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Mercurius propheticus. Or, -a collection of some old predictions O! May they only prove, but empty fictions. Consensu populi regnum subsistit. That Kingdome will establisht be wherein the people well agree.
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Shipton, Mother (Ursula)
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gotten in by women Then shall be in the North that one woman shall say unto another Mother I have séen 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 wéeping his fill And after that a ship come sayling up the Thames till it come against London and the master of the ship shall wéep and the marriners shall ask him why he wéepeth being he hath made so good a voyage-and he shall say Oh what a goodly City this was none in the world comparable to it and now there is scarce left any house that can let us have drinke for our money Unhappy he that lives to see these dayes But happy are the dead Shiptons wife sayes An ancient Prophecy to be seen in Master Harrâ—es discourses upon Prophecyes printed anno 1588. Fathered upon Merlyn Anglia te prodit tua gens quia quaelibet odit Te circumfodit gens Scotica Gallia rodit Wallia minatur Hybernicus insidiatur Ecce repentina validis mors atque ruina Te citò prosternit nec gens tua talia cernit Pax simulata fluet pax haec pax falsò probatur Pax clam namque ruet graviorque poena paratur Enlished thus England thy proper native thee betrayes Because all Nations hate thee and thy wayes Scotland doth undermine thee France doth gnawe Wales threats the Irish thee by snares doth awe Thy bravest men do on a suddain dye And thou thy self doth wholly ruin'd lye Yet seest it not but under fayned peace Dost thine own misery still more increase The glosse upon the Text. Say gentle Muse is this a prophecy Or is' t a witty studious fained lye If it be true What state is England in If it be false 't is high time time to begin To prove it so nor is' t too late as yet Though a true Prophecy to frustrate it For Ninivy was thus foretold her end In forty dayes yet found a way to send Th' approaching ruine back and so mayest thou If thou like knee like heart to heaven bowe And then this prophecy do strayght present To heavens Vice-Gerent our high Parliament Where it may wisely be discust and try'd Whether in part it hath been verify'd As yet if so then how they may prevent The ill not come but likely consequent Another old Prophecy transcribed out of an ancient manuscript Flan Fran consurgent Hispani viribus urgent Scotus vastabit dum Wallicus arma levabit Inter nodosum mentem * 〈…〉 pontem fontemque petrosum Corruet Anglorum gens perfida fraude suorum Translation Flanders shall rise with France Spaine fight amaine The Scots wast all while Brittans arme in vaine Between a knotty mount and stony spring False England shall her men to slaughter bring Another translation of the same Flanders shall rise with France Spaine powers advance The Scots shall wast the land while Brittans armed stand 'Twixt knotty mountaine and a stony fountaine Perfidious English shall themselves extinguish This following Prophecy was shewed by Sir William Norris to King James upon the uniting of the two Crownes of England and Scotland under the name of Great Britaine A Peace shall be dissembled That Peace may well be trembled That Peace shall false be proved All Peace shall be removed For why A most grievous sight Shall rise up right Great Mars omnipotent He shall be vigilant His bloody brands of steel To whet thou shalt them feel So sore upon thy side That wo shall thee betide Nation shall rise with Nation And make confederation That all English scituation Shall be taught by operation To read upon the Passion Flanders shall joyne with France With bill speare gun and lance With Almany and Gassogny Spaine shall eke employ His force thee to destroy Thou shalt have the Brittans to annull thee The Scots to pluck and pull thee England thou shalt be sure These torments to endure An old Scotch Prophecy delivered many yeares since by the Bishop of Rosse to a great Lady When pride is in price And wit is in vice When robbery as rise as rie in the rise When great men are lawlesse And holy Kirk awlesse Gods body and blood not given the heeding And Laicks have the Kirke in leeding Then fall sorrow sit upon seele But fall fortune turne her wheele When the yeare of our Lord God is comed and ganne One thousand six hundred forty and twayne Then fall up what was down Then fall lettith weare the Crown i.e. Truth And zeale fall last for ever and aye Till the Sonne of God take all away To these may be added another Prophecy of great antiquity out of our famous Historiagrapher Henricus de Huntingdon which before the year of our Lord 1000. foretold thereby that this Kingdom of England for its manifold wickednesses should be conquered by the Normans and should also by the Scots be afterwards brought to a deserved chastizement c. He delivers the Prophecy thus Anno millesimo incarnatione Dom. c. Genti Anglorum predixit quidam vir dei Henâ— Hâ—â— libr. 6. Sectio 1. quod ex scelerum suoruÌ„ immanitate non solum quia semper caedi proditioni studebant verum etiam quia semper ebrietati negligentiae Domus Domini dediti erant eis insperatum a Francia adventurum dominium quod eorum excellentiam in eternum deprimeret honorem sine termine restitutionis eventilaret Praedixit etiam quod non ea gens solum verum Scottorum quos vilissimos habebant eis ad emeritam confusionem dominaretur Praedixit nihilominùs varium adeo saeculum creandum vt varietas quae in mentibus hominum latebat in actibus patebat multimoda variatione vestium indumentorum designaretur The first part of this Prophecy was notoriously verified in the yeare 1066. when the Normans under the conduct of William the Conquerour Invaded and Subdued this land This is also ancient though common In Germany begins a dance Which passeth through Italy Spaine and France But England shall pay the piper Another Prophecy very ancient in old Meeter In that same yeare that fully shall expire The sixth great wonder of the worlds Empire Then Tyders * i.e. Hen. Ed. Mar. Phil. Eliz. HEMPE shall end I dare aread Then * After Q. Eli. K. James E shall fall and I shall stand in stead In that same yeare a great plague shall raigne The which a thousand dayes shall remaine At Maries Masse a Court they hold The which in bloody Inke shall be inrolled There many a plea shall passe with brawling words And short daggers shall be better then long swords On Hunsloes heath soon after shall be seen A fierce fought battell by a King I weene Of Knights there shall be three thousand there Of which there shall but ten back again appeare There shall many a battaile and brawle be And then a huge host shall passe over the Sea Concluding a peace but in this wise Betwixt two C. C. two L. L. so long shall last two I. I. Another very ancient Prophesie When the eighth letter of the Christcrosse rowe eight times is past And every one at liberty to reason as he will Then the Church without sacrifice six years shall last Untill the follower of Gods lawes it do fulfill But then alas soon after it shall decay By the space of one Lustrum as stories doe say Then mark the day of the next desolation And count them as they lye in the grewe Take M. only with its signification And twice two C. C. which is very true And from that day as Stories do say The Sacrifice shall last for ever and aye Another Ever shall âš… be called the first of the dice When ⚀ shall beare up âš… Then shall England be clepid Paradise When âš„ and ⚃ be set on side The name of âš… shall spring full wide And when ⚃ and âš drive out âš‚ Then may England sing well away Then it is all shent For then shall be another Parliament âš… shall up and ⚀ shall under The Lyon the Rose the Flowerdeluce The lock shall undoe Then shall âš… beare the price And ⚀ shall help thereto This Prophecy is Fathered upon Ignatius and was long since found in St. Benets Monastery in Norfolk When Eighty eight be past then thrive Thou maist till forty four or five After the Maide is dead a Scot Shall govern thee and if a plot Prevent him not sure then his sway Continue shall till many a day The ninth shall dye and the first Perhaps shall reign but oh accurst Shal be the time when thou shalt see To sixteen joyned twenty three For then the Eagle shall have helpe 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 Saturn conjoyns with Jupiter Perhaps false Prophets shall arise And Mahomet shall shew his prize And sure much alteration Shall happen in Religion Beleeve this truly if then you see A Spaniard a Protestant to be FINIS