend mens Prophecies I onely evince thus much That the late King Charles was not the Lyon of the North or that his son it that Charles or that Eagle which the wise men of former times prophecied of or that he shall act either such wonderful Deeds in war or peace at the admirers of Grebners false printed prophecy would fasten upon him who say That a certain Northern King named Charles who shall marry Mary of the Popish Religion to his great unhappiness so that his people rejecting him shall set up an Earl of a very ancient Family who shall continue three years or thereabouts he dying they shall elect in his stead a Warlike Knight who shall rule a little longer after him they shall elect none But in the mean while one of Charles his stock shal land on the Sea Coasts of his Fathers Kingdom and with French Swedish Danish Hollandian Burgonian and German Forces in a most cruel Battel shall vanquish all his Enemies and afterward most happily govern his Kingdom and be greater than Charles the Great And about the year 1663. the King of the most ancient Britains for the losse of some Ships at Sea shall break his League and amity with the States of Holland who fearing shall have recourse unto the new King of Danes named Christiernus for succour and he by fair intreaties and large gifts shall win ei he side to agreement Nor doth he ever speak of England in all that samous Manuscript but as the most warlike and potent Kingdom in Europe Therefore all good Christians ought to wish the new Warre were concluded rather by an happy agreement and composition than by Sword and Musket and the King placed on his Throne rather with the hands of his loving and rejoyceful Subjects then with the Swords of Forraigners For if the beginning of his restauration be in blood and tumbling of Garments in blood the accomplishment of it will be with burning and fuel of fire I shall not spend much time in confutation of these many untruths and abusive Predictions referring the Reader only unto he true Original which I hereafter publish The true Prophecy of Paul Grebner a German presented to Queen Elizabeth A Fatal necessity having torne and pull'd from the House of Austria the old Roman Scepter and Diadem and after an oppression of the same Austrian House by the incursions of French English Danish Swedish making their irruptions on all sides there shall arise a horrid bloody sharp contest in Europe which shall cruelly shake and break away part thereof yea shall expose the same being strangely spoiled and dismembred to egregious alterations A Swedish King then reigning shall be invited to that quarrel to break in upon Pomerane Mechlenburge and some Provinces belonging to Denmark being provoked by some offensive Papers of the Romish See whereunto if he shall hearken he shall unseasonably and very unprosperously become an Allie to one that is most neer and intimate to him Wherefore I advise the Swede to leave him in the same state wherein he findes him By which meanes He his Family and Posterity remaining contented with the

THE Lord Merlins Prophecy CONCERNING THE KING OF SCOTS FORETELLING The strange and wonderfull things that shall befall him in ENGLAND AS ALSO The time and manner of a dismal and fatall Battel the event and success thereof a great Blowe to be given and the Northern Chicken inforced to flie to forraign Countries for aid succour ALSO King JAMES His Dream and Queen ANN'S Prophecy touching the King and the redusing of England Scotland and Ireland from Monarchy WITH The Lady SYBILLA'S Prophecy touching the destroying of the Nobility and what shall afterwards befall this Nation in Government and Discipline LIKEVVISE The Prophecy of PAUL GREBNER a German Concerning Charles Son of Charles the Emp foretelling his greatness and victorious Conquests Presented to Queen Elizabeth Anno 1582. and recorded in the Library of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge by Dr. Nevill Clerk of her Majesties Closet LONDON Printed by J. C. for G. Horton 1651. A Prophesie of the King of Scots c. VVHen the Lyon of Righteousnesse is dead then shall rise a White King in Britain first flying and after riding after ligging down and in this ligging down he shal be lymed after that he shal be led This is verified by K. James who was by the Prophet styled The Lyon of Righteousness for many affirm that he had the picture of a Lyon on his brest or side and indeed he was the most acutest Prince of spirit that ever we read of both in judgment either in things divine or humane but the least addicted unto Martial Discipline He was admonished of his Death by a Dream for his Majesty dreamed that his Tutor Bachanan appeared unto him in his sleep and gave him these two verses for the rarity thereof I thought good to repeat them Sexte verere Deum tibi vitae terminus instat Cum tua candenti flagrat Carbunculus igne In English thus Thou Iames the sixt of that name King of Scots fear God the term of thy life is neer at hand when thy Carbuncle stone burns in the hot fire The next morning the King related his Dream to divers of the Lords of his privie Counsel as also the preceding verses which did exceeding astonish them and suddenly after as the King was sitting by the fire side the great Carbuncle stone that he usually had fixed to his hat fell out into the fire his Majesty immediatly fell sick and died After King James was dead Charles Stuart the white King was then proclaimed King of Great Brittain so called by reason of his apparelling himself the day of his Coronation in a White Garment representing his innocency as the Bishop of Canterbury was pleased to demonstrate whose office was to present the Crown but the King impatiently in great haste took up the Crown and placed it upon his head with his own hands which moved the Spanish Embassador who was then present to say The Kings putting the Crown upon his head so rashly with his own hands was an ill Omen The preceding Prophecie was written by Ambrose Merlin the Scot 900 years since But by reason there is another ancient Copy extant of the Lady Postons more large and emphaticall concerning the White King I shall here render it verbatim as followeth The Lyon of Righteousness being dead there shall arise in Britain a White King first flying then riding then descending and in his descent he shall be insnared Then men will point with their fingers and say Where is this white and noble King At that time there will be chattering of men even in the same nature as we do with sheep and Oxen it will be publikely by some reported There is a King others shall say There is no King After these things he shall lift up his head as a King or shall manifest himself to be King it will be a time of Gleads or Kytes and seven years shall this War continue within the Kingdom After that the young one of the Eagle or his Chicken shall come upon woodden horses within a year and a half into Brittain and then there shall be war at what time little shall be the Charity of most men for what a man is Master of overnight shall be taken from him in the morning After that the White King shall go towards the West to an ancient place near to a running water Then his enemies shall make hast to meet him and their Army shall be formed in shape of a Buckler the King shall be straightned before and behind and on every side and then the white King shall slide into an Hall c. What remains unfullfilled is in these words After that the Chicken of the Eagle shall build in the highest rock of all Britain nay he shall not be slain young nor shall he come to old age Note that the Prophet mentions not the Chicken of the Eagle who is the present K. of Scots with any Kingly Title nor doth he say He shall acquire his Fathers inheritance or in plain terms obtain the Kingdom of England or be crowned King thereof he onely saith He shall build his nest in the chiefest Rock of all Britain Which imports no more but that like a flying Fowl or as a man chased from one place to another so shall his Worldly condition be in this World Another excellent Prophecie I cannot omit penned by Sybilla the Prophetess a Scottish Lady touching the Reign of the Kings of England and Scotland and if you will know the time of the extirpation of Monarchy be pleased to take a thousand in Calculation And the longest of the Lyon Four Crescents under one Crown With St. Andrews Cross thrice Then three score and thrice three In that year there shall a King A Duke and no crowned King Because the Prince shall be young And tender of years Much sorrow and strife Shall be in Lowthian and Fife These are all the Scottish Prophecies which ever I could attain sight of and yet none of these make any mention of a fifth Monarchy or the Lyon of the North or do any other wayes mention that so great a King as Charles the Great nay greater then he shall be born of the Scottish Race or in Scotland or shall come from Scotland From all which I onely conclude thus much That the present Charles Stuart is not that great Lyon of the North or he that must conquer the English or the present Common-wealth of England To which prophetical expressions give me leave I beseech you to add the ancient prophecie of David Vpan a Welch man viz. Karonog fab Ane yo wna diwedh ar y dro gane In English thus The Son of Ann crown'd ends all our prophecies We never had yet any King whose mothers name was Ann but King Charles his mother was Ann sister to the King of Denmark late deceased The putting to death of the late King was prophecied of above 80 years before it was done by Nostradamus whose words were these Senat de Londres

universal Monarchy upon the earth These are untruths and the fantasies of leud men I know it will be expected I should say somewhat concerning this Northern Lion who most assuredly shall appear unto the world the Prodromus whereof was the Star which appeared 1572. Many Authors or Manuscripts mentioning such a Lion such a Northern Prince or the Eagle of the North the wonderful Eagle or such a Man that shall in the latter times or declining age of the world do wonderful Acts in W●● equalling if not transcending all those we read of in the preceding Histories either prophane or Divine but they all unanimously proclaim a short reign and a violent death in his younger years and to say the truth there is scarce a Prophet or Man of any Nation in Europe who hath been indued with Prophetick spirit but he in some part of his works or other hath hinted at such a person Emperor or King nay some have not been wanting to affirm his name as you may see in the Chronicles of Magdeburg testified by Carion in his third Book The wonderfull Year of the World The certain year of these Monethly Predictions is not to be revealed but such there will be in that great year before the wonderful Catastrophe of this world shall happen Ianuary A Showr of bloud shall rain continually for one houre space in one Land of Europe that Reign or people thereof shall first come to destruction February All Nations troubled with rumours of wars every Region preparing Armies and mustering men traffique generally prohibited by Land and by Sea every Country inforced to live of their own stock and commodities March The main Sea shall hugely swell with mighty tempests and windes so that the Sea-bankes in many places shall overflow their accustomed bounds inundations universally or in every Country one Island shall be quite overflown with the Sea where the double Cross hath Government the sins of the Prince or Rulers thereof being so extreme high against the Majesty of God April A terrible Sea-fight such as hath not been before occasioning the water to look more red then the red Sea the water all turn'd to bloud England thou wilt have a share in this fight God of his great goodnesse make thee victorious after a hard fight thou shalt overcome May War and bloudshed over all the Earth one Nation shall send so many men to the wars that it shall for a time even be desolate of men so that twelve women will be glad of one man nay hardly procure one young men for them all June In the Eastern parts of the world a whole Nation shall fight a great battle in a wrong cause and defend an evil man but the vengeance of God will rain down a showr of fire from the throne of Heaven and consume that Army wholly with all their wealth and treasures even as they lodge in their Tents c. July So great a drought will appear that multitudes of people shall die in many places for mere want of water Soldiers shall not be able for heat to carry their arms the Earth shall be so dry and parched with the Sun it shall yield no fruit to feed Cattle August Great plagues and Mortality will cover the whole face of the Earth and so destroy Mankind that there will not be sufficient Labourers to get in Harvest or the fruits of the Earth in this Month such swarms of noysome Fowls and Flies shall come from the East as they shall devour the Corn on the ground the Fruit on Trees that all shall be barren Men living in those times and in this Moneth shall have more sorrow and woes and more famine and distress then was in Ierusalem when Titus besieged it September The season of this month will be so unnatural and the Earth so unfit for Tillage that all manner of Cattle will rat on the ground which will breed such store of flies and vermine that the earth will be empoysoned and receive no Fruit to increase October A general Famine and dearth of Corn will overspread most Nations of Europe so that the child shall sterve at her mothers breast the mother having no food to nourish her self or child November One appears suddenly and unexpectedly a great Conqueror the world filled with the Fame of this Man who suddenly like Augustus gives peace unto the whole Earth December All wars end Religion truly preached universally over the world a general peace no more treason or rebellion not long after the Trumpet founds and Christ appears Divers Predictions upon the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter July 1623. 1 Divers sinister events shall seem to conspire together for the crossing of a great Prince who by oppressing the common People shall in the end drive them to sedition This came to passe accordingly in K. Charles his Reign 2 The conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the House caelestial called that of death doth portend that some Prince shall be detained prisoner to the great disadvantage of his affairs of Estate 3Vpon the first quarter of the Moon which shall be the 27 of February is foretold That some King or Prince shall undertake a voyage of great consequence without certainty of return which at the best shall be both later then expectation and after the induring of many miseries King Charles his succesless journey into Spain 4 He which shall stand on the top of fortunes wheel let him look warily to his feet for fear of slipping because so great a fall is threatned him as shall astonish those who have climed up into the seats of honour unworthily Read the Annalls of 1624. 1625. and 1626. 5 A Monarch that hath betrusted his affairs of great consequence to the direction of one who was no way capable of so weighty a charge shall be sensible of the great fault he hath committed whereof he shall too late repent King Charles relying on Canterbury and other silly fellowes makes this good 6 The stirrers and Incendiaries of sedition shall make residence in the Houses of Kings and Princes 7 War deferr'd through want of money 8 The Land and Town Geminist shall bewail the want of her Son London here is intended 9 There shall be great levying of Souldiers for the execution of some stratagem but all shall turn to nothing for the sudden departure of a great Personage shall cause much murmuring and discontent It intends the private raising of Horse in Germany c. 10 Men disguised shall desire that their outward semblance may make shew of that which they are not and shall be the Authours of many particular Combats in the Land Geminist Thus much was in the old Manuscript Because I would give full satisfaction unto the three Nations of England Scotland and Ireland and beat all our Enemies with their own weapons viz. with real Prophecies give me leave to repeat a Scotish Prophecy Priscae Scotorum Prophetiae 1 Scotland be sad now and lament thy Child whom thou hast lost

Bereft of Kings falsly undone by thy unkindly Host 2 Alas the free bond is become and deceit is thy fall Thy falshood to the Brutish race has brought thee into thrall 3 The Grave of the most Noble Prince to all is great regrate Not subject to Law who doth leave the Kingdom and estate 4 Oh anguish great where every kind and age doth lament Whom bitter death has tane away shall Scotland sore repent 5 Lately a Land of rich increase a Nation stout and true Has lost their former dear estate which they did hold of due 6 By hard conflict and by chance of Mobile fortunes force Thy hap and thy prosperity is turned into worse 7 Thou w●nt to win now art subdu'd and come in under Yoke A stranger reignes and doth destroy what likes with swords stroke 8 The English race whom neither force nor manner do approve Woe is to thee by guilt and slight is only win above 9 The mighty Nation was to fore invincible and stout Has yielded lewe to destiny great pitty is but doubt 10 In former age the Scots renown did flourish goodly gay But now alas is overcled with a great dark decay 11 Then mark and see what is the cause of this so wondrous fall Contempt of faith falshood deceit the wrath of God withall 12Vnsatiable greedy of worlds gain oppression cries of poor Perpetual a slanderous race no justice put in ure 13 The haughty pride of mighty men of former vice chief cause The nurtriture of wickedness and unjust match of Laws 14 Therefore this case the Prophets old of long time did presage As now has happened every point into this present age 15 Since fate is so now Scotland learn in patience to abide Slanders great fears and suddain Plagues and dolers more beside 16 For out of thee shall people rise with divers happiness And yet a Pen can scarcely write thy hurt skath and distress 17 The English Nation shall invade c. The Prophecy of Queen Ann Queen of Scotland Mother to the late King concerning his Maj and his three Kingdoms Charles Stuart late King of England was born at Dumferlin in Scotland 19. Novem. 1600. he lived 48 years and about 72 dayes He died in the beginning of his Climacterical year fatal many times where killing directions in the Nativity threaten He came to the Crown being aged 24 years and about 4 moneths and was noted to be very wilful and obstinate by Queen Ann his mother who hearing that he was sick and like to die said He would not then die or at that time but live to the ruine of himself and occasion the loss of his three Kingdoms by his too much wilfulness A sad prediction from a Mother who most intirely loved him but it proved very true in the sequel Yet while he was young he followed his book seriously which his elder brother Prince Henry could not endure and therefore King Iames would frequently blame Prince Henry with the neglect of his book and tell him how his brother Charles followed it whereupon the Prince would reply When that he himself should be King he would make his brother Charles Archbishop of Canterbury Examined by the Original Papers sent from the Vniversity of Cambridge and other Libraries in England and Scotland Licensed and published by Authority and now presented to publike view together with a description of the Wonderfull Year of the World to the end that this Treatise may be dispierced throughout all Cities and Market Towns in England and Wales FINIS