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<P>The Wonderful PROPHESIES Of Old Mother Shipton, In the Time of King <HI>HENRY</HI> VIII Concerning <HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>England.</HI> With &s;everal STRANGE PROPHESIES.</P>
<P>By <HI>IGNATIUS, SIBYLLA,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>royal blazons of coats of arms of Scotland, England, France and Ireland</FIGDESC>
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<P>Printed in the Year, 1700.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="prophecy">
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<HEAD><HI>The wonderful Prophe&s;ies of old Mother</HI> Shipton, <HI>in the time of King</HI> Henry <HI>the eight. Together with &s;everal other very &s;trange</HI> PROPHESIES.</HEAD>
<P>WHen she heard &s;ay the King <HI>Henry</HI> should be King of the South, and Cardinal <HI>Wol&s;ey</HI> King of the North, and dwell at the <HI>Mannure</HI> at <HI>York;</HI> she &s;aid nay, Cardinal <HI>Wol&s;ey</HI> should never come to <HI>York,</HI> Of this King <HI>Henr</HI> and the Cardinal hearing, they were an|gry, So the King &s;ent to &s;ee if she would &s;tand by her words, the Lord <HI>Duke,</HI> Lord <HI>Piercy,</HI> and Lord <HI>Darcy,</HI> (who came with their Men di&s;|gui&s;ed to Ring hou&s;es a Mile from <HI>York.</HI> lea|ving their Men there) went to <HI>York</HI> late at Night to Mr. <HI>Bea&s;leys</HI> hou&s;e in Cunny &s;treet, and de&s;ired to &s;peak with the Ma&s;ters, who came and they whi&s;pered in his ear to go to <HI>Shiptons</HI> Wife with them, and they went and knocked at the Door, and she &s;aid come in Mr. <HI>Bea&s;ley,</HI> and the&s;e honourable Lords with you, And then Mr. <HI>Bea&s;ley</HI> would have put the three Lords be|fore, and she &s;aid come in Mr. <HI>Bea&s;ley,</HI> for you know the hou&s;e and they do not, This is a &s;trange thing (&s;aid they one to another) that she knows us and never &s;aw us before, And they came in (there being a good fire;) And Mr. <HI>Bea&s;ley</HI> &s;aid by your leave Mother <HI>Shipton,</HI> and she &s;aid; you are welcome Mr. <HI>Bea&s;ley.</HI> Then the other three Lords &s;aid the like: And &s;he called them all by their names, and bid them welcome, and bid them &s;it down, and bad
<PB N="4" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 86 -->her Maid fetch &s;ome Ale and Cakes, and &s;he did &s;o. And they all drank and were merrie: Then &s;aid the Lord <HI>Duke,</HI> if ye knew what we come a|bout, you would nor make &s;o much of us. And &s;he &s;aid the me&s;&s;enger mu&s;t be either hanged or headed. Mother <HI>Shipton</HI> (&s;aid the Duke) <HI>Car|dinal Wol&s;ey</HI> &s;aith, you &s;aid he &s;hall never &s;ee <HI>York.</HI> Yes I &s;aid he might &s;ee <HI>York,</HI> but never come at it The Duke &s;aid when <HI>Cardinal Wol|&s;ey</HI> comes to <HI>York.</HI> We &s;hall &s;ee that (&s;aith &s;he) and &s;he had a kerchief on her head, which had a Yard of Cloath in it: And &s;he took it off her head, and her head was as white as wool, and &s;he &s;pread it on her knee, and threw it in the fire, and let be in there a great while? And when &s;he &s;aw that it would not burn &s;he took her &s;taff and turned it in the Fire, and it would not burn, then &s;he took it off the fire and &s;haked it, and put it on her head again. Now (&s;aid the Lord Duke) mother <HI>Shipton</HI> what mean you by this? &s;he &s;aid, if this had burned, I might have burned al&s;o; mother <HI>Shipton</HI> (&s;aid the <HI>Duke</HI>) what mu&s;t I do my Lord (&s;aid &s;he) the time will come when you &s;hall be in as low office as I am in, and that is a low office indeed. Then &s;aid the Lord piercy Mother <HI>Shipton,</HI> what mu&s;t I do, My Lord &s;aid &s;he &s;hooe your hor&s;e in the quick, and you &s;hal do well, if not, your head &s;hall be &s;toln from the Barr, and carried into France. And they laughed and &s;aid, this is a great hop indeed between the head and the body. Then &s;aid the Lord <HI>Darcy</HI> Mother <HI>Shipton,</HI> what mu&s;t I do? ye have meade a great Gun &s;aid &s;he shoot it off, for it
<PB N="5" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 86 -->will never do you good, you are going for war|fare, but you will pine many a man but kill none. So they drank and give her mony, and went to Mr <HI>Beasleys</HI> hou&s;e and lay there all night. The next morning they went up to the King: Soon after the Cardinal came to <HI>Cawood</HI> and &s;tayed there three days and three nights: And the third day the Cro&s;s of the hou&s;e top fell down, and brake the Stewards head, The Car|dinal hearing of it &s;aid, I fear a geater cro&s;s then this. In the Afternoon the Cardinal went to the top of the hou&s;e, and many Knights with him. He asked where &s;tood <HI>York?</HI> And they &s;hewed him where it &s;tood. How far is it thither &s;aid he, and they an&s;wered, &s;even miles, &s;aith he, one &s;aid I &s;hall never &s;ee <HI>York,</HI> Nay my Lord, &s;aid one of the knights, &s;he &s;aid you might &s;ee <HI>York,</HI> but never come at it. Then he made a vow he would burn her and the prie&s;ts that boarded at her hou&s;e, if they lacked their ve&s;tments, the Prie&s;ts hearing of this were fore afraid, And &s;he had them keep them&s;elves content, and they &s;hould have twenty to morrow if they would. Then a night the <HI>Cardinal</HI> &s;upped, and after &s;upper he charged that no man &s;hould come in. And when the company was gone that &s;upped with him, the Lord <HI>piercy</HI> came to the gate and knocked, the porter asked who was there? Saying that no man might come in, The Lord <HI>Piercy</HI> thereupon changed his name for one of the kins|folk of the <HI>Cardnial,</HI> and &s;o got in. And when he &s;aw the Lord <HI>Piercy,</HI> he &s;aid, mercy, my Lord <HI>Piercy:</HI> No, traitor, &s;aid tho Lord <HI>Piercy,</HI> thou &s;halt
<PB N="6" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 87 -->to <HI>London.</HI> And they &s;et him upon a <HI>Hor&s;e;</HI> and rode for <HI>London</HI> with him. And <HI>Shiptons</HI> wife &s;aid to Mr. <HI>Beasley,</HI> yonder is a goodly &s;tal made for the <HI>Cardinal</HI> in the Mini&s;ters of gold, pearle, and precious &s;tones; go &amp; pull down one of the pillars and pre&s;ent it King <HI>Henry;</HI> as she bad him, and &s;o he did. Now the third day as the <HI>Cardinal</HI> was going towards <HI>London,</HI> he poy&s;oned him&s;elf, and &s;o he died. Mr <HI>Bea&s;ley</HI> came again to mother <HI>Shipton,</HI> and &s;aid, I pray you tell me &s;ome of your prophe&s;ies. Mr. <HI>Beasley,</HI> &s;aid &s;he.</P>
<P><HI>Before</HI> Owzebridge <HI>and</HI> Trinity Church <HI>meet</HI></P>
<P>They &s;hall build in the day, and it &s;hal fall down in the night, unle&s;s they get the highe&s;t &s;tone in <HI>Trinity Church</HI> to be the lowe&s;t in <HI>Owzebridge.</HI></P>
<Q><L>The day will come when the North &s;hal rue it &s;ore,</L>
<L>But the South &s;hall rue it for ever more:</L>
<L>Then the Hares shall kindle on the cold hearth &s;tones</L>
<L>And Ladieshal marry Lads &amp; carry them to their home:</L></Q>
<P>Then ill shal be in the Norrh, one woman &s;hal &s;ay to another, I &s;aw a Man to day, for there &s;hall be a thou&s;and women for one Man. Then &s;hal you have a year of pinning hunger.</P>
<Q><L>A dearth without any need,</L>
<L>And a death without dread,</L>
<L>A joyful day shall be &s;een,</L>
<L>In <HI>England</HI> of a King and a Queen.</L></Q>
<P>The fir&s;t coming of the King of the <HI>Scots,</HI> he &s;hall come in at <HI>Boothan Barrae</HI> unknown, The next time he shall go throw <HI>Holgate</HI> Town and not through <HI>Holgate lane,</HI> and when the King of the North shall be at <HI>London</HI> Bridge, his tail
<PB N="7" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 87 -->shall be at <HI>Edinburgh.</HI> After this shall water come over <HI>Owzebridge:</HI> And when there is a Lord Major in <HI>York</HI> Mini&s;ter yard, let him take heed of a &s;tab.</P>
<P>And when two Knights fall out in the Ca&s;tle|yard, they shall never love kindly whil&s;t they live again, when all <HI>Calton-hag</HI> hath born &s;even years Corn; then &s;even years after you shall hear news,
<Q><L>When warfare begins at the Spring,</L>
<L>Much care to <HI>England</HI> shall it bring.</L>
<L>Then all the Ladies cry well away,</L>
<L>That ever we liv'd to &s;ee this day.</L>
<L>Then well is them that have the lea&s;t,</L>
<L>And wo is them that have the wor&s;t.</L></Q></P>
<P>You shall not know of this warfare at night, but you shal have it in the morning, but when it comes it shall la&s;t three years ere it give over.</P>
<Q><L>Betwixt <HI>Cadron</HI> and <HI>Air,</HI></L>
<L>Shall be long warfare.</L>
<L>When all the World is a loft,</L>
<L>It shall be called Chri&s;ts croft.</L></Q>
<P>When the fir&s;t Battel of this warfare begins, it shall be where crooked <HI>Richard</HI> made his fray. They will &s;ay to warfare for your King, and you shall have half a Crown but &s;tir not: Then they will &s;ay to warfare for your King, upon pain of hanging, but &s;tir not.</P>
<Q><L>For he that goes to complain.</L>
<L>Shall never come again.</L></Q>
<P>At that day <HI>England</HI> shall tremble and quake for fear of a dead man that shall be heard to &s;peak. Then will the Dragon give the Bull a great
<PB N="8" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 88 -->&s;nip. After this when the fir&s;t is down, they will go to <HI>London.</HI> Then wo is me for <HI>London,</HI> for <HI>London</HI> shall be de&s;troyed for ever after, there will be great Battel between <HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>England,</HI> and they will be pacified for a while. Then they will come to <HI>Brammamoore</HI> and fight, and then they will be pacified for a while. Then there will be a great Battel at <HI>Knave&s;moore</HI> near <HI>York,</HI> and then they will be pacified for a while. Then there wil be a great Battel at <HI>Stockton-moor.</HI> Then will the Ravens &s;it on the Cro&s;s and drink as much blood of the Nobles as of the Commons. Then there will come a Woman with one Eye, and she shall tread in many Mans blood to the knee, untill &s;he come to a Man who &s;hall be leaning on a &s;taff, and she will &s;ay, who art thou! And he will &s;ay, I am the King of the <HI>Scots.</HI> And &s;he will &s;ay go with me to my Hou&s;e, and he will go with her, and they shall &s;tay with her three days. Soon after will <HI>England</HI> be lo&s;t, and twice in one day will they cry, <HI>England</HI> is lo&s;t. There will be three Knights in <HI>Petergate,</HI> and one of them will not know of another. And there shall be a Child born in <HI>Pomfert</HI> with three thumbs, tho&s;e three Knights will give him three hor&s;es to hold whil&s;t they win <HI>England</HI> again, And all the Noble blood will be gone but one, and they will carry him to Sheriff <HI>Huttons</HI> Ca&s;tle and he will die there, Then they will chu&s;e three Earls in the field? And they will hang their Hor&s;e on a thorn and rue the time that ever they were born to &s;ee &s;o much blood shed,</P>
<P>Then they will come to <HI>York</HI> and be&s;iege it,
<PB N="9" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 88 -->and <HI>York</HI> shall keep them out three days &amp; three nights and a penny loaf within the Barr shal be half a Crown, and without the Bar a penny. And then they will &s;wear that they, if they will not let them in, they will blow up the walls. Then they will let them in, and they will hang up the Major&punc; Sheriffs and Aldermen. And there will be three Knights go into Crowch Church, and there shall but one of them come forth, and he shall cau&s;e Proclamation to be made, that any may take Hou&s;e, Tower or Bower, for 21 Years, for while the World endure, there shall never be War again. Neither shall there be a King or Queen any more. But this Kingdom shall be go|verned by three Lords: And then <HI>York</HI> shall be <HI>London.</HI> And after this shall be a white harve&s;t, Corn &s;hall be gotten in all by Women. After this a ship shall come in the <HI>Thames</HI> till it come over again&s;t <HI>London</HI> and the Ma&s;ter shall weep to think what a goodly City that was, none in the World comparable to it, and now he shall with there may be any hou&s;e that will but let them have drink for their Money,</P>
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<L><HI>Lincolne</HI> was, <HI>London</HI> is; and <HI>York</HI> shall be</L>
<L>The choi&s;e, and chiefe&s;t City of the three</L>
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<DIV1 N="Ignatius" TYPE="prophecy">
<HEAD>Ignatius Prophe&s;ie,</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>IF eighty eight be pa&s;t. then thrive</L>
<L>Thou maye&s;t till thirty four or &s;ive,</L>
<L>After the <HI>E</HI> is dead a <HI>Scot</HI></L>
<L>Shall govern there: and if a plot</L>
<L>Prevent him not, then &s;ure his &s;way,</L>
<L>Continue shall till many a day</L>
<L>The ninth &s;hall die young and the fir&s;t</L>
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<L>Perhaps shall reign but oh! accur&s;t</L>
<L>Shall be that time, when thou shalt &s;ee</L>
<L>To &s;ixteen joyned twenty three.</L>
<L>For then the Eagles shall have help,</L>
<L>By craft to catch the Lyons whelp.</L>
<L>And hurt him &s;ore except the &s;ame</L>
<L>Be cured by the Maidens Name.</L>
<L>In July Month of the &s;ame Year,</L>
<L>Saturn conjoyns with Jupiter.</L>
<L>Perhaps fal&s;e Prophets shall ari&s;e,</L>
<L>And Mahomet shall have his prize,</L>
<L>And &s;ure much alteration</L>
<L>Shall happen in Religion,</L>
<L>Believe this truly if then you &s;ee</L>
<L>A Spaniard a Prote&s;tant to be.</L>
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<DIV1 N="Sibylla" TYPE="prophecy">
<HEAD>The Prophe&s;ie of old SIBYLLA,</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>WHen Scotland hundred and ninth unconquer'd King</L>
<L>The &s;ixteen hundred thirty and ninth year,</L>
<L>Into this Age of thirty nine shall Reign,</L>
<L>Then &s;hall the papal overthrow appear,</L>
<L>Which all the Arts of Europe shall admire,</L>
<L>For Scotland shall that ble&s;&s;ed Work begin,</L>
<L>Then shall the whore of Babel we had here</L>
<L>Be banisht quite which Bishops did bring in</L>
<L>Then thou brave England which was led &s;o blind</L>
<L>By their perver&s;e Epi&s;copally pride,</L>
<L>And Irelands shamele&s;s &s;uper&s;titious &s;in</L>
<L>Shall be &s;uppre&s;t who cruelly have cry'd,</L>
<L>So that, that &s;acred Prophete&s;s, Sibylla,</L>
<L>Shall shortly come to pa&s;s, she tells Tom Milla,</L>
<L>And Tom tells me, and I mu&s;t tel't again,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> much <HI>Scotland, England, Ireland, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">race</HI> &amp; <HI>Spain.</HI></L>
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<DIV1 N="Merlin" TYPE="prophecy">
<HEAD>Merling's Prophe&s;ie.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>ON Boreas wings then thither shall be born,</L>
<L>Throw Week, o're Tweed a Princely Unicorn,</L>
<L>Who brought into the World his own fair Cre&s;t</L>
<L>A rampant Lyon figured in his brea&s;t,</L>
<L>And to his arms &s;ix Lions more shall quarter,</L>
<L>With &s;ix French flowers environ'd with the Calter</L>
<L>Joyning by Fates unchangable di&s;po&s;e,</L>
<L>The Northern Thi&s;tle to the Southern Ro&s;e.</L>
<L>He shall the true Apo&s;tolick Faith maintain,</L>
<L>with pious Zeal during his ble&s;&s;ed Reign.</L>
</LG>
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<DIV1 N="Mr Brightman" TYPE="prophecy">
<HEAD>Mr. BRIGHTMANS Prophe&s;ie.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>WHen Englands Church grows Englands shame</L>
<L>Full of lukwarmne&s;s gloty vain</L>
<L>The wor&s;t in works, and outward form,</L>
<L>And with contrary factions turn:</L>
<L>When Romish Rites by Reformation,</L>
<L>Shall be expelled out of this Nation.</L>
<L>Lord beggar Bishop then shall come</L>
<L>To turn and be over-thrown:</L>
<L>The Prie&s;t shall be vile to each weight,</L>
<L>Then down fall read with much delight;</L>
<L>For God will not them guiltle&s;s hold:</L>
<L>The Scoti&s;h Church shall be in condition,</L>
<L>A Virgin free from Super&s;tition;</L>
<L>They shall be joyn'd in Covenant</L>
<L>'Gain&s;t which the World shall boa&s;t and vant:</L>
<L>But <HI>Englands</HI> Church mu&s;t feel the &s;torm,</L>
<L>Untill she freely her-&s;elf reform,</L>
<L>Such hurly burly and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;tir,</L>
<L>No form of Church shall remain in her,</L>
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<L>But reformation mu&s;t take breath,</L>
<L>From the Reign of Queen <HI>Elizabeth.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<DIV1 N="Mr Turswels" TYPE="prophecy">
<HEAD>Mr. TURSWELS Recorder of Lincoln.</HEAD>
<P>THe Lilly shall remain in a merrie World and shall be moved again&s;t the &s;eed of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> Lyon, and he shall &s;tand on one &s;ide among&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> thorns of his Kingdom and Countrey: And the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> shall come the Son of Man bearing three wil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> bea&s;ts in his Arms, which Kingdom is the Lan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the Moon, which is to be dread throughou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> all the World, with a Company of People h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> shall pa&s;s many waters, and he shall come t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Land of the Lyon looking for help with th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> bea&s;ts of his own Countrey; and in that yea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> there shall come an Eagle out of the Ea&s;t, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> her wings &s;pread with the beams of the Son o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> man: And that year shal be de&s;troyed Ca&s;tle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> upon <HI>Thames,</HI> and there shall be fear over the whole World? and in a part of the World there shall be great Battels among many Kingdoms. That day &s;hal be the bloody field, &amp; the Lillie sha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> lo&s;e his Crown, and therewith shall be Crown|ed the Son of Man, And in the fourth yea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> many Battels shall be for the Faith, and mo&s;t o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> the World shall be &s;tooped, and the Son of Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> with the Eagle shall be preferred; and ther<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> shall be univer&s;al peace over the whole World then shall the Son of Man receive a marvelou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> token, and it shall be great plenty of all manne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> of fruits, &amp; then shall he go to the Land of Lilly<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"></P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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