A True Copy of a Prophecy which was found in old ancient house of one Master Truswell, sometime Recorder of a Town in Lincolne-shire.  
Which in all men's judgements was not unwritten these 300 years.  
And supposed to be seen still in a writing of Parcment, at Stow in the aforesaid County, being the mother Church of Lincoln Minster.  
Whereunto is added Mother Shipton's Prophecies.   a man sits at a table holding astrological instruments, with a astrological book, and quill pen and inkwell 
LONDON, Printed for Henry Marsh. 1642.   

A Prophecy of a King that shall win the Holy Cross, prophesied by many and their names as followeth.  
FIrst, Saint Thomas calleth him a virgin King in brightness like an Angel.  
2 Merlin calleth him a Bull threefold of nature, that is to say, true Inheritor of England, Ireland, and Castille.  
3 john the Hermit calleth him the King of H●rds, that is to say, the King of many Hosts and Kingdoms.  
4 Merlin Sylvester calleth him the King of Wretches, that is to say, there shall be so much pride, lechery, sin and theft, at his beginning, that he shall have much work to correct them.  
5 Albion the Monk of Al●●ine calleth him a Lion of the air, that shall take his wings and fly to Rome, and shall be Emperor, and his name shall be Edward.  
6 Alphion the Proph●t calleth him the Western Beast, which displayeth th● black Bull with the golden hor●es, first in the East, and in his d●yes shall be destroyed the false Preachers for their untruth, and he shall win a great part of the world, and make a free way to the Holy Land, and his name shall be Edward, and in his days many tokens of Antechrist and other marvels shall be seen.  
7 Mallaycus Abbot of Ireland, calleth him the sixth of Jreland, which will not be governed by no man; but by God and himself, and in his days shall Friars and Monks for their untruths and falsehood suffer punishment, and he shall be c●lled Edward.  
8 Sibyl the wise calleth him, The second Lion of all beasts, which shall win the holy Cross, and in his years shall be destroyed Friars and Charmers.  
9 David in the Psalms calleth him an Unicorn, which shall never turn his face from his enemies, nor of any be betrayed.  
10 Bannister of England calleth him, a Bear of a clean vessel, which shall never be defiled, nor of any be betrayed; in his time much of the Church of England shall be punished, for their examples given.  
11 The Doctor Saint Jerome calleth him, the true Dragon, which was christened in no font; and he shall tread under his feet the King of pride, and then he shall take his way to the holy Land.  
12 Maconit calleth him to the minds of the delectable Rose of Britain, and he shall be defended of all Maidens, Widows, and Orphans, and he shall destroy all falsehood, and maintain all truth.  
13 john de Rapsissa calleth him, the delectable Rose of Rome and Britain; and by the hands of him, the Pope and all his Colleges and Cardinals shall be brought after the life of Christ; so they shall go bare footed and bare legged without shirts on their backs, and money in their purses; and he shall win the holy Cross, and bring it into France, he shall make peace throughout the wh●le world, and shall be buried with the three Kings of Colen; and when he is buried, advice shall say, Lie further my Christian brethren here is our fourth brother.  
14 Saint Bede the Priest calleth him, a Lion of a clean vessel, which by the hands of him, much of the Church of England shall be punished for their examples given, and he shall be Protector over all Christendom.   

The Prophecy followeth.  
THe Lily shall remain in a merry world, and he shall be moved against the seed of the Lion, and he shall stand on one fide amongst thrones of his Kingdom and Country: And there shall come the Son of man bearing 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 f●●st, 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 bes great plenty of all manner of fruits, and then shall he go to the Land of the Cross.  
The Son of man is the King of England, the Lily is the French King, the Lion is Flanders, alias Scotland, the Moon is England and W●les, the Son is France, the Eagle is the Emperor; the Seed, alias Head of the world is the Pope; the marvellous token is the Holy Cross.  
And the Copy of this Prophesy was found in an old ancient house of one Master Truswe●l, Recorder of a certain Town, and by all men's judgements was not unwritten these 300 years.  

This first Prophecy of Mother Shipton was in the reign of Edward the fourth.  
IF Eighty eight be past, then thrive  
Thou mayst, till thirty sour, o●●ive.  
After the E is dead, a Scot  
Shall govern there— and if a plot  
Prevent him not, sure than his sway  
Continue shall t●ll many a day  
The N●rth shall die youn●, a●d the first  
Perhaps shall ●e●gnes but (oh) accursed  
Sh●ll b● the time, wh●n thou shalt see  
To fi●te●n joined twenty th●e;  
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 such alteration  
Shall happen in Religion.  
Believe this truly, if then you see  
A Spaniard a Protestant to be.  
The lines (I confess impartially) are very mysterious, and withal they are involved in a stupendious obscurity. They seem as enigmatical, as Sphynx his hidden Riddle, yet I doubt not, but that your judicious minds will prove as auspicious unto this, as Oedipus did to his.  
You may enucleate the genuine sense and signification of the words, if you do but seriously revolve them.   

The second Prophecy of Mother Shipton, found in Henry the eight his days.  
WHen she heard King H●nry the Eighth should be King, and Cardinal Wolsey should be at York, she said that Cardinal Wolsey should never come to York with the King, and the Cardinal hearing being angry, sent the Duke of Suffolk and the Lord Darcie to her, who came with their men disguised to the King's House near York, where leaving their men, they went to Master Besley to York, and desired him to go with them to Mother Shipton's house, where w●en they came they knocked at the door, she said, Come in Master Besley, and those honourable Lords with you, and Master Besley would have put in the Lords before him; but she said, Come in Master Besley you know the way, but they do not. This they thought strang●, 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 drunk and were very merry. Mother Shipton, said the Duke▪ if you knew what we come about you would not make us so welcome; and she said, the Messenger should not be ●●nged: Mother Shipton, said the Duke, you said the Cardinal should ●ever s●e York; Yea, said she, I said he might see York 〈◊〉 never come 〈◊〉 it; But said the Duke, when he comes to York thou shalt be 〈◊〉 We shall see that, said she and plucking her Handkerchieff off her head, she threw it into the sire, and it would not burn, then 〈…〉 staff and turned it into the fire, and it would not burn●● the●●● took it and put it on again: Now (said she) I might have burned. Mother Shipton (quoth the Duke) what think you of m●? My Love, said she, the time will come you will be as low as I am, and that is a low one indeed. My Lord Pearci● said, What say you of me? My Lord (said she) shoe your horse in the quick, and you shall do well; but your body will be buried in York pavement, and your head shall be sto●ne from the Bar, and carried into France. Then said the Lord Darcie, And what think you of me? She said, you have made a great Gun, shoot it off, for it will do you no good, you are going to war, you will pain many a man, but you will 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 York was, and how far it was thither, and said that one had 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 be soon there: but being sent for by the King, he died in the way to London, at Leicester, of a Lask; And Shipton's Wife said to Master Besley, 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.  
Master Besl●e, seeing these things fall out as she had foretold, desired her to tell him some more of her Prophecies; Master, said she, before that 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 in 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 Ha●●s kindle on cold 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 Corn; A woeful day shall be seen in England, a King and Queen, the first coming of the King of Scots shall be at Holgate Town; but he shall not come thorough the Bar, and when the King of the North shall be at London Bridge, his Tail shall be at Edinburgh: After this shall water come over Owse Bridge, and a Windmill shall be set on a Tower, and an Elin-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 Mayor at York, let him beware of a stab: When two Knights shall fall out in the Castle yard, they shall never be kindly all th●ir lives after: When all Colton Hag hath borne crops of Corn, seven years after you shall hear news, there shall be two Judges go in and out at Mungate Bar.  
Then wars shall begin in the Spring,  
Much we 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 Cadron and Aire shall be great warfare, when all the world is as a lost, it shall be called Christ's croft, when the battle gins, it shall be where Crook-back Richard made his fray, they shall say, To warfare for your King for half a Crown a day, but stir not (she will say) to warfare for your King, on pain of hanging, but stir not, for he that goes to complain shall not come back 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 Stoknmore: Then will Ravens sit on the Cross, and drink as much blood of Nobles, as of the Commons, than woe is me, for London shall be destroyed for ever after: Then 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, and 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 Petergate 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 to hold, while they win England, and all noble blood shall be gone but one, and they shall carry him to Sheriff Nuttons 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 Lose 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 Mayor, 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 twenty one 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 shall York 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 upon Saint james Church hill weeping his fill: And after that a ship come sailing up the Thames till it come against London, and the Master 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 Catie this was, none in the world comparable to it, and now there is scarce left any house that can let us have drink for our money.  

Vahappie he that lives to see these days,  
But happy are the dead, Shipton's wife says.   

In th'worlds old age, this woman did foretell  
Strange things should hap, which in our times have fell.    
FINIS.