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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

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

bounds of their own natural Dominions shall preserve intire and keep in good order and allegiance their own Subjects officiously disposed to peace and tranquillity But if he shall in his heart propose to pervert his Subjects by fair perswasions God shall soon cut him off And then from a Charles a great Charles shall obtain the Scepter who with great success and prosperity shall reign over the Northern parts of the world yea the same Charles shall much break the Power and Tyranny of the Spaniard and obtain a signal Victory over his Navy and Armadoe And after the conjunction of his Forces with the States of Christendom He shall win a difficult cruel Battel After this God shall remove his Popish Wife to the great terror of the Bishop of Rome who being incensed and stirred thereby King Charles shall profess hastily against Antichrist and joyning Forces with the German and other Allies shall become enemy to Him and the Crown of Spain both At that time shall the Swede be very succesfull and perform admirable service against the Enemy with Men and Ships as well by Land as by Sea Out of the Manuscript of Paul Grebner of Sneburgh remaining in the Library of Trinity Colleage in Cambridge given there by Queen Elizabeth Another Prophecy taken out of a certain Library AFter a certain time being past the tayle of the Virgin shall enter the Lyon and Scorpio shall ascend the back of Sagitary the Northern Kingdoms shall be wasted by Reapers the Southern Paincipalities shall end in dust and the powers of the Island Monarchies without either Bridle or Saddle shall be harnessed Cruel Warres shall be scattered by the winds and quell'd by a revengeful Hayle whose beginnings were by a staffe their growth and continuance by Bastards The Sunne it selfe shall play on the Timbrel clad with a Vermilion Coat and the Moon with Dun buskins shall amble to the Faire Laughest thou oh King But those on whom these things shall come for grief and sorrow shall pine away All these things shall scarce be accomplished when a Prince of Royal stock shall come forth crowned from the Northern parts as to his own people unexpected but desired by forraigners who because he shall bear a rampant Lyon shall therefore be called a Lyon He shall not rest till having called a Synod and after dissolved it by threats he shall advance his conquering Armes against his Enemies and by woful success shall harrasse the territories of neighbor Princes He shall exceed Alexander the Great in vertue and Cyrus in success he shall passe the Seas and be saluted Emperour by many Kings A certain ancient City shall he say levell with the ground In the mean while a Powerful Prince out of the East shall provoke him to battle against whom the Lyon shall march with all his Forces and pitching his Camp on this side Euphrates shall expect him If the Prince shall come over the River the Lyon shall be overcome but he shall passe his Army over the River and give his enemy a bloody defeat and be Master of all the East Whilst these things are in action divers petty Kings from India shall break into Syria with mighty Armies and provided for Battlle shall wait for the Lyon about the Valley of Iehosaphat where they shal by him be all wholly cut off Not long after shall the Wars shall cease after that with eminent piety he shall have established the Kingdom of Fugitives Our Authour is now ingenuous whilst he confesseth there is nothing more extant of this Scotish Merlines but this only peece I would know of the wisest man living how this Prophecy had it not seemingly tended to this purpose we had not seen this rarity but if we admit it once can it any way prejudice our present State or further the present Scotish King for wherein is he nominated in this or Scotland it self it rather seemes a general Prophecy of the last times Certainly had King Iames been a Warlike Prince many things herein might be appropriated unto him but because of his extream cowardize its fit not him We know he was called the Lyon of the North and that he procured the Synod of Dort and how he was reputed righteous c. but it had no relation unto him nor hath it any to the present Scotish King the very words of the Prophecy are so significant they need no refutation or further exposi●ion they agreeing wholly with many others in the sam thing viz. That a certain Prince shall in the last times arise who shall oever-run all Europe suddenly and also destroy some Eastern Princes To make an end of this Story I shall conclude with the Prophecie of Sybilla Tiburtina long since made publique unto the world Which Prophecie of hers followeth Orietur Sydus in Europe Supra Iberes admagnam Septentrionis domum c. In English thus A Star shall arise in Europe over the Iberians towards the great house of the North whose beams shall unexpectedly enlighten the whole World This shall be in a most acceptable time when as mortal men being wearied with war and arms shall unanimously be desirous to embrace peace Certainly in those times it will be stoutly controverted who shall be the best man or unto whom the greatest Dominion may befall during a vacancie of a Governour and whilest there is an Interregnum or discontinuance of some prisoners But at length the Off-spring of a most ancient Family prevails and will proceed in a course of war untill contrary Fortune overthrow him For even at the same time or near unto the setting of this Star or dying of the Prince signified by that Star a light as ancient as the former shall break out burning with more eager flames of war and shall inlarge his Dominion unto the Coast of the Antipodes It hath been the onely labour of this Discourse all along to manifest unto this Nation first That the present King of Scots is not that great Charles intended in Grebner or any other Prophecy extanr either in Manuscript or in Print Secondly we have shewed from the writings of very famous men of what Nation the Great Charles or Lyon of the North shall be or Native of Thirdly we have examined the Prophecies both of the Scottish Welch and English Prophets and from their Writings have discovered That there are no more Kings to be expected to reign in England We have much reason to believe their sayings shall prove true having evidently beforehand known all or most of what they have prophecied to have exactly come to passe even in our own dayes and not before I do neither add nor diminish unto them I sparingly deliver my own conceptions nor do I paraphrase upon the Prophecies they are so plain and significant there is not in any of these any the least mention of this present King of Scotland nor is he called by the name of the Northern Lion or is he designed to be the Man who shall raise a fift

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