The PROPHECY of the WHITE KING Explained, Compared with several Copies, both Welsh, Latin, and English: Some of which were written almost a thousand years ago, besides this old English Copy here Printed, which was of high esteem in the days of King Edward the fourth,  
Printed for Robert Ibbitson. 1649.   

THE Prophecy of the White KING EXPLAINED.  
A Thing foreseen, and declared to come to pass concerning great Britain, is very remarkable, and thus prophesied of long before.  
When Britain, (that is, England and Scotland) shall have one King (whose Arms is the Lion) And this King shall be the rightful Prince of the whole Isle) than this time is near at hand; but not to be fulfilled in his life; It shall not be accomplished in his time, but when he is dead, poisoned, or cut off, then shall the time be.  
The King that succeeds him, shall be such a one, as must be King of all Britain, both England and Scotland, as the King his predecessor was.  
He shall be all in White, Suit, Cloak, Stockings, all white, or some other visible demonstration shall declare him to be properly called a White King, at the very time of his Coronation, when he receives the Crown, and Sceptre.  
And he is to be not only born in Britain, but to be raised out of the loins of the foregoing King, he shall be his only son then living, The aged Father being dead, the Son shall rise, and sit in the Throne, to rule both England and Scotland.  
But yet he shall not come to the Crown without further marks concerning him; to declare who this White King shall be. For four things are immediately to go before his coming to the Throne.  
1 He shall rise to the Crown ●y flying over the head of his Brother, or some other, who is nearer 〈◊〉 the Crown than he, And therefore shall be removed out of the way by poison, death, banishment, or some way or other.  
2 He shall ride, and travel fare, to seek him a wife, he shall go into Spain or Italy, or some other Kingdoms, to effect it, but shall return unsatisfied.  
3 He shall marry one out of France, or some nearer place, then whither he before r●l●, and sought, and they shall be bodded, and lie together, before the old King be removed.  
4 In his lying with his wife, be shall do the office of an Husband.  
These some things being accomplished, the Lion of Rightfulness shall die. And then the White King shall rise, and be led to the Throne.  
After the White King hath Reigned certain years in Britain, he shall so vex his people, that when he is in England, Scotland shall rise against him. And they shall publish Declarations, and show whether there be not Christ and King in the Kirk, above the person of the White King.  
And by that Kingdom forces shall be raised, and an Army gathered together, for the freedom, and privileges, of the People.  
And the White King also shall raise an Army in England, to be an help for him against those raised by the Scots, and shall take to him such Officers as he can best confide in, because he shall find a great unwillingness in the people to this war.  
But the Armies shall band, the King will impose ship-money, and other Sessements upon the people, and make himself a Merchant of their Estates, Monopolies shall still increase, He shall set riders upon Horses, and force the people by Taxes, to pay them, and shall cause his Subjects of the two kingdoms, to be murdered like Oxen.  
The King shall be sought to, that there may be a present help, and that all the burdens, and grievousnesses of the kingdoms may be removed, both in Church and State, but he shall not be prevailed with.  
Yet it shall so come to pass, that there shall be a Treaty, at which head for head shall have argument for argument; and at last a pacification shall be agreed on, and then shall the Scots return back to their own Kingdom, and the sun shall arise in England by the Kings calling of a Parliament.  
Yet so that another cloud shall arise and cause this sun to set by dissolving it presently again; and then shall the people be in sad discontents.  
But after the dissolution of this Parliament, great rise shall be over all Britain, in so much that the King will be forced to call a new Parliament.  
And in that Parliament divers Acts shall be passed, by the King, Lords, and Commons; and yet the people (in great discontents) shall exclaim against the King for oppression, and flock to the Parliament to cry for justice, by that Kingly authority which is in them.  
After this, when the King shall see how the people rise against him, he shall go from his Parliament, and raise up his Standard, and put forth Proclamations, and Declarations against them, and all that oppose him; and shall be resolved (by the sword) to make them know that he is a King; for which purpose he shall appoint a Commission of Array to be settled in all parts of the Kingdom.  
These will be strange and trying times; some will stagger, and not know what to do; yet Wisemen will be able to discern the providence and way of God, and notwithstanding the great divisions then amongst the people; yet they will find a settlement in their judgements, because they eye the way of God.  
But there shall be a range of plundering Gleada, that shall live upon pillage of the Country: Cavaliers, that shall join with the White King, shall bereave men of their goods, and have the Command of men's houses, as if they were their own.  
And as for the time of this war, it is to last for the space of seven years, in which time will happen many sad calamities, which usually accompany war.  
There will be ravening after men's estates, violence to shed blood, the people of God will be driven into Corners, and hid themselves in Ovens, and holes, from the barbarous Cavaliers. The husbandman will have his corn carried away by strangers, many shall be brought to poverty, and driven to live a most miserable and wretched life; and yet (in their greatest misery) shall find but few friends.  
After this, Malignants, Chickens of the Court, shall pass from the South and the East, to the North of England, and up and down Britain, to join with the King against the Parliament. And to the Houses and Garrisons of the White King, and the King himself will command them, and have great fellowship with them.  
And by that time a year and an half is passed of the English war, the Scots will come in to join with the Parliament of England; and then the war will be all over Britain, both in England and Scotland, and then will a promise belittle regarded; many will endeavour to keep that which is theirs, and to live upon other men's estates. And this shall continue for a certain time.  
But the time shall come, wherein the White King's Army at Nazby or some such place, shall be utterly defeated: land he himself shall be made very feeble and weak, And he shall be so pursued that with much difficulty he shall make a private escape out of Newarke or some besieged Garrison to Oxford, or to some Fortification of his from whence he came, by which there is a running water.  
Yet when he is there, he shall be followed by the Parliaments forces, and through fear leave his old Garrison again; and at a place agreed on, he shall be met, and surrender himself to the Scots, who shall deliver him to the English, and themselves return bacl into Scotland.  
He shall have guards of Soldiers set upon him; yet he shall make to him a new host, and by private Commissions get a great strength, and they shall engage for him in a new war; and the White King shall come to a Personal Treaty with the Parliament and that to be over the great hall of the Schoole-house, in the Churchyard at Newport in the Isle of Wight, or over some other hall in a Kirke yard: where shall be his fall and ruin.  
After this shall the King who is the Eagle, and all his Chickens be brought to trial by the supreme power of the Commons of England, the highest Perch of all Britain, first of his life.  
And four things are observable about the death of the White King.  
1 He shall not be slain amongst the young Soldiers, but shall be preserved all the times both of the former and the latter War.  
2 He shall not come to be old, not live to see long time after the wars are ended, and yet he shall live to see peace.  
3 That he shall come to be tried for his life, in which the gentle worthies of the Parliament and their Army, will not suffer wrong to be done unto him, But will give him an ample, public and legal Trial.  
4 That the Realm being thus settled in peace, than the White King must die.  
Here are also set down what shall come to pass after the death of the White King.  
1 That two years after the Realm is in peace, there shall be fully established an Agreement of the People, and a holy rule from heaven, which shall settle the Church, as it shall stand for ever to the end of the world.  
2 The Liberties of the three Countries shall be restored, so that England, Scotland and Wales, shall never be in such slavery to the day of Doom.  
3 The superstition of the Orosse and all Popery and Prelacy shall be taken away.  
4 There shall be a Temple builded not made with hands, but spiritual for the advancing of Jesus Christ upon his Throne.   

THE WHITE KING'S PROPHECY.  
WHen the Lion of Righteousness is dead, there shall rise a White King in Britain, first Flying, and after Riding, after Ligging down; and in this lig down he shall be lamed; after that he shall be led. And there shall be showed whether there be another King: Then shall be gathered together much folk, and he shall take help for him: And then there shall be Merchandise of men, (as of an Horse, or an Ox) and there shall be sought help; and there shall none arise, but head for head; and then shall one gone, there the Sun ariseth, another there the Sun gone down: After this it shall be said by Britain (King is King) King is no King. After this he shall raise up his head, and he shall be taken him to be a King, be many things to be done, but wise men reading, and then shall a range of Gleeds and that ever each hath bereaving) he shall have it for his own, and this shall last seven years, Lo raving and shedding of blood; and Ovens shall be made like Kirks; and that as one sows another shall reap, and death shall be better than wretched life, and charity shall be of few men; After then shall come through the South with the Sun, on Horse of tree, and upon all waves on the Sea, the chicken of the Eagle sailing into Britain, and arriving anon to the House of the Eagle, he shall show fellowship to them beasts. After a year and a half shall be war in Britain, then shall a sooth be naught worth, and every man shall keep his thing, and gotten other men's good: after the white King feeble shall go towards the West, betlipped about with his folk, to the old place been running water, than his Enemies shall meet him, and meet him, and march in her place, shall be ordained about him in Host, on the manner of a shield shall be form, then shall they fight on Oven front, After the white King shall fall into a Kirk-yard over a Hall. After the chicken of the Eagle shall nestle in the highest Rooch of all Britain, nay he shall naught be slain young: nay naught come old, for then the Gentle worthiness shall naught suffer wrong be done to him, But when the Realm is in peace then shall he die, and two years after shall come a new. Rule from Heaven and settle holy Kirk as it shall evermore stand, and bring three Countries into one, England, Scotland, and Wales, unto the day of doom, and the Holy Cross be brought into Christian men's hands, and there shall be made a Temple that never was made, such none.  
The Original hereof was found by the Lady Poston of the County of Norfolk, amongst the evidences of Edw. the fourth his time.  
FINIS.   

Jan. 26. 1648.  
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Theodore Jennings.