THE PROPHECY OF A White KING of BRITAIN. TAKEN Out of the Library of Sir Robert Cotton, that most famous Antiquary of England, in the Saxon Character.  
LONDON, Printed for G. Linsey, and are to be sold at his Shop against London-Stone. 1643.   

THE White KING'S PROPHECY.  
WHen so Lion of Rightfulness 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 limed, after that he shall be led. And there shall be showed whether there be an other 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 bed 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 done, But wise men Reading, And then shall a range of Gleeds, and that ever each hath beraveing) 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 kyrkes, 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 march in her place shall be ordained about him in Host, on the manner of a shield shall be form, then shall they fighten on Oven front, After the white king shall fall into a kirkeyard 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 he naught come old, for then the Gentile worthiness shall naught suffer wrong be done to him, But when the Ream is in peace then shall he die, and two years after shall come a new Rule from Heaven and settle holy kirk as hit shall ever more 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.  
IN Tempore EDW. 4th. The Latin of this ensuing English is to be seen in Sir Robert Cottons Library, that famous Antiquary of England, in the Saxon Character, the style of the Latin and this English fitly suiting that ancient tone.  
FINIS.