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A93156	Fourteene strange prophesies: besides Mother Shiptons, and Mr. Salmarsh, predicting wonderfull events to betide these yeares of calamity, in this climate, whereof divers are already come to passe, worthy of observation. 1. A prophesie of K. Richard the 3. 2. Mother Shiptons prophesie. 3. Mr. Truswels, recorder of Lincolne. 4. Sibyllaes prophesies. 5. Ignatius prophesie. 6. Merlins prophesie. 7. Orwel Bins prophesies. 8. Mr. Brightmans prophesies 6. [sic] Ancient prophesies in meeter. Whereto is added the predictions of Mr. John Saltmarch, to his Excellency, and the counsell of his army. And the manner of his death. Printed by an exact true copy, with new marginall notes on Mother Shiptons prophesies.		1648 (1648)	Wing S3444; Thomason E527_7; ESTC R205665	11,395	10

Then there will be a great battaile betweene England and Scotland and they will be pacified for a time and when they come to Brammamore they fight and are againe pacified for a time then there will be a great battell between England and Scotland at Stockmore Then will Ravens sit on the (n) It is to be noted and admited 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 sunke so low that a Raven may sit upon the top of it and reach her bill to the ground Crosse and drink as much bloud of Nobles as of the Commons then woe is me for London shall bee destroyed for ever after There will come a woman with one eye and she shall tread in many mens bloud to the knee and a man leaning on a staffe by her she shall say to him what art thou and he shall say I am the King of Scots and she shall say goe with me to my house for there are three Knights and hee will goe with her and stay there three dayes and three nights then will England be lost and they will cry twice a day England is lost Then there will be three Knights in Peter-gate in York and the one shall not know of the other there shall be a childe borne in Pomfret with three thumbs and those three Knights will give him three horses (o) There is a childe not many yeares since borne at Pomfret with three thumbs to hold while they winne England and all Noble bloud shall be gone but one and they shall carry him to Sheriffe Huttons Castle sixe miles from York and he shall dye there and they shall chuse there an Earle in the Field and hanging their horses on a thorne and rue the time that ever they were borne to see so much bloud shed Then they will come to Yorke to besiege it and they shall keep them out three dayes and three nights and a penny loafe shall be within the Bar at halfe a Crowne and without the Bar at a penny and they will sweare if they will not yeild to blow up the Towne walls Then they will let them in and they will hang up the Major Sheriffes and Aldermen and they will goe into Crouch Church there will three Knights goe in and but one come out againe and he will cause Proclamation to be made that any man may take house towre or bower for 21. yeares and whilst the world endureth there shall never be warfare againe nor any more Kings or Queenes but the Kingdome shall bee governed by three Lords and then Yorke shall bee London And after this shall be a white harvest of Corne gotten in by women Then shall be in the North that one woman shall say unto another Mother I have seene a man to day and for one man there shall be a thousand women there shal bee a man sitting on St. Ia●es Church hill weeping his fill And after that a Ship came sailing up the Thames till it came against London and the Mr. of the Ship shall weepe and the Marriners shall aske him why he weepeth being he hath made so good a voyage and he shall say Ah what a goodly City this was none in the world comparable to it and now there is le●t scare any house that can let us have drinke for our money Vnhappy he that lives to see these dayes But happy are the dead Shiptons wife sayes In the worlds old age this woman did foretell Strange things should hap which in our times have fell Mr. Truswels Recorder of Lincolne THe Lilly shall remaine in a merty world and he shall be moved against the seed of the Lyon and he shall stand on one side amongst thrones of his Kingdome and Countrey and there shall come the Son of man beating three wild beasts in his Armes which Kingdome is the Land of the Moone which is to be dread throughout all the world with a company of people he shall passe many waters and he shall come to the Land of the Lyon looking for helpe with the beasts of his owne Countrey And in that yeere there shall come an Eagle out of the Bast and his wings spread with the beames of the Sonne of man And that yeere shall be destroyed Castles upon Thames and there shall be great feare over the whole world and in a part of the Land there shall be great battells amongst many Kingdomes That day shall be the bloody field and the Lilly shall lose his Crowne and therewith shall be crowned the Sonne of man And in the fourth yeere many battells shall be for the Faith and most of the world shall be stoopen but the Sonne of man with the Eagle shall be preferred and there shall be universall peace over the whole world Then shall the Son of man receive a marvellous token and there shall be great plenty of all manner of fruits and then shall he goe to the land of the crosse The Prophesie of old Sybilla VVHen Scotland hundred and ninth unconquered King The sixteenth hundred thirty and ninth yeere Into his age of thirty nine shall reigne Then shall the Papall overthrow appeare Which all the Arts of Europe shall admire For Scotland shall that blessed worke begin Then shall the whore of Babel we had here Be banisht quite which Bishops did bring in Then thou brave England which wast led so blinde By their perverse Episcopall pride And Irelands shamelesse superstitious sin Shall be supprest who cruelly have cried So that that Sacred Prophetesse Sybilla Shall shortly come to passe she tells Tom Milla. And Tom tell 's me and I must tell 't againe Through Scotland England Ireland France Spain Ignatius Prophesie If eighty eight be past then thrive Thou maiest till thirty foure or five After the ● is dead a Scot Shall governe there and if a plot Prevent him not then sure his sway Continue shall til many a day The ninth shall die yong and the first Perhaps shall reigne but oh accurst Shall be the time when thou shalt see To sixteen joyned twenty three For then the Eagle shall have help● 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 Saturne conjoynes with Jupiter Perhaps false Prophets shall arise And Mahomet shall shew his prise And sure much alteration Shall happen in Religion Believe this truely if then you see A Spaniard a Protestant to be Merlins Prophesies ON Boreas wings then hither shall be borne Through Weeke ore Tweed a Princely Unicorne Who brought into the world his owne faire Crest A rampant Lyon figured on his breast And to his arms six Lyons more shall quarter With six French flowers inv●ron'd with the garter Joyning by fates unchangeable dispose The Northerne Thistle in the Southerne Rose He shall the true Apostolick Faith maintaine With pious zeale

I sayd he might see Yorke but never come at it But said the Duke when he comes to Yorke thou shalt be burned we shall see that said she and plucking her hankercher off her head she threw it into the fire and it would not burne then she tooke her staffe and turned it into the fire and it would not burne then she tooke it and put it on againe Then said the the Duke what meane you by this she replyed if this had burned I might have burned Mother Shipton quoth the Duke what thinke you of mee My Lord sayd she the time will come (a) The Duke was afterward beheaded you will be as low as I am and that is a low one indeed My Lord Piercy said and what say you of me My Lord said she shooe your horse in the quick and you will doe well but your (b) This proved true for he rose in rebellion in the North and by not flying when he might he was taken and beheaded at York where his body was buried but his head was ●●ol● away and carried into France te●g● Eliz R. body will be buried in Yorke pavement and your head shall be stolne from the Barre and carried into France At which they all laughed saying that would be a great lop betweene the head and the body Then said the Lord Darcy and what think you of me She said you have made a great Gun shoot it off for it will never doe you no good you are going to war you will paine many a man but kill none So they went away Not long after the Cardinall came to Cawood and going to the top of the Tower He asked where stands Yorke and how far it was thither and said that one said he should never see Yorke nay said one she said you might see Yorke but never come at it He vowed to burne her when he came to Yorke Then they shewed him Yorke and told him it was but eight miles thence he said that he would soone be there but being sent for by the King he died in his way to London at Leicester of a laske And Shiptons wife said to Mr. Besly yonder is a fine stall built for the Cardinall in the Minster of gold pearle and precious stones goe and present one of the pillars to King Henry and he did so Mr. Besly seeing these things fall out as she had foretold desired her to tell him some more of her Prophesies Mr. Besly said she before that (c) This came to passe for Trinity steeple in Yorke was blown downe with a tempest and Owse Bridge was broken downe with a great floud and what they did in repairing ●●e bridge in the day time with the stone of the steeple fell downe in the night untill they remembring thi●●rophesie laid the highest stone of the steeple for the foundation of the bridge and then the worke stood And by this was partly verified another of Mother Shiptons Prophesies viz. That her maid should live to drive her Cow over Trinity steeple Owse Bridge and Trinity Church meet they shall build on 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 when the North shall rue it wondrous sore but the South shall rue it for evermore when hares kindle on cold hearth (d) Supposed to be mean by suppression of Abbien and other Religions houses And at the Lord William Howards house at Naworth a Hare came and kindled in his Kitchen upon the hearth stones and lads shall marry Ladies and bring them home then shall you have a yeare of pining hunger and then a dearth without come a wofull day will be seene in England a King and a Queene The first comming of the (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 presse he was forced to ride by another way King of Scots shall be at Holgate Towne but hee shall not come through the Bar and when the King (f) When King James was at London his children were at Edenborough prepareing to come in to England of the North shall be at London his tayl● shall be at Edenborough After this shall water (g) This is verified by the conducting of water into Yorke streets through boared Elmes And the Conduit house hath a Windmill on the top that drawes up the water come over Owse bridge and a windmill shal be set on a tower and an Elm-tree shall lye at every mans doore at that time women shall weare great hats and great bands And when there is a Lord Major (h) A Lord Major whose house was in the Minster yard in Yorke was killed with three stabs at Yorke let him beware of a stabbe When two Knights (i) Sir Tho. Wentworth Sir John Savill in choosing Knights for the Shire in the Castle yard in Yorke did so fall out that they were never after well reconciled shall fall out in the Castle-yard they shall never be kindly all their lives after When all Colton (k) Colton hag in her rime was a Wood land ground full of trees which bore corn seven yeers and the seaventh yeer after that was the year of the comming in of the Scots and their taking of Newcastle hag hath borne corps of Corne seven yeares after you shall heare newes there shall two Judges (l) In the yeare 1616. two Judges of Assize went out at a gate in Yorke where never any Judges were knowne to goe out before or since goe in and out at Walmgate Bar. Then Wars shall begin in the Spring Much woe to England it shall bring Then shall the Ladies cry well away 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 not know of the warre over night yet you shall have it in the morning and when it comes it shall last three yeares betweene Cardon and Aire shall be great warfare when all the world is as lost it shall be called Christs Crost When the battell begins it shall be where (m) Near Leicester where Richard the third was slaine in battell the Collonell Hastings was one of the first in Armes endevouring to settle the Commission of Array in opposition to others that were then setling the Militia Crook-back Richard made his fray They shall say to warfare for your King for halfe a crowne a day but stir not they will say to warfare for your King on paine of hanging but stirre not for he that goes to complaine shall not come backe againe 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 snap and when the one is downe they will goe to London Towne