THE ROYAL prophesy OF DAVID, Cardinal of France; Touching the Death of Charles the first, by his own Subjects; and the Establishing his Issue by a MONK. PROPHESIED In the Reign of Philip, then King of FRANCE, and RICHARD the First, King of ENGLAND. REVIVED And brought to light( by a Learned urere, father Edward) out of the French Chronicles; and applied unto these times. The most part of this prophesy being already fulfilled. LONDON, Printed in the year, 1659. THE Royal prophesy OF David, Cardinal of France, touching the Death of Charles the First, by his own Subjects, and the establishing of his Issue in after ages: Prophesied in the Reign of Philip, then King of France, and Richard the first King of England. Revived, and brought to light, by a Learned urere Father Edward, out of the French Chronicles, and applied to these very times. lily, that learned Prognosticator, who is so taken up with foreign Kings is Sand-blinde, sees far abroad( all lies) nothing nigh, gathering but guesses, and they from the stars, whilst Endors woman and Shiptons wife, with Cardinal David, study a higher strain. The story of Saul and the woman of Endor, and her familiar is sufficiently known, who told Saul nothing less then what happened. Shiptons wife told Woolsey, he mght see York, but never come to it: true enough both of them. Far greater is the wisdom, prudence, and knowledge of Cardinal David, as to satisfy a King so boldly of the events that would happen for the term of 600 years to come; as in this prophesy appears the greatest part to be already past, to which these times may thank that learned urere father Edward for his publication hereof. In the dayes of Richard Cuer de Lion, King of England, or lions heart, and Philip, then King of France, lived one David, an Exorcist; for in the Romish Religion they have Cardinals, who are the Popes Senators, or Councellors. Now a Cardinal is derived from Cardo, the hinge of a door, because on them( a● the door on its hinges) all weighty affairs of the Church are turned. Of these Cardinals are seven orders, to wit, Doorkeepers, Readers, Exorcists, Acoliths, or Taperbearers, Sub-deacons, Deacons, and Priests. A Cardinal of the third order was this David, whose Office was to call on the name of Jesus, and by that Name to adjure the unclean spirits to depart out of the possessed, on whom h● laid his hands; when the Exorcist is ordained, he receiveth the book of adjurations from the Bishop or Pope, saying; Take and learn these by heart, and receive power to lay thy hands on the possessed, whether he be Baptized, or a Catechumenus as yet. King Philip weary of King Richard's company, not able to bear the Honour done to that Mighty Prince; envying his High Fortunes at the Holy Land in Sicilia, when Tanchred the Usurping King, gave King Richard 6000 Ounces of Gold in Cyprus, and in Acon, formerly called Ptolemais, where Philip King of France redeemed a thousand and five hundred Christians that were then in bondage, and so left King Richard, returned into his own country; and sending for this David, desirous to know the success of King Richard before hand, and what should happen to that lineage. David first, as the story says, reads these words; Coeli ●narrant gloriam Dei fortis, & opus manuum ejus indicat expansum eorum. Dies ad diem eructat sermonem & nox ad noctem ostendit scientiam. Post dixit Deus sunto Luminaria in expanso Coeli, ad distinctionem faciendum inter diem & noctem, ut sinit in signa cum tempestatibus, tum diebus & annis, &c. After a pause, sighing, he said; O unfortunate fortunate Prince! Whose chiefest honours abide in his misfortunes, King Richard shall add honour to honour, until he ascend( with a feather from a wing) from the reach of envy; his Issue shall never reign, he himself shall suddenly be a prisoner, yet not long so remain. In the fifth Kings Reign after him, shall France in a manner be conquered, but shall not long so abide, it shall return to its pristine condition; yet notwithstanding shall be a scourge to France, and shall not be without a King till he come, whose father treading the Thistle, shall snatch at the Rose, and joining them together in his own hand, shall deliver them to his second Sons hand, where they shall there whither; so that, that second sons Issue shall lay hold on the Thistle and wholly grasp it, thereby thinking to recover the Rose, but it shall not then be; for his Father, whose name shall begin with an hundred, shall be Conquered and depapitated by one whose name shall begin with the same letter, and he for a small season shall tyramnize over them that installed him, by cropping off the Head of Thistle and Rose; Yet immediately after, shall the people earnestly long after the Issue Banished, who shall not be restored to his Fathers Dignity, until a MONK come from the Hybernian Isles in power, and have traversed the hoary headed NEPTUNE, Conquering the Eagle, and ruling sole Monarch over the Ocean; who shall freely resign up his power to the Tyrant of those times, and return to his Northern station, where he shall quietly rest, until the half hundred come, one whose name shall so begin, who shall strive to withstand the thousand, another surname so beginning, but shall not be able; for he whose strength is as a thousand, whose wisdom is far beyond the Serpents, having the whole Thistle shall gather the Rose and join it to the Thistle, and deliver it to the Lions Whelp, after which time shall arise and go round the World a MONK leading a lion by the paw, with a Thistle and a Rose, presenting to him, and they shall go and gather up the Lily and join it to them and shall so continue for three hundred years. All which spoken and ended, Philip, the French King then went pensive away, at which time David writ these Verses. In the eight Kings reign Englands race shall cease, And to the second turn to have a settled peace, Which in the second, King shall for a while decay, Yet by a MONK his Issue banished shall have sway; And then the lily, Thistle, Rose, in one shall join And subvert all, that shall against them combine, When 160 Fore fathers shall have left Their Country, then their Son of it shall be bereft And put to flight, until a valiant warlike Monk shall come and help— — Nobis haec invicta miserunt 160 proavi. Tum &c. The prophesy explained. CHARLES Mighty Monarch did the C begin, After whose Death, Usurping C. came in; By Will and force, he some few years bore sway, Nothing but Blood his fury could alloy: Alas this hundred, and his Crooked Race Were like Usurpers turned out of the place Of Honour, as they well deserved indeed, And now the L for fifty doth succeed; Stout Neptune's left, and by the MONK so bold, Who doth appear this Riddle to unfold. Right shall have Right; for in a little space A hundred shall be of the hundreds Race. The MONK will join( as all appearance shows) The exiled Thistle to the Happy Rose, Who shall in peace these Nations free from fears, Govern in safety for three hundred years. FINIS.