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THE Lord Merlins Prophecy CONCERNING THE KING OF SCOTS: FORETELLING The &s;trange and wonderfull things that &s;hall befall him in ENGLAND.</P>
<P><HI>AS ALSO,</HI> The time and manner of a di&s;mal and fatall Battel; the event and &s;ucce&s;s thereof: a great Blowe to be given, and the Northern Chicken in|forced to flie to forraign Countries for aid &amp; &s;uccour.</P>
<P>ALSO, King JAMES His Dream, and Queen ANN'S <HI>Prophecy</HI> touching the <HI>King,</HI> and the redu&s;ing of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> from Monarchy.</P>
<P><HI>WITH</HI> The Lady SYBILLA'S Prophecy, touching the de|&s;troying of the Nobility, and what &s;hall afterwards befall this Nation in Government and Di&s;cipline.</P>
<P>LIKEVVISE, The Prophecy of PAUL GREBNER (a German) Concerning <HI>Charles</HI> Son of <HI>Charles</HI> the Emp: foretelling his greatne&s;s and victorious Conque&s;ts.</P>
<P><HI>Pre&s;ented to Queen</HI> Elizabeth Anno 1582. <HI>and recorded in the Library of</HI> Trinity Colledge <HI>in</HI> Cambridge, <HI>by Dr.</HI> Nevill, <HI>Clerk of her Ma|je&s;ties Clo&s;et.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON, <HI>Printed by</HI> J. C. <HI>for</HI> G. Horton, 1651.</P>
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<HEAD>A Prophe&s;ie of the King of Scots, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>VVHen the Lyon of Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e is dead, then &s;hall ri&s;e a White King in Britain, fir&s;t flying, and after riding, after ligging down, and in this lig|ging down he &s;hal be lymed, after that he &s;hal be led. <HI>This is verified by K.</HI> James, <HI>who was by the Prophet &s;tyled,</HI> The Lyon of Righteou&s;ne&s;s; <HI>for many affirm, that he had the picture of a Lyon on his bre&s;t, or &s;ide: and indeed he was the mo&s;t acute&s;t Prince of &s;pirit that ever we read of, both in judgment either in things divine or humane, but the lea&s;t ad|dicted unto Martial Di&s;cipline. He was admoni&s;hed of his Death by a Dream; for his Maje&s;ty dreamed, that his Tutor</HI> Bachanan <HI>appeared unto him in his &s;leep, and gave him the&s;e two ver&s;es: for the rarity thereof I thought good to repeat them.</HI>
<Q><L>Sexte verere Deum, tibi vitae terminus in&s;tat,</L>
<L>Cum tua candenti flagrat Carbunculus igne.</L></Q>
<HI>In Engli&s;h thus:</HI>
<Q>Thou <HI>Iames</HI> the &s;ixt of that name King of <HI>Scots,</HI> fear God, the term of thy life is neer at hand, when thy Carbuncle &s;tone burns in the hot fire.</Q></P>
<P><HI>The next morning the King related his Dream to divers of the Lords of his privie Coun&s;el, as al&s;o the preceding ver&s;es, which did exceeding a&s;toni&s;h them; and &s;uddenly after, as the King was &s;itting by the fire &s;ide, the great</HI> Carbuncle &s;tone <HI>that he u&s;ually had fixed to his hat, fell out into the fire, &amp; his Maje&s;ty immediatly fell &s;ick, and died. After King</HI> James <HI>was dead,</HI> Charles Stuart <HI>(the white King) was then proclaimed King of</HI> Great Brit|tain; <HI>&s;o called, by rea&s;on of his apparelling him&s;elf the day of his Coronation in a</HI> White Garment, <HI>repre&s;enting his innocency, as the Bi&s;hop of</HI> Canterbury
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<HI>was plea&s;ed to demon&s;trate; who&s;e office was to pre&s;ent the</HI> Crown: <HI>but the King impatiently in great ha&s;te, took up the</HI> Crown, <HI>and placed it upon his head with his own hands, which moved the</HI> Spani&s;h Emba&s;&s;ador, <HI>who was then pre&s;ent, to &s;ay;</HI> The Kings putting the Crown upon his head &s;o ra&s;hly with his own hands, was <HI>an ill Omen.</HI></P>
<P>The preceding Prophecie was written by <HI>Ambro&s;e Merlin</HI> (the <HI>Scot)</HI> 900 years &s;ince; But by rea&s;on there is another ancient Copy extant, of the Lady <HI>Po&s;tons</HI> more large and emphaticall, concerning the White King, I &s;hall here render it verbatim, as followeth:</P>
<P>The Lyon of Righteou&s;ne&s;s being dead, there &s;hall ari&s;e in <HI>Britain</HI> a <HI>White King;</HI> fir&s;t flying, then riding; then de&s;cending; and in his de|&s;cent he &s;hall be in&s;nared. Then men will point with their fingers, and &s;ay, <HI>Where is this white and noble King?</HI> At that time there will be chat|tering of men, even in the &s;ame nature as we do with &s;heep and Oxen, &amp; it will be publikely by &s;ome reported, <HI>There is a King:</HI> others &s;hall &s;ay, <HI>There is no King.</HI> After the&s;e things he &s;hall lift up his head as a King, or &s;hall manife&s;t him&s;elf to be King; it will be a time of Gleads or Kytes, and &s;even years &s;hall this War continue within the Kingdom. After that the young one of the Eagle, or his Chicken, &s;hall come upon woodden hor&s;es, within a year and a half into <HI>Brittain,</HI> and then there &s;hall be war, at what time little &s;hall be the Charity of mo&s;t men, for what a man is Ma&s;ter of overnight, &s;hall be taken from him in the morning. After that the <HI>White King</HI> &s;hall go towards the We&s;t to an ancient place, near to a running water. Then his enemies &s;hall make ha&s;t to meet him, and their Army &s;hall be formed in &s;hape of a Buckler; the King &s;hall be &s;traight|ned before and behind, and on every &s;ide; and then the white, King &s;hall &s;lide into an Hall &amp;c. What remains unfullfilled is in the&s;e words:</P>
<P>After that the <HI>Chicken</HI> of the <HI>Eagle</HI> &s;hall build in the highe&s;t rock of all <HI>Britain:</HI> nay, he &s;hall not be &s;lain young: nor &s;hall he come to old age. Note, that the Prophet mentions not the Chicken of the Eagle (who is the pre&s;ent K. of <HI>Scots)</HI> with any Kingly Title: nor doth he &s;ay, He &s;hall acquire his Fathers inheritance, or in plain terms, obtain the Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> or be crowned King thereof: he onely &s;aith, <HI>He &s;hall build his ne&s;t in the chiefe&s;t Rock of all</HI> Britain: Which imports no more, but that like a flying Fowl, or as a man cha&s;ed from one place to another, &s;o &s;hall his Worldly condition be in this World.</P>
<P>Another excellent Prophecie I cannot omit, penned by <HI>Sybilla</HI> the Prophete&s;s (a <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Lady) touching the Reign of the Kings of <HI>Eng|land</HI> and <HI>Scotland;</HI> and if you will know the time of the extirpation of
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Monarchy&punc; be plea&s;ed to take a thou&s;and in Calculation <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="math"></NOTE></P>
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<L>And the longe&s;t of the Lyon</L>
<L>Four Cre&s;cents under one Crown</L>
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<L><HI>With</HI> St. Andrews <HI>Cro&s;s thrice</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then three &s;core and thrice three</HI></L>
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<L><HI>In that year there &s;hall a King,</HI></L>
<L><HI>A Duke and no crowned King,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Becau&s;e the Prince &s;hall be young,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And tender of years.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Much &s;orrow and &s;trife</HI></L>
<L><HI>Shall be in</HI> Lowthian <HI>and</HI> Fife.</L>
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<P>The&s;e are all the <HI>Scotti&s;h Prophecies,</HI> which ever I could attain &s;ight of; and yet none of the&s;e make any mention of a <HI>fifth Monarchy,</HI> or the <HI>Lyon of the North,</HI> or do any other wayes mention that &s;o great a King as <HI>Charles</HI> the Great, nay greater then he, &s;hall be born of the Scotti&s;h Race, or in <HI>Scotland,</HI> or &s;hall come from <HI>Scotland.</HI> From all which, I onely conclude thus much: <HI>That the pre&s;ent</HI> Charles Stuart <HI>is not that great Lyon of the North, or he that mu&s;t conquer the Engli&s;h, or the pre&s;ent Com|mon-wealth of</HI> England.</P>
<P>To which prophetical expre&s;&s;ions, give me leave, I be&s;eech you, to add the ancient prophecie of <HI>David &V;pan,</HI> a <HI>Welch man, viz.</HI>
<Q>Karonog fab Ane yo wna diwedh ar y dro gane.</Q>
In Engli&s;h thus:
<Q><HI>The Son of</HI> Ann <HI>crown'd, ends all our prophecies.</HI></Q></P>
<P>We never had yet any King who&s;e mothers name was <HI>Ann,</HI> but King <HI>Charles</HI> his mother was <HI>Ann,</HI> &s;i&s;ter to the King of <HI>Denmark</HI> late decea&s;ed. The putting to death of the late King was prophecied of above 80 years before it was done, by <HI>No&s;tradamus,</HI> who&s;e words were the&s;e:
<Q><HI>Senat de</HI> Londres <HI>mettront a mort leur</HI> Roy.</Q>
In Engli&s;h thus:
<Q><HI>The Senate or Parliament of</HI> London <HI>&s;hall put to death their K.</HI></Q></P>
<P>There is another &s;ignificant prophecie now extant, which hath been re&s;erved in &s;everal Libraries of this Nation, even unto this day, which I &s;hall here pre&s;ent, according to the Original, as followeth:
<Q>Carolus <HI>Anglorum, ultimus</HI> Britannorum <HI>Rex.</HI></Q></P>
<P>When one, named <HI>Charles,</HI> &s;hall be King of the Engli&s;h, he &s;hall be the la&s;t King of the <HI>Brittans.</HI></P>
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Mr. <HI>Iohn Fox</HI> al&s;o foretels and &s;hewes, the cau&s;es of the <HI>Northern Re|bellion</HI> and in the year 1549. prophecied, That the time &s;hould come, when no King &s;hould reign in <HI>England,</HI> the Noblemen to be de&s;troyed, and the Nation to be ruled by four Governours, to be elected and ap|pointed by the Commons, holding a Parliament in Commotion, to begin at the South and North Seas of <HI>England.</HI> All the Kings that have reign|ed in <HI>England</HI> &s;ince <HI>Wil&punc; the Conquerour,</HI> have de&s;cended from his I&s;&s;ue; but this Prophet affirms, that in the&s;e dayes there &s;hall be an end of his Line, and that his po&s;terity &s;hall fail of enjoying the Crown of <HI>England.</HI> Again,
<Q><L>Remember M D. C. L X,</L>
<L>Vand I, then ne're a REX.</L></Q></P>
<P><HI>Calculated thus:</HI></P>
<P>In 1666, there will be no King here, or pretending to the Crown of <HI>England;</HI> For
<Q><L>Charles <HI>the white King of</HI> Brittains <HI>Diadem,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Shall mo&s;t unfortunately lo&s;e his Realm</HI></L>
<L><HI>By evill Coun&s;el; and his Kingly head</HI></L>
<L><HI>And life &s;hall part from body, not in bed.</HI></L>
<L><HI>His wife &s;hall flee unto her native Ne&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>His Bearn's both rob'd of honour, means and re&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>His &s;on, &s;ucce&s;&s;ive to the Crown, &s;hall be</HI></L>
<L><HI>Enforced unto forraign parts to flee</HI></L>
<L><HI>For ayd, his right and Crown for to regain;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Many &s;hall promi&s;e help, yet prove all vain</HI></L>
<L><HI>And fal&s;e to him; for thus it is decreed</HI></L>
<L><HI>No King, from hence, &s;hall rule on this &s;ide</HI> Tweed.</L></Q></P>
<P>An Iri&s;h man &s;peaking of King <HI>Iames</HI> and his I&s;&s;ue, he bur&s;ts out.</P>
<Q><HI>Et &s;emen regis erit mendicum in terra aliena in aeternum,</HI> viz.</Q>
<P>The Off-&s;pring of the King &s;hall be poor, and for ever after live in a &s;trange Country. So <HI>Merliu</HI> in an ancient Prophecie &s;aith, <HI>That his &s;eed &s;hall become fatherle&s;s in a &s;trange Land for evermore.</HI></P>
<P>Yet notwith&s;tanding Prophet <HI>Carion</HI> (a German Writer) affirmeth, <HI>That the Church &s;hall be re&s;tored and reformed by a</HI> Charles; <HI>and that there &s;hall ari&s;e an Emperour named</HI> Charles, <HI>who &s;hall rule imperially in Eu|rope, by whom the decayed e&s;tate of the Church &s;hall be reformed, and the ancient glory of the Empire again re&s;tored; for there &s;hall come a people without an head, and then wo &s;hall be unto Prie&s;ts: Horrible mutations of</HI>
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<HI>all Kingdome <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> then <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> hand; The bea&s;t of the We&s;t, and the Lyon of the Ea&s;t &s;hall be <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> rule over all the world.</HI> This in no wayes reflects upon <HI>Charles Stuart.</HI></P>
<P><HI>No&s;tradamus</HI> the ancient Prophet further &s;aith, <HI>That there &s;hall ari&s;e in the la&s;t times a Prince, &s;prung from the Emperour</HI> Charles, <HI>which &s;hall recover the Land of Promi&s;e, and &s;hall be Emperour of</HI> Europe.</P>
<P>And <HI>Iohannes Amatus</HI> likewi&s;e &s;aith, <HI>That in the latter dayes there &s;hall be great wars and bloud&s;hed, the fary of the wars &s;hall la&s;t a long time, whole Provinces &s;hall be left naked of Inhabitants, many Cities for&s;aken of people, the Nobility &s;laughter'd, the Gentry ruined, and great changes of Kings, Common wealths, and Rulers. The North prevaileth again&s;t the South, a learned and eloquent Prince, by little and little, &s;hall attain the Empire; and a new King &s;hall &s;urmount all the re&s;t, he &s;hall make change of Religion, when he holds thereynes of the Empire. Somewhat neere the&s;e times al&s;o &s;hall a great Eagle ari&s;e, and &s;hall have power given him of the mo&s;t High: He &s;hall carry with him by Conque&s;t three Kingdoms: He &s;hall foyl the</HI> Lillies <HI>in the Land of</HI> Virgo; <HI>the Sun it felf &s;halt mourn with the Lyon, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>By what I have delivered out of many reverend mens Prophecies, I onely evince thus much: <HI>That the late King</HI> Charles <HI>was not the</HI> Lyon of the North; <HI>or that his &s;on, it that</HI> Charles, <HI>or that</HI> Eagle <HI>which the wi&s;e men of former times prophecied of; or that he &s;hall act either &s;uch wonderful Deeds in war or peace, at the admirers of</HI> Grebners <HI>fal&s;e printed prophecy would fa&s;ten upon him; who &s;ay,</HI></P>
<P>That a certain Northern King named <HI>Charles,</HI> who &s;hall marry <HI>Mary</HI> of the Popi&s;h Religion, to his great unhappine&s;s; &s;o that his people re|jecting him, &s;hall &s;et up an Earl of a very ancient Family, who &s;hall con|tinue three years or thereabouts; he dying, they &s;hall elect in his &s;tead a Warlike Knight, who &s;hall rule a little longer; after him they &s;hall e|lect none. But in the mean while one of <HI>Charles</HI> his &s;tock &s;hal land on the Sea Coa&s;ts of his Fathers Kingdom, and with <HI>French, Swedi&s;h, Dani&s;h, Hol|landian, Burgonian,</HI> and <HI>German</HI> Forces, in a mo&s;t cruel Battel &s;hall van|qui&s;h all his Enemies, and afterward mo&s;t happily govern his Kingdom, and be greater than <HI>Charles</HI> the Great. And about the year 1663. the King of the mo&s;t ancient <HI>Britains,</HI> for the lo&s;&s;e of &s;ome Ships at Sea, &s;hall break his League and amity with the States of <HI>Holland;</HI> who fearing, &s;hall have recour&s;e unto the new King of <HI>Danes</HI> (named <HI>Chri&s;tiernus)</HI> for &s;uccour, and he by fair intreaties and large gifts &s;hall win ei he &s;ide to agreement. Nor doth he ever &s;peak of England in all that &s;amous Manu&s;cript, but as the mo&s;t warlike and potent Kingdom in <HI>Europe.</HI></P>
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Therefore all good Chri&s;tians ought to wi&s;h the new Warre were con|cluded, rather by an happy agreement and compo&s;ition, than by Sword and Musket, and the King placed on his Throne rather with the hands of his loving and rejoyceful Subjects, then with the Swords of Forraign|ers. For if the beginning of his re&s;tauration be in blood, and tumbling of Garments in blood, the accompli&s;hment of it will be with burning and fuel of fire.</P>
<P>I &s;hall not &s;pend much time in confutation of the&s;e many untruths, and abu&s;ive Predictions, referring the Reader only unto: he true Ori|ginal which I hereafter publi&s;h.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>The true Prophecy of</HI> Paul Grebner <HI>a</HI> German, <HI>pre&s;ented to Queen</HI> Elizabeth.</HEAD>
<P>A Fatal nece&s;&s;ity having torne and pull'd from the Hou&s;e of <HI>Au&s;tria</HI> the old <HI>Roman</HI> Scepter and Diadem, and after an oppre&s;&s;ion of the &s;ame <HI>Au&s;trian</HI> Hou&s;e by the incur&s;ions of <HI>French, Engli&s;h, Dani&s;h, Swe|di&s;h,</HI> making their irruptions on all &s;ides; there &s;hall ari&s;e a horrid, bloo|dy, &s;harp conte&s;t in <HI>Europe,</HI> which &s;hall cruelly &s;hake and break away part thereof, yea &s;hall expo&s;e the &s;ame being &s;trangely &s;poiled and di&s;|membred to egregious alterations. A <HI>Swedi&s;h</HI> King then reigning, &s;hall be invited to that quarrel to break in upon <HI>Pomerane, Mechlenburge,</HI> and &s;ome Provinces belonging to <HI>Denmark,</HI> being provoked by &s;ome offen|&s;ive Papers of the Romi&s;h See: whereunto if he &s;hall hearken, he &s;hall un&s;ea&s;onably and very unpro&s;perou&s;ly become an Allie to one that is mo&s;t neer and intimate to him. Wherefore I advi&s;e the <HI>Swede</HI> to leave him in the &s;ame &s;tate wherein he findes him. By which meanes He, his Family and Po&s;terity remaining contented with the bounds of their own natural Dominions &s;hall pre&s;erve intire, and keep in good order and al|legiance their own Subjects officiou&s;ly di&s;po&s;ed to peace and tranquillity. But if he &s;hall in his heart propo&s;e to pervert his Subjects by fair per&s;wa|&s;ions, God &s;hall &s;oon cut him off. And then from a <HI>Charles</HI> a great <HI>Charles</HI> &s;hall obtain the Scepter, who with great &s;ucce&s;s and pro&s;perity &s;hall reign over the Northern parts of the world; yea, the &s;ame <HI>Charles</HI> &s;hall much break the Power and Tyranny of the <HI>Spaniard,</HI> and obtain a &s;ignal Victory over his Navy and Armadoe. And after the conjunction of his Forces with the States of Chri&s;tendom He &s;hall win a difficult, cruel Battel. After this, God &s;hall remove his Popi&s;h Wife, to the great terror of the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Rome,</HI> who being incen&s;ed and &s;tirred thereby, King <HI>Charles</HI> &s;hall profe&s;s ha&s;tily again&s;t <HI>Antichri&s;t,</HI> and joyning Forces
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with the <HI>German</HI> and other Allies &s;hall become enemy to Him, and the Crown of <HI>Spain</HI> both. At that time &s;hall the <HI>Swede</HI> be very &s;uccesfull and perform admirable &s;ervice again&s;t the Enemy with Men and Ships, as well by Land as by Sea.</P>
<P>Out of the Manu&s;cript of <HI>Paul Grebner</HI> of <HI>Sneburgh</HI> remaining in the Library of <HI>Trinity Colleage</HI> in <HI>Cambridge,</HI> given there by Queen <HI>Elizabeth.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Another Prophecy taken out of a certain Library.</HEAD>
<P>AFter a certain time being pa&s;t, the tayle of the Virgin &s;hall enter the Lyon, and <HI>Scorpio</HI> &s;hall a&s;cend the back of <HI>Sagitary:</HI> the <HI>Nor|thern</HI> Kingdoms &s;hall be wa&s;ted by Reapers, the <HI>Southern</HI> Paincipalities &s;hall end in du&s;t, and the powers of the I&s;land Monarchies without ei|ther Bridle or Saddle &s;hall be harne&s;&s;ed. Cruel Warres &s;hall be &s;catter|ed by the winds, and quell'd by a revengeful Hayle; who&s;e beginnings were by a &s;taffe, their growth and continuance by Ba&s;tards. The Sunne it &s;elfe &s;hall play on the Timbrel clad with a Vermilion Coat, and the Moon with Dun buskins, &s;hall amble to the Faire. Laughe&s;t thou oh King? But tho&s;e on whom the&s;e things &s;hall come, for grief and &s;or|row &s;hall pine away. All the&s;e things &s;hall &s;carce be accompli&s;hed, when a Prince of Royal &s;tock &s;hall come forth crowned from the Northern parts, as to his own people unexpected, but de&s;ired by forraigners; who becau&s;e he &s;hall bear a rampant Lyon, &s;hall therefore be called a Lyon. He &s;hall not re&s;t, till having called a Synod, and after di&s;&s;olved it by threats, he &s;hall advance his conquering Armes again&s;t his Enemies, and by woful &s;ucce&s;s &s;hall harra&s;&s;e the territories of neighbor Princes. He &s;hall exceed <HI>Alexander</HI> the Great in vertue, and <HI>Cyrus</HI> in &s;ucce&s;s: he &s;hall pa&s;&s;e the Seas, and be &s;aluted Emperour by many Kings. A certain ancient City &s;hall he &s;ay levell with the ground. In the mean while a Powerful Prince out of the Ea&s;t &s;hall provoke him to battle, again&s;t whom the Lyon &s;hall march with all his Forces, and pitching his Camp on this &s;ide Euphrates &s;hall expect him. If the Prince &s;hall come over the River, the Lyon &s;hall be overcome; but he &s;hall pa&s;&s;e his Army o|ver the River, and give his enemy a bloody defeat, and be Ma&s;ter of all the Ea&s;t. Whil&s;t the&s;e things are in action, divers petty Kings from <HI>In|dia</HI> &s;hall break into <HI>Syria</HI> with mighty Armies, and provided for Battlle &s;hall wait for the Lyon about the Valley of <HI>Ieho&s;aphat,</HI> where they &s;hal by him be all wholly cut off. Not long after &s;hall the Wars &s;hall
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cea&s;e, after that, with eminent piety, he &s;hall have e&s;tabli&s;hed the King|dom of Fugitives.</P>
<P>Our Authour is now ingenuous, whil&s;t he confe&s;&s;eth there is nothing more extant of this <HI>Scoti&s;h Merlines</HI> but this only peece. I would know of the wi&s;e&s;t man living, how this Prophecy, (had it not &s;eemingly tended to this purpo&s;e, we had not &s;een this rarity; but if we admit it once) can it any way prejudice our pre&s;ent State, or further the pre&s;ent <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> King? for wherein is he nominated in this or <HI>Scotland</HI> it &s;elf? it rather &s;eemes a general Prophecy of the la&s;t times. Certainly, had King <HI>Iames</HI> been a Warlike Prince, many things herein might be appropria|ted unto him, but becau&s;e of his extream cowardize, its fit not him: We know he was called the Lyon of the <HI>North,</HI> and that he procured the Synod of Dort; and how he was reputed righteous, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> but it had no relation unto him, nor hath it any to the pre&s;ent Scoti&s;h King; the very words of the Prophecy are &s;o &s;ignificant, they need no refutation or fur|ther expo&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ion, they agreeing wholly with many others in the &s;am thing, <HI>viz.</HI> That a certain Prince &s;hall in the la&s;t times ari&s;e, who &s;hall oe ver-run all <HI>Europe</HI> &s;uddenly, and al&s;o de&s;troy &s;ome <HI>Ea&s;tern</HI> Princes.</P>
<P>To make an end of this Story, I &s;hall conclude with the Prophecie of <HI>Sybilla Tiburtina,</HI> long &s;ince made publique unto the world. Which Prophecie of hers followeth:
<Q>Orietur Sydus in Europe Supra Iberes admagnam Septentrionis domum, &amp;c.</Q>
In Engli&s;h thus:
<Q><HI>A</HI> Star <HI>&s;hall ari&s;e in</HI> Europe <HI>over the</HI> Iberians, <HI>towards the great hou&s;e of the</HI> North, <HI>who&s;e beams &s;hall unexpectedly enlighten the whole World.</HI></Q></P>
<P>This &s;hall be in a mo&s;t acceptable time, when as mortal men being wearied with war and arms, &s;hall unanimou&s;ly be de&s;irous to embrace peace. Certainly in tho&s;e times it will be &s;toutly controverted, who &s;hall be the be&s;t man, or unto whom the greate&s;t Dominion may befall; du|ring a vacancie of a Governour, and while&s;t there is an <HI>Interregnum</HI> or <HI>di&s;continuance</HI> of &s;ome pri&s;oners. But at length the Off-&s;pring of a mo&s;t ancient Family prevails, and will proceed in a cour&s;e of war, untill con|trary Fortune overthrow him. For even at the &s;ame time, or near unto the &s;etting of this Star, or dying of the Prince, &s;ignified by that Star, a light as ancient as the former &s;hall break out, burning with more eager flames of war, and &s;hall inlarge his Dominion unto the Coa&s;t of the <HI>An|tipodes.</HI></P>
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It hath been the onely labour of this Di&s;cour&s;e all along, to manife&s;t unto this Nation; fir&s;t, That the pre&s;ent King of Scots is not that great <HI>Charles</HI> intended in <HI>Grebner,</HI> or any other Prophecy extanr either in Manu&s;cript or in Print.</P>
<P>Secondly, we have &s;hewed from the writings of very famous men, of what Nation the Great <HI>Charles,</HI> or <HI>Lyon of the North</HI> &s;hall be or Native of.</P>
<P>Thirdly, we have examined the Prophecies both of the <HI>Scotti&s;h, Welch,</HI> and <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Prophets, and from their Writings have di&s;covered, That there are no more Kings to be expected to reign in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>We have much rea&s;on to believe their &s;ayings &s;hall prove true, having evidently beforehand known all or mo&s;t of what they have prophecied to have exactly come to pa&s;&s;e, even in our own dayes, and not before: I do neither add nor dimini&s;h unto them; I &s;paringly deliver my own conceptions, nor do I paraphra&s;e upon the <HI>Prophecies,</HI> they are &s;o plain and &s;ignificant; there is not in any of the&s;e any the lea&s;t mention of this pre&s;ent King of <HI>Scotland,</HI> nor is he called by the name of the <HI>Northern Lion,</HI> or is he de&s;igned to be the Man, who &s;hall rai&s;e a fift univer&s;al Monarchy upon the earth. The&s;e are untruths and the fanta&s;ies of leud men. I know it will be expected I &s;hould &s;ay &s;omewhat concerning this <HI>Northern Lion,</HI> who mo&s;t a&s;&s;uredly &s;hall appear unto the world, the <HI>Prodromus</HI> whereof was the Star, which appeared 1572. Many Authors or Manu&s;cripts mentioning &s;uch a Lion, &s;uch a <HI>Northern Prince,</HI> or the <HI>Eagle of the North,</HI> the wonderful <HI>Eagle,</HI> or &s;uch a Man that &s;hall in the latter times, or declining age of the world, do wonderful Acts in W<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">, equalling, if not tran&s;cending all tho&s;e we read of in the preceding Hi|&s;tories, either prophane or Divine; but they all unanimou&s;ly proclaim a &s;hort reign, and a violent death, in his younger years; and to &s;ay the truth, there is &s;carce a Prophet or Man of any Nation in <HI>Europe,</HI> who hath been indued with Prophetick &s;pirit, but he in &s;ome part of his works, or other, hath hinted at &s;uch a per&s;on, <HI>Emperor,</HI> or <HI>King;</HI> nay &s;ome have not been wanting to affirm his name, as you may &s;ee in the Chronicles of <HI>Magdeburg,</HI> te&s;tified by <HI>Carion</HI> in his third Book.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="monthly predictions">
<PB N="10" REF="7">
<HEAD>The wonderfull Year of the World.</HEAD>
<P><HI>The certain year of the&s;e Monethly Predictions is not to be revealed, but &s;uch there will be in that great year, before the wonder|ful</HI> Cata&s;trophe <HI>of this world &s;hall happen.</HI></P>
<DIV2 N="January" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>Ianuary.</HEAD>
<P>A Showr of bloud &s;hall rain continually for one houre &s;pace in one Land of <HI>Europe;</HI> that Reign or people thereof &s;hall fir&s;t come to de&s;truction.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="February" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>February.</HEAD>
<P>All Nations troubled with rumours of wars, every Region preparing Armies, and mu&s;tering men, traffique generally prohibited by Land and by Sea, every Country inforced to live of their own &s;tock and commo|dities.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="March" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>March</HEAD>
<P>The main Sea &s;hall hugely &s;well with mighty tempe&s;ts and windes, &s;o that the Sea-bankes in many places &s;hall overflow their accu&s;tomed bounds, inundations univer&s;ally or in every Country, one I&s;land &s;hall be quite overflown with the Sea, where the double Cro&s;s hath Govern|ment, the &s;ins of the Prince or Rulers thereof being &s;o extreme high a|gain&s;t the Maje&s;ty of God.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="April" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>April.</HEAD>
<P>A terrible Sea-fight, &s;uch as hath not been before, occa&s;ioning the wa|ter to look more red then the red Sea, the water all turn'd to bloud; <HI>England</HI> thou wilt have a &s;hare in this fight, God of his great goodne&s;&s;e make thee victorious; after a hard fight thou &s;halt overcome.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="May" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>May.</HEAD>
<P>War and bloud&s;hed over all the Earth, one Nation &s;hall &s;end &s;o many men to the wars, that it &s;hall for a time even be de&s;olate of men, &s;o that twelve women will be glad of one man: nay hardly procure one young men for them all.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="June" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>June.</HEAD>
<P>In the Ea&s;tern parts of the world a whole Nation &s;hall fight a great
<PB N="11" REF="7">
battle in a wrong cau&s;e, and defend an evil man; but the vengeance of God will rain down a &s;howr of fire from the throne of Heaven, and con|&s;ume that Army wholly with all their wealth and trea&s;ures, even as they lodge in their Tents, &amp;c.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="July" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>July.</HEAD>
<P>So great a drought will appear, that multitudes of people &s;hall die in many places, for mere want of water; Soldiers &s;hall not be able for heat to carry their arms; the Earth &s;hall be &s;o dry and parched with the Sun it &s;hall yield no fruit to feed Cattle.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="August" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>Augu&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>Great plagues and Mortality will cover the whole face of the Earth, and &s;o de&s;troy Mankind, that there will not be &s;ufficient Labourers to get in Harve&s;t, or the fruits of the Earth; in this Month &s;uch &s;warms of noy&s;ome Fowls, and Flies &s;hall come from the Ea&s;t, as they &s;hall devour the Corn on the ground, the Fruit on Trees, that all &s;hall be barren&punc; Men living in tho&s;e times, and in this Moneth, &s;hall have more &s;orrow and woes, and more famine and di&s;tre&s;s, then was in <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> when <HI>Titus</HI> be&s;ieged it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="September" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>September.</HEAD>
<P>The &s;ea&s;on of this month will be so unnatural, and the Earth &s;o unfit for Tillage, that all manner of Cattle will rat on the ground, which will breed &s;uch &s;tore of flies and vermine, that the earth will be empoy&s;oned, and receive no Fruit to increa&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="October" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>October.</HEAD>
<P>A general Famine and dearth of Corn will over&s;pread mo&s;t Nations of <HI>Europe,</HI> &s;o that the child &s;hall &s;terve at her mothers brea&s;t, the mother having no food to nouri&s;h her &s;elf or child.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="November" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>November.</HEAD>
<P>One appears &s;uddenly and unexpectedly a great Conqueror, the world filled with the Fame of this Man, who &s;uddenly, like <HI>Augu&s;tus,</HI> gives peace unto the whole Earth.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="December" TYPE="month">
<HEAD>December.</HEAD>
<P>All wars end, <HI>Religion</HI> truly preached univer&s;ally over the world, a ge|neral peace, no more trea&s;on or rebellion; not long after the Trumpet founds, and Chri&s;t appears.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="horoscope">
<PB N="12" REF="8">
<HEAD>Divers Predictions upon the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, July 1623.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><HI>1</HI> Divers &s;ini&s;ter events &s;hall &s;eem to con&s;pire together for the cro&s;&s;ing of a great Prince, who by oppre&s;&s;ing the common People, &s;hall in the end drive them to &s;edition. <HI>This came to pa&s;&s;e accordingly in K.</HI> Charles <HI>his Reign.</HI></P>
<P N="2"><HI>2</HI> The conjunction of <HI>Jupiter</HI> and <HI>Saturn</HI> in the Hou&s;e caele&s;tial, called that of death, doth portend that &s;ome Prince &s;hall be detained pri&s;oner, to the great di&s;advantage of his affairs of E&s;tate.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>3</HI> &V;pon the fir&s;t quarter of the Moon, which &s;hall be the <HI>27</HI> of <HI>Februa|ry,</HI> is foretold, That &s;ome King or Prince &s;hall undertake a voyage of great con&s;equence without certainty of return, which at the be&s;t &s;hall be both later then expectation, and after the induring of many mi&s;eries. <HI>King</HI> Charles <HI>his &s;ucce&s;le&s;s journey into</HI> Spain.</P>
<P N="4"><HI>4</HI> He which &s;hall &s;tand on the top of fortunes wheel, let him look warily to his feet, for fear of &s;lipping; becau&s;e &s;o great a fall is threatned him, as &s;hall a&s;toni&s;h tho&s;e who have climed up into the &s;eats of honour unworthily. <HI>Read the Annalls of 1624. 1625. and 1626.</HI></P>
<P N="5"><HI>5</HI> A Monarch that hath betru&s;ted his affairs of great con&s;equence to the direction of one, who was no way capable of &s;o weighty a charge, &s;hall be &s;en|&s;ible of the great fault he hath committed, whereof he &s;hall too late repent. <HI>King</HI> Charles <HI>relying on</HI> Canterbury <HI>and other &s;illy fellowes makes this good.</HI></P>
<P N="6"><HI>6</HI> The &s;tirrers and Incendiaries of &s;edition &s;hall make re&s;idence in the Hou&s;es of Kings and Princes.</P>
<P N="7"><HI>7</HI> War deferr'd through want of money.</P>
<P N="8"><HI>8</HI> The Land and Town <HI>Gemini&s;t</HI> &s;hall bewail the want of her <HI>Son.</HI> Lon|don <HI>here is intended.</HI></P>
<P N="9"><HI>9</HI> There &s;hall be great levying of Souldiers for the execution of &s;ome &s;tra|tagem, but all &s;hall turn to nothing; for the &s;udden departure of a great Per|&s;onage &s;hall cau&s;e much murmuring and di&s;content. <HI>It intends the private rai&s;ing of Hor&s;e in</HI> Germany, &amp;c.</P>
<P N="10"><HI>10</HI> Men di&s;gui&s;ed &s;hall de&s;ire that their outward &s;emblance may make &s;hew of that which they are not, and &s;hall be the Authours of many particular Combats in the Land <HI>Gemini&s;t.</HI> Thus much was in the old Manu&s;cript.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prophecies">
<P><PB N="13" REF="8">
<HI>Becau&s;e I would give full &s;atisfaction unto the three Nations of</HI> Eng|land, Scotland <HI>and</HI> Ireland, <HI>and beat all our Enemies with their own weapons,</HI> viz. <HI>with real Prophecies, give me leave to repeat a</HI> Scoti&s;h <HI>Prophecy.</HI></P>
<LG>
<HEAD>Pri&s;cae Scotorum Prophetiae.</HEAD>
<L N="1"><HI>1 Scotland</HI> be &s;ad now, and lament thy Child whom thou ha&s;t lo&s;t:</L>
<L>Bereft of Kings, fal&s;ly undone by thy unkindly Ho&s;t.</L>
<L N="2"><HI>2</HI> Alas, the free, bond is become, and deceit is thy fall;</L>
<L>Thy fal&s;hood to the Bruti&s;h race has brought thee into thrall.</L>
<L N="3"><HI>3</HI> The Grave of the mo&s;t Noble Prince to all is great regrate,</L>
<L>Not &s;ubject to Law, who doth leave the Kingdom and e&s;tate.</L>
<L N="4"><HI>4</HI> Oh angui&s;h great, where every kind and age doth lament,</L>
<L>Whom bitter death has tane away, &s;hall <HI>Scotland</HI> &s;ore repent.</L>
<L N="5"><HI>5</HI> Lately a Land of rich increa&s;e, a Nation &s;tout and true,</L>
<L>Has lost their former dear e&s;tate, which they did hold of due:</L>
<L N="6"><HI>6</HI> By hard conflict and by chance of Mobile fortunes force</L>
<L>Thy hap and thy pro&s;perity is turned into wor&s;e.</L>
<L N="7"><HI>7</HI> Thou w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nt to win, now art &s;ubdu'd and come in under Yoke:</L>
<L>A &s;tranger reignes, and doth de&s;troy what likes with &s;words &s;troke.</L>
<L N="8"><HI>8</HI> The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> race, whom neither force nor manner do approve;</L>
<L>Woe is to thee, by guilt and &s;light is only win above.</L>
<L N="9"><HI>9</HI> The mighty Nation was to fore invincible and &s;tout.</L>
<L>Has yielded lewe to de&s;tiny, great pitty is but doubt.</L>
<L N="10"><HI>10</HI> In former age the <HI>Scots</HI> renown did flouri&s;h goodly gay,</L>
<L>But now alas is overcled with a great dark decay.</L>
<L N="11"><HI>11</HI> Then mark and &s;ee what is the cau&s;e of this &s;o wondrous fall;</L>
<L>Contempt of faith, fal&s;hood, deceit, the wrath of God withall.</L>
<L N="12"><HI>12</HI> &V;n&s;atiable greedy of worlds gain, oppre&s;&s;ion, cries of poor</L>
<L>Perpetual, a &s;landerous race, no ju&s;tice put in ure.</L>
<L N="13"><HI>13</HI> The haughty pride of mighty men, of former vice chief cau&s;e,</L>
<L>The nurtriture of wickedne&s;s, and unju&s;t match of Laws.</L>
<L N="14"><HI>14</HI> Therefore this ca&s;e the Prophets old, of long time did pre&s;age,</L>
<L>As now has happened every point into this pre&s;ent age.</L>
<L N="15"><HI>15</HI> Since fate is &s;o, now <HI>Scotland</HI> learn in patience to abide</L>
<L>Slanders, great fears, and &s;uddain Plagues, and dolers more be&s;ide.</L>
<L N="16"><HI>16</HI> For out of thee &s;hall people ri&s;e, with divers happine&s;s:</L>
<L>And yet a Pen can &s;carcely write thy hurt, skath and di&s;tre&s;s.</L>
<L N="17"><HI>17</HI> The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation &s;hall invade, &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prophecy">
<PB N="14" REF="9">
<HEAD><HI>The Prophecy of Queen</HI> Ann (Queen <HI>of</HI> Scotland) <HI>Mother to the late King, concerning his Maj and his three Kingdoms.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>Charles Stuart,</HI> late King of <HI>England,</HI> was born at <HI>Dumferlin</HI> in <HI>Scot|land,</HI> 19. <HI>Novem.</HI> 1600. he lived 48 years, and about 72 dayes: He died in the beginning of his Climacterical year, fatal many times where killing directions in the Nativity threaten: He came to the Crown being aged 24 years, and about 4 moneths, and was noted to be very wilful and ob|&s;tinate by Queen <HI>Ann</HI> his mother; who hearing that he was &s;ick and like to die, &s;aid, <HI>He would not then die, or at that time, but live to the ruine of him&s;elf, and occa&s;ion the lo&s;s of his three Kingdoms, by his too much wilful|ne&s;&s;.</HI> A &s;ad prediction from a Mother, who mo&s;t intirely loved him; but it proved very true in the &s;equel. Yet while he was young he follow|ed his book &s;eriou&s;ly, which his elder brother Prince <HI>Henry</HI> could not en|dure; and therefore King <HI>Iames</HI> would frequently blame Prince <HI>Henry</HI> with the neglect of his book, and tell him how his brother <HI>Charles</HI> fol|lowed it; whereupon the Prince would reply, <HI>When that he him&s;elf &s;hould be King, he would make his brother</HI> Charles <HI>Archbi&s;hop of</HI> Canter|bury.</P>
<Q>Examined by the Original Papers, &s;ent from the &V;niver&s;ity of Cambridge; and other Li|braries in England and Scotland, Licen&s;ed and publi&s;hed by Authority; and now pre|&s;ented to publike view, (together with a de|&s;cription of the Wonderfull Year of the World) to the end, that this Treati&s;e may be di&s;pierced throughout all Cities and Mar|ket Towns in England and Wales.</Q>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<PB REF="9">
</DIV1>
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