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A46355	The strange and wonderfull visions and predictions of William Juniper of Gosfield in Essex relating to the troubles of England, as they were by him delivered to Dr. John Gauden then at Bocking, and now Lord Bishop of Exon.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing J1191; ESTC R10908	8,698	20

or impression on his mind which he related to me 5. My thoughts I was in such a Church attending upon those holy Duties which I there expected as indeed he was a very diligent and devout attendant upon those services both on the Lords day and other occasions while I was looking when Prayers should begin and the Minister come I saw of those which were gathered together no very great Congregation some prating and talking some playing and toying others rude and loud I was in the Chancel and being much offended at this rudeness in the House of God I lift up my self on a Seat to see that there were no men of worship that was his word in the Church when I saw three or four who seemed Gentlemen of some fashion I took the boldnesse to call to them Gentlemen you seem men of worship it is a shame to have this rudenesse and profannesse in the House of God pray be pleased to command them to leave They looked carelesly on me as not regarding what I said nor concerned to keep better order I attended till the Minister came hoping then there would be silence and sobernesse After I had long looked me thoughts a Minister came as through an obscure and narrow passage of the wall into a very little Pulpit when he there appeared there was no regard had but the former noise and rudenesse continued which gave me so great an offence that again I called aloud as before for regard to be had to the House worship of God But in vain The Minister could not be heard nor at last could I see him a thick mist of darknesse as smoke coming between him and the people which hid the Father from the eye of the Congregation this was to my great grief Afterwards walking softly into the Church-yard as weary of this fruitlesse attendance me thoughts I saw a kind of grasse which is called penny grasse all withered in the ground where it had flourished before in great plenty This Prediction he lived to see fullfilled in those persecutions which were severely carried on by potent factions against all the constitutions of the Church of England the insolencies daily used in Churches and in the Mechanick Usurpation of the Pulpit and in the contempt generally brought on all decent and orderly Religion by those whose designes were to be advanced only by Schisme Faction Falsity and Confusion 6. To all these he added at that time which was Five or Six years at least before the Kings happy restoration this last Vision or Dream which he thus told me Me thought said he I was in such a large Field and looking about me I saw from the East a very goodly Lion coming at a stately pace on the West I saw all sorts of Beasts coming towards him with all reverent and lowly behaviour crouching and fawning The Lion advanced till he came into the midst of the Field and the highest place of it there he sate down on his hinder part with such Majesty as seemed to keep all the Beasts in aw they came in very lowly manner toward him prostrating themselves and at last they lay on the ground quietly round about him but at a good distance The Lion using no revenge upon any of them sate composed in great state and quiet I said Goodman Juniper this seems to import the Kings peaceable and happy Return again to his Kingdoms and that we may live to see all people subject to him He replyed Sir I nothing doubt of that God will certainly Restore his Majesty and subdue all his enemies though I may not live to see it yet your Worship may Thus he Then professing by many words his sincere and unfeined truth in relating these things as they were evidently at several times and years represented to him and so vehemently impressed on his mind that he still remembred the circumstances of persons time and place this house that field and this tree which seemed to attend his Dream He assured me that he did not delight to tell these things as having any boast in them nor did he usually doe it but sparingly to some sober friends as occasion offer'd and they desired But he had seen the verifying of some things and this made him the lesse doubt that the others would be fulfilled in God's due time which he heartily prayed That so the King and Church or Religion and Laws Peace and Piety might be again restored to England § After this Discourse we parted and I never spake more with him for he died within one year or thereabouts I having this immediate relation from him and finding him as of a very sober and settled mind so very constant exact and conscientious in what he said or did that he was a plain man of no great fancy reach or invention of no vapour flash or ostentation but pious honest and prudent I presently after his departure from me set down in writing as is formerly touched the sum and main of what he told me and which I have now to my best remembrance imparted to the world not under the Authentick Authority of any Spirit of Prophecy but onely as offering these things to sober and wise men who can better judge of proportions between the Predictions and their accomplishments neither of which are to be so lightly considered as not to acknowledge something strange in such a series or succession of appearances so distinctly represented in such very apt Figures or ingenious Emblems and these followed with such sutable Events nor was either the humour of the man to be suspected being so plain Hearted and Religious nor yet his condition to be despised being a very good Christian living comfortably by his calling as one that fear'd God with all his heart a man of a strickt and holy Life without any tincture of Faction or Schisme a Lover of Truth Holinesse Order and Peace I confesse I so much valued his words after I had thus personally confirred with him that I have oft told them to others long before the dawning of his Majesties returne so I did believe and do that there might be something of a Diviner stroke or Beame sometime upon the good mans devout soul whose heart and waies were so upright before God and so inoffensive before men § 'T is true I have heard and read as in Neptredane and others many things relating to the former Tragedies of our times as portends presages or Predictions and some of them from persons of good credit which forbids me to despise them wholy though I do not much dote upon them § I know all Histories antient and late Divine and Humane Ecclesiasticall and Civill are full of such like series of Divinations and Dreams Previsions and Predictions as in those which Sir Henry Wotton 's Father had with many others to which the private and publick events have oft corresponded from what genius or temper of spirit of body or mind they arise whether from a presaging power native

THE STRANGE and WONDERFULL VISIONS AND PREDICTIONS OF WILLIAM JUNIPER Of Gosfield in Essex Relating to the Troubles of ENGLAND As they were by him delivered to Dr. JOHN GAUDEN then at BOCKING AND NOW LORD BISHOP OF EXON LONDON Printed for J. Davies and are to be sold ●y Simon Miller at the Star in St. Pauls Church-yard 1662. The strange Dreames and Predictions of William Juniper of Gosfield in Essex relating to the after Troubles of England as he related them to Dr. Gauden at Bocking ALthough I am farre from that vulgar Credulity or prophetick Itch to which the Learned Earle of Northampton and Sir Francis Bacon Lord Viscount Verulam with others observe the English humour is very subject but have rather a regardlesse diffidence of those Fancifull toyes as things commonly rising either from the distempered fancies or popular artifices of some people who love to make themselves appear somebody by amusing others and also having no great reputation at stake do easily put the veracity of their fore-tellings upon the contingency and hazard of such future events in which they know there can be no great variety or odds all things by an even-lay falling out either contrary to or consonant with that tenour which they venture to fore-tell and wherein they can forfeit little of their credit though they fail especially if they have the old art of Oracles to wrap up the misteries of their conceptions in such Generalities Obscurities and Ambiguitie of words which like pleited Pictures shall have severall aspects or representations according to the several stations of spectators § Yet having had opportunity more exactly to know the person and to receive an immediate account of himselfe who died Three or Four years b●fore the happy event verifyed some of his late predictions I think it not amisse by way of diversion to give even the graver and more serious world upon the occasion of my publishing those papers written in the darknesse and horrour of those times some account of what I know in those particulars and with which I was beforehand acquainted in the worst of Times and Things not that I then much valued them but yet I did not wholy disregard them but having made diligent enquiry of them I then laid them up in my Memory and for fear of mistake I presently wrote them down in my Memorialls soon after I had received a punctual information of them from his own Mouth § There are two things which give some repute to that that goes under the notion of Prophecy or Prediction First The credit of the Person foretelling Secondly The accomplishment of what was foretold The Validity of both these I shall with all Fidelity and Impartiality present to the Readers having no designe herein but to let them see in a true Glasse what my selfe have not a little wondered at since I have lived by the Mercy of God to see those things accomplished which were then so improbable when I first heard them England being then buried in such a Chaos of Confusion and oppressed with such a Tyrannous and vigilant power as required a great faith to expect any blessed Reformation of Church and Kingdome which was not to be relieved indeed by any ordinary power and humane counsel but only by divine Wisdome and Omnipotent Mercy § For the credit of the person William Juniper ●● Gosfield I knew him many years while I liv'd at Bocking he dwelling at Gosfield a mile from me and oft working in his Trade as a Bricklayer at Squire Wentworths House the Lord of Bocking my next Neighbour who would sometimes tell me merrily that Goodman Juniper had strange Fancies Dreams and Visions but withall that he was a very honest man I took little notice of the Man or his Fancies supposing him to be but a weak and crazy minded Man whose simplicity and Honesty were the best Apology for all he said possibly without fraud or affectation but mixt with some Fatuity After some years now full of trouble and terror when the new Modelled Army had shewed the King the two Houses their own Associates and all the world what Souldiers and Saints what Preachers and Princes they would be by levelling all things in Church and State to a Democracy Stratocracy and Anarchy about the year as I remember 1649. in the spring time Juniper comes one morning betimes to my House very importune to speak with me being told by my servants that I was not yet risen he desired he might have accesse to my Chamber which I permitted him looking upon him as a very harmelesse poor man when he was come to my Chamber dore he told me after the usual civility of a good morrow that he was that night commanded to come to me and to signifie to me what I should Preach Holinesse to the Lord Holinesse to the Lord Holinesse to the Lord which he repeated three times with an Emphasis so took his leave hastning though a wet morning to go to Four or Five other neighbour Ministers and sound the same Alarme to them This sudden and odd accesse of Juniper confirmed me in the thoughts that he was a little crazy full of Fancies and more to be pitied than regarded Afterwards as our English Affairs grew perplexed deplored and desperate my Neighbour Mr. Wentworth would now and then intimate to me what strange confidences Juniper had of a Revolution and Restoration of the Church and Kingdom How he had foreseen and foretold many Calamities which were come to passe c. Yet nothing could so weigh with me as to give Juniper any occasion to think that I had the least consideration or confidence of his Dreames Visions and Predictions Yet at last hearing from divers hands many strange expressions of his referring to the publique I sent for him one day as desirous alone and at leasure to speak with him and to see whether the man had such defects or darknings of reason as might wholy impute his Fancies to a crazy brain or melancholly dotage or whether there were any thing extraordinary and remarkable in him § He very Officiously came in a faire Summers morning to my house and walking with him alone in the very pleasant walks of my Garden I told him that I had heard many strange things relating to our times which were Fathered on him I seriously conjured him as in Gods sight to tell me the truth of things I told him he could not be ignorant how great a sinne a lye was especially when being forged in a mans own heart and imagination he should impute it to God as a Revelation Vision or prediction § The good man now above Sixty years old of a very comely and honest aspect with great plainnesse of Speech gave me thanks for my favour to him that I would vouchsafe to speak with him and to admonish him of that duty in truth-speaking which he owed to God to his own Soul and to all Men professed to me he would not speak any thing