FROM THE LADY ELINOR, HER BLESSING TO HER BELOVED DAUGHTER; The Right HONOURABLE LUCY, COUNTESS OF Huntingdon.  
The Prophet daniel's Vission: Chap. 7. In the first year of Belchazer REX, etc.  
Printed in the Year, 1644.   

FROM THE LADY ELINOR, HER BLESSJNG to Her beloved Daughter, etc.  
WHose new Interpretation, not with Froth filled up, or Interlarded with differing Opinions of others, such old pieces having No affinity and agreement with this BRITISH garments or displayed COAT by blessed Prophets penned: So what the Verity of those fover great Beasts, divers one from another, which should arise etc. Whoso would understand & know their mystery for this very time reserved, hitherto with the Kingdom of Heavens great seal shut up.  
Distinguishing not only Nations but Times: The very truth of it: N'other then the several Coat, Arms, given or borne by him, the first of great Britain's Kingdoms or Monarchy.  
Not unlike jacob's united Family his Wives▪ Children, and Children of the Handmaids. The aforesaid Crowns four, concerning whose piece of super-artificiall Heraldry unknown to those Heralds of the King of great Babylon (Dan. 3.) even at hand proclaim the ancient of days, the approach of that great day of his. So go thy way Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end, which: Not only the Time, but unfolds unto what Nation or Language, revealed those glad Tidings, as by the Word (Sealed) given to understand thereby. Even where the great Seal the Jmpression thereof, those fover Coats or Beasts, styled Kings which shall arise, etc. And the Coin stamped therewith and the like, etc.  
And so the first in the likeness of a Lion with Eagels wings, etc. first displays the arms of England and France, and then standing upon the feet like a man, a Lion rampant (to wit) Scotland's coat, where the other the Irish Instrument, or Harp evident also out of Tune, etc. That no need to say, I am Joseph, or over-verball to be in this case.  
No more requisite than their ask either whether or no thy son's coat this of so many colours or pieces, as in the field, now those innumerable colours, etc. That were HE living, our Father JACOB would say, some evil beast had devoured us, to behold such blood shed amongst brethren and cruelty, as Since the Creation such a flood, the old Serpent never casting out of his mouth, and so like Joseph sold to the Midianits, our woeful estate, sale and rapine made, by Malignant brethren etc. But such miserable Shipwreck with us being no news, shall return to those mysteries of Heraldry.  
The frequent Oraments of your House wherefore to explain them farther, but needless; nor endless Figures here borrowed out of old Orators Books, suffices for figurative Demonstrations such, to render their meaning truly, running the way of the plain rather for the ancient of days his coming to prepare the way. So for my Commission thus.  
And farther as to you not unknown especially at what time your Mother became a Writer or Secretary, concerning the unsealing or interpreting this obscure piece to open the Vission of Daniel, though no obscure persons of the seed of the KINGS and of PRINCES. Even in the year 1625. undertaken this burden, following his steps, who declares when HE wrote first in BELCHAZARS' first year, the last of those Chaldeans of great Babylon.  
Also shown in that great plague year, when the City shut up: This Vission then opened, whereof even Then a Sign ro Token, not without a touch given in those words. But thou O Daniel shut up, etc. (Dan. 12.) And thus where every word a mystery, cannot pass over them, as none of the least His being so often saluted or styled so highly of the Angel: O Daniel greatly beloved man, as much to say too, O KJNG of great Britain! as Kings and Prophets; Brethren, Let him that reads Daniel understand.  
And as it extends to this time also, bears Date forty four; directly the present Year as these beareing Record of time and place, etc. of whose storming days thus. And Daniel spoke and said, I saw and behold upon the great Sea, the four Winds strove, and four great Beasts came up. divers one from another (to say) from beyond sea, the occasion of such divission, ready to be swallowed up in these swelling Seas.  
The first like a LYON, and Eagels wings, (Daniel 7.) I beheld till the Wings were plucked thereof: And lifted up from the Earth, and made stand upon the Feet like a MAN: And a MAN'S HEART was given unto it, viz. The LION'S Passant (regardant) turned into the Rampant, etc. After her decease, a Virgin Princess of renowned MEMORY, ENGLAND styled great Britain, and then these four several Coats given, etc.  
(And this Sailing on; or pursuing the Subject:) And behold another Beast, a second like to a BEAR, and it raised itself upon one side: And had three Ribs in the mouth of it, between the teeth of it. N'other then as it were displayed The three LYLLIES: The Arms of FRANCE, to the full given by this KINGDOM, where Nothing but a mere Shadow, or the bare Coat of it Left, Leaves in stead of Fruit: Besides, how by a She-Beare, as this N'other: Three divided KINGDOMS rend in pieces. The Rib or Side, bears Witness thereof, The second SEX its Character.  
And so farther from This saying, too well proved; (Arise and devour much FLESH:) even what Date it bears needless to say: Her MOTTO the Mother not of the Living Child, but of Divissions and Massacres, where inclusive the adored Sacrament called the MASS: Thus uttered Her Voice, Let it be neither Thine, nor Mine, but divide it: destroy it utterly, etc. No such Coat then, like to have any Affinity with Solomon's Ivory Raiment or Robe: as the Ensign of Peace, the LILLY of the field, but rather a Slip come out of the Bear-garden, unworthy to behold the Sun: became degenerate and so wild: Sometime to none of the Flowers of Parradise inferior.  
And another like LEOPARD, Lion-like SCOTLANDS Coat the truth of it displayed Thus: Which had four Heads, and four Wings on the back of it, as it were a Herald's Coat, or KING AT ARMS, etc. So great BRITAJNS four KINGDOMS or Crowns proclaims by them: And this the Sum of it; showing Then revealed the time of END, when united These four aforesaid, etc. As hereby farther appears. (And Dominion was given unto it:) No small addition, after Her days reigning forty four Years, for Scotland to give such a Large Coat by a Prince as unfortunate in His Progeny and Successor; As in his Predisessors or Parents: Wherhfore likened to the LEOPARDS Spotted skinn those sable spots or drops.  
And behold a fourth BEAST like a HARPY, or some such Monster, having great Jron Teeth, and Nails of brass, to be short, the Irish Harp demonstrated, likewise the very wrest as it were a little Horn, of which Jnstrument not a little out of tune, as ensues, stamping all underfoot God's Law, Human Law.  
And so fare for the Harp, Like the very forequarter or ribs inform or likeness, as strung in that manner ribbwayes, whose short Horn the express Character of tirrants of no long continuance, raising up and setting lower, like the wrest according to their will made a law, changing and altering when they please.  
Informing moreover concerning the blaspheming blasts of the little Horn, that had eyes like a man, and such a mouth, as much to say, that mouth speaking such great things, a Woman's and no Mans.  
Her Proclamations at her command, the great Seal, the Elders and the Nobles, so with the Story going on of that idolatrous time, Come see now that cursed Woman's spirit, she cast down, etc. cunjured up, as it were, walks up and down, that like herself of her unnatural Dogs, Actaeon like eaten (of her none left to bury) Jezebel by name, Woe to the House, whose signification, so no other than a stolen piece by the Poet, very like to be, as that for another: Borrowed from Elias, Elevation, also the fable of Phateon, That Prophets being sought for as though some where had fall'n or miscarried.  
Whose mysteries or morals in so high esteem among the Heathen against many may rise in Judgement, of whom reverenced no more Divine Oracles further more, to weigh or unite those times, with our heavy days, Likewise Peace, though voiced, jacob's voice like and the hands of Esau, yet such divisions and slaying of all hands, nothing but peace, put the question as though he sought nothing else, is it peace, and thus saith the King, is it peace.  
And ever and again, Thus saith the KING, etc. Is it peace, JEHV. New Propositions as it were. And Sir as long as her Sorcerors enforce doing what she pleaseth, what hast thou to do with peace, also at her last cast (when this Motto, who is on my side who) who troode HER underfoot, her enchanting voice, Had he Peace that slew his Master? (As it were to look to his Head) This bloodthirsty Mistress of Charms and Spells like Satan's falling those aspiring Spirits.  
So alike the time possessed, now see what a double portion poured out of the curse what one leavs, another takes, He that escapes the Sword of Hazael Jehu slays, and he escaping Jehus Sword Elisha slays, because the Land divided as those waters by him parted with the mantel of Elias, wherewith Sailed over Jordan River, and such virtue in it, bein worn out by them, much more vigere then and Spirit in their Books being perused and studied upon.  
And Mother and Daughter alike too. Now she cast into a languishing bed, consumed to nothing an Anatomy, etc. scarce any thing to bury.  
The occasion of this LANDS deep CONSUMPTION SHE, And waste made thereof: Woe to the House of God, and the House of PARLIAMENT both, the nursing mother of DRAGONS, those Sons of BELJALL in arms, foras her name is, so is she MARRAH: The GALL of bitterness.  
But because the Daughter of a King as JEHV speak, Here forborn the Remainder, buried in silence, for so births PREROGATIVE surmounts or goes before that gained by Marriage as descent and blood, a Character not to be blotted out, where with follows the state of VIRGINITY, the presidence theirs, Not in subjection as others.  
And for ELJAS' progress in the SPIRIT: The return of those long expected days, Let the READER be pleased for his satisfaction to turn but (to the Apocalypse the 11) And see in his COMMISSION to the Gentills. What date it bears there, concerning the revealed time of the Resurrection, etc. even behold the Sevententh Centurye it measured out by months and days, amounting unto three years and half, the half of seven like the time nothing, but divission, including the great mystical week, expressed several & divers ways. A touch of which time folded up with that sevenfold marriage, put the question in the resurrection whose wife, etc.  
Wherhfore of the last (turned) Hourglass of time, Thus (Revel. etc.) And in the same Hour a great Earth Quake and the tenth part of the CITY fell, and slain Seven Thousand, Decima Pars, etc. and thus penned with the Character of the present when Elias his days shall appear again, their Resurrection or Revolution, as it were by a besieged City its model, and yielded or rendered up by the affrighted remnant, when such public Thanksgiving, saying, We give thee thanks O LORD GOD Almighty, which art and waste, and art to come. Uttered (times) triple voices, to weigh the time, etc.  
And as a Reformation time, to the greatest part hateful & unsufferable: so the day of Judgements tidings as welcome, like the writs of Parliament that news to many also dreadful, and detestable to the world, these makes it sufficiently plain, and the Nations were angry the time of the dead was come that they should be judged, etc. (ergo or viz.) to be manifested to the Gentills, and so like the last Supper aforehand, showing his death, likewise commands the little book opened to be received and eaten, as much to say, The last day revealed to be or afore shown the Lords second coming, etc. Also by two witnesses, to wit, the Books of Daniel and St. John, although reproved for his fiery Spirit: That he was forward and sudden in calling for the day of Judgement as it were: Then who knew not of what Spirit he was.  
And here like Elias and Elijah not to be parted (those twain going along further with the last time, those aforesaid mourning months 4.2. And a Thousand two Hundred and Sixty days, and three days and a half, etc. (Revela. 11.) all but sounding the great day's Alarm in the seventeenth Century: Then to watch as the time for the Elects cause promised to be cut off and shortened, to wit its coming short of 2000 years, and so much for times sentence, to be no longer (Revela. 10.) And the Sacramental tree of life, or Books of the old and new Testament, afore mentioned, And he therefore that shall add or diminish from the set time written by those witnesses let Him expect the plagues also proceeding out of their mouths, Pestilence and War, etc. otherwise that might have escaped death no few with Elias have been taken alive up, debarred from entering the rest, etc. as that figure of the Resurrection, double witnessed by Elijah a touch of whose Corpse thereby one raised up again, but let down into this Sepulchare.  
So again looking bacl to Daniel touching the little Horn declaring or sounding the brevitye of great Britain's Monarchy, (Whose look more stout than his fellows) more over thus I considered the Horns, And there came up another little Horn, before whom three of the first Horns were plucked up by the roots, the truth of it as much as to say, That he the first Heir of the red rose and the white. Whose ISVE three of them Crowned Princes childless, deceasing without Heirs of their body, the Crown of England fell to Scotland, and great Britain so styled, then wherefore blazoned by those great Beasts four being from name of Bruit derived, whose unicorns Horn become as short as his fellows. Looking of late as though all by conquest had been his, so according to his will wresting and altering whatsoever, and possessed with no little wilfulness as well as pride, proceeding from Ephnesse and Shallowness.  
And so from HENRY the fourth's taking possession of the Kingdom, regained by EDWARD the fourth of those royal Rose ten in number (giving the dunn's Cow) so many even from the House, of Lancaster's usurpation until the diadem fell to be Scotland's lot, all which displayed by those Horns ten and another little Horn, etc. as Corone being derived from Cornua, and Caroles a Diminative, etc.  
For saylingon, the Wind serving fair still, or for proceeding with the Map of great Britain's last Parliament, so manifest, that whose Image this, who needs to doubt, as a little farther, I shall hold on, etc. (I beheld, then because of the great voice of the word which the Horn spoke, I behold even till the Beast was slain and his body given to the burning flame:) Some may say hath God care of Oxen? Yes doubtless beholds even such a Den or Draught of restless beastliness day and night, St. James-Fayre so called, not without Cause their Privilege of late abolished: As hereby appears the Model every of those Courts put down: Where so long such Lawless do there, etc.  
(As for the rest of the Beasts, They had their Dominion taken away: BUT their Liver were prolonged) as He no little or inferior Beast for one, whose voice set a Note lower, brought to the bar, though so long deferred, yet whose Judgement sleeps Not.  
And then the Ancient of days, fitting in his judge's Robe, and Locks like Snow, Even the day of Judgement clothed in the Parliaments likeness: And the Parliament clouded under, or shadowed out by the day of judgement. His coming in the Clouds, so all in their pure wool, set forth & wool Seats, and thus much for that: The judgement shall fit, and the Books were opened, the Books of the Old and New Testament also: Nothing covered that shall not be disclosed too and proclaimed.  
Likewise by those Legions of Angels, beside the Parliaments everlasting sitting, the war raised, by them fet forth, like Dooms day as it were, when the Elements melting and the Heavens shaking, & Stars falling, like those Valies of Thunderbolts with lightnings, such a fiery Stream now making way: the general day's Epitome & the conclusion of all these, Dan. 7.  
(And the Kingdom and Dominion, and the greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven, Shall be given to the Saints of the mosthigh (OR RULERS) whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom.)  
As to no other given such a high stile, except unto this Kingdom, etc. Hitherto is the end of the matter concerning the end, and as for Daniel his countenance changed, and his cogitations troubled. The troublesometime before the change, fore saw even our evil times, His heart bleeding too, etc. And as Daniel signifying the judgement of God, so that Monstrous fourth Beast, as much to say; a Viperous generation:  
Herewith is signified like joseph's & Pharoahs' dreams doubled, even the seventeenth hundred year: By this very measure doubled to be likewise: a Time and times, & the deviding of time, or three and a half, (viz. 7.) Surge & metire templum, (Revel. 11.) follows tempus & tempora, & dimidium temporis. The Resurrections time hereby measured even in the present Century cut in the midst too (as it were) Paradventure fifty there, etc. And paradventure there shall lack five of fifty, expressed in the day of judgements very language, as shall not the Judge of all the earth do right, and Abram he but Dust and Ashes then.  
With whom saying, Now I have taken upon me to speak, cannot here rest showing farther, as Noah outlived the Flood, three hundred years and died, two thousand years after the Creation, likewise now the time abated or comes short 300. years, wherefore the dissolution in the seventeenth hundred year, and thus cut off so many years, like the shortened days of Enoch whom God took, who lived three hundred years and Eternitys forerunner begat Metheuseliah, thus five hundred years amounts to a PERIOD, as deeply sworn the Time should be longer, (Revela. 10.) measured by the CREATORS his right hand lifted up, Tempus non erit amplius, sed in diebus vocis septimi Angeli: Times mystery revealed, etc. as promised to be witnessed by the Prophets, his servants concerning times TRUMPET then put to silence time no more, etc.  
And lastly for MICHAELMUS (1644) That happy half year herein included, a time and times and half also, to disperse the Forces, etc. Revela. the 12. and Dan. the 12. concerning Michael's alarm, there signified and so like a Thief in the night as this fearful night vission, appears even the end stolen upon the whole world, or coming as the travel of a Woman misreckoning sometimes taken before SHE looks.  
Also farther for this last of Parliaments, & whereas God's word able to speak for itself of full age, other argument whatsoever, needless, it being of a quicker return, shall press another place of Scripture, as briefly explaind as others afore, Reve. 10.9. Concerning that Albion Army, and Aleluja voices where even the revealed time of the Lords coming. And the writs of this happy Parliament sealed up in one: Scribe Beata, etc. They that are called to this meeting, etc. All sealed with the Unicorn in pure Paper, as it were mounted on white Horses, or like the great show. both going together: as noted etc.  
Nomen scriptum quod nemo novit, the Parliaments name in another language, viz. et vocabant nomen ejus verbum dei. The Word, etc. et cum Justitia judicat, et pugnat. And upon his head many Crowns with a garment dipped in blood, deep Scarlet clothed, and on his vesture, and upon his leg written, etc.  
Namely the Colour and Garter of the order the Knights of St. Gorge (Ecce equus Albus) likewise from Chival and Equus. And thus the Knights and Esquires of both Houses displayed, of what house, and so from the name of Oxford, thus, et vidi Beastiam et Regis terrae et exercitus, etc. Revela. 10.9.  
And for the aforesaid war so far, as for the motive, Meritrice magna qui corrupit terram in prostitutione sua, etc. Hath been showed afore where she painted like her Images that downfall of Hers before theirs.  
Also added these to the premises because enjoined not to part, or put asunder what is joined, shown Farthermore, The great Image, (Dan. 2.) even armed at all points, the verity of those four Metals, o'er Argent, etc. the very same likewise divers one from another. Apertains to the four great Beasts the one rising out of the Earth, the other out of the Sea.  
So contains Caesar's Superscription even the Roman Empires age, written in in those Characters of the 3. Ribs, 4. Wings and the 10. Horns and then those eagle's wings so lifted up plucked too, notwithstanding Germanies manly looks, that Saxon state: like this great Statue unable longer to stand upon its feet, not unlike Ireland's estate, the model of that Empire in such a flourishing condition, and as the blow then in the 17. year of the present reign, so the other in the 1700. etc. broken so soon in pieces: Wherefore the world but like a Dream vanished: Like his sudden awaking in a moment forgotten all, etc.  
But now returning to great Britain's brittle condition again: That union dissolved and broken in pieces since his days: He the head of GOLD, as by those pieces called JACOBUS, after his name, etc. And he the ROMAN SPANISH Emperor by his tribute of late, since the Judies discovery, who makes up the head of Gold too: And all this but to manifest and show. That God is a Revealer of Secrets in these days also: Reveals the deep and secret things, And maketh known what shall be in the Latter days, by divers & several demonstrations, as this for another: Of the Axe laid to the root: That tree or pedigree whose fruit much of such a height, reached up to Heaven, this jacob's Ladder, etc. And now but the Stump end remains as ye see.  
The very Woods every where proclaims it, where the Axe never put so to the Root, such felling, etc. And so the Axe that fell into the water, by a stick cast into it, caused to swim: The Moral thereof no other than the Resurrection time revealed to be by the Spirit of prophecy. As much to say, As the late hand writing for a seal or sign of it, a sufficient prophetical proclamation though not on the Walls, etc. in the Banqueting-house, yet not unknown to Lord ●o few how these applied. Thy Kingdom numbered, and thou found wanting, etc. and come to pass too, as published and printed, 1633. sufficiently known, in meeter to his Majesty from great Babylon transferred to great Britain.  
And so this but the truth of it (showed in the 12. of the Revelation) How Satan because he knows his reign or time to be short: is ready to devour the Woman even for the truth of the Resurrection time revealed, as most proper to be performed by that sex, a Woman by whom death came to be the Messenger of Life. And so, WOE TO THE INHABJTERS of the EARTH, and of the SEA, etc.  
And since a pleasing Theme (as 'tis said) makes a good Orator, and sure I am a worse time than this never known or ever heard of, so then the time the end discovered, although penned somewhat hastily or unperfectly, etc. being like the honey: and like the honey gathered out of so many parts, I shall the less need to excuse it unto such as have a full knowledge of the Scriptures, That should it be written at large a Chronicle or a book as ample as those tables, of the Maps of the World could I suppose not contain it.  
Not suitable to the little book, being but an Epittomie as it were, and so much for being not voluminous, especially when the time ●o short too: as by Tyrant time his reign expired, showed to be and these the appointed Scutcheons for his Hersse appeared, those winged Beasts devouring times likeness, etc.  
As by this one witness more produced or set forth: asigned to the present, even in the days of these Kings, or united Kingdoms: Shall the God of Heaven set up a Kingdom which never be destroyed. And the Kingdom shall not be left to other, etc. And shall break in pieces, even to the same effect, with that (Dan. the 7.) The greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven, for ever given to the Saints (or Rulers, etc.) which shall break in pieces, etc. viz. By those ordinance or orders of Parliaments, and field pieces, etc.  
And yet not so strange as true; notwithstanding such a troublesome time O let Jsmale live as it were, preferred before Jsaac to be his Heir, And Absalon's life before Solomon the wise (O Absalon my son Absalon) Like Egypt's Leeks & Garlic before Canaan's Grapes, etc. And so preferred this world's vanity & folly before everlasting Righteousness, endless Joy, life eternal, and now ended thus this point of Honour, displaying the Ancient of days his Kingdom your portion to you dedicated: that so punctually have discharged that duty of the first commandment with promise, in so much and such dishonour endured, have been your mother's Copartner, even You, her alone and sole support under the Almighty. So Veni Domine Jesus, gracia Domine, etc.