Fourteen strange PROPHECIES: Besides Mother Shipton's, and Mr. Saltmarsh, predicting wonderful events to betid these years of calamity, in this Climate, whereof divers are already come to pass, worthy of observation. 1. A Prophecy of K. Richard the 3. 2. Mother Shipton's Prophecy. 3. Mr. Truswels, Recorder of Lincoln. 4. Sibyllaes' Prophecies. 5. Ignatius Prophecy. 6. Merlin's Prophecy. 7. Otwel Bins' Prophecies. 8. Mr. Brightmen Prophecies. 9 Ancient Prophecies in Meeter. Whereto is added the Predictions of Mr. John Saltmarch, to his Excellency, and the Counsel of his Army. And the manner of his Death. Printed by an exact true copy; with new marginal Notes on Mother Shipton's Prophecies. Wolsey. Mother Shipton. Printed for Richard Harper, at the Bible and Harp in Smi●hfield. 1648. Mr. Saltmarshes Predictions declared to his Excellency the Lord Fairfax, and the Counsel of his Army; with the Motives that occasioned it: and the manner of his Death. HE being at his house near Y●lford in Essex, Decemb. 4. 1647. told his Wife, that he had received a command from God, to make known to the Army what the Lord had revealed unto him: The like he said to Sir H. ● Knight, a Member of the House of Commons, as soon as he arrived at London. The next die (being ●he Lords day) he found some difficulty to procure a Horse, but after dinner he got one, and rid alone towards Windsor. But missing his way, lodged at night 7. miles short; where he declared, That the great and dreadful Day of the Lord is near, when all men shall be judged by Jesus Christ, and then shall the ways and actions of all men appear, etc. Early the next day, Decemb. 6. he again miss his way in a Forest, but espying a house, rid to it to demand his way, and there made known, That God was purposed to destroy the wicked, and draw the Saints to himself, with much more: after which he departed, and about nine of the clock came to Windsor; where Mr. A. an Adjutator saluting him, he said Mr. A. Depart from these Tents lest you perish with them, for the Lord hath revealed unto me, that he is angry with this Army, because they have forsaken him. Another, a Captain asked him how he did? To whom he replied, That he had nothing from God to say to him, because he had always been a seeker under specious pretences. Then seeing one C. D. another Officer, he said, he could not own him, for he was for destruction. Then going to the General Council, where many Officers were met in expectation of the General, he told them, That he was come thither to reveal the Lords command; That though God had done much for them, and by them, yet he had left them and their Counsels, because they had forsaken him: That God would not prosper their Consultations, but destroy them by divisions amongst themselves; That formerly he came like a Lamb, but now God had raised in him the spirit of a Lion, because they had ●ought to destroy the people of God. Some said that he looked like one distracted, and that he had been sick, and was not well recovered; to whom he replied, that he had been sick, but well in health then, and sensible of what he said, and that should be the last time that ever he should speak to them. Afterwards he went to the General, not moving his hat, and told him, That he had no command from God to honour him, That he had honoured him so much, as he offended God in doting on his person, and that God would no longer prosper him, etc. Then going to the L. Gen. who asked him how he did? he (without any respect) answered him, That God was very angry with him for abusing the godly, and that the Armies falling from their first Principles, would occasion their ruin and destruction, etc. After which he departed, and on Tuesday, Decemb. 7. went again to the L. Gen. and declared, That he was sorry to see such obstinacy in him, and wished him to be mindful of what God had declared unto him: Afterwards he took his leave of the Army, and said he had done his Errand, and must leave them never to see the Army more. On Wednesday, Decemb. 8. he came to London, and took leave of some friends, to whom he recommended his wife. On Thursday Decemb. 9 he went from London to his house at Y●lford, not sick at all, and told his wife what he had done. On Friday Decemb. 10, he said he had finished his course, and must go to his Father. In the afternoon he said his head ached, and laid himself upon his Bed. On Saturday, Decemb. 11. he was taken speechless, and about four or five a clock that afternoon died. A Prediction of King Richard the Third. IN the Reign of King Richard the third, his Majesty with his Army lay at Leicester the night Before the battle at Bosworth field was fought. It happened in the Morning as the King road through the South-gate, a poor old blind man (by profession a Wheel wright) sat begging, and hearing of his approach said, that if the Moon changed twice that day, having by her ordinary course changed in the Morning, King Richard should lose his Crown, and be slain; and riding over the bridge his left foot struck against a stump of wood, which the old man hearing, said, Even so shall his head at his return back hit on the same place, which so came to pass: And a Nobleman that carried the Moon for his Colours, revolted from King Richard, whereby he lost that day his Life, Crown, and Kingdom; which verified the Presages of that poor blind old man. The Prophecy of Shipton's Wife in the time of King Henry the Eight. Note, that this Prophecy was never exactly printed before. When she heard that King Henry the Eight should be King, and Cardinal Wolsey should be at York, she said that Cardinal Wolsey should never come to York, which the King and the Cardinal hearing, being angry, sent the Duke of Suffolk and the Lord Darcy to her, who came with their men disguised to the King's house near York, where leaving their men they went to Mr. Besly to York, and desired him to go with them to Mother Shipton's house, where when they came they knocked at the door, she said, come in Mr. Besly, and those honourable Lords with you, and Mr. Besly would have put in the Lords before him; but she said, come in Mr. Besly, you know the way, but they do not. This they thought strange that she should know them, and never saw them; then they went into the house, where there was a great fire, and she bade them welcome, calling them all by their names, and sent for some Cakes and Ale, and they drank and were very merry. Mother Shipton, said the Duke; if you knew what we came about, you would not bid us so welcome; she said the messenger should not be hanged: Mother Shipton, said the Duke, you said the Cardinal should never see York; yea said she, I said he might see York, but never come at it. But said the Duke, when he comes to York thou shalt be burned; we shall see that, said she, and plucking her handkerchief off her head, she threw it into the fire, and it would not burn: then she took her staff and turned it into the fire, and it would not burn; then she took it and put it on again. Then said the the Duke, what mean you by this? she replied, if this had burned, I might have burned. Mother Shipton, quoth the Duke, what think you of me? My Lord, said she, the time will come (a) The Duke was afterward beheaded. you will be as low as I am, and that is a low one indeed. My Lord Piercy said, and what say you of me? My Lord, said she, shoe your horse in the quick, and you will do well, but your (b) This proved true, for he risen in rebellion in the North, and by not flying when he might he was taken and beheaded at York, where his body was buried; but his head was ●●ol● away and carried into France. te●g● Eliz, R. body will be buried in York pavement, and your head shall be stolen from the Bar and carried into France: At which they all laughed, saying, that would be a great lop between the head and the body. Then said the Lord Darcy, and what think you of me? She said, you have made a great Gun, shoot it off, for it will never do you no good; you are going to war, you will pain many a man, but kill none: So they went away. Not long after the Cardinal came to Cawood, and going to the top of the Tower, He asked, where stands York, and how far it was thither? and said, that one said he should never see York; nay, said one, she said you might see York, but never come at it. He vowed to burn her when he came to York. Then they shown him York, and told him it was but eight miles thence; he said that he would soon be there; but being sent for by the King, he died in his way to London, at Leicester of a laske. And Shipton's wife said to Mr. Besly, yonder is a fine stall built for the Cardinal in the Minster, of gold, pearl; and precious stones, go and present one of the pillars to King Henry; and he did so. Mr. Besly seeing these things fall out as she had foretold, desired her to tell him some more of her Prophecies. Mr. Besly said she, before that (c) This came to pass, for Trinity steeple in York was blown down with a tempest, and Owse Bridge was broken down with a great flood; and what they did in repairing ●●e bridge in the day time with the stone of the steeple, fell down in the night, until they (remembering thi●●rophesie) laid the highest stone of the steeple for the foundation of the bridge, and then the work stood. And by this was partly verified another of Mother Shipton's Prophecies (viz.) That her maid should live to drive her Cow over Trinity steeple. Owse Bridge and Trinity Church meet, they shall build on the day, and it shall fall in the night, until they get the highest stone of Trinity Church, to be the lowest stone of Owse Bridge. Then the day will come when the North shall rue it wondrous sore, but the South shall rue it for evermore; when hares kindle on cold hearth (d) Supposed to be mean by suppression of Abbien and other Religion's houses. And at the Lord William howard's house at Naworth, a Hare came and kindled in his Kitchen upon the hearth. stones, and lads shall marry Ladies and bring them home, then shall you have a year of pining hunger, and then a dearth without come, a woeful day will be seen in England, a King and a Queen. The first coming of the (e) This was fulfilled in K. James his coming in, for such a multitude of people stood at Holgate bar to behold him, as that to avoid the press, he was forced to ride by another way. King of Scots shall be at Holgate Town, but he shall not come through the Bar, and when the King (f) When King James was at London, his children were at Edinburgh, prepareing to come in to England. of the North shall be at London, his tayl● shall be at Edinburgh. After this shall water (g) This is verified by the conducting of water into York streets through boared Elms: And the Conduit house hath a Windmill on the top that draws up the water. come over Owse bridge, and a windmill shall be set on a tower; and an Elm-tree shall lie at every man's door, at that time women shall wear great hats and great bands. And when there is a Lord Major (h) A Lord Major whose house was in the Minster yard in York, was killed with three stabs. at York, let him beware of a stab. When two Knights (i) Sir Tho. Wentworth & Sir John Savill in choosing Knights for the Shire in the Castle yard in York, did so fall out, that they were never after well reconciled. shall fall out in the Castle-yard, they shall never be kindly all their lives after. When all Colton (k) Colton hag in her rhyme was a Wood land ground full of trees, which bore corn seven years, and the seaventh year after that was the year of the coming in of the Scots, and their taking of Newcastle. hag hath borne corpse of Corn, seven years after you shall hear news, there shall two Judges (l) In the year 1616. two Judges of Assize went out at a gate in York, where never any Judges were known to go out before or since. go in and out at Walmgate Bar. Then Wars shall begin in the Spring, Much woe to England it shall bring: Then shall the Ladies cry well away, That ever we lived to see this day. Then best for them that have the least, and worst for them that have the most: you shall not know of the war over night, yet you shall have it in the morning: and when it comes it shall last three years: between Cardon and Aire shall be great warfare, when all the world is as lost, it shall be called Christ's Crossed. When the battle gins, it shall be where (m) Near Leicester, where Richard the third was slain in battle, the Colonel Hastings was one of the first in Arms, endeavouring to settle the Commission of Array, in opposition to others that were then settling the Militia. Crook-back Richard made his fray. They shall say, to warfare for your King for half a crown a day, but stir not, (they will say) to warfare for your King on pain of hanging, but stir not, for he that goes to complain, shall not come bacl again. The time will come when England shall tremble and quake for fear of a dead man that shall be heard to speak: then will the Dragon give the Bull a great snap, and when the one is down they will go to London Town: Then there will be a great battle between England and Scotland, and they will be pacified for a time, and when they come to Brammamore they fight and are again pacified for a time, then there will be a great battle between England and Scotland at Stockmore: Then will Ravens sit on the (n) It is to be noted and admitted, that this Cross in the North in Mother Shipton's days was a tall stone Cross, which ever since hath been by degrees sinking into the ground, and now is sunk so low, that a Raven may sit upon the top of it, and reach her bill to the ground. Cross, and drink as much blood of Nobles as of the Commons, than woe is me, for London shall be destroyed for ever after. There will come a woman with one eye, and she shall tread in many men's blood to the knee, and a man leaning on a staff by her, she shall say to him, what art thou? and he shall say, I am the King of Scots, and she shall say, go with me to my house, for there are three Knights, and he will go with her, and stay there three days and three nights, then will England be lost, and they will cry twice a day, England is lost. Then there will be three Knights in Peter-gate in York, and the one shall not know of the other; there shall be a child borne in Pomfret with three thumbs, and those three Knights will give him three horses (o) There is a child not many years since borne at Pomfret with three thumbs. to hold while they win England, and all Noble blood shall be gone but one; and they shall carry him to Sheriff Hutton's Castle six miles from York, and he shall die there, and they shall choose there an Earl in the Field, and hanging their horses on a thorn, and rue the time that ever they were borne to see so much blood shed. Then they will come to York to besiege it, and they shall keep them out three days and three nights, and a penny loaf shall be within the Bar at half a Crown, and without the Bar at a penny; and they will swear if they will not yield, to blow up the Town walls: Then they will let them in, and they will hang up the Major, Sheriffs and Aldermen, and they will go into Crouch Church, there will three Knights go in, and but one come out again, and he will cause Proclamation to be made, that any man may take house, tower, or bower for 21. years, and whilst the world endureth, there shall never be warfare again, nor any more Kings or Queens, but the Kingdom shall be governed by three Lords, and then York shall be London. And after this shall be a white harvest of Corn gotten in by women. Then shall be in the North, that one woman shall say unto another, Mother, I have seen a man to day, and for one man there shall be a thousand women: there shall be a man sitting on St. Ia●es Church hill weeping his fill: And after that a Ship came sailing up the Thames till it came against London, and the Mr. of the Ship shall weep, and the Mariners shall ask him why he weepeth, being he hath made so good a voyage, and he shall say; Ah what a goodly City this was, none in the world comparable to it, and now there is le●t scare any house that can let us have drink for our money. Unhappy he that lives to see these days, But happy are the dead Shipton's wife says. In the world's old age this woman did foretell, Strange things should hap which in our times have fell. Mr. Truswels, Recorder of Lincoln. THe Lily shall remain in a merty world, and he shall be moved against the seed of the Lion, and he shall stand on one side amongst thrones of his Kingdom and Country: and there shall come the Son of man beating three wild beasts in his Arms, which Kingdom is the Land of the Moon, which is to be dread throughout all the world, with a company of people he shall pass many waters, and he shall come to the Land of the Lion, looking for help, with the beasts of his own Country: And in that year there shall come an Eagle out of the Bast, and his wings spread with the beams of the Son of man: And that year shall be destroyed Castles upon Thames, and there shall be great fear over the whole world; and in a part of the Land there shall be great battles amongst many Kingdoms: That day shall be the bloody field, and the Lily shall lose his Crown, and therewith shall be crowned the Son of man. And in the fourth year, many battles shall be for the Faith, and most of the world shall be stoopen, but the Son of man with the Eagle shall be preferred, and there shall be universal peace over the whole world: Then shall the Son of man receive a marvellous token, and there shall be great plenty of all manner of fruits, and then shall he go to the land of the cross. The Prophecy of old Sibylla. When Scotland hundred and ninth unconquered King, The sixteenth hundred thirty and ninth year, Into his age of thirty nine shall reign, Then shall the Papal overthrow appear, Which all the Arts of Europe shall admire: For Scotland shall that blessed work begin, Then shall the whore of Babel we had here, Be banished quite which Bishops did bring in. Then thou brave England, which wast led so blind By their perverse Episcopal pride, And Ireland's shameless superstitious sin Shall be suppressed, who cruelly have cried; So that, that Sacred Prophetess Sibylla, Shall shortly come to pass; she tells Tom Milla. And Tom tell's me, and I must tell't again, Through Scotland, England, Ireland, France & Spain. Ignatius Prophecy. If eighty eight be past, then thrive Thou mayest, till thirty four or five. After the ●▪ is dead, a Scot Shall govern there: and if a plot Prevent him not, then sure his sway Continue shall till many a day. The ninth shall die young, and the first Perhaps shall reign: but (oh) accursed Shall be the time when thou shalt see To sixteen joined twenty three; For then the Eagle shall have help●, By craft to catch the Lion's whelp▪ And hurt him sore, except the same Be cured by the maiden's name. In July month of the same year; Saturn conjoins with Jupiter. Perhaps false Prophets shall arise, And Mahomet shall show his prize. And sure much alteration Shall happen in Religion; Believe this truly, if then you see A Spaniard a Protestant to be. Merlin's Prophecies. ON Boreas' wings then hither shall be borne, Through Week o'er Tweed, a Princely Unicorn Who brought into the world his own fair Crest, A rampant Lion figured on his breast, And to his arms six Lions more shall quarter With six French flowers environed with the garter, Joining by fates unchangeable dispose The Northern Thistle in the Southern Rose: He shall the true Apostolic Faith maintain, With pious zeal during his blessed reign. That Lincoln was, that London is, that York shall b● Brave London prays those days she ne'er may see. The Prophecies of old O●wel Bins, kept by Mr. Smith Vicar of Hudderfield 40. Years. THen james shall seek a second Crown, In pulling Pope and Papists down; But james shall vanish from their face, At half Elizabeth's Royal race. Then using foreign policies, Grudge and discontents arise; Yet shall they assemble at the seat Of Parliament for a work most great; But strange opinions there shall sow Dissensions that too high shall grow: And La●dicea's, England's Church, Of grace and beauty some shall lurch; And Smiths of policy shall invent To cast new moulds of government. While vulgar birds of weakest wing Grow stout against their Eagle King. Whose just integrous heart shall prove The Adamant of Subjects love: Then pride shall some in prison lock, And lop a head off on a block: By honest power they shall bring down An aspirer that assumed a Crown; That he whose power did Laws contemn, ●ight find a grave no Diadem. ●ome Co●ick Seenes shall then be acted ●y vulgar players much distracted; The Gospel from a tub or tun, ●hall broached by Mechanics r●n. ●etucoats shall in Pulpits preach, And women be allowed to teach; And in these gloomy dogged days They shall tread off the Muse's bays. Thus strife and fury shall increase, ●nd Round heads shall disturb the peace Of Religion, while they it toss 〈◊〉 blankets, and pull down the Cross. The Brownists shall no old prayers brook, sermons shall drown the Service Book, Then all men in those times shall see ●reat troubles and calamity. Then on the Irish bogs and heath, ●any a man shall taste of death. The Soldier's wages shall increase, Till wars at last in conquest cease: To such as are good Landlords known, 〈◊〉 hostile times some love is shown: ●●t for all such as have great store, ●hey are in less Afety than the poor. ●hen twenty pounds of coin in hand, 〈◊〉 worth so much of yearly Land. ●●om Ireland then there shall come one ●ust lose his head upon a stone: ●ut when England doth swim in floods Of plenty and grows proud of goods, Then from their sleope they shall be waked, To know themselves both blind and naked. christs Church must know some misery. There shall be a doleful tragedy: The Lord abroad his sword will send, ●●lesse they w●●ning take t' amend; Yet Germany, France and Brkeny, This last act of my tragedy. Good days will follow, bad ones ce●s●, There shall be plenty and great pence: The whore of Rome's nose shall be ●●t, And of her rich attire be stripped: In the mean time Bishops shall be Thrown down from all their dignity Their Hierarchy and their train Shall ne'er recover strength again: Nor is Rome's City only Rome, But all the Pope's dominion; So that Rome feels her annoyed, While she in Ireland is destroyed: In forty one by computation, The Pope shall fall by Reformation: A Clergy man shall then suffice, His pride with one poor Benefice● Then Cambridge and the Oxonian Shall be scorned by the Rotundian, And some that cannot say nor sing, Shall drink much at a troubled springs And Cobblers than shall leave their last; In Sermons up their gall to cast: Magpies and Parrots than shall prace Both of the Eagle and the State, Until they bring things in conclusion, To much disorder and confusion. Rebels and men most seditious, Shall make the time prove pernicious. Rich men shall do things unbefitting, An upright Judge be scarce found sitting; Upstart honour shall prove dreams; And Bishops Seas prove little streams: While many a feathered fowl shall fli●. Beyond the Seas for jeopardy; Rumours shall be of wars and arms, And there shall be of Sects great swarms, A sort of mad rude common people, Shall pull the Cross from every steeple. The King while they do thus presume, Unto this Realm that right shall doom, He shall this Kingdom wisely guide, And other Kingdoms more beside: Then Peers and Commons shall elect, Whose Laws shall ever take effect. No man shall Lawyers counsel crave, For men at home their right shall have, And Officers each town within, Shall right their wrongs and punish sin; Worthies be nine, and reckon me, And this the tenth and last shall be: The Moon obseured full sixty year, Shall then get light, and shine full cleare● While England then for joy shall sing, And bless the reign of their good King, Mistress Whi●e● a Welsh woman on the third of May last Prophesied at follow●●● THE 15 of this Month of May Shall be a sad disastrous day, And they that Charle● his part do take Shall dear suffer for his sake, And many of his friends shall fly, Lake Dust before the Enemy: But in the pleasant Month of june The Birds will sing another tune; A Glorious splendour shall appear, And so protect our Severaigne dear: Diew cathee whee Guenthlen White. Aged 112 years. Mr. Brightmen Prophesy. When Engands Church grows England's shame, Full of luke warmness, glory vain, The worst in works and outward form, A●d with contrary factions torn, When Romish Rites by Reformation, Shall be expelled out of this Nation, Lord, beggar, Bishops than shall come To ruin and be overthrown. The Priests shall be vile to each wit Their downfall read with much delight; For God will not the guiltless hold, That have been neither hot nor cold. The scotch Church shall be in condition A Virgin free from superstition. They shall be joined in Covenant, 'Gainst which the world shall boast and vaunt▪ But England's Church must feel the storm, Until she truly herself reform: Such hurly burly, and such stir, No form of Church shall remain in her: But reformation must take breath From the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Another Prophecy very ancient in old Meeter. IN the same year that fully shall expire, The sixth great wonder of the world's Empire Then Tyders * i e. Hen. Ed. Mar. Phi. Eliz. HEMP shall end I dare arread, Then * After Q. Eliz. K. l. E shall fall, and I shall stand instead: In the same year a great plague shall reign, The which a thousand days shall remain: At Mary's Mass a Court they hold, The which in bloody Ink shall be enroled: There many a plea shall pass with brawling words, And short daggers shall be better than long swords: On Hunsl●es heath soon after shall be seen A fierce battle fought by a King I ween: Of Knights there shall be three thousand there, Of which there shall but ten back again appear: There shall many a battle and brawl be, And then a huge host shall pass over the sea, Concluding a p●ace but in this wise, Betwixt C. C. two L. L. so long shall last two I. I Another. ENgland thy proper native thee betrays, Because all Nations hate thee and thy ways, Spain doth undermine thee, France doth grow; Wales threats, the Irish thee by snares doth awe Thy Bravest men do on a sudden dye,; And thou thyself dost wholly reigned lie; Yet seest it not but under feigned peace, Dost thine own misery still more increase. Another out of an ancient Manuscript. When pride is in price, And wit is in vice, When Robbery as rife as Rye in the Rice; When great men are Lawless, And holy Kirke awlesse, God's body and blood not given the heeding, And laics have the Church in leading, Then shall sorrow set upon seal; But sal Fortune turn her wheel? When the year of our Lord is come and 'gan, One thousand six hundred fort and twain, Then zeal sal last for ever and aye Till the Son of God take all away. Another short, but pithy. IN Germany gins a Dance, Which passeth through Italy, Spain, and France. And to Ireland is a Leper: There the Dance lieth at a stand. Till it ventures over into Scotland, But England shall pay the Piper. Another. Ever shall ⚅ be called the first of the Due, When ⚀ shall bear up Then shall England be cleped Paradise; When ⚄ and ⚃ be set on side; The name of ⚅ shall spring full wide; And when ⚃ and ⚁ drive out ⚂ Than may England sing well away: Then it is all shent, For then shall be another Parliament. ⚅ Shall up, and ⚀ shall under, The Lion, the Rose, the Flower-de-luce: The Lock shall undo; Then shall ⚅ bear the price, And ⚀ sh●ll help thereto. FINIS.