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A93161	Twelve strange proehesies [sic], besides Mother Shiptons, predicting wonderfull events to betide these years of danger in this climate, whereof some have already come to passe well worthy of note. Most of them were found in the reignes of Edward the fourth, and Henry the eighth, Kings of England, and are these which follow: viz. 1. Mother Shiptons prophesies. 2. The blind mans prophesie. 3. Ignatius Loyala - 4. Sybilla's prophesie. 5. Merlins prophesie. 6. Orwell Bins prophesie. 7. M. Brightmans prophesie. 8. M. Giftheils prophesie. With five other prophesies, never before printed. Whereunto is added the predictions of M. John Saltmarsh, to his Excellency the Lord Fairfax, and the Councell of his army: as also the manner of his death. Now printed and published for the satisfaction of those who have been abused by false and imperfect copies; with marginall notes on Mother Shiptons prophesies.		1648 (1648)	Wing S3455; Thomason E522_34; ESTC R206219	8,571	6

Twelve strange PROEHESIES Besides Mother SHIPTONS Predicting wonderfull events to betide these years of danger in this Climate whereof some have already come to passe well worthy of note Most of them were found in the Reignes of Edward the fourth and Henry the eighth Kings of England and are these which follow Viz. 1. Mother Shiptons Prophesies 2. The Blind mans Prophesie 3. Ignatius Loyala 4. Sybilla's Prophesie 5. Merlins Prophesie 6. Otwell Bins Prophesie 7. M. Brightmans Prophesie 8. M. Giftheils Prophesie With five other Prophesies never before Printed Whereunto is added the Predictions of M. John Saltmarsh to his Excellency the Lord Fairfax and the Councell of his Army As also the manner of his Death Now Printed and published for the satisfaction of those who have been abused by false and imperfect Copies with Marginall Notes on Mother Shiptons Prophesies Yorke Mother Shipton Wolsey LONDON Newly Printed for Francis Coles at the signe of the Half-Bowle in the Old-Bayly The Prophesie by Mother Shipton VVHen she heard King Henry the eight should be King and Cardinall Wolsey should be at York Note that this Prophesie was never exactly Printed before she said that Cardinall Wolsey should never come to York with the King and the Cardinall hearing being angry sent the Duke of Suffolke and the Lord Darcy to her who came with their men disguised to the Kings House neere York where leaving their men they went to M. Besley to York and desired him to go with them th● Mother Shiptons house where when they came they knocked at the doore she said Come in M. Besley and those honourable Lords with you and M. Besley would have put in the Lords before him but she said Come in M. Besley you know the way but they do not this they thought strange that she should know them and never saw them Then they went into the house where there was a great fire and she bid them welcome calling them by their names and sent for some Cakes and Ale and they dranke and were very merry Mother Shipton said the Duke if you knew what we came about you would not bid us so welcome she said the messenger should not be hang'd Mother Shipton said the Duke you said the Cardinall should never see York yea said she I said he might see York but never come at it but said the Duke when he comes to York thou shalt be burned we shall see that said she and plucking her handkerchiefe off her head she threw it into the fire and it would not burne then she took her staffe and turned it into the fire and it would not burne then she took it and put it on againe then said 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 me My Lord said 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 do 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 stolne away carried into France temp Eliz. R. body will be buried in York pavement and your head shall be stoln from the bar and carried into France at which they all laughed saying That would be a great lope betwixt the head and the Body Then said the Lord Darcy And what thinke you of me she said you have made a great Gun shoot it off for it will do you no good you are going to warre you will paine many a man but you will 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 York was and how far it was thither said that one said he should never see York nay said one she said you might see York but never come at it he vowed to burn her when he came to York Then they shewed him York and told him it was but eight miles thence he said that he would soon be there but being sent for by the King he dyed in his way to London at Leicester of a Lask And Shiptons wife said to M. Besley Yonder is a fine Stall built for the Cardinall in the Minster of Gold Pearle and precious Stones go and present one of the Pillars to King Henry and he did so M. Besley seeing these things falling out as she had fore-told desired her to tell him some more of her Prophesies M. Besley said she before that (c) This came to passe for Trinity Steeple in York was blowne downe with a Tempest and Owes Bridge was broken downe with a great Floud and what they did in repairing the Bridge in the day time with the stone of the Steeple sell down in the night untill they remembring this Prophesie laid the bishest stone of the Steeple for the foundation of the Bridge and then the work stood And by this was partly verified another Prophesie of Mother Shipton viz. That her Maid should live to drive her Cow over Trinitie Steeple Owes Bridge and Trinitie 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 Owes Bridge Then the day will come when the North shall rue it wondrous sore but the South shall rue it for evermore When Hares kennell on cold hearth (d) Supposed to be meant by the suppression of Abbyes other Religious 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 bring them home then shall you have a year of pining hunger then a dearth without corn a wofull day shall be seen in England a King and a Queen The first comming of the King (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 of Scots shall be at Holgate Towne but he shall not come through the Bar and when the King (f) when K. James was at London his children were at Edenborough preparing to come to England of the North shall be at London his taile shall be at Edenborough After this shall water (g) This is verified by the conducting of water into York-streets through boared Elmes And the Conduit-house hath a Wind-mill on the top that drawes up the water come over Owes Bridge and a Wind-mill shall be set on a Tower and an Elme-tree shall lye at every mans doore at that time women shall weare great Hats and great Bands And when there is

a Lord Maior (h) A Lord Maior whose house was in Minster-Yard in York was killed with three stabs at York then let him beware of a stab When two Knights (i) Sir Tho. Wentworth Sir Joh. Savil in chusing Knights for the Shire in the Castle-yard in York did so fall out that they were never ascer well reconciled shall fall out in the Castle-yard they shall never be kindly all their lives after When all Colton Hag (k) Colton Hag in her time was a Woodland a ground full of Trees which bore Corne seven yeares and the seaventh yeare after that was the comming in of the Scots and their taking of New-Castle hath borne Crops 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 York where never any Judges were knowne to go out before or since go in and out at Walmgate-Bar * In 1039. King Charles raised an Army in the Spring When warres shall begin in the Spring Much wee to England it shall bring Then shall the Ladies crie well away That ever we liv'd this day * He that had any thing knowes this to be true by experience 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 that you shall have in the morning and when it comes it shall last three years between Cadron Air shall be great warfare when all the world is as lost it shall be called Christ crost When the battell begins it shall be where (m) Neere Leicester where Richard the Third was slaine in battell there Colonell Hastings was of the first in Armes endeavouring to settle the Commission of Array in opposition to others that were then setting the Militia Crook-back Richard made his Fray They shall say To warfare for your King for halfe acrowne a day but stirre not They will say To warfare for your King on paine of hanging but stirre not * How many Welch and Irish hath the K. lost in this Warre very few have returned to their old habitations for he that goes to complaine shall not come back againe The time will come when England shall tremble and quake for feare of a dead man that shall be heard to speak then will the Dragon give the Bull a great snap and when the one is down they will go to London Town Then there will be a great batted between England and Scotland and they will be pacified for a time and when they come to Brammamore they sight and are again pacified for a time Then there will be a great battell between England and Scotland at Stockmore then will Ravens fit on the (n) It is to be noted and admired that this Crosse in the North in Mother Shiptons daies was a tall Stone Crosse which ever since hath been by degrees sinking into the ground and now is sunk so low that a Raven may sit on the top of it and reach her Bill to the ground Crosse and drink as much bloud of Nobles as of Commons then woe is me for London shall be 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 Go with me to my house for there are three Knights and he will go with her and stay there three daies 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 Petergate in York and the one shall not know of the other there shall be a child borne in Pomfret with three thumbs and those three Knights will give him three horses (o) There was a Child not many yeares since borne at Pomfret with three thumbs to hold while they win England and all noble bloud shall be gone but one and they shall carry him to Sheriffe Nuttons 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 rue the time that ever they were born to see so much bloudshed Then they will come to York to besiege it and they shall keepe them out three dayes and three nights and a penny loafe shall be within the Barre at halfe a Crowne and without the Barre at a penny and they will sweare if they will not yeeld to blow up the Town Walls Then they will let them in and they will hang up the Maior Sheriffes and Aldermen and they will go into Crouch-Church there will three Knights go in and but one come out againe and he will cause Proclamation to be made That any man may take House Tower or Bower for 21 yeares and whilst the world endureth there shall never be warfare againe nor any more Kings or Qeenes but the Kingdome shall be governed by three Lords and then York shall be 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 shall be a man sitting on Saint James Church hill weeping his fill And after that a Ship come sayling up the Thames till it come against London and the Master of the Ship shall weepe and the Mariners shall aske him why he weepeth being he hath made so good a Voyage And he shall say Ah what a goodly City was this I none in the world comparable to it and now there is left scarce any house that can let us have Drinke for our Money Unhappy he that lives to see these dayes But happy are the dend Shiptons Wife saies In the Worlds old age this woman did fore-tell Strange things should haep which in our Times have fell A Prediction of King Richard the Third IN the Reign of King Richard the Third his Majesty with his Army lay at Leicester the night before the battell at Bosworth field was fought It happened in the morning as the King rode thorow the South Gate a poore old blind man by profession a Wheel-wright sate begging and hearing of his approach said That it the Moone changed twice that day having by her ordinary course changed in the morning King Richard should lose his Crowne and be slaine and riding over the Bridge his left foot struck against a stump of Wood which the old man hearing said Even so shall his Head at his returne backe hit on the same place which so came to passe And a Nobleman that carried the Moone for his Colours revolted from King Richard whereby be lost that day his life Crowne and Kingdome which veresied the presages of that