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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49257	The strange and wonderful predictions of Mr. Christopher Love, minister of the Gospel at Laurence Jury, London who was beheaded on Tower-hill, in the time of Oliver Cromwell's government of England. Giving an account of Babylon's fall, and in that glorious event, a general reformation over all the world. With a most extraordinary prophecy, of the late revolution in France, and the downfall of the antichristian kingdom, in that country. By M. Peter Jurieu. Also, Nixon's Chesire prophecy.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.; Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.; Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554.; Wallace, Lady, fl. 1651.; Nixon, Robert, fl. 1620? Nixon's Cheshire prophecy at large.	1651 (1651)	Wing L3177A; ESTC R217305	41,319	88

nuns shall perish for ever This is an institution so degenerated from its first original that 't is become the arm of Antichrist These orders cannot perish one without another These great events deserve to be distinguished from all others for they have changed and shall change THE WHOLE FACE OF THE WORLD INTRODUCTION TO NIXON's CHESHIRE PROPHECY BY THE AUTHOR of his LIFE THIS remarkable Prophecy has been carefully revised ●orrected and improved also some account given of our author Robert Nixon who was but a kind of ideot and used to be employed in following the plough He lived in some farmers ' families and was their drudge and jest At last Thomas Cholmondeley of Vale-Royal Esq. took him into his house and he lived there when he composed this Prophecy which he delivered with as much gravity and solemnity as if he had been an oracle and it was observed that though the fool was a driveler and could not speak common sense when he was uninspired yet in delivering his Propecies he spoke plainly and sensibly how truly will be seen in the following pages As to the credit of this Prophecy I dare say it is as well attested as any of Nostradamus's or Merlin's and come to pass as well as the best of Squire Bickerstaff's It is pain enough that great men have in all ages had recourse to prophecy as well as the vulgar I would not have all grave persons despise the inspirations of Nixon The late French King gave audience to an inspired farrier and rewarded him with an hundred pistoles for his prophetical intelligence though by what I can learn he did not come near our Nixon for gifts The simplicity the circumstances and history of the Cheshire Prophecy are so remarkable that I hope the public will be as much delighted as I was myself By the way this is not a prophecy of to-day it is as old as the Powder plot and the story will make it appear that there is as little imp●sture in it as the Jacobites pretend there is in the person it seems to have an eye to but whether they are both impostures alike or not I leave to the reader to determine J. OLDMIXON THE PROPHECY IN the reign of King James the First there lived a man generally repu●ed a fool whose name was Nixon One day when he returned home from ploughing in the field he laid the things down which he had in his hands and continuing for some time in a seemingly deep and thoughtful meditation at length he pronounced in a loud voice Now I will prophesy And spoke as follows When a Raven shall build in a stone Lion's mouth on the top of a Church in Cheshire then a King of England shall be driven out of his kingdom and never return more When an eagle shall sit on the top of the house then an heir shall be born to the Cholmodeley's family and this heir shall live to see England invaded by foreigners who shall proceed so far as a town in Cheshire but a miller named Peter shall be born with two heels on one Foot and at that time living in a mill of Mr Cholmondeley's he shall be instrumental in delivering the nation The person who then governs the nation will be in great trouble and 〈◊〉 about The invading King shall be killed laid across a horse's back like a calf and led in triumph The miller having been instrumental in it shall bring forth the person that then governs the kingdom and be knighted for what he has done and after that England see happy days A young new set of men shall come who shall prosper and make a flourishing Church for two hundred years As a token of the truth of all this a wall of Mr. Cholmondeley's shall fall If it fall downwards the Church shall be oppressed and rise no more but if upwards next the rising hill on the side of it then it shall flourish again Under this wall shall be found the bones of a British King A pond shall run with blood three days and the Cross-stone Pillar in the Forest su●k so low into the ground that a crow from the top of it shall drink of the best blood in England A boy shall be born with three thumbs and shall hold three King's horses while England shall be three times won and lost in one day THE original may be seen in several families in Cheshire and in particular in the hands of Mr. Egerton of Oulton with many other remarkable circumstances as that Pecferton Wind mill should be removed to Ludditon Hill that horses saddled should run about 'till their girts rotted away But this is sufficient to prove Nixon as great a prophet as Partridge and we shall give other proofs of it before we have done Now as for authorities to prove this Prophecy to be genuine and how it has hitherto been accomplished I might refer myself to the whole county of Chester where it is in every one's mouth and has been for these forty years As much as I have of the manuscript was sent me by a person of sense and veracity and as little disposed to believe visions as any body There is something so very odd in the story and so pat in the wording of it that I cannot help giving it as I found it The family of the Cholmondeley's is very ancient in this county and takes its name from a place so called near Nantwich There are also Cholmton and Cholmondeston but the feat of that branch of the family which kept our Prophet Nixon is at Vale Royal on the river Weaver in Delamere forest It was formerly an Abbey founded by Edward I. and came to the Cholmondeley's from the famous family of the Holcro●ts When Nixon prophesied this family was near being extinct the heir having married Sir Walter St. John's daughter a lady not esteemed very young who notwithstanding being with child fell in labour and continued so for some days During which time an eagle fat upon the house-top and flew away when she was delivered which proved to be a son A Raven is also known to have built in a Stone Lion's mouth in the steeple of the Church of Over in the forest of Delamere Not long before the abdication of King James the wall spoken of fell down and fell upwards and in removing the rubbish were found the bones of a man of more than ordinary size A pond at the same time ran with water that had a reddish tincture and was never known to have done so before or since Headless Cross in the Forest which in the memory of man was several feet high is now sunk within half a ●oot of the ground In the parish of Budworth a boy was born with three thumbs he had also two heels on one foot Lady Egerton wishing well to another restoration often instigated her husband to turn Peter the miller of Negenshire mills out of the mills but he locoked upon it as a whimsy and so permitted Peter still