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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52521	The true prophecies or prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, physician to Henry II, Francis II, and Charles IX, kings of France and one of the best astronomers that ever were a work full of curiosity and learning / translated and commented by Theophilvs de Garencieres ...; Prophéties. English & French	Nostradamus, 1503-1566.; Garencières, Theophilus, 1610-1680.	1685 (1685)	Wing N1400; ESTC R230636	379,688	560

was found and carried Prisoner to the Duke of Savoy who received him very honorably according to his valour and deserts Observe that the word Saignes here signifieth in old Proven al a Marish XX. French Tours Orleans Blois Anger 's Renes Nantes Cités vexée par soudain changement Par Langues estranges seront tendues Tentes Fleuves Darts Rennes Terre Mer tremblement English Tours Orleans Blois Anger 's Renes and Nantes Cities vexed by a sudden change By strange Languages Tents shall be set up Rivers Darts Rennes Land and Sea shall quake ANNOT. All the Cities mentioned in the first Verseare seated by the River of Loire and are threatned here of a sudden change and that some strangers shall set up their Tents against them and chiefly at Rennes there shall be an Earth-quake felt both by Sea and Land XXI French Profonde argile blanche nourrit rocher Qui d'un abysme istra l'acticineuse En vain troublez ne l'oseront toucher Ignorant estre au fond terre argileuse English A deep white clay feedeth a Rock Which clay shall break out of the deep like milk In vain people shall be troubled not daring to touch it Being ignorant that in the bottom there is a milky clay ANNOT. It is a Rock in the middle of the Sea whose Roots are fed by a white clay which is at the foot of this Rock in the bottom of the Sea and therefore called deep This clay being softned and dissolved by the Sea-water shall appear upon the superficies of it like milk about the Rock Those that shall see this wonder being ignorant that in the bottom there is a milky clay shall in vain be troubled at it and shall not dare to touch it XXII French Ce qui vivra n'aura aucun sens Viendra le Fer a mort son artifice Autun Chalons Langres les deux Sens La Guerre la Glasse fera grand malefice English That which shall live and shall have no sence The Lion shall destroy the art of it Autun Chalons Langres and both Sens The War and the Ice shall do great harm ANNOT. This is a great Riddle which was never found out till now and had I not been born in the Countrey where the History did happen it might have been unknown to this day and buried in oblivion In the year of the Lord 1613. which was that of my Birth There was in the Town of Sens a Taylors Wife named Columba Chatry who presently after her marriage conceived and for the space of 28. years persuaded her self to be with Child had all the signs of it in the beginning of her impregnation and having The Hist●●● of a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 o● p●trified child gone her compleat time she begun to feel the pains of a woman in Labour with great gripings in the Guts The Urine was suppressed for a while but at last it broke out with a strong current This quantity of water not coming so much out of the Bladder as was supposed as from the womb by the breaking of the Membrane called Amnion seeing that with those serous excrements she avoided some conjealed blood After that her breast begun to fall and the Child had little or no motion her pains being less than they were which caused no small admiration to the Midwifes who expected a safe deliverance For the space of three years after this woman kept her Bed and was brought to Deaths door complaining of gripings and a hard swelling which she desired all the Physitians and Chyrurgeons to feel having lost all appetite but that little which she recovered by the use of sharp things as Verjuice Lemmons c. she was wont to say to her Neighbours that she bare a Child that should be the cause of her death After she was dead her Husband got two experienced Chyrurgeons to open her body who having opened the belly and taken away the Peritonaeum saw the Womb of several colours as the flesh that is about the head and neck of a Turky-cock but as it were of a Horny substance They begun to make an incision in it with a Rasour but finding it resisted the edge they begun to use their Incision knives with all their strength at last one of them by chance hit the Scull and after that some Ribs and then the Shoulder bone by which knowing that there was bones contained in that lump with greater strength they made a deeper Incision and having parted the edges of the womb saw in the bottom of the womb a Child wrapped in the membrane called Allantoides at which the Chyrugeons wondering sent for the Physitians to have their opinion in a thing that is almost beyond belief in the mean time people flocking thither from all parts and troubling the Chyrurgeons in their operation they thought good to take away with their Instruments all that Lump as a Tree from its Roots and to carry it home that they might with more time and leasure examine the whole Anatomy of it In that hasty pulling out of the Child they had no time to observe what Chorion it had what umbilical Vessels and what connexion there was of the Allantoides with the Womb and with the Child chiefly about the right hip the Buttocks and the Back-bone being all grown solid together The scituation of the Child was almost Spherical the face leaning upon the breast and the Nostri●s upon the Knees the bones of the Head were but thin but very hard and shining like Horn the skin of the Head was hairy in many places the head did hang so much upon the left arm that the Ear and part of the skull had given way to the Shoulder-bone the Elbow was bent towards the Shoulder stretching only his hand which was so close shut and the fingers sticking so fast to the Palm of it that although they did appear distinct one from another never theless it was all but one and the same stone the right arm did strerch its hand towards the Navel which unadvisedly was broken by the wrist and left in the Mothers Belly the left Thigh Knee and Leg were on the top of the right ones with which they were so entangled that the left heel and the sole of the foot were planted upon the right foot who seemed to have given place to them and were almost inseparably joyned for all such hardness of the matter the body was not less than that of other Children of the same age but kept a perfect fulness and proportion all the internal parts as the Brains the Heart the Liver had their natural shape and were not altogether so hard as the external parts so that to this very day this little body defieth all kind of corruption This Child was kept in my time by one Mr. Michel a Chirurgion of Sens who kindly shewed it to all the strangers that came far and near to see it The Fame of it was so great that Doctor Mayerne coming from Switzerland to

the party of Mammer high Priest They shall subdue the borders of Danubius They shall expel crosses by Sword topse-turvy Slaves Gold Jewels more than 100000. Rubles ANNOT. Some parties of the Popes side shall subdue those bordering upon Danubius and drive away the Priests turn all things topse-turvy make slaves and take a booty above the value of 100000. Rubles A Ruble is a piece of Gold of the great Mogul worth two or three pound sterling L. French Dedans le puis seront trouvez les os Se l'inceste commis par la Marastre L'estat changé en fera bruit des os Et aura Mars ascendant pour son astre English In the Well shall be found the bones Incest shall be committed by the Stepmother The casa being altered there shall be great stir about the bones And she shall have Mars for her ascending Planet ANNOT. It is the strange wickedness of a woman that shall incestuously be got with Child by her Son in Law and when she is delivered shall kill her Child and throw him into a VVell a while after the water beginning to corrupt a search shall be made of the cause and then the Childs Bones shall be found which shall cause a great stir and for to know this wicked woman he saith that the Planet of Mars shall be the ascendant in her Horoscope LI. French Peuple assemble voir nouveau spectacle Princes Roys par plusieurs assistans Piliers faillir murs mais comme miracle Le Roy sauve trente des instans English People assembled to see a new show Princes and Kings with many assistants Pillars shall fail walls also but as a miracle The King saved and thirty of the standers by ANNOT. The words of this prediction are plain and easie and signifie no more than what often happeneth and may happen yet viz. that where a concourse of people shall be to to see a new show the Pillars and walls of the Building shall fall and people perish by the ruine as if it were by a Miracle the King and thirty of the spectators shall be preserved LII French En lieu du grand qui sera condamné De prison hors son amy en sa place L'espoir Troyen en six mois joinct mort né Le Sol a l' Vurne seront prins fleuves en glace English Instead of the great one that shall be condemned And put out of Prison his friend being in his place The Trojan hope in six months joyn still born The Sun in Aquarius then Rivers shall be frozen ANNOT. By the Trojan hope is meant a King of France who after he hath been marryed a Months shall have a Child still born LIII French Le grand Prelat Celtique a Roy suspect De nuict par cours sortira hors du Regne Par Duc fertile a son grand Roy Bretagne Bisance a Cypres Tunis insuspect English The great Celtique Prelate suspected by his King Shall in hast by night go out of the Kingdom By the means of a Duke the fruitful Britanie Bisance by Cyprus and Tunis shall be unsuspected ANNOT. The great Celtique Prelate was the Cardinal of Lorrain Brother to the Duke of Guizse who being suspected by the King went away by night to Rome By fruitfull Brittain is understood the province of that name in France which by the means of the Duke of Mercure her Governour shall be unsuspected by the King LIV. French Au point du jours au second chant du Coq Ceux de Tunes de Fez de Bugie Par les Arabes captif le Roy Maroq L'an mil six cens sept de Liturgie English At the break of day at the second crowing of the Cock Those of Tunis and Fez and Bugia By means of the Arabians shall take Prisoner the King of Morocco In the year 1607. by Liturgie ANNOT. By Liturgie I suppose he meaneth under pretext of Religion The rest is easie to be understood LV French Au Chelme Duc en arrachant l'esponce Voile Arabesque voir subit descouverte Tripolis Chio ceux de Trapesonce Duc prins Marnegro la Cité deserte English The Chelme Duke in pulling a spunge Shall see Arabian Sails suddenly discovered Tripolis Chios and those of Trapesan The Duke shall be taken Marnegro and the City shall be desert ANNOT. Chelme is a German word that signifies a Rogue By Marnegro is meant the Black Sea or Nigropont By pulling a Spunge I suppose the great quantity of Spunges that stick to the Rocks in that Sea Tripolis Chios and Trapezon are places in the Turkish Dominions LVI French La crainte Armée de l'ennemy Narbon Effroyera si fort les Hesperiques Parpignan vuide par l'aveugle d' Arbon Lors Barcelon par Mer donra les piques English The feared Army of the enemy Narbon Shall so much terrifie the Spaniards That Parpignan shall be left empty by the blind d'Arbon Then Barcelon by Sea shall give the Chase ANNOT. A great Army gathered about Narbon shall so much terrifie the Spaniards that Parpignan a Town of theirs shall be desolate and left empty by the Governour here called the blind d'Arbon then Barcelon which is a Sea-Town in Catalonto belonging to the Spaniards shall come to its succours and chase the enemy by Sea LVII French Celuy qu'estoit bien avant dans le Regne Ayant Chef rouge proche a la Hierarchie Aspre cruel se fera tant craindre Succedera a sacrée Monarchie English He that was a great way in the Kingdom Having a red head and near the Hierarchy Harsh and cruel shall make himself so dreadful That he shall succeed to the Sacred Monarchy ANNOT. This is a person of great quality and near of blood to a King who being a Cardinal cruel and dreadful shall be Elected Pope I suppose Clement the VII LVIII French Entre les deux Monarques esloignez Lors que le Sol par Selin clair perdue Simulté grande entre deux indignez Qu'aux Isles Sienne la liberté renduë English Between the two Monarchs that live far one from the other When the Sun shall be Ecclipsed by Selene Great enmity shall be between them two So that liberty shall be restored to the Isles and Sienne ANNOT. Here is nothing difficult but the word Selene which is the Moon from the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The meaning is that at such a time when the Sun is Ecclipsed by the Moon Sienn● and the Islands about it shall be at liberty LIX French Dame en fureur par rage d'adultere Viendra a son Prince conjurer non dire Mais bref cogneu sera le vitupere Que seront mis dixsept a Martyre English A Lady in fury by rage of an Adultery Shall come to her Prince and conjure him to say nothing But shortly shall the shameful thing be known So that seventeen shall be put to death ANNOT. The sense of this Stanza and the words are plain LX. French Le Prince hors

the change of his Kingdom the chief men of the Church shall be put back from the love of God and many of them shall apostatise from the true faith and from the true Sects the middlemost of which by her worshippers be a little put into ruine the first wholly in all Europe and most part of Africa undone by the third by the means of the poor in Spirit who by madness elevated shall through libidinous luxury commit adultery The people will rise and maintain it and shall drive away those that did adhere to the Legislators and shall seem by the Kingdoms spoiled by the Eastern men that God the Creator hath loosed Satan from his Infernal Prison to cause to be born the great Dog and Doham who shall make so great and abominable a fraction in the Churches that the Red nor the White without Eyes and without Hands shall not judge of it and their power shall be taken a way from them Then shall be a greater persecution against the Church than ever was and in the mean time shall be so great a Plague that two parts of three in the world shall fail insomuch that no body shall be able to know the true owners of fields and houses and there shall happen a total desolation unto the Clergy and the Martial men shall usurpe what shall come back from the City of the Sun and from Molita and the Staechades Islands and the great Chain of that Port shall be open which taketh its denomination from a Sea Oxe and a new incursion shall be made through the Sea Coasts willing to deliver the Castulan Leap from the first Mahometan taking and the assaulting shall not altogether be in vain and that place where the habitation of Abraham was shall be assaulted by those who shall have a respect for the Jovials And that City of Achem shall be encompassed and assaulted on all sides by a great power of Armed men their Sea Forces shall be weakened by the Western men and to that Kingdom shall happen great desolation and the great Cities shall be depopulated and those that shall come in shall be comprehended within the vengeance of the wrath of God and the Sepulchre held in so great veneration shall remain a great while open to the universal Aspect of the Heavens Sun and Moon and the sacred place shall be converted into a Stable for small and great Cattle and put to prophane uses O what a calamitous affliction shall be then for women with Child and chiefly by the principal Easterly head being for the most part moved by the Northern and Westerly men vanquished and put to death beaten and all the rest put to flight and the Children he had by many women put in Prison then shall be fulfilled the Prophecy of the Kingly Prophet Ut andiret gemitus compeditorum ut solveret filios interemptorum what great oppression shall be made then upon the Princes and Governours of Kingdoms and especially of those that shall live Eastward and near the Sea and their Languages intermixed very sociably The Language of the Arabians and Latines by the African communication and all the Eastern Kings shall be driven away beaten and brought to nothing not altogether by the means of the strength of the Kings of the North and by the drawing near of our age by the means of three secretly united seeking for death by ambushes one against another And the renewing of the Triumvirate shall last seven years while the fame of such a sect shall be spread all the world over and the Sacrifice of the Holy and immaculate Host shall be upheld And then shall the Lords be two in number victorious in the North against the Eastern ones and there shall be such a great noise and Warlike tumult that all the East shall quake for fear of those two Brothers not Northern Brothers And because Sir by this discourse I put all things confusedly in these predictions as well concerning the event of them as for the account of the time which followeth which is not at all or very little conformable to that I have done before as well by Astronomical way as other of the sacred Scriptures which cannot erre I could have set down to every quatrain the time in which they shall happen but it would not please every body much less the interpretation of them till Sir your Majesty hath granted me full power so to do that my Calumniators may have nothing to say against me Nevertheless reckoning the years since the Creation of the World to the Birth of Noah have passed 1506. years and from the Birth of Noah to the perfect building of the Ark near the universal Flood have passed 600. years whither solary or lunary or mixed for my part according to the Scriptures I hold that they were solary And at the end of those 600. years Noah entered into the Ark to save himself from the Flood which Flood was universal upon the Earth and lasted a year and two months and from the end of the Flood to the birth of Abraham did pass the number of 295. years and from the birth of Abraham to that of Isaac did pass 100. years and from Isaac to Jacob 60. years and from the time that he went into Aegypt till he came out of it did pass 130. years and from the time that Jacob went into Aegypt till his posterity came out of it did pass 430. years and from the coming out of Aegypt to the building of Salomon's Temple in the fourth year of his Reign did pass 480. years and from the building of the Temple till Jesus Christ according to the supputation of the Chronographers did pass 490. years and so by this supputation which I have gathered out of the Holy Scriptures the whole cometh to about 4173. years eight Months more or less But since the time of I. C. hitherto I leave it because of the diversity of Opinions And having calculated these present Prophecies according to the order of the Chain which containeth the revolution and all by Astronomical Doctrine and according to my natural instinct and after some time and in it comprehending since the time that Saturn shall turn to come in on the 7 of the Month of April till the 25 of August Jupiter from the 14 of June to the 7 of October Mars from the 27 of April till 22 of June Venus from the 9 of April to the 22 of May Mercury from the 3 of February till the 24 of the same afterwards from the 1 of June till the 24 of the same and from the 25 of September till the 16 of October Saturn in Capricorn Jupiter in Aquarius Mars in Scorpio Venus in Pisces Mercury within a Month in Capricorn Aquarius in Pisces Luna in Aquarius the Dragons head in Libra the Tail opposite to her sign according to a Conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury with a quadrin Aspect of Mars to Mercury and the head of the Dragon shall be with a