Mr. Saltmarshes Predictions declared to his Excellency the Lord Fairfax, and the Counsell of his Army; with the Motives that occasioned it: and the manner of his Death.
HE being at his house nere Y [...]lford in Essex, Decemb. 4. 1647. told his Wife, that he had received a command from God, to make knowne to the Army what the Lord had revealed unto him: The like he sayd to Sir H. [...] Knight, a Member of the House of Commons, as soone as he arived at London. The next dy (being [...]he Lords day) he found some difficulty to procure a Horse, but after dinner he got one, and rid alone towards Windsor. But missing his way, lodged at night 7. miles short; where he declared, That the great and dreadfull Day of the Lord is neere, when all men shall be judged by Jesus Christ, and then shall the waies and actions of all men appeare, &c. Early the next day, Decemb. 6. he againe missed his way in a Forrest, but espying a house, rid to it to demand his way, and there made knowne, That God was purposed to destroy the wicked, and draw the Saints to himselfe, with much more: after which he departed, and about nine of the clock came to Windsor; where Mr. A. an Adjutator saluting him, he said Mr. A. Depart from these Tents lest you perish with them, for the Lord hath revealed unto me, that he is angry with this Army, because they have forsaken him. Another, a Captaine asked him how he did? To whom he replyed, That he had nothing from God to say to him, because he had alwais beene a seeker under specious pretences. Then seeing one C. D. another Officer, he said, he could not owne him, for he was for destruction. Then going to the Generall Councell, where many Officers were met in expectation of the Generall, he told them, That he was come thither to reveale the Lords command; That though God had done much for them, and by them, yet he had left them and their Councels, because they had forsaken him: That God would not prosper their Consultations, but destroy them by divisions amongst themselves; That formerly he came like a Lambe, but now God had raised in him the spirit of a Lyon, because they had [...]ought to destroy the people of God. Some said that he lookt like one distracted, and that he had beene sick, and was not well recovered; to whom he replyed, that he had beene sick, but well in health then, and sensible of what he said, and that should be the last time that ever he should speake to them. Afterwards he went to the Generall, not moving his hat, and told him, That he had no command from God to honour him, That he had honoured him so much, as he offended God in doting on his person, and that God would no longer prosper him, &c. Then going to the L. Gen. who asked him how he did? he (without any respect) answered him, That God was very angry with him for abusing the godly, and that the Armies falling from their first Principles, would occasion their ruine and destruction, &c. After which he departed, and on Tuesday, Decemb. 7. went againe to the L. Gen. and declared, That he was sorry to see such obstinacy in him, and wished him to be mindfull of what God had declared unto him: Afterwards he tooke his leave of the Army, and said he had done his Errand, and must leave them never to see the Army more. On Wednesday, Decemb. 8. he came to London, and tooke leave of some friends, to whom he recommended his wife. On Thursday Decemb. 9. he went from London to his house at Y [...]lford, not sick at all, and told his wife what he had done. On Fryday Decemb. 10, he said he had finished his course, and must go to his Father. In the afternoone he said his head aked, and laid himselfe upon his Bed. On Saturday, Decemb. 11. he was taken speechlesse, and about four or five a clock that afternoone dyed.
A Prediction of King Richard the Third.
IN the Raigne of King Richard the third, his Majesty with his Army lay at Leicester the night Before the battle at Bosworth field was fought. It happened in the Morning as the King rode through the South-gate, a poor old blind man (by profession a Wheel wright) sat begging, and hearing of his approach said, that if the Moone changed twice that day, having by her ordinary course changed in the Morning, King Richard should lose his Crowne, and be slaine; and riding over the bridge his left foot struck against a stump of wood, which the old man hearing, said, Even so shall his head at his returne back hit on the same place, which so came to passe: And a Nobleman that carried the Moone for his Colours, revolted from King Richard, whereby he lost that day his Life, Crowne, and Kingdome; which verified the Presages of that poore blinde old man.
The Prophesie of Shiptons Wife in the time of King Henry the Eight.
Note, that this Prophesie was never exactly printed before.VVHen she heard that King Henry the Eight should be King, and Cardinall Wolsey should be at Yorke, she said that Cardinall Wolsey should never come to Yorke, which the King and the Cardinall hearing, being angry, sent the Duke of Suffolke and the Lord Darcy to her, who came with their men disguised to the Kings house neare Yorke, where leaving their men they went to Mr. Besly to Yorke, and desired him to go with them to Mother Shiptons house, where when they came they knocked at the doore, she sayd, come in Mr. Besly, and those honourable Lords with you, and Mr. Besly would have put in the Lords before him; but she sayd, come in Mr. Besly, you know the way, but they doe not. This they thought strange that she should know [Page]them, and never saw them; then they went into the house, where there was a great fire, and she bad them welcome, calling them all by their names, and sent for some Cakes and Ale, and they dranke and were very merry. Mother Shipton, said the Duke; if you knew what we came about, you would not bid us so welcome; she said the messenger should not be hanged: Mother Shipton, said the Duke, you said the Cardinall should never see Yorke; yea said she, I sayd he might see Yorke, but never come at it. But said the Duke, when he comes to Yorke thou shalt be burned; we shall see that, said she, and plucking her hankercher off her head, she threw it into the fire, and it would not burne: then she tooke her staffe and turned it into the fire, and it would not burne; then she tooke it and put it on againe. Then said the the Duke, what meane you by this? she replyed, if this had burned, I might have burned. Mother Shipton, quoth the Duke, what thinke you of mee? My Lord, sayd she, the time will come The Duke was afterward beheaded. you will be as low as I am, and that is a low one indeed.
My Lord Piercy said, and what say you of me? My Lord, said she, shooe your horse in the quick, and you will doe well, but your This proved true, for he rose in rebellion in the North, and by not flying when he might he was taken and beheaded at York, where his body was buried; but his head was [...]ol [...] away and carried into France. te [...]g [...] Eliz, R. body will be buried in Yorke pavement, and your head shall be stolne from the Barre and carried into France: At which they all laughed, saying, that would be a great lop betweene the head and the body. Then said the Lord Darcy, and what think you of me? She said, you have made a great Gun, shoot it off, for it will never doe you no good; you are going to war, you will paine many a man, but kill none: So they went away.
Not long after the Cardinall came to Cawood, and going to the top of the Tower, He asked, where stands Yorke, and how far it was thither? and said, that one said he should never see Yorke; nay, said one, she said you might see Yorke, but never come at it. He vowed to burne her when he came to Yorke. Then they shewed him Yorke, and told him it was but eight miles thence; he said that he would soone be there; but being sent for by the King, he died in his way to London, at Leicester of a laske. And Shiptons wife said to Mr. Besly, yonder is a fine stall built for the Cardinall in the Minster, of gold, pearle; and precious stones, goe and present one of the pillars to King Henry; and he did so.
Mr. Besly seeing these things fall out as she had foretold, desired her to tell him some more of her Prophesies. Mr. Besly said she, before that This came to passe, for Trinity steeple in Yorke was blown downe with a tempest, and Owse Bridge was broken downe with a great floud; and what they did in repairing [...]e bridge in the day time with the stone of the steeple, fell downe in the night, untill they (remembring thi [...] [...]rophesie) laid the highest stone of the steeple for the foundation of the bridge, and then the worke stood. And by this was partly verified another of Mother Shiptons Prophesies (viz.) That her maid should live to drive her Cow over Trinity steeple. Owse Bridge and Trinity Church meet, they shall build on the day, and it shall fall in the night, untill they get the highest stone of Trinity Church, to be the lowest stone of Owse Bridge.
Then the day will come when the North shall rue it wondrous sore, but the South shall rue it for evermore; when hares kindle on cold hearth Supposed to be mean by suppression of Abbien and other Religions houses. And at the Lord William Howards house at Naworth, a Hare came and kindled in his Kitchen upon the hearth. stones, and lads shall marry Ladies and bring them home, then shall [Page]you have a yeare of pining hunger, and then a dearth without come, a wofull day will be seene in England, a King and a Queene.
The first comming of the This was fulfilled in K. James his comming in, for such a multitude of people stood at Holgate bar to behold him, as that to avoid the presse, he was forced to ride by another way. King of Scots shall be at Holgate Towne, but hee shall not come through the Bar, and when the King When King James was at London, his children were at Edenborough, prepareing to come in to England. of the North shall be at London, his tayl [...] shall be at Edenborough.
After this shall water This is verified by the conducting of water into Yorke streets through boared Elmes: And the Conduit house hath a Windmill on the top that drawes up the water. come over Owse bridge, and a windmill shal be set on a tower; and an Elm-tree shall lye at every mans doore, at that time women shall weare great hats and great bands.
And when there is a Lord Major A Lord Major whose house was in the Minster yard in Yorke, was killed with three stabs. at Yorke, let him beware of a stabbe.
When two Knights Sir Tho. Wentworth & Sir John Savill in choosing Knights for the Shire in the Castle yard in Yorke, did so fall out, that they were never after well reconciled. shall fall out in the Castle-yard, they shall never be kindly all their lives after.
When all Colton Colton hag in her rime was a Wood land ground full of trees, which bore corn seven yeers, and the seaventh yeer after that was the year of the comming in of the Scots, and their taking of Newcastle. hag hath borne corps of Corne, seven yeares after you shall heare newes, there shall two Judges In the yeare 1616. two Judges of Assize went out at a gate in Yorke, where never any Judges were knowne to goe out before or since. goe in and out at Walmgate Bar.
Then best for them that have the least, and worst for them that have the most: you shall not know of the warre over night, yet you shall have it in the morning: and when it comes it shall last three yeares: betweene Cardon and Aire shall be great warfare, when all the world is as lost, it shall be called Christs Crost. When the battell begins, it shall be where Near Leicester, where Richard the third was slaine in battell, the Collonell Hastings was one of the first in Armes, endevouring to settle the Commission of Array, in opposition to others that were then setling the Militia. Crook-back Richard made his fray.
They shall say, to warfare for your King for halfe a crowne a day, but stir not, (they will say) to warfare for your King on paine of hanging, but stirre not, for he that goes to complaine, shall not come backe againe. [Page]The time will come when England shall tremble and quake for feare of a dead man that shall be heard to speake: then will the Dragon give the Bull a great snap, and when the one is downe they will goe to London Towne: Then there will be a great battaile betweene England and Scotland, and they will be pacified for a time, and when they come to Brammamore they fight and are againe pacified for a time, then there will be a great battell between England and Scotland at Stockmore: Then will Ravens sit on the It is to be noted and admited, that this Crosse in the North in Mother Shiptons dayes was a tall stone Crosse, which ever since hath been by degrees sinking into the ground, and now is sunke so low, that a Raven may sit upon the top of it, and reach her bill to the ground. Crosse, and drink as much bloud of Nobles as of the Commons, then woe is me, for London shall bee destroyed for ever after.
There will come a woman with one eye, and she shall tread in many mens bloud to the knee, and a man leaning on a staffe by her, she shall say to him, what art thou? and he shall say, I am the King of Scots, and she shall say, goe with me to my house, for there are three Knights, and hee will goe with her, and stay there three dayes and three nights, then will England be lost, and they will cry twice a day, England is lost. Then there will be three Knights in Peter-gate in York, and the one shall not know of the other; there shall be a childe borne in Pomfret with three thumbs, and those three Knights will give him three horses There is a childe not many yeares since borne at Pomfret with three thumbs. to hold while they winne England, and all Noble bloud shall be gone but one; and they shall carry him to Sheriffe Huttons Castle sixe miles from York, and he shall dye there, and they shall chuse there an Earle in the Field, and hanging their horses on a thorne, and rue the time that ever they were borne to see so much bloud shed. Then they will come to Yorke to besiege it, and they shall keep them out three dayes and three nights, and a penny loafe shall be within the Bar at halfe a Crowne, and without the Bar at a penny; and they will sweare if they will not yeild, to blow up the Towne walls: Then they will let them in, and they will hang up the Major, Sheriffes and Aldermen, and they will goe into Crouch Church, there will three Knights goe in, and but one come out againe, and he will cause Proclamation to be made, that any man may take house, towre, or bower for 21. yeares, and whilst the world endureth, there shall never be warfare againe, nor any more Kings or Queenes, but the Kingdome shall bee governed by three Lords, and then Yorke shall bee London. And after this shall be a white harvest of Corne gotten in by women. Then shall be in the North, that one woman shall say unto another, Mother, I have seene a man to day, and for one man there shall be a thousand women: there shal bee a man sitting on St. Ia [...]es Church hill [Page]weeping his fill: And after that a Ship came sailing up the Thames till it came against London, and the Mr. of the Ship shall weepe, and the Marriners shall aske him why he weepeth, being he hath made so good a voyage, and he shall say; Ah what a goodly City this was, none in the world comparable to it, and now there is le [...]t scare any house that can let us have drinke for our money.
Mr. Truswels, Recorder of Lincolne.
THe Lilly shall remaine in a merty world, and he shall be moved against the seed of the Lyon, and he shall stand on one side amongst thrones of his Kingdome and Countrey: and there shall come the Son of man beating three wild beasts in his Armes, which Kingdome is the Land of the Moone, which is to be dread throughout all the world, with a company of people he shall passe many waters, and he shall come to the Land of the Lyon, looking for helpe, with the beasts of his owne Countrey: And in that yeere there shall come an Eagle out of the Bast, and his wings spread with the beames of the Sonne of man: And that yeere shall be destroyed Castles upon Thames, and there shall be great feare over the whole world; and in a part of the Land there shall be great battells amongst many Kingdomes: That day shall be the bloody field, and the Lilly shall lose his Crowne, and therewith shall be crowned the Sonne of man. And in the fourth yeere, many battells shall be for the Faith, and most of the world shall be stoopen, but the Sonne of man with the Eagle shall be preferred, and there shall be universall peace over the whole world: Then shall the Son of man receive a marvellous token, and there shall be great plenty of all manner of fruits, and then shall he goe to the land of the crosse.