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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

notwithstanding though she were maliciously Poysoned she was miraculously preserved and died in peace maugre all the malice of her enemies The Western Monarchs Wooden Horses Shall be destroy'd by the Drakes Forces By the Western Monarchs Wooden Horses is meant the King of Spains great Armado in the year 1588 by them termed Invincible though the success of it answered not the name being by Sr. Francis Drake and others brave Sons of Neptune and Soldiers of Mars met withal fought with and really vanquisht most of them sook and the rest destitute and scatter'd being chased by our Ships past the 57 degree of Northern Latitude and there left to be pursued by hunger and cold a victory so remarkable that time nor age will ever weare the remembrance thereof away Troy novant's Triumphant spire Shall be consum'd with Flames of Fire By Troy novant is meant London which in ancient writings is called Troy novant and the Triumphant Spire signifies Pauls-steeple which in the year 1561 the fourth of June strangly fell on fire burning for the space of five full hours in which time it melted all the Lead off the Church only the Stone Archer escaping the fury thereof sundry causes were attributed by sundry persons of this fire some that it was casually blasted with Lightning others that it was mischievously done by Art Magick and others which was most likely done by the negligence of a Plummer carelesly leaving his coals therein The Queen was much grieved for this mischance but by her bounty the Cities liberality and a Contribution from the Clergy it was afterwards repaired only the blunt Tower had not the top thereof sharpened into a spire as before More wonders yet a Widowed Queen In England shall be headless seen The Widowed Queen signifies the Queen of Scots the Mother of king James who was beheaded at Fotheringhay-Castle some say by the privity others to the great discontent of Queen Elizabeth A Lany of a sharp wit undaunted spirit comely person Beautiful face Majestick presence a fluent Orator and an excellent Poet as may appear by several things now extant amongst others of her Verses this was one which she wrote with a pointed Diamond in a window during her Imprisonment in Fortheringhay-Castle From the top of all my trust Mishap hath laid me in the Dust She was beheaded the _____ day of _____ Anno 1587 and was first buried in the Quire of Peterborough afterwards by her Son King James solemnly removed from thence to Westminster where in the South side of the Chappel of King Henry the seventh be exected a stately monument to her Memory The Harp shall give a better Sound The Harp signifies Ireland as being the Armes of that Country which Queen Elizabeth by reducing to a better obedience made it give a better Sound that is made it more civilized and profitable to the Exchequer then ever before An Earl without a Head be found This was spoken of the Earl of Essex one who was the favourite of the Queen and darling of the poeple two things which seldome come together and yet could not both of them protect him from the Scaffold but that thereon he left his Head Soon after shall the English Rose Unto a Male her place Dispose By the English Rose is meant Queen Elizabeth as we said before by whose Death the Right and Title to the Crown came to James the sirth King of Scotland as lineally descended from Margaret the Eldest Daughter to King Henry the seventh the issue Male failing by the death of Queen Elizabeth and here is to be remembred the Policy of King Henry the seventh who having two Daughters Married the oldest of them to the King of Scotland and the Youngest to the King of France that if his issue Male should happen'd to fail as it afterwards did then Scotland might wait upon England as the greater Kingdom and not England upon France as the lesser Besides there was an old Prophecy which intimated King James his coming to the English Crown for when King Edward the first baraced Scotland amongst other things he brought from thence their Ropal Chair still preserved at the Abby in Westminster upon which Chair these verses were writ If Fates go right where ere this Chair is Pight The Regal Race of Scots shall rule that Place Which by the Coronation of King James there performed made good the words of the Prophecy CHAP. XIII The Prophesies of the Reign of King Iames his uniting England and Scotland his Peaceable Reign a learned time the Powder Treason the Marriage with the Prince Elector and Lady Elizabeth the Death of Prince Henry THe Northern Lyon over Tweed The Maiden Queen shall then succeed And joyn in one two mighty States Ianus then shall shut his Gates Mars shall yeild to Mercury All things tend to Prosperity Hells power by a fatall blow Shall seek the Land to overthrow Which by mistake shall be reverst And heads from shoulders be disperst The British Olive next shall twine In mariage with the German Vine The Ninth to Death his power shall yeild Death Conquers all he winns the Feild Next follows the remarkable actions of King James's Reign predicted in the foregoing lines which may be thus explained The Northern Lyon over Tweed The Maiden Queen shall then succeed And joyn in one two mighty States By the Northern Lyon is meant King James and by the Maiden Queen Queen Elizabeth whom King James being King of Scotland succeeded in the English Crown joyned thereby the two Nations of England and Scotland which had been often attempted before not only by Conquest but by Marriage once by Conquest by King Edward the first who subdued their Armies took their strong places and made their Nobles yield him obeisance yet what they thus lost by him they recovered of his Son King Edward the second the other of Marriage was by King Henry the Eighth who endeavoured to have matched his Son Prince Edward with the Heiress of Scotland and had proceeded very far therein when Death cut him off and though afterwards attempted by the Duke of Somerset Lord Protector and the Scots beaten at Musselborough-field yet all would not prevail God having decreed their union to be afterwards in a more peaceable manner Janus then shall shut his Gates Janus was one of the gods belonging to the ancient Romans whose Temple was never shut but in the days of Peace which happened not above twice in the space of two thousand years King James his Reign being a very peaceable time when Swords rusted in their Sheaths for want of using them Mother Shipton in her Prophesse alludes thereto Mars shall yield to Mercury All things tend to prosperity War shall give place to Peace Fighting to pleading the Sword to the Gown the Pike to the Pen Barbarism to Learning c. this Peace shall cause Plenty Plenty work prosperity c. Hells power by a fatal Blow Shall seek the Land to overthrow Which by mistake shall be reverst

absence of her Husband King Philip and others again for Calice taken not long before and that she should say if after she was dead they ripped her up they would find Calice written on her heart The Pontificial Priest signified Cardinal Pool who expired within sew hours after the death of Queen Mary This prelate was of princely extraction his Mother Margaret being Daughter to George Duke of Clarence when he was young be was brought up together with Queen Mary and being a zealous Catholick during King Edwards Reign suffered a voluntary exile for the same when the marriage with Prince Philip and Queen Mary was made up be returned into England was made Arch-Bishop of Canterbury more moderate than some othes of his fellow Bishops having a favourable inclination towards the Protestants He survived the Queen but few hours and was buried in his own Cathedral at Canterbury with this short and modest Epitaph on his Monument DE POSITUM CARDINALIS POLI. CHAP. XII Her Prophecys concerning the Reign of Queen Elizabeth the change of Religion the attempts of the Papists upon the Queen the Spanish Invasion the burning of Pauls Steeple the death of the Queen of Scots the reducing Ireland the beheading the Earl of Esser c. THe Lyon fierce being dead and gone A Maiden Queen shall Reign anon Those who sighed then shall sing And the Bells shall Changes Ring The Papal power shall bear no sway Roms trash shall hence be swept away The Locusts sent from the seven Hills The English Rose shall seek to kill The Western Monarks Wooden Horses Shall be destroyed by the Drakes forces Troy novant's Triumphant Spir● Shall be consum'd with flames of Fire More wonders yet a Widowed Queen In England shall be headless seen The Harp shall give a better Sound An Earle without a Head be found Soon after shall the English Rose Unto a Male her place dispose These lines being a Prophecy of the most remarkable Actions during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth are to be interpreted after this manner The Lyon fierce being dead and gone A Maiden Queen shall Reign anon Queen Mary is here meant by the fierce Lyon so called not so much for the Cruelty done by Her as by the Bishops and Priests was done under her for take her in her self secluded from bloody Counsellors and she was a most Merciful Pious Iust Princess but in respect of the Blood that was shed and the persecutions then suffered she is here Termed a fierce Lyon After whom is said A Maiden Queen to Reign Anon meant by Queen Elizabeth one who was the Mirrour of her Set and Age who for above forty years to the admitation of enby it self mannaged the affairs of this Kingdom having when she began few friends that durst help and leaving no Foes when she died that could hurt her acting her part so well whilest here she Reigned that History canscarcely afford us one Prince to be matched to her Fame in all considerable particulars Those who sighed then shall sing And the Bells shall changes Ring Many who sat and sighed in the daies of Queen Mary by reason of the hot persecution being forced to forsake their Houses because they should not forsake their Religion now that Queen Elizabeth began to Reign their mourning was turned into joy their sighing into singing returning from their etile with Psalmes of thanksgiving in their mouthes where their Bells rang such Changes in Religion that the Mass was put down and the Common prayer set up Popery banished and reformation established the Ministers of the Bospel advanced and the Schaveling Priests Monks and Fryers depressed The Papal Power shall bear no sway Roomes trash shall hence be swept away Soon after the Queens coming to the Crown a Parliament began at Westminster wherein the Laws of King Henry the eighth against the See of Rome were renewed and those of King Edward the sixth in favour of the Protestants revived and the Laws by Queen Mary made against them repealed Uniformity of Prayer and Administration of Sacraments was enacted with a Restitution of first Fruits and Tenths to the Crown and the Queen acknowledged to be the only and Supream Governour of her Kingdomes The people in each place beating down Superstitious Pictures and Images which blind and misguided zeal had set up The Locusts sent from the seven Hill The English Rose shall seek to kill By the Locusts are meant the Priests Fryars and Iesuits who spread all the World over in greater numbers than the Locust did in the Land of Egypt and by the seven Hills is meant Rome which is built upon seven Hills and by the English Rose is signified Queen Elizabeth whom the Priest and Iesuits by their Instruments did often attempt to kill so that if we seriously consider her Reign we shall scarcely find any Prince whose life was so often attempted as hers of which to give you some examples would not be impertinent to our purpose and first in her Sisters Reign Stephen Gardiner Bishoy of Winchester and other Romanists offended with her Religion so wrought with Queen Mary suggesting that she was consenting to Wyats insurrection that she was sent prisoner to the Tower and as it is said a Warrant intended to be sealed for her execution had not king Philip interceeded After she came to the Crown she was as incident to troubles as the Month April is to showres Spain France and Scotland combining against her Pope Plus Quintus by his Bull deposes her in prosecution whereof the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland rise up in Rebellion being to have been assisted by the Duke D'alva out of the Low-Countries but out of these troubles she was delivered by their Confussion After these Leonard Dakers second San to William Lord Dakers of Gellesland endeavoured to bring her into trouble being intrusted by her with competent forces which he intending to have imployed to her detriment failed in his hopes and Power and brought both shame and ruine to himselfe Next did Thomas and Edward Stanley younger Sons to the Earl of Darbey with several others plot against her all which ended in their Ruine and her safety These failing Captain Stukley promised to perform wonders against her but his mountaines proved not so much as mole-bills he being stain in Barberry his design failed But to speak of personal attempts against her one Somervile drew his Sword in the Court to have slain her Doctor Parry a Spaniolized Italian intended to have Pistoled her as she walked in her privy Garden Savage Windsor Salisbury Tilney and others conspired to kill her the which they waited several times to effect one William Stafford by the instigation of the French Ambastador undertook to kill her Doctor Laper one of her sworn Physicians for a sum of money engaged to Poyson her and to conclude all one Edward Squire formerly belonging to her Stable with a mortifferous confection Poysoned the Pomel of her Saddle when she was riding out from all which