An Examination of the preceding PAPER, or as is falsly suggested the Prophecy of Grebnerus, Printed in London 1648. and dispersed into the severall Shiers of this NATION.

THE genuine sence of the first part of this forged Prophe­cie aymes at, and onely intends to make known unto us, or that we should beleeve the Northern King therein mentio­ned was CHARLES STUART, the late beheaded King,Grebner abu­sed by the for­mer paper. and MARY the Papist his wife, who is still living in France to be the Papisticall Woman intended by Grebnerus: Whereas in truth there is no such name as CHARLES or a Northern King or MARY in the true Originall. How little therefore is a Daughter of Henry the fourth King of France beholden unto this blind Prophet or the publisher thereof; whil'st he publiquely avers that the late King by meer Marriage of her the said Marie, was Regum infelicissimus, The Queene abused and be­lyed by the Prophecy: or the most unhappy of all Kings. This is an high affront, and a superlative impu­dence, to maintain such things against one of the Daughters of the House of Bourbon, reflecting much upon the honour of the living Queen, whilst he endeavours to make her, yea, her onely the instrument and author of all our preceding and present Calamities which the three Nations of England, Scot­land and Ireland have so miserably suffered; one may sweare here is the poysonous hand of a Presbyterians Pen or Priest in this aspersion; for in the true Prophecie of Grebnerus, her name is not so much as mentioned, as I shall manifest in the subsequent discourse, wherein I publish Grebnerus Prophecie word for word, as it is at present to be seen in Trinitie Colledg in Cambridg. I wonder who hindred his late Majesty from conceding unto those Propositions sent him at the Isle of Wight, in which place he had no advise from her.

In the second part of this erronious counterfeit Peece, he acquaints us, and would have us beleeve Grebnerus Prophesi­ed, that in the reign of this Northern King and his Papist wife Mary, the English should chuse for their Generall in Warre an [Page 4] Earle, and so they did, viz. the Earle of Essex; and that he should continue his Commands three years and somwhat more, and so he did; and I doubt not but the Publisher of this pre­tended Prophecie knew it very well, by some eminent repulse or knocking, which some of the late Earles Commanders or Souldiers bestowed on him, which occasiond the remembrance of the time of his Command so exactly. After the Earles de­cease, this good man tels us and very truly, the English shall elect for their Generall a Knight, not of the Family or Dignity of the former; and this Knight should trample under his feet all those enemies which should dare to resist him. This was intended of Sir Thomas Fairfax, who was indeed elected the Parliaments Generall, and was at the time of his Election onely a Knight, though since Lord Viscount Cameron; who to the eter­nall griefe of the contrary Party hath performed so much as hath made good the Prophesie.

But now appeares the Prophet Micah with his hornes and in his proper colors, viz. he saith, that after the Lord Fairfax shall lay down his Commission, the English shall chuse them no more any Generall. You must understand this was published in 1648. at what time this precious Scribler, beleeved as much as he wrote; we all know the latter part of this Prophesie to be a very great Ʋntruth; for after the Lord Fairfax had laid down his Commission, with as much honour as ever any Man did, behold, the Parliament did elect Oliver Cromwell Esquire, for their third Lord Generall; who hath with as much suc­cesse and valour performed the Command they conferred on him as could from any man be expected, both in his severall employments in England, Ireland and Scotland; and blessed be God (if need were) we have so hopefull a Nursery of vertu­ous Souldiers in Scotland and Ireland, as out of whom we might elect many more Lord Generals; if need were, I could nominate foure or five my selfe, valiant and fitted for the worke. But we will prosecute our Prophet, who runs on and would informe us,If he appeare not before he will never hurt us. that after when the English shall chuse no more Generals, there shall appeare one Charles descending from CHARLES; which you must understand he intends of the [Page 5] present King of Scotland, and that he with a mighty Navie of Danes, Swedes, Hollanders, French and such like people, shall overthrow the Parliament and cut them all to peeces; and then shall govern his Fathers Kingdomes happily (he might first have put in or Prophesied whether he should ever recover them.) After which his overthrow of the Parliament, he shal beare rule far and neer, and be greater then CHARLES the Great. He may, I confesse, in person or bulke be greater then Charles the Great; but not in Warre or Atchievements be so happy.

This is an Answer unto this trifling Sheet, which main­taines the present King of Scotland to be intended in Grebne [...]us Prophesie, which I contradict, and affirme positively, that he is not so much as hinted at therein, nor is he concerned in any thing there in the least measure. If our Adversaries second Prophesie have as little evidence for the future advancement of the Scottish King as this formerly repeated; I assure them they will want sufficient matter, to make even a Jury of Ide­ots to beleeve any such matter of the present King their Ma­ster, as that he is to be greater then Charles the Great.

An Answer unto a second Counterfeit Grebner, published 1650.

THE former erronious Prediction or Prophesie going forth under the name of the true Grebner, not finding that hap­py entertainment and reception amongst the English Cava­liers and others as was expected, from those who emitted it even in that miserable conjuncture of time of 1648. to af­fright and terrifie the English Nation either from assisting the present Parliament, or to stand firme unto, or obey their Edicts. Behold, in 1650. Anonimus, or a namelesse Author, publisheth in Print some other Prophesies, pretending them more true and from more sound Authors; saying, some of them to be Pau­lus Grebnerus; others, of one Baudensis a Kinsman of Grebners: Belike the Grebners have the spirit of Prophesie by succession, [Page 6] or it is continued in the blood. This Man tels us matter of consequence in the front of his Booke, viz. tbat it containes the History of Europe from Anno 1650. to Anno 1710, &c. And that he might be sure to countenance his owne opinion, and receive no contradiction in what he publisheth, he affirmes beforehand in his Epistle that he quotes strange Auhors and Bookes, and such as are not to be seen in every Library. Ve­rily I beleeve he speaks truth; for his Authors I conceive lived in Ʋtopia, and their Books, or such as he mentions to be theirs are no where to be seen or heard of but in Terra incogni­ta. The whole scope of that his Booke being nothing else, but a slovingly casting dirt upon the honour and Actions of this present Parliament, and a meere invention to deceive and cheat the World, and especially the English Commonwealth, in asserting out of his forged Prophesies, That Charles the pre­sent Scottish King is the Lyon of the North, so frequently Prophesi­ed of, and that he and he onely shall erect the fift universall Monar­chy, and that England shall be under a Monarchy untill Doomes day, and that the present Charles shall doe wonders, &c.

I professe no envie unto the family of Stuarts or the off-spring of the deceased King, or any of his children now alive, I ex­treamly lament their sad condition; with an upright heart I speak my mind & deliver my conceptions freely without gall or bitternesse, hoping none wil take it ill from me, who being a Subject to the English Common-wealth, and a constant adhe­rer unto the present Parliament, knowing no other Authority but what is derived from them, doe assume so much publique Liberty, as to vindicate their honour and to affirme Truths on their behalfe, and I hope for the welfare of this whol Na­tion, as well as others on the opposite or Royall Presbyteri­an party assume leave in a licencious way to vent out their untruths and bittered conceptions against them, and for and on the behoofe of their own party, viz. Cavaliers, by meanes whereof thousands have miscarried in the late Wars, and yet may doe if not prevented.

I shall orderly relate the Authors own words, and then dis­cover his Fallacies and abuses offered unto the whol Nation, [Page 7] in pretending and producing forged Prophesies instead of true ones. In pag. 1. lin. 18, 19, 20. he saith, We have gained no more by our Civill Wars, Parlament a­bused. then instead of one Tyrant to advance a dozen over us; and from the height of our former liberty to run up the broad way to the height of slavery. In the first place we see he confesseth the late King to be a Tyrant: secondly,The late King confessed to be a Tyrant. he puts a great aspersion upon the honour and proceedings of the Parliament: I hope they will take such honourable Courses hereafter amongst themselves, and with their Sub Committees in every Coun­ty, that no viperous Pen may take occasion in the future to blemish their justice or well mannaging the Publique affaires of this Nation; and that we of the Commonwealth, as we have equally shared in the burthens and misfortunes of the worst of times, may in the end be more then Adventurers, if not reall possessors of what hath been already or shall be hereaf­ter obtained by our Swords and Purses, viz. Publique Li­berty.

In his second Page he writes, That the fift and last universall Monarchy of the Gospell of Christ upon Earth, A fift univer­sall Monarchy. shall begin in the year of our Lord 1710. If this Author will have the present Scottish King to be the Man, as all along he maintaines, or that Em­peror who shall be the fift Monarch, or first beginner of the fift Monarchy, and it or that Monarchy not to be in Esse untill 1710. Let us then looke into the improbability of this Mans Conjecture and assertion; the present Scottish King is this 29 of May 1651. fully 21. years of age; if we consider what his age may be in the year 1710. we shall finde it thus:Age of the Scottish King at present. Natus 1630. which substracted from 1710/1630. there remains 80. From hence we may conclude that the Author intended the Lyon of the North or the present King of Scotland, shall take possession of his fift Monarchy when he is full fourscore years of age. Our Author may well blush at these his mistakes;He must be 80 years of age when he enters on the fift Mo­narchy. for if in the Ca­tologue of the Scottish Kings he ever find any one to have li­ved sixty yeares, its a miracle; let him peruse the Cronicle of that Nation and he shall finde, some of their Kings to have bin beheaded, others deposed by the Nobles, most murthe­red; and very rarely any to dye in their Beds, nor shall he [Page 8] finde few of them to have lived out halfe their time.The Scot [...]ish Kings live not 80 years. But whether there shall be a fift Monarchy yea or no, I shall han­dle in the latter part of this Discourse, in the interim I hold this Assertion of the fift Monarchy to be a very ridiculous Te­net, and as probably like to be true as that Charles Stuart the present Scottish King shall live unto eighty years of age, which I assure my selfe he shall not by almost halfe a Century; yet should not I envie him such an happinesse, being he was Na­tive of England, if I could see any reason in Art or Nature to confirme such a conjecture.

In his fourth leafe, the preceding Anonymus mentions the Comet in 1618. and tels us of a Conjunction of ♄ and ♃ the 18. July 1618. which cannot be; for ♄ was then in ♉, ♃ in ♐: the effects whereof, saith he, Are not confined unto Ger­many onely, but are fore-runners of the downfall of the Sodomiticall or­der of the Society of Jesuites, the extirpation of all Kingdomes and free States of Papists, (these are the Authors words) and onely to make way for the Lyon of the North Lyon of the North. in the Ashes of Germany, and this Lyon is the present King of Scotland: Risum teneatis amici. I onely unto this give this Answer, That in the year 1618. there was no such Conjunction of ♄ and ♃; therefore all this Mans events and predictions derived from that preten­ded Conjunction are vaine and idle, for the Learned doe well know, there being no cause no effects could possibly follow. I perceive this Author is very lame in this as in all other his Proofes, and so I beleeve we shall finde him: perhaps he had the calculation of this Conjunction of Saturne and Jupiter which he saith was in 1618. in some obscure Library, or in such whereof he gave us an hint in his Epistle, that so we should not track him. The Parliament and Commonwealth of England may well adventure all the whol difference in que­stion upon the Truth thereof, viz. if there were a Conjuction of the two superiors in 1618. we will yeeld and lay downe our Cause,The true Con­junction was July 1623. but if no such Conjunction then was or in five years after, let our enemies be ashamed of their forgeres. This Author shal give us leave to make use of our own reason and understanding, and that assures us the Conjunction of Sa­turn [Page 9] and Jupiter, which he would have us take notice of, was really the seventh of June 1623.

In the same fourth leafe he produces a Prediction of John Baudensis Baudensis. verbatim thus rendred by himselfe; There shall happen in these our Europeian Regions, the destruction of great Emperours, the slaughter of People, funerals of Kings, subversions of Commonwealths, mutations of Monarchies, massacres of Princes and illustrious Comman­ders, violent and proud Counsels, treasons and rebellions amongst Sub­jects; Clergie men shall finde a change of Lawes and Ecclesiasticall constitutions by those of greater power, The end why this Prophecy was forged. and an insatiable desire of new things among common people. The Northerne parts of Europe shall be greatly oppressed with Warre, Sicknesse and Pestilence; rich men shall be impoverished, Princes cast out of their Dominions; the Fathers shall be banished, and after a long space of trouble, their Children shall be restored to their former Condition. This Comet also threatneth the terrible ruine of Rome, and burnings in all the Cities of Europe. The Papisticall Clergie, especially the Cardinals, shall be cast downe from their dignities; the Jesuites shall every where be drawne to death, He intends the Jewes. neither shall the Spaniards or French men have courage to save their necks from the halters. Furthermore, we discerne a Kingdome to arise of the most ancient Inhabitants in the Holy Land, which to Christians shall be a Miracle, and to the World a terrour; and these shall obtaine the revolution of a new Empire, under which shall be administred uni­versall gladnesse, joy and delight to Mankinde, A meer contra­diction to the former asserti­on. the Wicked being eve­ry where taken away. All these things shall be effected by a certaine Northern King, who shall miraculously establish Peace, Religion and Security throughout the whole World, &c.

Thus farre he produces the Prediction, or as himselfe will have it, the Prophecy of Baudensis; and he conceives, if it be not Apostolicall, yet it far exceeds Astrologicall ones. And verily so it may, for if Scotland be the Holy Land, as he here intends it, I protest its unto me more than a Miracle; or if a Kingdome or Monarchy arise from that Nation; or if any of Scotish Race shall hereafter be produced that shall begin the fifth Mo­narchy; or if an Emperour or Monarch shall arise out of Scotland greater than Charles the Great, & shall administer joy, gladnes and delight to Mankinde, the wicked (not the Scotish Wenches) [Page 10] being taken away, and this Northern King, or present Scotish King to establish Peace, Religion and security throughout the whole World; I say, when I see this verified, I shall beleeve it to be more than a Miracle: In the interim, if these were Baudensis words, I doe notwithstanding conceive it as far from his sense to make the Scots such sticklers for Piety and Justice, as Heaven is from Hell. In the interim I hold this Prophecy to be in the number of those which this Author hath forged out of his owne adulterate heart, and receive it as the flattering Prediction of a meere Time server, purposely to ingratiate with the Presbytery and Cavalry of England, to vilifie the pre­sent Government, to terrifie the English with the approach of the yong Scotish King and his Army.

In his sixt Page he runs on thus:

We in England have felt the misery of the one, and are ready stript to suffer the Calamities of the other; having for the present lost what is impossible to be regained; and seeing a new storme of Devastations hanging over our heads by the yong Kings late arrivall in Scotland (where he is received as absolute Soveraigne) which fils Mens hearts with pensive thoughts and doubtings what will be the end of these wofull beginnings. For my part I am a zealous Adorer of a Parliament; nor deserve I to censure the Actions of our Representatives; A blinde Pro­phet. yet will not I promise the Term of an Age to our Novell Government, but thinke ve­rily a change is neer at band to the old Modell. It is casuall to the best Kingdomes to have Interregnums; but as we stand now, we shall nei­ther be for six years together a body Politicke, nor a true Church of God. That excellent Astrologer of Misnia Paul Grebner, was more than an Inquisitor into the effects of Starres, being questionlesse indued from above mith a Propheticke spirit, not to be desired, much lesse of all, he plainly affirmes,

That as England ever was a Monarchy within it selfe, since it was discovered by the Romans,No such thing in the Original so shall it so continue and remaine, even then when all other Kingdomes and States in Europe are swallowed up of the fift Monarchy of the Lyon of the North.A meer untruth His Prophecy of our Civill Warres, Gebner never mentioned the late King. of the fate of our late King, and the restauration of his Son to his Fathers Dominions, runneth thus, Ban. 77.

Grebner's Prophecy of our late KING and his Sonne now KING.A second coun­terfeit Prophe­cy father'd on Grebner, Printed 1650.

‘PER idem tempus Rex quidem Borealis (nomine Carolus) Ma­riam ex Papistica religione sibi assumptam in Matrimonium con­junxerit, ex quo evadet Regum infelicissimus: inde populus ejus, ipso abdicato, Comitem quendam perantiquae familiae regno praeponet, qui tres annos aut circiter durabit; & hoc quoque remoto, Equitem quen­dam bellicosum in ejus locum assumet, qui paulo amplius regnabit. Post hunc eliget nullum. Interea unus è stirpe Caroli in littore regni patris sui cum Gallicis, Suevicis, Danicis, Hollandicis, Burgundicis, & Germanicis auxiliis stabit, omnes inimicos suos cruentissimo prae­lio superabit, & postea regnum suum felicissimè administrabit, eritque Carolo magno major. And in Ban. 74. he saith, Circa An. 1663. Brittanniarum Rex antiquum cum Belgarum Ordinibus faedus & ami­citiam rumpet, ob ereptas sibi ab ipsorum piratis naviculas quasdam, qui pertrepidi ad novum Danorum Regem (nomine Christiernum) con­fugient, qui utrosque compositissimis orationibus, deinde muneribus in concordiam alliciet.’

The English runs thus.

About the same time a certain Northern King, named Charles, who shall marry Mary of the Popish Religion, to his great unhappinesse; so that his People rejecting him, shall set up an Earle of a very ancient Family, who shall continue three yeers or thereabouts; he dying, they shall elect in his stead a Warlike Knight,The whole Na­tion know this to be a lye. who shall rule a little longer; after him they shall elect none. But in the meane one of Charles his stock shall land on the Sea-Coasts of his Fathers Kingdom, and with French, Swedish, Danish, Hollandian, Burgonian, and German Forces, in a most cruell Battell shall vanquish all his Enemies, and afterward most happily go­vern his Kingdome, and be greater than Charles the Great. And about the year 1663. the King of the most ancient Bri­taines, [Page 12] for the losse of some Ships at Sea, shall breake his League and amity with the States of Holland; who fearing, shall have recourse unto the new King of Danes (named Christiernus) for succour, and he by faire intreaties and large gifts shall win either side to agreement. Nor doth he ever speake of England in all that famous Manuscript, but as the most warlike and potent Kingdome in Europe. Therefore all good Christians ought to wish the new Warre were con­cluded rather by an happy agreement and composition, than by Sword and Musket,The Authors intention disco­vered. and the King placed on his throne rather with the hands of his loving and rejoycefull Subjects, then with the Swords of Forraigners. For if the beginning of his Restauration be in blood, and tumbling of Garments in Blood, the accomplishment of it will be with burning and fuell of fire.

These two Coppies are so different the one from the other, that I shall not spend much time in Confutation of those ma­ny untruths, and abusive Predictions, referring the Reader on­ly unto the true Originall which I hereafter publish. An easie understanding may perceive the severall Contradictions of the former with the latter; in very deed they signifie nothing at all that hath the least probability of truth; the maine scope of this later, being a perswasive Delusion, and a threatning Admonition unto the Parliament to compose these Differences, and set the King of Scotland in the throne of England, lest he with Danes and Dutch overthrow the Parlament, and consume us all with Fire and Sword. I cannot perswade my selfe this mans Logicke or Rhetorick, or farre fetched Prophecies, will finde the Parlament and Army in so willing an humour of giving away their Liberty already obtained with the expence of so much blood and treasure; or whether this Mans severe threats of bringing in Forreigners with the present Scotish King, to consume our persons with the Sword, and our E­states with fire and faggot; I say, whether this Oratory will be pleasing to the Commonalty of England yea or no; or whe­ther such language will make them dote on Monarchy I much [Page 13] feare. If any adoration of Monarchy be expected, it must be from the Presbytery; Who would have all in flames rather than their Diana should be cast downe; but downe it must, and they also.

In the tenth Page of his second part,Eclipses and their Portents. he tels us of an Eclips of the Sun in 19 degrees of Leo 1654. and of other Eclipses in 1657. 1658. 1661. 1663. and that these shall be formida­ble to Austria, Silesia, Hungary, Holland, France and Portugall; portending the mutations of all those several States, and that the Revolution of time is come,All must yeeld to the Northern Lion. wherein they must give place unto the Lyon of the North, whose Scepter shall bruise their power to nothing, and his Gauntlet lay their Forces prostrate at his feet. This Prediction he avers to be of Baudensis, and delivers it in Prose, but on the eleventh side of that his second Part, he acts the Poet, and confirmes all he saith for true with an old Coppy of Verses, portending as he makes us beleeve the greatnesse of the Lyon of the North. Take it I beseech you as he renders it:

These Verses were a Prophecie of King James and his Issue, Charles the late King was his first issue, and he began the Wars, Charles the present King of Scotland and his Brethren are those he cals the next issue. Now if Plague shall subdue these, as the Prophecie saith absolutely it shall, I would then know how the Northern Lyon King can be this present King of Scot­land, who must act such wonders, and live so long?

In the next place, he delivers us for a very Truth, that the Conjunction of Saturne and Jupiter in Leo, 1683. shall [Page 14] bring forth the Conversion of the Jewes; Jewes conver­ted 1683. then he proceeds to speake of Gog and Magog, and his owne conceptions of a fift universall Monarchy; as also the return of the ten Tribes, (apud Graecas Calendas) and the destruction of the House of Au­stria 1694.House of Au­stria to be de­stroyed 1694. All which he would prove out of these words: And the Stone which smote the Image became a great Mountaine, and filled the Earth. Ergo, the Stone cut without hands, must needs be understood of a glorious Monarchy; and this must be the fift Monarchy. That place intends the spirituall reigne of Christ upon Earth, and dispersing the Gospell of Christ o­ver most parts of the World. In his 28. page, he will have us to understand, that he must not be a Moyses of the Jewes blood, but a Captaine from the North, who shall restore the Jewes, and worke the workes of God in righteousnes, and make peace, and like a mighty stream overflow the whole Earth.

I cannot understand how this Lyon of the North, or this man greater than Charles the great, can burn Cities, Men, Cat­tle, &c. devoure all with the Sword, and yet after that be said to performe the workes of God in righteousnesse.

In page 29. he mentions a Northerne Monarchy that shall arise from the Northern Sea, and pitch his Tents in the Ashes of the Easterne and Western Monarchies.

It seems this Lyon of the North must be a great Traveller, whilst he trots from East to West to conquer Kingdomes, Na­tions, Countries. Dic & eris mihi magnus Apollo, In quibus, &c. viz. In what Countrey shall this great Alexander be born, &c.

A fifth Monar­chy pretended.In that page also he would prove a fift Monarchy out of the second of Daniel, and ve. 40. viz. And the fourth Kingdome shall be strong as Iron, &c. This was the Roman Monarchy, which was the greatest ever yet was in the World or ever shal be; and truly, if I had confidence to beleeve there might have been a fift Monarchy, I could have conceived the Turkish Empire to have been it, being in greatnesse it exceeds most that ever went before it, the Roman excepted. But I shall have occasion here­after to be copious on this subject, but herein we must give credit to the many Prophecies of former ages, rather than the [Page 15] single opinion of one or two men, and they not endued with the spirit of Prophecy.No fifth uni­versal Monar­chy. Of a fift universall Monarchy they speake not, onely of a King or Prince that shall unexpectedly breake forth into the World, and shall over-run in a few years all Nations or People where he comes; but for a continuance of his Empire there is not one word; all of these men conclu­ding his sudden death and short time of reigning.

By the thred we shall recover the needle,Merlinus Ca­ledonius. for at last our Au­thor in Page 31. rejects the famous Ambrose Merlin of Wales, and tels us of a rare Scotish Merlin living in King Lucius dayes; and this is the onely and onely true Merlin, A Scotish Merlin much crackt of for a rare Prophet. and the truest of Prophets. I verily beleeve he speaks what he thinks, and by this his peremptory confidence we ken our Author to be of the Scotish Presbyterian faith, and also what he drives at in the maine. No Prophet pleaseth his humour, but a Scotish Rimer; no Monarch, no King must have the honor to begin a fift Monarchy but the Lyon of the North; no man is to be admitted Lyon of the North but Charles Stuart the late Charles his Sonne, and the present King of Scotland. Who beleeves what this Relator writes, must have above three graines of Scotish Faith, else he will never remove a Moun­taine, or those many Mountaines of unbeliefe which lye in the way betwixt words and performances. But you shall have the Scotish Merlins owne words Latin and English, as this Au­thor tels us he found it in a Manuscript; for you must know he dares quote no Authors but invisible ones, and Manu­scripts of his owne in Ʋtopia to aver this Scot Merline, Prophecy of the Scotish Merlin or Mer­linus Caledonius. Illis autem temporibus revolutis, Cauda Virginis Leonem intrabit, & Sagitiarii dorsum Scorpius Ascendet, Borealia regna à messoribus obterentur, Australes principatus in statum pulve­reum desinent, & insulanarum Monarchiarum potestates sine froeno aut milite ephippiabuntur; bella atrocia ventis dissipabuntur, & pessum ibunt judiciali grandine, quae per baculum ortum habuerunt, per spurios juventurem; Sol ipse timpanizabit miniato chlamyde indutus, & Lu­na cineritiis cothurnis ad nundinas totulabit. Rides O Rex? At qui­bus haec supervenient, luctu & maerore contabescent. Haec omnia vix plene peragentur, quum Princeps regali origine coronatus ex Borealibus [Page 16] plagis proveniet suis inexpectatus, alieniginis desideratus: qui eò quod Leone ferociente insignietur, Leo nuncupabitur. Non conquiescet do­nec Synodo per eum convocata minisque dissoluta, victricia arma in bo­stes transferat & lamentabili successu vicinorum principum ditiones pessundet. Alexandrum magnum virtute, Cyrum faelicitate superabit, freta transnavigabit, à multis Regibus Imperator salutabitur, & urbem quandam vetustam solo aequabit. Interea ex Oriente princeps bellipo­tens illum praelio lacesset, contra quem Leo cum omnibis copiis procedet, & cis Euphratem positis Castris illum expectabit, si princeps flumen transibit Leo superabitur; at ipse excercitu fluvium transducto hostem cruento conflictu superabit, & universum Orientem in potestatem redi­get. Dum haec agentur, complures Reguli ex India in Syriam cum in­gentibus irrumpent excercitibus, & circa vallem Jehosaphat praeli­abundi Leonem opperibunt, ubi ab ipso ad internecionem omnes dele­buntur. Nec multo post Leo ipse fatis concedet, post quam regnum transfugarum miranda pietate in perpetuum fundarit.

In English thus:

Those times being past, the tayle of the Virgin shall en­ter the Lyon, and Scorpio shall ascend the backe of Sagitary: the Northerne Kingdomes shall be wasted by Reapers, the Southerne Paincipalities shall end in dust, and the powers of the Island Monarchies without either Bridle or Souldier shall be harnessed. Cruell Wars shall be scattered by the Winds, and quell'd by a revengefull Hayle; whose beginning were by a staffe, their growth and continuance by Bastards. The Sunne it selfe shall play on the Timbrell clad with a ver­milion coat, and the Moone with dun buskins, shall amble to the faire. Laughest thou oh King? But those on whom these things shall come, for griefe and sorrow shall pine a­way. All these things shall scarce be accomplished, when a Prince of royall stocke shall come forth crowned from the Northerne parts, as to his owne people unexpected, but desired by for­reigners; who because he shall beare a rampant Lyon, shall therefore be called a Lyon. He shall not rest, till having called a Synod, and after dissolved it by threats, he shall [Page 17] advance his conquering Armes against his Enemies,A great hrag to no purpose. and by wofull successe shall harrasse the territories of neighbor Prin­ces. He shall exceed Alexander the Great in vertue, and Cyrus in successe: he shall passe the Seas, and be saluted Emperour by many Kings.Look to it Lon­don this is of thee. A certaine an [...]ient City shall he lay levell with the ground. In the mean while a powerfull Prince out of the East shall provoke him to Battle, against whom the Lyon shall march with all his Forces, and pitching his Campe on this side Euphrates shall expect him. If the Prince shall come o­ver the River, the Lyon shall be overcome; but he shall passe his Army over the River and give his enemy a bloody defeat, and be Master of all the East.The King of Scots must fight in Judea if this Prophet lye not. Whil'st these things are in Action, divers petty Kings from India shall break in­to Syria with mighty Armies, and provided for Battle, shall waite for the Lyon about the Valley of Jehosaphat, where they shall by him be all wholly cut off. Not long after shall the Lyon himselfe decease, after that, with eminent piety,The Scots are fugitives all over the World. he shall have established the Kingdome of Fugitives.

Our Author is now ingenuous, whil'st he confesseth there is nothing more extant of this Scotish Merlines but this, oneIy pcece. I would know of the wisest man living, how this Pro­phecy [had it not seemingly tended to his purpose, we had not seen this rarity; but if we admit it one,] can any way preju­dice our present State, or further the present Scotish King, for wherein is he nominated in this or Scotland it selfe; it rather seemes a generall Prophecy of the last times. Certainly, had King James been a warlike Prince,King James a veey coward. many things herein might have been appropriated unto him, but because of his ex [...]reame cowardize, it fits not him. We know he was called the Lyon of the North, and that he procured the Synod of Dort; and how he was reputed righteous, &c. but it had no relation un­to him, nor hath it any to the present Scotish King; the very words of the Prophecie are so significant, they need no refu­tation or further exposition, they agreeing wholly with ma­ny others in the same thing, viz. That a certaine Prince shall in the last times arise,A great Prince to appeare. who shall over-run all Europe suddenly▪ and also destroy some Eastern Princes.

In Page 33 and 34. he labours to prove, and in his owne judgement is cleare, that neither a Spaniard or Swede, Dane or French, German or English shall be the fifth Monarch or produce the fifth Monarchy. This niggardly Prophet deales hardly with us English, whilest he tels us we shall extend our Limits no fur­ther, Ex ungue Leonem. It grieves this Man our Army entred Scotland 1650. he would fool us out of our Conquest there; but what will this stickler say, if we live to see an English Army in France, yea, perhaps amongst the Dutch.

Good pitiful Prophet, let us take in as much of Scotland as is worth keeping. Our Authors judgement is page 34. That even a Nation which at this day is hid invisibly within the bowels of Europe, An invisible Nation prated of [...] which seeing are not seen, and living are not known; these conjoyned with the converted Jewes and the Godly in every Nation, shall make the fifth Monarchy, which he would prove from Dan. 7. ver. 27. And the Kingdome and Do­minion, Proo [...]e of a fift Monarchy. and the greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole Heaven shall be given to the People of the Saints of the most High, whose King­dome is an everlasting Kingdome, and all Dominions shall serve and obey him.

Answer.God ruleth in Heaven, and Man by his permission on Earth. Why the Saints, whose contemplations are heavenly, should leave an heavenly Kingdom for an earthly tabernacle, I know not, or how it can be verified or beleeved, that the Saints in every Nation of the World can be gathered together into one Body without a mixture of some fleshly, prophane or carnall people, I understand not. For the invisible people he menti­ons, they cannot hurt us; I hope he meanes not Devils and Spirits: Let us but see our Enemies face to face and we shall doe well enough. But if the present King of Scotland must wait with patience for his advance unto an Empire whilest the Jewes are converted, and untill there be a conjunction of the Saints with the converted Jewes, and that these united Saints and Jewes shall make up his Army; or if his Souldiers shall be compacted of such pure Blades, let us I say, even goe sleepe an age or two, and let the present Scotish King take a sound Nap of about one hundred yeers long or thereabouts; for I [Page 19] assure the English if he never hurt us untill the scattered Jewes are converted, we may safely take our rest and sing lullaby.Scottish King n [...]ver is to con­quer the Par­lament. Oh that our Prophet might cry Probatum est, as to that part of his Prophecie, which affirmes this-Kings Army shall be of in­visible Saints. But what is all this or the seventh Chapter of Daniel to prove a fifth Monarchy, or the Scottish King to be this Monarch? We may smile at the willing application of this Man unto his own indulgent fancy, & pitty his credulity that can be contented to swallow such contradictions in his story; as first to make this present Scotish King to be the great re­storer of Monarchy, to be so great yea greater than Charles the great; and yet in many places he affirmes the Northern Lion shall doe no action of moment untill 1700. in other places he must act about 1710. from which account this Northerne Lion must of necessity be 70 or 80 years of age. And other­while this great Prince must stay till the conversion of the Jewes; then afterwards he must have an Army of Saints invi­sible; and with these he must domineer and fire Cities, Towns and Castles: Qui Bavium non odit amet tua Carmina Maevi.

If any man of English blood shall be so stupid,Admonition to the Eng [...]ish. or such an A­sinego as to credit these far-fetcht fooleries and Nonsences, and upon beleefe thereof, become rebellious to this present Parliament, let him for ever be tormented with Informers as to his Estate, and his body and indiscretion left to the mercy of the Keeper of Bedlam.

Lastly,Five great Ci­ties to be fired by the Nor­thern Lyon. he tels us in page 36. that the German shall be servi­tors to the King of the North in 1700. and that this Nor­therne King shall bring Paris, London, Antwerpe, Venice and Prague to sit in the dust of eternall destruction. Hereafter in this Discourse I shall make it plainly appeare out of authen­ticke Prophecies, that the Lyon of the North shall be of the German Nation, and that he shall curbe the shaven Priests, and over-run most Countries of Europe, Paris, Prague, Venice, Ant­werp and Lon­don to be de­st [...]oyed. yea and conquer the French Nation, and surely then will Paris come unto destruction, Ant­werpe long before that time, Venice by the Turke or one of Ma­homets Religion, Prague in Bohemia long after Venice by the Germans, London is London yet. However by this Prophecy, the [Page 20] Londoners and their stickling Presbyterian Monkes may see what they must expect by being friends to the Northern King, or continuing disaffected Rebels to the present State,London ad­monished. viz. Fire, Warre, Famine, and devastation of their Estates; and lastly, eternall destruction to this famous City. Possible it is, many rebellious sons of this City, wish all in flames rather than any good to the Parliament; but of this hereafter, and of the invisible Nation which must doe wonders.

These are the Prophesies, and these constructions the Au­thor hath made upon them in favour of the Northerne King, viz. the present Scotish King, whom he will have to be signified by the Northern Lyon, or Lion of the North. And for his Authors he produces Grebnerus, Baudensis and the Scotish Merlin; somwhat he brings out of Nuntius Propheticus also to little purpose; for the Author thereof professeth himselfe an enemy to Prophe­cies and Predictions; and though he relate other mens, he makes no paraphrase on them.

The true origi­nall of Greb­ner.We have wearied our selves too long in reciting the false­hoods and forgeries of these men. I shall now publish a most exact Coppy of Paulus Grebnerus his Prophecy or Prediction, as it is verbatim in the Originall in Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, that so the Reader may see the jugling of some, and the im­posture of others to foole the English, and make them beleeve such things as were meerly devised to uphold a malicious and stifnecked faction against the present Parliament. The Coppy of Grebnerus which I publish, was given me in Manuscript about twelve years since by Sir R. M. Knight. In the year 1648. when the former corrupt Coppy came first abroad, I sent my Coppy unto Cambridge to be there examined by the Original; you shall heare part of the Gentlemans Letter which he wrote unto me after he had received my Coppy and kept it some­times and examined it with the Originall.

De nova acri & strenua Germanica, Bavarica cruenta Leonum pugna & Conflictu. vexillum 173. Grebneri ve­ra Copia.

Of a fresh Fight and conflict sharply and fiercely maintained by the bloody Lyon of Germany and BAVARIA.Banner 173

A Fatall necessity having torne and pull'd from the House of Austria the old Roman Scepter and Diadem,The true Pro­phecy of Greb­ner in English and after an oppression of the same Austrian House by the incursions of French, English, Danish, Swedish, making their irruptions on all sides; there shall arise a horrid, bloody, sharpe contest in Eu­rope, which shall cruelly shake and breake away part thereof, yea shal expose the same being strangely spoyled and dismem­bred to egregious alterations. A Swedish King then reigning shall be invited to that quarrell to breake in upon Pomerane, Mechlenburge, and some Provinces belonging to Denmarke, be­ing provoked by some offensive Papers of the Romish See: whereunto if He shall harken, He shall unseasonably and very unprosperously become an Allie to one that is most neer and intimate to Him. Wherefore I advise the Swede to leave him in the same state wherein He findes him. By which meanes He, his Family and Posterity remaining contented with the bounds of their owne naturall Dominions shall preserve in­tire, and keepe in good order and allegiance their owne Sub­jects officiously disposed to peace and tranquillity. But if He shall in his heart propose to pervert his Subjects by faire per­swasions,Charles of Charles. God shall soone cut him off. And then from a Charles a great Charles shall obtaine the Scepter, who with great successe and prosperity shall reigne over the Northerne parts of the World; yea, the same Charles shall much breake the power and tyranny of the Spaniard, and obtaine a signall Victory over his Navie and Armadoe. And after the conjuncti­on of his Forces with the States of Christendome He shall win a difficult, cruell Battle. After this, God shall remove his Popish wife, to the great terror of the Bishop of Rome, who being incensed and stirred thereby, King Charles shall professe hastily against Antichrist, and joyning Forces with the German [Page 23] and other Allies shall become Enemy to Him, and the Crown of Spaine both. At that time shall the Swede be very succesfull and performe admirable service against the Enemy with Men and Ships, as well by Land as by Sea.

Out of the Manuscript of Paul Grebner of Sneburgh remaining in the Library of Trinity Colledge in Cambridg, giv­en there by Queen Elizabeth.

The Title of Grebners Manuscript, is, The Worlds silken string, or a Prophe­cy of Ante­christs sudden confusion.

At the end of the Epistle Dedicatory to Queene Eilzabeth; He closes with these words:

This Worke was finished by the Author at Magdeburgh, Jan. 8. 1574.

This Grebner was a Protestant, and hath extant in Print a Translation of the Proverbs and Canticles in Latin Verse.

His Predictions are not avowed by Him to be from Astrology but Revelation.

Every Prediction hath a Banner before it, called Vexillum. This is a true and exact ac­count of Greb­ners Prophecy.

He was in England 1582. and his Booke presented to Queen Elizabeth was about two hundred sheets. Doctor Nevill Clerk of the Queens Closet obtained the Booke of her, and gave it to Trinity Colledge Library.

The preceding Coppy having lain long by me, it hapned a Gentleman in the North parts, of a Noble Family, in the year 1649. perused his Fathers Library, found therin the Prophecy of Paulus Grebnerus coppied faire, and transl [...]ted by his Fathers Tutor, at what time he was a Student in Cambridge, which was in Anno 1618. or 1619. and because in the same Paper there are some other Predictions collected by the same Tu­tors hand, I publish them all as they came into my hands, and am willing to shew the Originall unto any one; which was most carefully preserved by the Noble Man and his Tutor, untill by accident it came into my hands.

Another Coppy of Grebnerus his Prophecy taken from the Originall in 1618. or 1619. by a learned hand.A second true transcription of Grebnerus.

Paulus Grebnerus of Missinia the German A­strologian, in his silken thred of the World, which is perfected at Magdenburgh, Anno Dom. 1574. taken out of the Originall Booke that is in Trinitie Colledg Library in Cambridge, left there by Doctor Nevill Mr. of the House, which he had out of the Queens Closet.

Foretelling divers strange things long agoe, which are fal­len out already, as namely the destruction and dissipation of the Spanish Fleet; the Murther of Henry the third King of France; the preferment of Henry King of Navarre to the French Crowne. The besieging & winning the strong Towne of Groi­ning in Friesland, & the death of Philip the second King of Spain, in his Book called Sericum mundi filum: where he delivers also, that the Lyon having the Rose, shall utterly destroy the Pope; so that after there shall be never any more Popes. Thus far by M^r. Clarke.

A Banner l. 173.

This out of the originall booke of Grebnerus.The Roman Scepter and Diadem being laid down, or taken away from the House of Austria by fatall necessity, and that being opposed of the Germans and Forreigners, as French, Eng­lish, Danish and Suevians, flocking and flowing together here and there; whence shall arise a most horrible, bloody and sharpe Battle. When all Europe being grievously shaken shall tremble, and being sundry wayes rent and wasted, it shall be obnoxious to notable mutations and changes. To this Bat­tell and to the making of eruptions into the Provinces of the Pomerans, Read the French Inven­tory or Cronicle fol. 9 [...]9. 22 years sinte was this Prophecie fulfilled. Negapalentians and Danes. The King of Suevia at that time shall be invited and drawne by the writing of the Roman State; to which if he shall obey he becomes the neerest com­panion and fellow of Warre; but evilly and unluckily by the propinquity and nearnesse. Wherefore I counsell him to leave Suevia in the estate he had received it; so his stocke and Po­sterity shall quietly and peaceably enjoy it, being content with their owne conditions wherewith they doe governe, they shall reserve their Nation and their Subjects, and keepe them bound [Page 25] to them in duty.You see if the Scots King be this Charles, he must marry a Papist, and she must first dy before any such great acts can be done. But if he shall determine with his heart to perswade his People and draw them away, the Lord shall take him away by death, and of or from a Charles, a great Charles reigning is made, who with great successe and Fortune shall rule the Northerne People, and as an enemy shall fight luckily with his Navie against the Spanish Power and Tyranny, and their Navie or Armado, and together with other Christian Forces conjoyned shall fight stoutly and fiercely.

But God doth call out of this life the Popish Wife of the King; whence the Romish high Priest shall conceive great ter­ror, which shall the more encrease and presse, when the King himselfe shall oppose Antichrist, and be adverse, and shall joyn his Forces to the Bands of the Germans and other neighbours, and shall fight against the Spanish Diadem;Loe, here the Lion of the North, as Grebner thinks. and then the King of Suevia shall use with happy successe his Navie and his Peo­ple both by Land and Sea against the Enemy.

238.

Bohemia doth feele tumults and warlike noyses,This Prophecie was also in the Paper with the former. with a great falling away of her People; and at that time the last Caesar of the House of Austria shall put on the nose of the Elector of Saxonie Spanish deceitfull and treacherous Spectacles, the na­ture of which at last he knowes, and by experience is taught, that these Spectacles of the House of Austria are encourage­ments, or flattering and glozing words, wicked and treache­rous practises: If he goe on further to give credit unto them, he shall cast headlong himselfe, Wife and Children, and all Christendome into pernicious Destruction; whence the Peo­ple of Rome shall take up a great laughter.

But the Lord doth raise up an Elector, which shall throw down and root out the Roman Antichrist with all her Members and Ayders. In this violent, headlong and Sea-tumult, and in [...] the despaire of the Roman Caesar, the Exiles of all the Kings and Princes of Europe, the Bavarians, Bohemians, Burgun­dians, the French and the Portugals shall be restored to their for­mer Estates. And a Noble and stout Bohemian Lord doth pos­sesse and recover his Jurisdiction the meeting together of [Page 26] Armies, and their Dissipation. These being expelled, shall seeke their recovery, and the Heires of them shall contend and labour, that by the bounty of the new Emperour of Germany they may be set againe in the place of their An­cestors.

There arises a new fortunate Bohemian Zisca, most strong fa­mous towards or against the Bohemian Warre; who shall breake the heads of the Jesuites in Germanie, and drive them out of Bohemia and Austria; and shall subdue to himselfe the Bohemians, and all the tract through Austria and Pannonia, even to Constantinople, and all those People; and therefore it is meet and requisite that a glittering, precious, golden Diadem bur­ning be set upon the Head of this Teutonicall or German Zis­ca. Zisca is the head of the Storke, who being a great and stout Warrier, doth come forth of the stock of Mars Rentecer the sixt; and he shall be called a worthy Noble Man. He shall rule victoriously, and shall doe these famous things, and shall happily finish them with his other Tribunes and Captaines.

After these Changes, a subtile exercised Interpreter of the Revelation of Saint John may more easily be understood, and more easily decipher the same;In which se­venth year M. Brightman writ his book of the Revela­tion. the ninties being past by lit­tle and little between the six hundred and six years. Then shall be a most lively explanation of those things which Eze­kiel and Daniel have Prophesied of the last Act of the old age of the World.

There is another ancient Prophecie of one Cape­stranus, found in the Records of Canterbury, to this effect,

The Lyon of the House of Burgundie, having gotten the Em­pire, will seek to build a sure nest for his yong, but it shall not be; for there shall arise a certaine grave and constant Man neer Aquisgrave of the Rhine; who being chosen, shall restore the Apostolicall Discipline. And in the third incursion of time, shall prevaile and do great things; and there shall be of his Race to the day of Judgment.

Divers Predictions upon the Conjunction of Saturn and Iu­piter, Iuly 1623.

1 Divers sinister events shall seeme to conspire together for the crossing of a great Prince,This came to passe accor­dingly in King Charles his reigne. who by oppressing the com­mon People, shall in the end drive them to Sedition.

2 The Conjunction of Jupiter and Sa­turne in the House caelestiall, called that of Death, doth portend that some Prince shall be detained prisoner, to the great disadvantage of his affaires of Estate.

3 Upon the first quarter of the Moon,King Charles his succes­lesse journey into Spain. which shall be the 27. of February, is fore­told, That some King or Prince shall un­dertake a voyage of great consequence without certainty of return, which at the best shall be both later than expectation, and after the enduring of many miseries.

4 He which shall stand on the top of Fortunes wheele,Read the Annals of 1624. 1625. and 1626. let him looke warily to his feet for fear of slipping; because so great a fall is threatned him, as shall pro­cure his utter ruine; which shall astonish those who have climed up into the seats of honor unworthily.

5 A Monarch that hath betrusted his affaires of great Consequence to the di­rection of one,King Charles relying on Canterbury and other silly fellowes makes this good. who was no way capable of so weighty a charge, shall be sensible of the great fault he hath committed, where­of he shall too late repent.

6 The stirrers and Incendiaries of Se­dition shall make residence in the Houses [Page 28] of Kings and Princes.

7 War deferr'd through want of Mo­ney.

London here is intended.8 The Land and Towne Geminist shall bewaile the want of her Sun.

It intends the private rai­sing of Horse in Germany which were to have into England.9 There shall be great levying of Soul­diers for the execution of some Strata­gem, but all shall turn to nothing; for the sudden departure of a great Personage shall cause much Murmuring and Dis­content.

10 Men disguised shall desire that their outward semblance may make shew of that which they are not, and shall be the Authors of many particular Combats in the Land Geminist. [...] Thus much was in the old Manuscript.

Grebnerus here in this Prophecy (if it prove one) doth not so much as m [...]ion a King of Scotland or Scotland it selfe.Grebnerus cleared of in­tending the Scots King to be the Charles here mentioned Its the whole scope of Grebner to informe the Germans, after a long series of time, of the Swedish Nation, and their many conflicts with the Germans; nor hath he the least relation unto any Peo­ple or Nation else. And whereas he saith from a Charles a great Charles shall arise or be derived and rule the Northern people, this may very well be after many ages from this yeer 1651. for Sweden is more North than Scotland, and hath greater North Latitude than Scotland; and besides, many of their Kings have been named Charles; the late Gustavus Adolphus was the Son of a Charles, yet cannot he be the very Charles intended here, for he never fought with the Spaniard at Sea;Stockholm in Swevia hath 59° 30′ of North Latitud however, it is most apparent, that the great Charles intended by Grebnerus must be Native of Sweden, and so no Native of England, or Scotland. This I write, to make it appeare unto the World, that those who would have Grebnerus to intend Charles Stuart the present King of Scotland to be Charles the Son of Charles, and to be signified here by Grebnerus, and that he shall atchieve such Miracles, are meerly mistaken, and do nothing but vent lyes and un­truths; [Page 29] when as in truth there is no such thing intended, or can by any judicious Man be evinced to be apparent in this Prophecy, but the quite contrary.The Charles in Grebner his Prophecy not yet born. The Charles of Charles to be descended, is not yet visible or alive; And before any such Magnus Carclus in rerum natura can be, the House of Austria must be over-thrown, and the English, Danes, French and Swedes, must be the men who must, as Grebner saith, overthrow the Domini­on and power of the Austrian Family. This is the year 1651. and yet we know the Emperour hath not lost his Dominion, nor have we the English as yet united with other Nations a­gainst Austria; Therefore the time of fulfilling this Prophecy, if we may call it one, is not come; and besides, Grebner posi­tively affirmes this Carolus to be of the Swedish Race, and the Son of Charles; at present there is a Queen in Sweden and no King; her Fathers name was G [...]stavus; if this Queen marry one whose name be Charles, and she turn Papist, a thing very unlikely, then her Husband may be the Father or Predecessor of such a great Charles as Grebner dreames of. However, the Prophecy hath no relation to the present Scotish King, who is no more concern'd herein than the King of China or Prester John. So that from hence I conclude, neither a fifth Monarchy, or any Power, Dominion or Empire is Prophecied of unto the Scots, or that any danger can from hence be collected to befall unto the present or future English Parlament.

Because I would give full satisfaction unto the three Nati­ons of England, Scotland and Ireland, and beat all our Enemies with their owne weapons, viz. with reall Prophecies, give me leave to repeat a Scotish Prophecy or two, reall ones, not cor­rupt or counterfeit,Scotish Prophecies tending to the overthrow of Mona [...]chy and its exter­pation, and the present invasi­on of our Army or such as are in private hands or Libra­ries, but such as were publique and printed at Edenborough by Andrew Hart 1617. in which you shall see the sad fate of the present King, and their now present miseries long since pre­dicted; the arrivall of our Men and Ships. These were De­dicated unto King James, and are intituled thus: ‘Priscae Scotorum Prophetiae.’

They begin, Scotia maesta dole, &c.

I will only repeat them Englished by a Scotish Man, at that same time, when they little dreamed of our invading them.

Old Scotish Prophecies.

Prophecy.First Flying.

King Charles summons a Parliament Novemb. 1640. the troubles of Scotland arising in 1641.Verification. hee left the English Par­liament sitting, and went in person himselfe to settle the di­sturbed affaires of Scotland, Londoners in­constancy. hee came home to London about Novemb. & was himselfe & Queen royally entertained by the Citizens, who cryed then Hosanna, &c. But see how suddenly many of the same Citty cry Crucifie, Crucifie. For loe in Ja­nuary 1641. the Citizens of London, They affront the Bishops and Lords. and other rude people in great numbers flock downe unto the Parliament, and affront the King, the Bishops, and other temporall Lords, which rudenesse and sawcinesse of theirs, as himselfe pretended, mooved him the 10 of Januar. 1641, first to fly or remoove unto Hampton-cou, then to Windsor, then into Kent, from thence into Yorkeshire; so that all the remainder of his life, untill hee surrendred his person to the Scotts, was running and flying from one place to another. I must ingeniously acknowledge my eyes were witnesse of very great rudenesse in the Citizens, & of as great a defect of civility and judgment, in some Courtiers unto those ill bred Citizens.

And after Riding.Prophecy.

The first Horse his Majesty raised, were in Yorkeshire, Verification. and these in or about July, August, and Sept. 1642. pretending they were for a Guard for his person, from which time, un­till the very time hee rendred himself to his Country-men the Scots, which was May 1646. hee had an Army of Horse, and was frequently himselfe amongst them, though its not once reported himselfe ever charged, as hee was some times invited unto it by the Lord Charles Gerrard, a most gallant man, who would say unto him many times, CHARGE SIR, &c. And indeed who would have lost three Kingdomes, without first losing some blood in the quarrell.

After Ligging downe.Prophecy.

From the time of his owne voluntary rendition unto the Scots untill his dying day,Verification. hee was never in the head of an Army, but did ligg downe or lye still, and was carried up and downe from one place to another as a Prisoner, yet had hee very great liberty untill hee discharged himselfe of his owne word or Paroll at Hampton-Court, and immediatly es­caped to that fatall place the Isle of Wight.

In this ligg downe hee shall bee lymed.Prophecy.

During the time of his Imprisonment,Verification. or from that time the Scots sold his person unto us for two hundred thousand pounds, it may properly be said, (In this ligg downe hee shall be lymed) that is, He was attempted and allured first by one side, then an other, or hee was severall times, and by severall occa­sions tempted or treated withall (every one thinking them­selves surest who possest his Person) some times by the Scots, other times by the English, as well Parliament as Army, but notwithstanding all overtures, his Person was still safe looked unto, &c.

Prophecy.After that He shall be led.

Verification.After that Propositions had been presented unto him at Hampton-Court, and last of all at the Isle of Wight, he refusing to Signe them, or give such satisfaction as was required; From that time, viz. from Decemb. 1648. untill his death, he was led, viz. He was more strictly guarded and imprisoned than ever, nor from that time had the benefit of his liberty as for­merly he had had, but was removed first to one Castle, then to another, then to Windsor, then last of all to White-hall. So that most properly He may be said to be now led. For I dare sweare hee went and came into all these places most unwil­lingly.

Prophecy.And there shall bee shewed whether there be another King.

Verification.Since King Charles did retreat from his Parliament, they on the behalfe of the Common-wealth acted as Kings, using regall Command, raising Armyes, Moneys, Taxes, & quid non, breaking his Majestyes great Seale, making a new one of their owne, and since have altered the frame of Government, and converted Monarchy into a Common-wealth.

Prophecy.Then shall bee gadered togather much folk, and He shall take helpe for him.

Verification.How many of the Nobility, Gentry, and Clergy, and what numbers of the commonalty assisted him, we know, and they who were his Assistants do well to their Cost remember; for indeed, the greatest part of the Nobility, and Gentry, and Priest­hood, most cordially and unanimously followed him, and as­sisted him to the hazard of their lives, and consumption of Estates: And wee know even whilest he was in Carisbrook Castle, what a rebellion was raised by Goring and others, &c. in Kent and Essex 1648. besides that great Army of Scots and English routed in Lancashire.

And there shall bee Merchandise of Men,Prophecy. as of an Horse or an Ox.

This part of the Prophecy was exactly verified in King Charles, or the White Kings time,Verification. for in 1648. after the defeat of the wretched Scots in Lancashire, the English Merchants did give money for as many of the common Soldiers as were worth any thing, and sent them for Barbados and other for­raigne Plantations: Some were sold deare, others cheape, ac­cording to the quality of the person or profession he was off: It is reported, that many of those miserable wretches, since their being at the Barbados, do say, they have left Hell, viz. Scot­land, and are arrived into Heaven. There was in 1644. 1645. &c. exchanging of Soldiers and Prisoners, but in 1648. abso­lute Merchandising of Mens Bodyes, and not before; what price the Scots were sold for I know not, hee that gave but twelve pence a peece for any of that nasty people, gave too much.

There shall bee sought helpe, and there shall none arise,Prophecy. but bed for head.

What Prince or State of Europe, Verification. was not attempted since 1642. unto 1648. to assist his late Majesty, but in vaine, Pro­vidence being not to be deluded by any mortall man, each man that assisted, had onely a bed for his head, viz. a grave or peece of earth for his buriall: And how many Royall English families, both of Gentry and Nobles, I pitty to relate, who have miscarried for his sake.

And then shall one gone there the Sun ariseth,Prophecy. another there the Sun gone downe.

Intimating no more,Verification. but that the feare and sadnesse of those times should be such, as should cause severall persons to leave this Kingdome or Nation, for their safety, as many Nobles and Gentry, who tooke part with him did, some going [Page 44] to Holland, others to France, others to severall Countries, as their fancies or occasions led them; or it may import his Ma­jesty should go Eastward or Northeast, as he did when he went first to the Scots, and the Queen before went Westward or Southwest, viz. to France; I pitty exceedingly the sad con­dition of many Noble families, which still to this day con­tinues in forraign parts, poore, beggerly, and in a most un­comfortable condition.

Prophecy.After this, it shall bee said by Britain, (King is King,) King is no King: after this hee shall raise his head, and he shall betaken him to be a King.

Verification.After he went to the Scots, and whilest he was in durance, he was treated with both, by England and Sco [...]nd as a King: yet afterwards it appeared hee had not the power of a King, to conclude any thing; nay afterward our Parliament made a Vote, ‘That no adresses should bee made unto him any more.’ But that Vote was repealed and Adresses were made, but to no purpose. So that the Prophet said well, (sometimes King is King) after King is no King, &c.

Prophecy.Bee many things to done, but wise men reading, &c. and then shall a rang of Gleeds, and ever each hath bereaving, hee shall have it for his owne.

Explanation.I conceive this intimates no more than the multiplicity of affairs in these times; but whether by the Range of Gleeds, hee intend either the Parliament themselves, or the Army, or the Parliaments Subofficers, I know not. I conceive here are some words wanting in the Coppy, which might lead to explaine these words, viz.

Unlesse it be intended, those meant by the Rang of Gleeds, viz great Oppressors, or those who then Rule or Command, shall have all for their owne; the Latin Coppy hath no more, but

Post-haec erit tempus milvorum, & quod quisque ra­puerit, pro suo habebit.

Viz. After these things, it shall bee a time of Kites or Gleeds, and what every man can get or purloyne, hee will take it for his owne. And this seemes to bee the genuine sense of it, for how many very poore men have we known to arrive unto great estates, since these times, even to thousands a yeare and more? Some, I know my selfe, were men of very mean fortunes in the beginning of this Parliament, that are now so elevated, so proud, so rich, so arrogant, having had a hand in some Publick employments, they scorn their Kindred & Coun­try, forget their birth and that neighborhood, which brought them to this height of honour; & although like poore Sneaks they came to London in lether breeches, and in 1642. were but vulgar fellows, yet now Coach it with four or two Horses, are impudent, because in Authority; yet to require some of these, to write true English or speake sense, were to command a F. from a dead man; but such as these must know, if they have good Estates as that they have, we of the Commonalty must have an account of our Treasure.

And this shall last seven yeares,Prophecy. loe Ravening and shedding of blood.

If wee consider that our Wars began in Anno 1642. wee shall then find that our distempers and Wars have continued seven whole yeares, within our owne Kingdome;Verification. for one Coppy hath it, ‘Et septennio durabit guerra intra.’

The Warre shal indure seven years within the bowels of the Kingdomes; and whereas he mentions Ravening, I conceive where the Soldier is quartered, that action of Ravening can­not bee avoyded. England hath felt free quarter, both of her owne Country-men, and of the Scots and Scotish Army, who were the truest Harpies that ever lived, stealing and pur­loyning where ever they came, even unto a Dish-clout. You shal have one example of two Scots in Lancashire 1648. quar­tered [Page 46] there in a poore house, where they got a ketle of Brasse, being all their poore Landlord had, and having it on the fire with Oatmeale boyling in Ale or Milke, an Ala­rum comes, and one of their owne Countrymen passes by and invites these two Soldiers to runne away, for all was lost; but see their villany, and present reward of these two fooles, away they trudge, but carry the kettle and porridge on a staffe betwixt them, their Landlord in vaine crying out for his kettle, but it pleased God an honest trooper of ours making hast to pursue the knaves, slue both these Gluttons, and so returned the kettle to the right owner.

Prophecy.And Ovens shall be made like Kirkes or Churches.

Verification.If it were not publickly done in many places of this King­dome before 1646. viz. that Churches were many times as beastly as Ovens, yet in 1648. and 1649. Pauls-Church was made a Horse guarde, and so continued untill of late.

Prophecy.After, then shall come through the South with the Sun, on Horse of Tree, the Chicken of the Eagle sayling into Brittaine, and arriving anone to the house of the Eagle, hee shall shew fellowship to them beasts.

Here the Coppies vary exceedingly, one saying onely:

Deinde Pullus Aquilae veniet super ligneos equos anno & senio & erit guerra in Brittannia.

Viz. After the Chicken of the Eagle shall come upon woodden horses within a yeare and a halfe, and there shall bee War in Brittaine.

An other Coppy hath it thus:

Deinde ab Austro veniet cum Sole super ligneos Equos; & sunio spumantem inundationem maris, Pullus Aquilae navigans in Brittanniam, & applicans statim tunc altam domum Aquilae sitiens & cito aliam sitiet, viz.

pro ut fol. 24.Afterwards the Chicken of the Eagle shall come with the Sun upon wodden horses, &c.

Verily in a former Treatise of ours,Explanation. wee were not much estranged from verity, yet our modesty was such, and our re­spect to his Majesties person, we were in many things silent; But upon further consideration,Chicken of the Eagle, the present King of Scots. this Chicken of the Eagle will prove one of his Majesties Children; and we remember that the present Scots King did about July 1648. upon the South or South-east Coast of England come in person unto the revolted Ships; hee landed or was victualled at Yarmouth, and then sayled towards Kent, but without successe; he also after that attempted Yarmouth, but that attempt proved successesse; but, whereas, the Prophecy mentions, hee should shew (fellowship unto them Beasts.) These words are in no Latin Coppy that I have seen, however at that time of the Prince his being at Sea, here was no Treaty or Overture either offered by him unto the Parliament, or by them unto him, onely the rest of the Ships, which revolted not, were severall wayes dealt with to deliver them up unto him.

If the Eagle be intended King Charles lately dead,King Ch [...]rles the Eagle in­tended by Merlin. as doubt­lesse he was, the Chicken of the Eagle must of consequence then be one of his Children, and the present King of Scotland; and then the words may have this sense; That the Prince at that time should be desirous of getting some Footing or Landing-place in Kent (called here the high House of the Eagle) in re­gard Dover Castle standeth in Kent on a Rocke: but failing there, he made his journey to Yarmouth, and so was desirous to procure that Towne; but herein he also was deceived. It is evident that the late King was the Eagle; for he did nothing but flye or ride up and downe during some years before his re­straint; and it must of necessity then follow, that the Chicken here mentioned is the Scots King; for the Chicken is mentio­ned before the death of the King to come from the East, and so the Prince did upon wodden Horses, viz. Ships; its true, the Prince got a Castle or two in Kent, but to no purpose.

After a year and a halfe shall be War in Britain. Prophecy.

This shewes a continuance of the Wars, either abroad or [Page 48] at home for some certaine time or severall years. And we know in 1646. that most excellent Man the Lord Fairfax had even ended our Wars; but loe in 1648. severall Revolts & Re­bellions appeared against the Parliament; besides, the Scot­tish treacherous Invasion; all which manifest a continuance as it were of the Wars: nor are we yet quit of Wars, or shall be for some time hereafter.

Prophecy.Then shall a sooth be nought worth, and every man shall keepe his thing, and gotten other mens goods.

Its in Latin, Tunc nihil valebit Mercurius.

These words say only thus much, that after that time when the Chicken of the Eagle or Prince of Wales at that time should either personally land himselfe,Explanation. or set on shore some Forces of his in any part of England, which was in July 1648. or Au­gust, that then, and from that time, there would be no faith given to words, or any peace come from Treaties; and we well know with what difficultie the last Treaty with his Ma­jesty was obtained. The Parliament had just cause to feare no good would come from thence; the White King, who ever lov­ed to fish in troubled waters, gave such ambiguous Answers unto the Parliaments Propositions, as signified Nothing. Where­upon, considering the great engagement which lay upon them, they at last resolved,

Immedicabile vulnus ense recedendum. And so it was.

For verification of the latter part: ‘Sed quisque curabit quomodo, &c.’

That every man who under the Parlament hath pilled, po­led or cheated the People; or any Parlament man who hath by the ruine of the Commonwealth inriched himselfe, will be carefull to preserve his ill gotten goods, I doe as verily be­leeve as I doe that there is a God in heaven.

After the White King feeble shall goe towards the West,Prophecy. beclipped about with his folke to the old place been running water.

Its in the Latine: ‘Ibit Rex debilis versus occidentem.’

At what time his Majesty went from Hampton Court, Explanation. he went feeble, viz. accompanied with no more than two or three (a feeble company for a King) and he then went to the Isle of Wight, & there surrendred himself to one Hammond Go­vernour of Carisbrough Castle in the Isle of Wight. That Castle stands neer or upon the water. From this time of his surren­dring himselfe unto Hammond, hee was beclipped or straitly lookt unto by the Soldiers; this is that Hammond, as the King himselfe acknowledged at Windsor unto Ad. A. who furnish­ed him with that smutty sheet Elencticus, The Author vindicated of a Slander. which accused me of Connivance with one How of Glocestershire about Arabella Scroop, one of the naturall daughters of the Earle of Sunderland. I chal­lenge the whole World, and both How and his Wife, and Ha­mond, to declare publiquely, if I had the least engagement, or did give the least advertisement of any meeting of theirs in the Spring-Garden, or had any Connivance or plot in their designe; all that ever I did, was a resolution of two or three Horary questions, which promised the enjoyment of the wo­man: Not having met with a fit opportunity of the Presse, since that Slander cast upon me, I took liberty herein to repeate this matter; giving that Cavalier my most hearty thanks that in publique tooke the paines to vindicate my reputation; & although I never had the happinesse since that his vindica­tion of me to see him, yet let my acknowledgment of that his courtesy be accepted from him: Indeed, that Oracle of the Law, whilest he lived, S^r. Robert Holborn Knight, and my singu­lar freind, both acquainted me of the man, and his great la­bour to sift out the matter wholly, ere committed to the Presse. The Lord guide me in my wayes, for I seriously protest unto posterity, I never received such Injurious aspersions or Calumnies, from those who in reason had cause to be my enemies, viz. the Royalists, as from many of our owne party, or such as will or would be called Roundheads, and had not the Virtue & Honour of one not to be Parrallel'd member of Parlament, been ever my support and Defender; I had buried my Conceptions in silence, & smoothered my indeavours in deepe obscurity. For really, so great is my respect and affe­ction [Page 50] unto this honorable Person, that were my fortune ne­cessitous, (as God be thanked it is not) I durst not, nay I would not do any dishonest or unbecomming Action, fearing it might trench upon the honour of that all and nothing bu [...] all Gentelman, who lives onely, and desires to live no longer, than he may serve this Commonwealth, without doing injustice to any particular person or oppression, or any thing that is dishonorable to the Commonwealth, Parlament, or Army. Oh I abhor the incivility and absurdity of one now in some Au­thority for the Parlament, who hearing a scandalous aspersion against me, without further inquiry, protested he would be mine enemy, if I ere came before him, &c.

Prophecy.Then his enemies shall meet him, and March in her place shall be ordained about him, an Hoast in the manner of a sheild, shall be formed, then shall they fighten on Oven front.

Verification.When his Majesty was brought from the Isle of Wight to Windsor, he was guarded, before and behind, and on every side, with severall Troopes of Horse, so that it was impossible He should escape, so that it might well be sayd, He was in the midst of an Oven, &c.

Prophecy.After the White King shall fall into a Kirk-yard, over a Hall.

Verification.We may justly wonder, how exactly this was fullfilled in the Death of King Charles, or the White King; the truth of it was thus, that some few nights before his Death, He was brought to White Hall, the Regall seate of his Progenitors, a­gainst the day of his Death a Scaffold was framed over against the new Banquetting-house built by King James, and when the King went unto Execution, a way or passage was made out at one of the West windowes for Him, to passe out unto the Scaffold, where his Head was cutt off. So that very perti­nently it was prophecied, He should fall into a Church-yard, over a Hall. It is affirmed for a certain truth, that neare the [Page 51] place where himselfe was executed, that impertinent Citizen lost his life, occasioned by his crying, No Bishops, Just as He passed by that very place. After the execution,King Charles buried at Win­sor. his Body was carried to Windsor, and buried with Henry the VIII, in the same vault where his Body was lodged. Some, who saw him embowelled affirme, had He not come unto this untimely end, He might have lived, according unto nature, even unto the height of old age. Many have curiously inquired who it was that cut off his head, I have no permission to speak of such things, onely thus much I say, he that did it, is as valiant and resolute a man as lives, and one of a competent for­tune, &c.

There is an other Antient Coppy extant, which is not so full as the Lady Postons, and its in Latin: ‘Mortuo Leone, &c.’

Its verbatim thus in English.

Thus ends the Prophecy, rubricated and not glossed upon.

What remaines unfullfilled, is in these words: ‘After the Chicken of the Eagle shall nestle in the highest Rooch (I conceive mistaken for Rock) of all Brittaine: nay, he shall nought be slain young: nay, he nought come old, for then the Gentile Worthinesse shall nought suffer wrong be done to him, but when the Reame is in peace, then shall he dye, and two yeares af­ter shall come a new Rule from Heaven, and settle ho­ly Kirk, as hit shall ever more stand, and bring three Countrys into one, England, Scotland and Wales, unto the day of Doom, and the holy Crosse be brought into Christian mens hands, and there shall be made a Temple that never was made, such none.’

One Latin Coppy hath it: ‘Deinde Pullus Aquilae, nidificabit in summo rupe to­tius Britanniae, &c.’

An other Coppy hath it:

In summo rupium, viz.

An other Coppy, hath it, In the highest of Rocks, and men­tions not Brittain.

These words acquaint us with what this Nation must ex­pect to ensne after the death of Charles Stuart, NOTE. late King of England, the true and unquestionable White King. Its very ob­servable, that the Prophet mentions not the Chicken of the Eagle, who is the present King of Scotland, with any Kingly Title, nor doth he say: ‘He shall acquire his Fathers inheritance,NOTE. or in plain termes obtaine the Kingdome of England, or be Crowned King thereof; he onely sayth, He shall nestle, (in the Latin nidificabit) he shall build his nest in the cheifest Rock of all Brittaine.’

Which imports no more, but that like a flying Fowle, or as a Man chased from one place to another, so shall his world­ly condition be in this world; he shall be inforced to betake himselfe into some Mountainous Island or Countrey adja­cent, or belonging to the Dominion of England or, elsewhere, where either by consent or connivance of the English Parlia­ment and Governours, all that time, or perhaps by the inacces­sablenesse of the place, which they cannot well inforce or come neere, he shall remaine for some years in safety at least free from them. For it cannot be evinced that this Chicken of the Eagle hath any command or power in this Nation, by reason the Prophecie runs thus; Then the Glorious Worthi­nesse, viz. either the present House of Commons or Parlia­ment then, or now, or hereafter governing, shall suffer no wrong be done him. Its possible and more than probable he never intends to come neere them.

Chicken of the Eagle to dye young.The Prophecie doth in part intimate that this Chicken of the Eagle will at last be either slaine neer the middle of his age, or come to an untimely end ere he shall attain those years; and then the Prophet mentions A NEW RVLE FROM HEAVEN, which I am assured shall most certainly come to passe.

All Prophecies against Monar­chie.By all which hath been said, its evident this Prophecy as all others are absolutely against Monarchy, shewing that it en­ded in CHARLES. It also relates that this very present Government,All Kingship ending in the late King. as now established, shall not for many years continue (Modo & forma) viz. in that Frame and posture its now in. For although God hath made this very Parlament & Army instrumentall to begin the great Worke intended by him, yet in regard of the many failings both of Parlament and Army, they shall neither of them have so much honour as to build unto God that perpetuall and heavenly Tabernacle of Glory, which must be ere long erected, or that Earthly stru­cture upon Earth of humane Government shortly to appeare. No, some of these Men have been men of Blood, of Covetous­nesse, of Selfe-ends, of Oppression, of Bribery; others so full of Corruption and Selfe-interest, they shall have no ho­nour in the acting of such high matters, as in a few years must be performed. For Almighty God indures no corruption in his Servants, being himselfe all Purity and Holinesse. And furthermore, I say, that heavenly RULEHeavenly rule. he intends both for the Commonwealth of England and CHURCH, shall be wrote downe in innocent and plaine CHARACTERS, and put in execution by plaine men, and sincere, upon whom the Spirit of the Father shall miraculously descend, and poten­tially inable them to that great worke of converting soules, without expectation of worldly perferment, a thing now meerely in request; the same great Spirit of God shall also then in a wonderfull measure fall upon the people of this Na­tion in generall, so that they shall unanimously embrace those holy Lawes and Dictates, which then shall be tendred them, without murmuring or repining; the Magistrate shall not then any more execute his sharpe Lawes, which from [Page 55] thence shal be totally layd aside, for then universally men shall embrace this Commandement, and fullfill it: ‘Love thy Neighbour as thy self.’

And when these times are, or not long before or after,Conversion of the Jewes and recovery of Je­rusalem. we Christians shall recover the Holy Land, viz. the terrestriall Je­rusalem, out of the hands of the Turkes; then also shall Almigh­ty God, by miracle withdraw the people of the Jews, from their hard-heartednesse & unbelife, & from the severall parts of the World, where now they live concealed, and they shall beleeve in the true Messias, JESUS CHRIST, and by their meanes and preachings innumerable people, both of Asia and Affrick, shall be converted unto Christianity, yea as well Turkes as of all Nations besides, and this I do say, that after the Conversion of the Jews, we shall farre better understand the Scriptures than now we do, for we are in great darkenesse, and see very little, and pitty it is, we see so little and under­stand lesse verity: All these things I mention, or most of them, are very neare approaching, and admit not of Centu­ries of yeares before their performance.

First Prophecy.

ABove two hundred yeares since, there was this following Prophecy delivered into the hands of many then living, and afterwards reserved in severall Libraries of this Nation, even unto this day: viz.

So it plainly appeares after his death, there may be a King of Scotland, as we now well know, but it is denied any King shall ever hereafter be absolute King of Brittain, or in actuall possession of England.

Second Prophecy.

The late King Charles was he signified by the Lion. After him is imported there shall no more Kings succeed in Eng­land. He had the signe Leo ascending in his Nativity, one maine cause, which made him so obstinate.

Third Prophecy.

In the Acts and Monuments of John Fox, his second Book, pag. 1191. In the raigne of King Edward the sixt, he mentions a Rebellion in the North, and tels the causes of that Northern Rebellion in July 1549. were a Prophecy, the Tenor where­of was.

These are the very words themselves in the Originall.

Fourth Prophecy.

None of Merlins Prophecies say: After the death of the White King, who was Charles our late King, that there shall be any more Kings in England.

Fift Prophecy, Mother Shipton.

When York shall be beseeged, &c. and the Mayor, This predi­ction was in part fulfilled, when our Ar­my beseiged York: All the Alder­men being at the Parla­ments mercy. Sheriffes and Aldermen hanged: While the World in­dureth, after that there shall be no more Kings or Queens in England, but three Lords or Governors shall rule the Nation.

Sixt Prophecy.

All the Kings that have reigned in England, since William the Conqueror, who was a Bastard, have descended from his issue; but this Prophet sayd, there should be an end of his line also, and that his posterity should faile of enjoying the Crown of England.

At present the Scotish King writes King of Brittain; but our Commonwealth are in possession; and its a hard matter to beate them out of their Atchievements.

Seventh Prophecy.

Eight Prophecy.

An Irish one, speaking of King James and his issue, he bursts out,

So also Merline in an antient Prophecy of his in Policronicon sayth: ‘His seed shall become fadrelesse in strange land for ever more.’

In another place:

From these Prophecyes of our owne Countrymen, you see plainly neither corrupted or counterfeit: We conclude,

No more Kings in England.We have much reason to beleeve their sayings shall prove true, having evidently beforehand knowne all or most of what they have prophecied to have exactly come to passe, even in our owne dayes, and not before: I do neither and or diminish unto them; I sparingly deliver my own conceptions; [Page 59] or do I paraphrase upon the Prophecies, they are so plain and significant; there is not in any of these any the least mention of this present King of Scotland, or is he called by the name of the Northern Lion, or is he designed to be the Man, who shall raise a fift universall Monarchy upon the Earth. These are untruths and the fantasies of leud men. I know it will be expected I should say somewhat concerning this Nor­thern Lion, who most assuredly shall appeare unto the World, the Prodromus whereof was that Starre, which appared 1572.The Star in Cassiopea 1572. the fore­runner of some great Prince. Many Authors or Manuscripts mentioning such a Lion, such a Northern Prince, or the Eagle of the North, the wonderfull Eagle, or such a Man that shall in the latter times, or decli­ning age of the World, do wonderfull Acts in Warre, equal­ling, if not transcending, all those we read of in preceding Histories, either Prophane or Divine;A short reigne assigned to the Lion of the North. but they all unani­mously proclaime a short reigne and a violent death, or in his younger yeares; and to say the truth, there is scarce a Pro­phet or Man of any Nation in Europe, who hath been indued with Prophetick spirit, but he in some part of his workes, or other, hath hinted at such a Person, Emperor, or King; Some Karolus, others Caro­lus. nay some have not been wanting to affirme his name, as you may see in the Chronicles of Magdeburg, testified by Carion in his third Booke:

King of Scot­land not that Charles.This in no wayes points out the King of Scotland, though his name is Charles.

An Archbishop of Ravenna prophesied thus of a certain Prince or great Person by the name of a Lion.

And the above named Prophet further sayth, that the Lion-King should convert other Nations.

And Sybilla Erithraea Sybilla Eri­thraea, sayth in an Imperiall Manuscript, that the Lion-Monarch shall be made famous unto all, and shall sub­vert Kingdomes, People and Nations.

Frier Vincent, their Prophe­cies.Frier Vincent of the Order of Dominicans, he speakes of three Armies from the West, East and North, and these to fight toge­ther in Italy, and that the Eagle shall take the Counterfeit King, and all things shall be made obedient unto him, and there shall be a new Reformation in the World; Woe then to the Shaven Orders, viz. of Monkes and Friers, whose Crownes are shaved.

Northern Ea­gle, enemy to Monkes.In order to this Prophecy Cyrill the Hermite, will needs have an Emperor of Germany to be the man that must trusse up these Priests and Monkes, and do so much harme unto Rome: Yet in the end sayth Abbot Joachim, when the Thornes and Brambles are rooted up, viz. the Priests, then sayth he, an holy Man shall pacifie the Eagle.

There shall three temporall Princes translate the Holy Sea, viz. the Popedome else where. Thus Nostradamus Nostradamus. in his 8. Century and 99. Quadrin.

There shall arise in the last times a Prince, Severall Pro­phecies, who shall be the Northern Lion. sprung from the Emperor Charles, which shall recover the Land of Promise, and reforme the Church, and shall be Emperor of Europe. Thus Ay­tinger the German, &c. And no lesse then the same thing is in­timated by Johannes Amatus, viz. In the latter dayes there shall be great Warres and bloodshed, the furie of the Warres shall last a long time, whole Provinces shall be left naked of Inha­bitants, many Cities forsaken of People, the Nobility slaugh­tered, principall Persons ruined, great changes of Kings, Com­monwealths, and Rulers.

The North prevaileth against the South, a learned and elo­quent Prince, by little and little, shall attaine the Soveraignty or Empire: There shall be a new King shall surmount all the rest, shall make change of Religion, when he holds the reynes of the Empire, viz. of Germany.

There shall come a time, sayth Gamaleo, With what let­ter his name shall begin. The place from whence he shal come. Germany named for the place. Popedome translated when the Ro­man Church shall be de­stroyed. when the Germans shall chuse one of their owne Princes, whose name shall begin with one of these eight letters, B. C. D. F. G. P. Q. T. and he shall arise out of a certain Highlandish Country of Germa­ny, &c. then shall the thunderbolts of the Bulls of Rome be in no force. And these things shall happen at what time the Pope­dome shall be translated unto Mentz. Neare unto which time, the Divisions of Christians shall be so great, that the Turk shall overrun a great part of Christendome, all which Divisions do onely prepare matter for that Prince of Germany, who shall both beate Turk, Emperor, and Pope. Now when you see a Sa­binian elected Pope, know all these things draw neare to per­formance, and the desolation of Italy, and of the Roman Church is then at hand; great Divisions there will then be amongst the Cardinals, and seven years after that never any more. For then a generall Conversion shall be made unto the Faith of Christ, by meanes of the great Lyon. Somewhat neere these times also shall a great Eagle arise, and who shall be able to resist him? having power given him of the most high: He shall carry with him by Conquest three Kingdomes: He shall foyle the Lillies in the Land of Virgo; the Sunne it selfe shall mourne with the Lyon, &c.

Discord of Western Princes.The discord of the Western Princes shall give hopes unto a great Prince of the East to conquer them; but the Eagle and the French Cock at that time shall resist this mighty E [...]sterne Prince, having helpe and assistance of the Lion of the Sea; by this Eastern Prince they meane the Turk, and have prophecyed, that he shall destroy many Cities of Italy, The Turk to hurt Italy. yea and waste Rome her selfe; the first letter of this Eagles name shall begin with H or F. I meane of him, who shall overthrow the Turk, or the Easterne Prince before recited. And there is one Juveniis Angli­cus foretelleth,The English and Venetians joine in expel­ling the Turk. that the English and the Venetians, being in League together, shall unite their Sea forces, and have a prin­cipall hand in overthrowing, vanquishing and chasing the Turk out of and from the confines of Italy. Yet after that the Turk shall take Venice; Venice to be taken by the Turkes. Zealand, Hol­land, Braband too scourged. nor shall Braband, Flanders, Zealand, or Holland, escape severall very great inundations of waters, innu­merable seditions, slaughters, tumults, firings, and desolation of many their principall Cities and Townes, nor shall they be able in the least measure to resist that powerfull enemy, who shall come against them in very short time. And were their civilities unto our Commonwealth worth taking notice of, I would informe them of the Nation that must slaughter them, and the yeare when they shall be butchered.

Venice her hard fate.When I looke upon the fate of the City of Venice, I trem­ble to thinke or foresee, that so noble and so glorious, and antient a City, shall be even quite destroyed by a mercilesse enemy, even by that same fearefull messenger of Gods wrath, who shall overspread all or most of the Mountainous parts of Italy.

Were I intended to weary my selfe in relating the wo­full calamity, which shall in lesse than halfe a Century of yeares befall the French Nation, France threat­ned: their Monarchy to fall. I might write a large Volume thereof, and tell them a certaine Prince as religious as a Turke, shall overspread that peoples most fruitfull Territories; and all these Wars and desolations will be occasioned by the unruly Nobility, who by their civill dissentions shall occasion the ruine of the French Monarchy; and if you will know neare the time of this great mutation, it shall bee, when a certain King, [Page 63] called Henry is twice made King, Vide Capi­stranum. Duke of Flo­rence turned Protestant. and a Duke of Florence turned Protestant.

The King of France shall be driven from his owne Coasts and Confines, by his own Subjects;King of France driven out of his Kingd [...]me by his owne subjects. for he will exercise very great Tyranny against his Subjects and the Church of Christ, being instigated or stirred up thereunto by the Bishops and Ro­manists, who shall seduce him and betray him trayterously with bribery of Money. But those misdemeanours he doth, shall seeme to be done in favour of his Kinsmen or Allyes. But when he shall be removed, and false Man shall be alone banished, or all alone in Exile, a part from those he confided in, these things shall come to passe upon his second ingresse into the Kingdome.

The Mahumetans very neer that time shall possesse Venice, Monasteries of Germany de­stroyed by the Northern Eagle. and the Northerne Eagle destroy the Monasteries of Germany. Then the greedy Hollander shall enough repent his dissertion and fals­hood to the English, when the French and other People besides are embrued in the blood of their best and most able Citizens. Whilest the Hollanders continue a People hated of all their neighbours, and though in extreme necessity, succoured by none, or pittyed by any. Such shall the Downfall of those in­dustrious but self-ended Christians be.

An Eagle shall appeare from the most high Rockes of Germa­ny, accompanied with many fierce Griffons, and shall bend his Forces Eastward; he shall make the Pope to leave Rome, and shall bring confusion to all Italy.

By what I have delivered out of many reverend mens Pro­phecies, I onely evince thus much:

King Charles not the Lion of the North. That the late King Charles was not the Lyon of the North; or that his Sonne, the present King of Scotland is that Charles, or that Eagle which the Wise Men of former times Prophesied of; or that he shall act ei­ther such wonderfull Deeds in War or Peace, as the admirers of Grebners false Printed Prophecy would fa­sten upon him.

To make an end of this Story, I shall conclude with the Prophecie of Sybilla Tiburtina, Sybilla Tibur­tina. long since made Publique unto the World. Which Prophecie of Hers, tels another manner of Story. Her Prophecie is thus: ‘Orietour Sydous in Europa Soupra Iberos ad Magnam Septentrionis domum, &c.’

The English of it is thus: ‘A Starre shall arise in Europe over the Iberians, to­wards the great House of the North; whose beams shal unexpectedly enlighten the whole World.’

Sybilla her Prophecy.This shall be in a most acceptable time, when as mortall men being wearied with War and Armes, shall unanimously be desirous to embrace Peace. Certainly in those times it will be stoutly controverted, who shall be the best Man, or unto whom the greatest Dominion may befall; during a Vacancie of a Governour, and whilest there is an Interregnum or discontinu­ance of some Prince. But at length the off-spring of a most ancient Family prevails, and will proceed in a course of War, untill contrary Fortune over-throw him. For even at the same time or near unto the setting of this Starre, or dying of the Prince, signified by that Starre, a light as ancient as the former shall breake out, burning with more eager flames of [Page 65] Warre, shall inlarge his Dominion unto the Coast of the An­tipodes.

But first France must submit or be overcome by this Prince.France over­come.And Brittanie shall most humbly in Ships cast her selfe at his knees, imploring his assistance.

Italy musing in the meane time at these his high enterprises; will contribute little ayde unto him.

But even this second great Starre or Prince shall a long time ere expected conclude his dayes,Death of the great Prince or glorious Starre. greatly to the sorrow of Mankinde. When this Person is layd in his grave, and after the appearance of many Signes of Gods anger, and prodigi­ous Comets, and strange Apparitions in the Ayre: Little safe­ty will be amongst mortall men in any place, untill the fir­mament of Heaven with its Creatures, Nobles destroy­ed. and the Planets in their contrary motions shall vanish away.

One Orbe shall contend with another; the fixed Stars shall in motion run faster than the wandring Planets; Civill Wars amongst the Commons. the Seas shall rise levell with the Mountains.

In a word, night, destruction, ruine, calamity and eternall darknesse shall conclude all these miseries.

Here we see this Sybill very long since Prophesied of a Nor­therne Starre or Prince that should arise in Europe, A great Prince to be borne neare Iberia. and doe fa­mous Acts; and he to be borne very farre Northward neere the Iberians; but concludes him, or tels you his end shall be sad and wofull. This Star or Prince shall no sooner be dead, but another Heroicke Prince equall in blood with the for­mer appeares, he also dyes untimely in his youth. Unto this last Man,A second great Prince dies untimely. if he who writes himselfe King of great Britaine shall apply and supplicate for assistance (as Sybilla saith he must) he himselfe or this King or any King of Scotland cannot then be this great Man in expectation, or greater than Charles the great. Besides here is a place named from whence he shall either per­sonally come, or whence he shall first appear, viz. neer the Ibe­rians, or very far Northward.

It hath been the onely labour of this Discourse all along,The intentiō of th [...] Author in this discourse. [Page 66] to manifest unto this Nation,Present King of Scotts not Charles the great. first, that the present King of Scotland is not that Great Charles intended in Grebner, or any other Prophecy extant either in Manuscript or in Print.

Secondly, we have shewed from the writings of very fa­mous men, of what Nation the Great Charles or Lyon of the North shall be, or Native of.

Thirdly, we have examined the Prophecies both of the Sco­tish, Welch and English Prophets, and from their Writings have discovered, ‘England to have no more Kings.That England shall no more be Governed by KINGS, or that this PARLIAMENT shall be subdued by any of the Issue or Race of the late KING.Parlament not to be overcome by Scotts.’

Fourthly, we have in severall places delivered many assur­ed Predictions concerning the Changes and alterations of the most eminent People, Cities, Nations and Kingdomes of Europe.

And now lastly, we doe deliver one other very ancient Pro­phecie concerning the later times, and that concerneth Europe in Generall. Afterwards we plainly manifest the quality or kinds of such Actions as shall happen Monthly in that very year before the great and admirable Grand Catastrophe of this World; as a warning unto those whose eyes God hath open­ed with cleer manifestations of his spirituall Visions.

JANUARY.

A showre of blood shall raine continually for one howres [Page 71] space, in one Land of Europe, that Region or People thereof shall first come to destruction.

FEBRUARY.

All Nations troubled with rumors of Warres, every Region preparing Armies, and mustering men, traffique gene­rally prohibited by Land and by Sea, every Country inforced to live of their owne stock and commodities.

Quaere: What will become of Scotland then.

MARCH.

The main Sea shall hugely swell with mighty tempests and windes,Holland, Zea­land. so that the Sea-bankes in many places shall overflow their accustomed bounds, inundations universally or in every Country; one Island shall be quite overflowne with the Sea, where the double Crosse hath Government, the sinnes of the Prince or Rulers thereof being so extreme high against the Majesty of God.

APRIL.

A terrible Sea fight, such as hath not been before,England vi­ctorious. occasio­ning the water to look more red than the red Sea, the water all turn'd to blood; England thou wilt have a share in this fight, God of his great goodnesse make thee victorious; after a hard fight thou shalt overcome.

MAY.

War and bloodshed over all the Earth,Twelve Woe­men glad of one Man. one Nation shall send so many men to the Warres, that it shall for a time even be desolate of men, so that twelve Woemen will be glad of one Man: Nay hardly procure one young Man for them all.

JUNE.

In the Eastern parts of the World,Fire from Heaven. a whole Nation shall fight a great battle in a wrong cause, and defend an evill Man; but the vengance of God will raine downe a showre of fire from the throne of Heaven, and consume that Army wholly [Page 72] with all their wealth and treasures, even as they lodge in their Tents, &c.

JVLY.

Great drought and want of water.So great a drought, so great want of water will appeare, that multitudes of people shall dye in many places, for meere want of Water; Soldiers shall not be able for heat to carry their Armes; the Earth shall be so dry and so parched with the Sunne his hot beames, it shall yield no fruit to feede Cattle.

AUGUST.

Mortality Pla­gues.Great Plagues and Mortality will cover the whole face of the Earth, and so destroy Man kind, that there will not be sufficient Labourers to get in Harvest, or the fruites of the Earth;Noysome flyes. in this Month, such swarmes of Noysome fowles and flyes shall come from the East, as they shall devoure the Corn on the ground, the Fruite on Trees, that all shall be barren-Men living in those times and in this Month, shall have more sorrow and more woes, and more famine, and distresse, than was in Jerusalem, when Titus besieged it.

SEPTEMBER.

The Earth em­poysoned.The season of this Month will be so unnaturall, and the Earth so unfit for tillage, that all manner of Cattle will rot on the ground, which will breed such store of flyes and ver­mine, that the Earth will be empoysoned, and receive no Fruit to increase.

OCTOBER.

Dearth of Corne.A generall famine and dearth of Corn, will overspread most Nations of Europe, so that the Child shall sterve at her Mothers breast, the Mother having no food to nourish her selfe or Child.

NOVEMBER.

A great Con­queror ap­peares.One appeares suddenly and unexpectedly a great Conqueror, [Page 73] the World filled with the fame of this Man, who suddenly, like Augustus, gives peace unto the whole Earth.

DECEMBER.

All Warres end, Religion truly preached universally over the World, a generall Peace, no more treason or Rebellion; not long after the Trumpet sounds, and Christ appeares.

The late King being the principall occasion of our whole Discourse, I thought to leave unto posterity some Caracters, of his Life and Actions as follow: Not vulgarly knowne.