The Wonderful PROPHECIES Of Old Mother Shipton, In the Time of King HENRY VIII Concerning Scotland and England. With several STRANGE PROPHECIES.  
By IGNATIUS, SIBYLLA, etc.   royal blazons of coats of arms of Scotland, England, France and Ireland 
Printed in the Year, 1700.   

The wonderful Prophecies of old Mother Shipton, in the time of King Henry the eight. Together with several other very strange PROPHECIES.  
WHen she heard say the King Henry should be King of the South, and Cardinal Wolsey King of the North, and dwell at the Manure at York; she said nay, Cardinal Wolsey should never come to York, Of this King Henr and the Cardinal hearing, they were angry, So the King sent to see if she would stand by her words, the Lord Duke, Lord Piercy, and Lord Darcy, (who came with their Men disguised to Ring houses a Mile from York. leaving their Men there) went to York late at Night to Mr. Beasleys house in Coney street, and desired to speak with the Masters, who came and they whispered in his ear to go to Shipton's Wife with them, and they went and knocked at the Door, and she said come in Mr. Beasley, and these honourable Lords with you, And then Mr. Beasley would have put the three Lords before, and she said come in Mr. Beasley, for you know the house and they do not, This is a strange thing (said they one to another) that she knows us and never saw us before, And they came in (there being a good fire;) And Mr. Beasley said by your leave Mother Shipton, and she said; you are welcome Mr. Beasley. Then the other three Lords said the like: And she called them all by their names, and bid them welcome, and bid them sit down, and bad her Maid fetch some Ale and Cakes, and she did so. And they all drank and were merry: Then said the Lord Duke, if ye knew what we come about, you would nor make so much of us. And she said the messenger must be either hanged or headed. Mother Shipton (said the Duke) Cardinal Wolsey saith, you said he shall never see York. Yes I said he might see York, but never come at it The Duke said when Cardinal Wolsey comes to York. We shall see that (saith she) and she had a kerchief on her head, which had a Yard of Cloth in it: And she took it off her head, and her head was as white as wool, and she spread it on her knee, and threw it in the fire, and let be in there a great while? And when she saw that it would not burn she took her staff and turned it in the Fire, and it would not burn, than she took it off the fire and shaked it, and put it on her head again. Now (said the Lord Duke) mother Shipton what mean you by this? she said, if this had burned, I might have burned also; mother Shipton (said the Duke) what must I do my Lord (said she) the time will come when you shall be in as low office as I am in, and that is a low office indeed. Then said the Lord piercy Mother Shipton, what must I do, My Lord said she shoe your horse in the quick, and you shall do well, if not, your head shall be stolen from the Bar, and carried into France. And they laughed and said, this is a great hop indeed between the head and the body. Then said the Lord Darcy Mother Shipton, what must I do? ye have mead a great Gun said she shoot it off, for it will never do you good, you are going for warfare, but you will pine many a man but kill none. So they drank and give her money, and went to Mr Beasleys house and lay there all night. The next morning they went up to the King: Soon after the Cardinal came to Cawood and stayed there three days and three nights: And the third day the Cross of the house top fell down, and broke the Steward's head, The Cardinal hearing of it said, I fear a geater cross than this. In the Afternoon the Cardinal went to the top of the house, and many Knights with him. He asked where stood York? And they shown him where it stood. How far is it thither said he, and they answered, seven miles, saith he, one said I shall never see York, Nay my Lord, said one of the knights, she said you might see York, but never come at it. Then he made a vow he would burn her and the priests that boarded at her house, if they lacked their vestments, the Priests hearing of this were fore afraid, And she had them keep themselves content, and they should have twenty to morrow if they would. Then a night the Cardinal supped, and after supper he charged that no man should come in. And when the company was gone that supped with him, the Lord piercy came to the gate and knocked, the porter asked who was there? Saying that no man might come in, The Lord Piercy thereupon changed his name for one of the kinsfolk of the Cardnial, and so got in. And when he saw the Lord Piercy, he said, mercy, my Lord Piercy: No, traitor, said though Lord Piercy, thou shalt to London. And they set him upon a Horse; and road for London with him. And Shipton's wife said to Mr. Beasley, yonder is a goodly stall made for the Cardinal in the Ministers of gold, pearl, and precious stones; go & pull down one of the pillars and present it King Henry; as she bade him, and so he did. Now the third day as the Cardinal was going towards London, he poisoned himself, and so he died. Mr Beasley came again to mother Shipton, and said, I pray you tell me some of your prophecies. Mr. Beasley, said she.  
Before Owzebridge and Trinity Church meet  
They shall build in the day, and it shall fall down in the night, unless they get the highest stone in Trinity Church to be the lowest in Owzebridge.  
The day will come when the North shall rue it sore,  
But the South shall rue it for ever more:  
Then the Hares shall kindle on the cold hearth stones  
And Ladieshal marry Lads & carry them to their home:  
Then ill shall be in the Norrh, one woman shall say to another, I saw a Man to day, for there shall be a thousand women for one Man. Then shall you have a year of pinning hunger.  
A dearth without any need,  
And a death without dread,  
A joyful day shall be seen,  
In England of a King and a Queen.  
The first coming of the King of the Scots, he shall come in at Boothan Barrae unknown, The next time he shall go throw Holgate Town and not through Holgate lane, and when the King of the North shall be at London Bridge, his tail shall be at Edinburgh. After this shall water come over Owzebridge: And when there is a Lord Major in York Minister yard, let him take heed of a stab.  
And when two Knights fall out in the Castle-yard, they shall never love kindly whilst they live again, when all Calton-hag hath born seven years' Corn; then seven years after you shall hear news, 
When warfare gins at the Spring,  
Much care to England shall it bring.  
Then all the Ladies cry well away,  
That ever we lived to see this day.  
Then well is them that have the least,  
And woe is them that have the worst.   
You shall not know of this warfare at night, but you shall have it in the morning, but when it comes it shall last three years ere it give over.  
Betwixt Cadron and Air,  
Shall be long warfare.  
When all the World is a loft,  
It shall be called Christ's croft.  
When the first Battle of this warfare gins, it shall be where crooked Richard made his fray. They will say to warfare for your King, and you shall have half a Crown but stir not: Then they will say to warfare for your King, upon pain of hanging, but stir not.  
For he that goes to complain.  
Shall never come again.  
At that day 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 snip. After this when the first is down, they will go to London. Then woe is me for London, for London shall be destroyed for ever after, there will be great Battle between Scotland and England, and they will be pacified for a while. Then they will come to Brammamoore and fight, and then they will be pacified for a while. Then there will be a great Battle at Knavesmoore near York, and then they will be pacified for a while. Then there will be a great Battle at Stockton-moor. Then will the Ravens sit on the Cross 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 Man's blood to the knee, until she come to a Man who shall be leaning on a staff, and she will say, who art thou! And he will say, I am the King of the Scots. And she will say go with me to my House, and he will go with her, and they shall stay with her three days. Soon after will England be lost, and twice in one day will they cry, England is lost. There will be three Knights in Petergate, and one of them will not know of another. And there shall be a Child born in Pomfert with three thumbs, those three Knights will give him three horses to hold whilst they win England again, And all the Noble blood will be gone but one, and they will carry him to Sheriff Huttons Castle and he will die there, Then they will choose three Earls in the field? And they will hang their Horse on a thorn and rue the time that ever they were born to see so much blood shed,  
Then they will come to York and besiege it, and York shall keep them out three days & three nights and a penny loaf within the Bar shall be half a Crown, and without the Bar a penny. And then they will swear 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▪ Sheriffs and Aldermen. And there will be three Knights go into Crouch Church, and there shall but one of them come forth, and he shall cause Proclamation to be made, that any may take House, 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 governed by three Lords: And then York shall be London. And after this shall be a white harvest, Corn shall be gotten in all by Women. After this a ship shall come in the Thames till it come over against London and the Master 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 house that will but let them have drink for their Money,  

Lincoln was, London is; and York shall be  
The choice, and chiefest City of the three    

Ignatius Prophesy,  

IF eighty eight be past. then thrive  
Thou mayest till thirty four or sive,  
After the E 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 that time, when thou shalt see  
To sixteen joined twenty three.  
For then the Eagles 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 have his prize,  
And sure much alteration  
Shall happen in Religion,  
Believe this truly if then you see  
A Spaniard a Protestant to be.    

The Prophecy of old SIBYLLA,  

WHen Scotland hundred and ninth unconquered King  
The sixteen hundred thirty and ninth year,  
Into this 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 was led so blind  
By their perverse Episcopally 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 tells me, and I must tell't again,  
〈◊〉 much Scotland, England, Ireland, ●race & Spain.    

Merling's Prophecy.  

ON Boreas' wings then thither shall be born,  
Throw Week, o'er Tweed a Princely Unicorn,  
Who brought into the World his own fair Crest  
A rampant Lion figured in his breast,  
And to his arms six Lions more shall quarter,  
With six French flowers environed with the Calter  
Joining by Fates unchangeable dispose,  
The Northern Thistle to the Southern Rose.  
He shall the true Apostolic Faith maintain,  
with pious Zeal during his blessed Reign.    

Mr. BRIGHTMEN Prophesy.  

WHen England's Church grows England's shame  
Full of lukwarmness gloty vain  
The worst in works, and outward form,  
And with contrary factions turn:  
When Romish Rites by Reformation,  
Shall be expelled out of this Nation.  
Lord beggar Bishop then shall come  
To turn and be overthrown:  
The Priest shall be vile to each weight,  
Then down fall read with much delight;  
For God will not them guiltless hold:  
The Scotish 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 freely herself reform,  
Such hurly burly and 〈◊〉 stir,  
No form of Church shall remain in her,  
But reformation must take breath,  
From the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.    

Mr. TURSWELS Recorder of Lincoln.  
THe Lily shall remain in a merry World and shall be moved against the seed of th● Lion, and he shall stand on one side amongst thorns of his Kingdom and Country: And the● shall come the Son of Man bearing three wil● beasts in his Arms, which Kingdom is the Lan● of the Moon, which is to be dread throughout all the World, with a Company of People h● shall pass many waters, and he shall come t● the Land of the Lion looking for help with th● beasts of his own Country; and in that yea● there shall come an Eagle out of the East, an● her wings spread with the beams of the Son o● man: And that year shall be destroyed Castle● upon Thames, and there shall be fear over the whole World? and in a part of the World there shall be great Battles among many Kingdoms. That day shall be the bloody field, & the Lily sha●● lose his Crown, and therewith shall be Crowned the Son of Man, And in the fourth yea● many Battles shall be for the Faith, and most o● the World shall be stooped, and the Son of Ma● with the Eagle shall be preferred; and ther● shall be universal peace over the whole World then shall the Son of Man receive a marvellous token, and it shall be great plenty of all manne● of fruits, & then shall he go to the Land of Lilly●  
FINIS.