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<P>THE PROPHESIE OF MOTHER <HI>SHIPTON</HI> In the Raigne of King <HI>Henry</HI> the Eighth.</P>
<P>Fortelling the death of Cardinall <HI>Wol&s;ey,</HI> the Lord <HI>Percy</HI> and others, as al&s;o what &s;hould happen in in&s;uing times.</P>
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<P>LONDON, Printed for <HI>Richard Lownds,</HI> at his Shop adjoyning to Ludgate. 1641.</P>
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<HEAD>The Prophecie of Mother <HI>Shipton,</HI> in the Raigne of King <HI>Henry</HI> the eighth.</HEAD>
<P>_WHen &s;hee heard King <HI>Henry</HI> the eighth &s;hould be King, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Cardi|nall <HI>Wol&s;ey</HI> &s;hould be at <HI>Yorke,</HI> &s;hee &s;aid that Cardinall <HI>Wol&s;ey</HI> &s;hould never come to <HI>Yorke</HI> with the King, and the Cardinall hearing, being angry, &s;ent the Duke of <HI>Suffolke,</HI> the Lord <HI>Piercy,</HI> and the Lord <HI>Dar|cy</HI> to her, who came with their men di&s;gui&s;ed to the Kings hou&s;e neere <HI>Yorke,</HI> where leaving their men, they went to Ma&s;ter <HI>Be&s;ley</HI> to <HI>Yorke,</HI> and de&s;i|red him to goe with them to Mother <HI>Shiptons</HI> hou&s;e, where when they came they knocked at the doore, &s;hee &s;aid Come in Ma&s;ter <HI>Be&s;ley,</HI> and tho&s;e honourable Lords with you, and Ma&s;ter <HI>Be&s;ley</HI> would have put in the Lords before him, but &s;he &s;aid, come in Ma&s;ter <HI>Be&s;ley,</HI> you know the way, but they doe not. This they thought &s;trange that &s;he &s;hould know them, and never &s;aw them; then they went into the hou&s;e, where there was a great fire, and &s;he bade them welcome, calling them all by their names, and &s;ent for &s;ome Cakes and Ale, and they drunke and were very merry. Mother <HI>Shipton,</HI> &s;aid the Duke, if you knew what wee come about, you would
<PB N="2" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 3 -->not make us &s;o welcome, and &s;hee &s;aid the me&s;&s;enger &s;hould not be hang'd; Mother <HI>Shipton,</HI> &s;aid the Duke, you &s;aid the Cardinall &s;hould never &s;ee <HI>Yorke;</HI> Yea, &s;aid &s;hee, I &s;aid hee might &s;ee <HI>Yorke,</HI> but never come at it; But &s;aid the Duke, when he comes to <HI>Yorke</HI> thou &s;halt be burned; Wee &s;hall &s;ee that, &s;aid &s;hee, and plucking her Hand|kerchieffe off her head &s;hee threw it into the fire, and it would not burne; then &s;hee tooke her &s;taffe and turned it into the fire, and it would not burne, then &s;he tooke it and put it on againe; Now (&s;aid the Duke) what meane you by this? If this had burn'd (&s;aid &s;he) I might have bur|ned. Mother <HI>Shipton</HI> (quoth the Duke) what thinke you of me? my love &s;aid &s;he, the time will come you will be as low as I am, and that's a low one indeed. My Lord <HI>Percy</HI> &s;aid, what &s;ay you of me? My Lord (&s;aid &s;he) &s;hooe your Hor&s;e in the quicke, and you &s;hall doe well, but your body will bee buried in <HI>Yorke</HI> pavement, and your head &s;hall be &s;tolne from the barre and carried into <HI>France.</HI> Then &s;aid the Lord <HI>Darcy,</HI> and what thinke you of me? Shee &s;aid, you have made a great Gun, &s;hoot it off, for it will doe you no good, you are going to warre, you will paine many a man, but you will kill none, &s;o they went away.</P>
<P>Not long after the Cardinall came to <HI>Cawwood,</HI> and going to the top of the Tower, hee asked where <HI>Yorke</HI> was, and how farre it was thither, and &s;aid that one had &s;aid hee &s;hould never &s;ee <HI>Yorke;</HI> Nay, &s;aid one, &s;hee &s;aid you might &s;ee <HI>Yorke,</HI> but never come at it. He vowed to burne her when hee came to <HI>Yorke.</HI> Then they &s;hewed him <HI>Yorke,</HI> and told him it was but eight miles thence; he &s;aid that he will be &s;oone there: but be|ing &s;ent for by the King, hee dyed in the way to <HI>Lon|don</HI>
<PB N="3" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 3 -->at <HI>Lece&s;ter</HI> of a laske; And <HI>Shiptons</HI> wife &s;aid to Ma|&s;ter <HI>Be&s;ley,</HI> yonder is a fine &s;tall built for the Cardinall in the Min&s;ter, of Gold, Pearle, and precious &s;tone, goe and pre&s;ent one of the pillers to King <HI>Henry,</HI> and hee did &s;o.</P>
<P>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ter <HI>Be&s;ley</HI> &s;eeing the&s;e things fall out as &s;hee had foretold, de&s;ired her to tell him &s;ome more of her Pro|phe&s;ies; Ma&s;ter, &s;aid &s;he, before that <HI>Owes</HI> Bridge and Trinitie Church meet, they &s;hall build on the day, and it &s;hall fall in the night, untill they get the highe&s;t &s;tone of Trinitie Church, to be the lowe&s;t &s;tone of <HI>Owes</HI> bridge, then the day will come when the North &s;hall rue it wondrous &s;ore, but the South &s;hall rue it for evermore; When Hares kinle on cold harth &s;tones, and Lads &s;hall marry Ladyes, and bring them home, then &s;hall you have a yeare of pyning hungar, and then a dearth with|out Corne; A wofull day &s;hall be &s;een in <HI>England,</HI> a King and Queene, the fir&s;t comming of the King of <HI>Scots</HI> &s;hall be at <HI>Holgate</HI> Towne, but he &s;hall not come through the barre, and when the King of the North &s;hall bee at <HI>Lon|don</HI> Bridge, his Tayle &s;hall be at <HI>Edenborough;</HI> After this &s;hall water come over <HI>Owes</HI> bridge, and a Windmill &s;hall be &s;et on a Tower, and an Elme-tree &s;hall lye at every mans doore, at that time women &s;hall weare great hats and great bands, and when there is a Lord Major at <HI>Yorke</HI> let him beware of a &s;tab. When two Knights &s;hall fall out in the Ca&s;tle yard, they &s;hall never bee kindly all their lives after; When all <HI>Col<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters"></HI> Hagge hath borne &s;even yeares Crops of corne, &s;even yeares after you heare newes, there &s;hall two Iudges goe in and out at <HI>Mungate</HI> barre.</P>
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<Q><L>Then Warres &s;hall begin in the &s;pring,</L>
<L>Much woe to <HI>England</HI> it &s;hall bring:</L>
<L>Then &s;hall the Ladyes cry well-away,</L>
<L>That ever we liv'd to &s;ee this day.</L></Q>
<P>Then be&s;t for them that have the lea&s;t, and wor&s;t for them that have the mo&s;t, you &s;hall not know of the War over night, yet you &s;hall have it in the morning, and when it comes it &s;hall la&s;t three yeares, betweene <HI>Cadron</HI> and <HI>Aire</HI> &s;hall be great warfare, when all the world is as a lo&s;t, it &s;hall be called Chri&s;ts cro&s;t, when the battell be|gins, it &s;hall be where Crookbackt <HI>Richard</HI> made his fray, they &s;hall &s;ay, To warfare for your King for halfe a crown a day, but &s;tirre not (&s;he will &s;ay) to warfare for your King, on paine on hanging, but &s;tirre not, for he that goes to complaine, &s;hall not come backe againe. The time will come when <HI>England</HI> &s;hall tremble and quake for feare of a dead man that &s;hall bee heard to &s;peake, then will the Dragon give the Bull a great &s;nap, and when the one is downe they will goe to <HI>London</HI> Towne; Then there will be a great battell betweene <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> and they will be pacified for a time, and when they come to <HI>Bram|mammore,</HI> they fight and are again pacified for a time, then there will be a great Battell at <HI>Knave&s;more,</HI> and they will be pacified for a while; Then there will be a great battell betweene <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> at <HI>Stok<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters">e,</HI> Then will Ravens &s;it on the Cro&s;&s;e and drinke as much bloud of the Nobles, as of the Commons, then woe is mee, for <HI>London</HI> &s;hall be de&s;troyed for ever after; Then there will come a woman with one eye, and &s;he &s;hall tread in many mens bloud to the knee, and e man leaning on a &s;taffe by her, and &s;he &s;hall &s;ay to him, What art thou? and he &s;hall
<PB N="5" REF="4" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 4 -->&s;ay, I am King of the <HI>Scots,</HI> and &s;he &s;hall &s;ay, Goe with me to my hou&s;e, for there are three Knights, and he will goe with her, and &s;tay there three dayes and three nights, then will <HI>England</HI> be lo&s;t; and they will cry twice of a day <HI>England</HI> is lo&s;t; Then there will be three Knights in <HI>Petergate</HI> in <HI>Yorke,</HI> and the one &s;hall not know of the other; There &s;hall be a Childe borne in <HI>Pomfret</HI> with three thumbes, and tho&s;e three! Knights will give him three Hor&s;es to hold, while they win <HI>England,</HI> and all Noble bloud &s;hall be gone but one, and they &s;hall carry him to Sheriffe <HI>Nuttons</HI> Ca&s;tle &s;ix miles from <HI>Yorke,</HI> and he &s;hall dye there, and they &s;hall choo&s;e there an Earle in the field, and hanging their Hor&s;es on a thorne, And rue the time that ever they were borne, to &s;ee &s;o much bloud|&s;hed; Then they will come to <HI>Yorke</HI> to be&s;iege it, and they &s;hall keepe them out three dayes and three nights, and a penny loafe &s;hall bee within the barre at halfe a crowne, and without the barre at a penny; And they will &s;weare if they will not yeeld, to blow up the Towne walls. Then they will let them in, and they will hang up the Major, Sheriffs and Aldermen, and they will goe in|to Crouch Church, there will three Knights goe in, and but one come out againe, and he will cau&s;e Proclamati|on to be made, that any man may take Hou&s;e, Tower, or Bower for twentie one yeares, and while&s;t the world en|dureth, there &s;hall never be warfare againe, nor any more Kings or Queenes, but the Kingdome &s;hall be governed by three Lords, and then <HI>Yorke</HI> &s;hall be <HI>London;</HI> And after this &s;hall be a white Harve&s;t of corne gotten in by wo|men. Then &s;hall be in the North, that one woman &s;hall &s;ay unto another, Mother I have &s;eene a man to day, and for one man there &s;hall be a thou&s;and women, there
<PB N="6" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 5 -->&s;hall be a man &s;itting upon St. <HI>James</HI> Church hill wee|ping his fill; And after that a Ship come &s;ayling up the Thames till it come again&s;t <HI>London,</HI> and the Ma&s;ter of the Ship &s;hall weepe, and the Marriners &s;hall aske him why hee weepeth, being he hath made &s;o good a voy|age, and he &s;hall &s;ay; Ah what a goodly Citie this was, none in the world comparable to it, and now there is &s;carce left any hou&s;e that can let us have drinke for our money.</P>
<Q><L>Vnhappy he that lives to &s;ee the&s;e dayes,</L>
<L>But happy are the dead <HI>Shiptons</HI> wife &s;ayes.</L></Q>
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