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A36392
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The Lady Eleanor her appeal present this to Mr. Mace the prophet of the most High, his messenger.
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Douglas, Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652.
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1646
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Wing D1972; ESTC R3647
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THE LADY ELEANOR HER APPEAL Present this to Mr. Mace the Prophet of the most High his Messenger 2 PETER 3.3 Knowing this first that there shall come in the last days Scoffers saying Where is the promise of his coming JUDE 18. Remember yee that they told you there should be Mockers in the last time having not the Spirit Printed in the Year 1646. From the Lady Eleanor the Handmaid of the Holy Spirit TO Our beloved Brother Mr Mace the Anointed of our Lord. HAving in the burthen of his precious VVord been my self a partaker made a publique Example no mean one concerning the way before the Lords coming to be prepared Have thought it not unnecessary by what means it came to passe to impart and publish the same unto your self in making known some passages the truth of which unknown not unto the whole world almost ever since the Year 1625. Shewing withall about a few dayes before the former Kings departure this life how first of all there came a Scotish Lad to this City about the age of Thirteen one George Carr by Name otherwise cald the dumb Boy or Fortuneteller so termd that spake not for some space of time with whom it was my hap upon a visit to meet where some of them would needs send for this Boy although few more jealous of such acquaintance or sparing yet able to discern between such a one and Impostures making bold before my departure thence to direct him the way to my house where care should be taken of him not the lesse because a Stranger accordingly who there abode where no simple people but expert and learnd as any try'd no few conclusions some instanced as here Sometimes who would take the Bible or a Chronicle and open it and close it again then cause the aforesaid Youth to shew by signs and such like dumb demonstrations what was containd therein which things he so to the life exprest and acted as were it a Psalm or Verse then feignd to sing though saw not a letter of the Book and sometime that suddenly behinde him would blow a Horn whereat never so much as changed his look seemd so hard of hearing And again thus to sound him farther one must stop his ears fast and then what two whisperd at the other end of the Gallery he must declare what they spake in the ear as often as they pleased several times Having by that time gotten a whistling voice as plain as any can speak like a Bird before that had used signs for the space of three Moneths then no longer dumb or deaf To conclude whatsoever it were he able to manifest it whether containd in Letters enclosed in Cabinets or by numbring how many pence or pepper corns in Bag or Box before it was opened or any thing of that kind fit for the vulgar capacity too or when he was brought into any place amongst Strangers one should write in several papers every ones Name and he must give them accordingly to each his own Name at first making as though he were in some doubt which way to bestow himself where the chief Divines of the City present some of them bestowing a shilling on him without farther consideration thought it sufficient c. whilest others of that calling as liberal of their slanderous tongues that no longer might be harbored in our house likened to Friar Rush Servants had so incensed their Masters setting all on fire with Iustices of Peace and Church-men giving out he was a Vagrant a Counterfeit or a VVitch Immediately upon which the Spirit of Prophesie falling likewise upon me then were all vext worse then ever ready to turn the house upside down laying this to his charge too when laying aside Houshold cares all and no conversation with any but the VVord of God first by conference with the Prophet Daniel cap. 8. ver 13. I found out this place Then I heard ONE Saint speaking unto another Saint said unto that certain Saint which SPAKE in the Orinal to wit The Numberer of Secrets or the wonderful Numberer Hebr. Palmoni How long the Vision concerning the daily and the Transgression making desolate to give the Hoste c. And he said unto me Vnto Two thous and three hundred days then shall the Sanctuary be cleansed The sum of it this as much to say Inquired of such a one that spake not at first How long from the Vision before this Prophesie shall be reveald or whether I should be able c. as now about Two thousand two hundred years complete since the Captivity as here answered O Son of Man for at the time of the end it shall be Behold I will make thee know in the last end of the indignation for at the time appointed shall be the end Daniel cap. 8. And thus not only providing for that aforesaid admired Guest but adored him almost how it afterward came to pass like that least of all seeds how it sprang up as follows Here following the Prophets their order in these circumstances Time Persons and Place observed Shewing In the aforesaid Year 1625. the first of his Reign the first of his Name in the Moneth of July so called after the first Roman Emperor in Berks the first of Shires my self whose Father the prime Peer or first Baron being at my House in Englesfield then heard early in the Morning a Voice from Heaven speaking as through a Trumpet these words There is Nineteen years and an half to the Judgement day and be you as the meek Virgin VVhen occasioned through the plague that heavy hand like the VVise mens coming from the East the Term came down to Reading our next Market town and that first Parliament following it posting down to Oxford not far off either And somtime as in Augustus days so in this of great Britains second Monarch taxed likewise with no ordinary taxes levied when this morning Star this second Babe born ruling the Nations with an iron Rod no light Iudgements foreshewing at hand which words in a Manuscript annex'd to an Interpretation of the Prophet Daniels Visions A few days finished afore was then immediately for to be published carried to Oxfords Parliament that ancient'st of Universities this golden Number heard extending to the Year 1644. January VVhich Book perfected about the first of August was with mine own hand delivered and presented to Abbots Archbishop where the Babe signed in the presence of no few witnesses with this token That the great Plague should presently cease that Curse so furiously pourd out on the desolate City where grasse grew in her chief streets should be inhabited At which time the weekly Bill amounted to Five thousand but because the next week it increased Six hundred this Token of such deliverance was utterly cast out of remembrance Howbeit before the end of August scarce Five hundred of the Plague deceased in such an instant vanished which somtime was grown up to that height as the Age of the VVorld Five thousand fix