Monarchy or no monarchy in England. Grebner his prophecy concerning Charles, son of Charles, his greatnesse, victories, conquests. : The Northern Lyon, or Lyon of the North, and chicken of the eagle discovered who they are, of what nation. : English, Latin, Saxon, Scotish and Welch prophecies concerning England in particular, and all Evrope in generall. : Passages upon the life and death of the late King Charles. : Ænigmaticall types of the future state and condition of England for many years to come. / By William Lilly ...

In his Predictions

He describeth the Troubles of Russia, and the Election of a Swedish King, Sigismond by name, to be King of Polonia,* 1.1 by which he shall irrecoverably lose his own Inheritance.

That of the Swedish race there should be one GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS by name, that should take heart from the di∣stractions of Germanie to invade the Empire with a small Ar∣mie, fight many Battels prosperously, but should at last perish in a pitcht Field.

That about that time should Reign Rex Septentrionalis no∣mine CAROLUS, qui ducet Ʋxorem MARIAM Papisticam,

ex quo evadet Regum infelicissimus. Tunc Populus ipsius Ditio∣nis eliget sibi alium Imperatorem, Comitem; qui durabit in Impe∣rio tres annos, aut circiter. Ac postea idem Populus eliget alium Im∣peratorem, Equitem, non ejusdem familiae nec Dignitatis, qui detrudet omnia sub pedibus suis: durabit aliquanto longiore tempo∣re: & post hunc eliget nullum.

Post hunc apparebit quidam CAROLUS è CAROLO des∣cendens, cum immensâ Classe in litore Ditionis patris sui, & cum Auxiliariis Danicis, Suedicis, Hollandicis, Francicis proster∣net adversarios suos, & administrabit Imperium perfelicissi∣mè, & longè latéque dominabitur, & erit Carolo Magno major.

Englished thus:

About that time a Northern King should Reign, CHARLES by Name, who shall take to wife MARIE of the Popish Re∣ligion, whereupon He shall be a most unfortunate Prince. Then the People of his Dominion shall chuse to themselves another Commander [or Governor] viz. an Earle; whose Go∣vernment shall last three years, or thereabout. And after∣wards the same People shall chuse another Commander [or Governor] viz. a Knight, not of the same Family nor Digni∣ty, who shall trample all things under his feet: he shall en∣dure somewhat longer time: And after him they shall chuse none at all.

After him shall appear one CHARLES, descended from CHARLES, with a mighty Navie on the Shore of His Fa∣thers Kingdom, and with Ayd from Denmarke, Swedeland, Holland, France shall overthrow His Adversaries, and shall go∣vern His Kingdom wonderfull happily, and shall bear Rule far and near: and shall be greater then CHARLES the Great.

This corrupt Coppy was received publiquely by many for the true Grebner, which occasion'd the Discourse following, and publishing of Grebners Originall and many others never extant before.

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 Prophe∣cie aymes at, and onely intends to make known unto us, or that we should beleeve the Northern King therein mentio∣ned was CHARLES STUART, the late beheaded King,* 1.2 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,* 1.3 or the most unhappy of all Kings. This is an high affront, and a superlative impu∣dence, 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, Scot∣land 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 Prophesi∣ed, that in the reign of this Northern King and his Papist wife Mary, the English should chuse for their Generall in Warre an

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 pre∣tended 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 de∣cease, 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 eter∣nall 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 suc∣cesse 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 vertu∣ous 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,* 1.4 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

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 main∣taines 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 Ide∣ots to beleeve any such matter of the present King their Ma∣ster, 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 hap∣py entertainment and reception amongst the English Cava∣liers and others as was expected, from those who emitted it even in that miserable conjuncture of time of 1648. to af∣fright 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 Pau∣lus Grebnerus; others, of one Baudensis a Kinsman of Grebners: Belike the Grebners have the spirit of Prophesie by succession,

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. Ve∣rily 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 incogni∣ta. 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 pre∣sent Scottish King is the Lyon of the North, so frequently Prophesi∣ed of, and that he and he onely shall erect the fift universall Monar∣chy, 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 ex∣treamly 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 adhe∣rer 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 Na∣tion, as well as others on the opposite or Royall Presbyteri∣an 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 dis∣cover his Fallacies and abuses offered unto the whol Nation,

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,* 1.5 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,* 1.6 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 Coun∣ty, 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 hereaf∣ter obtained by our Swords and Purses, viz. Publique Li∣berty.

In his second Page he writes, That the fift and last universall Monarchy of the Gospell of Christ upon Earth,* 1.7 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 Em∣peror 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:* 1.8 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;* 1.9 for if in the Ca∣tologue of the Scottish Kings he ever find any one to have li∣ved 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 murthe∣red; and very rarely any to dye in their Beds, nor shall he

finde few of them to have lived out halfe their time.* 1.10 But whether there shall be a fift Monarchy yea or no, I shall han∣dle in the latter part of this Discourse, in the interim I hold this Assertion of the fift Monarchy to be a very ridiculous Te∣net, 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 Na∣tive 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 Ger∣many onely, but are fore-runners of the downfall of the Sodomiticall or∣der 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* 1.11 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 preten∣ded 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 que∣stion upon the Truth thereof, viz. if there were a Conjuction of the two superiors in 1618. we will yeeld and lay downe our Cause,* 1.12 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 Sa∣turn

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* 1.13 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 Comman∣ders, violent and proud Counsels, treasons and rebellions amongst Sub∣jects; Clergie men shall finde a change of Lawes and Ecclesiasticall constitutions by those of greater power,* 1.14 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,* 1.15 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 uni∣versall gladnesse, joy and delight to Mankinde,* 1.16 the Wicked being eve∣ry 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 Mo∣narchy; 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)

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 pre∣sent 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;* 1.17 yet will not I promise the Term of an Age to our Novell Government, but thinke ve∣rily 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 nei∣ther 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,* 1.18 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.* 1.19 His Prophecy of our Civill Warres,* 1.20 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.* 1.21

PER idem tempus Rex quidem Borealis (nomine Carolus) Ma∣riam ex Papistica religione sibi assumptam in Matrimonium con∣junxerit, 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 quen∣dam 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 prae∣lio 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 & ami∣citiam rumpet, ob ereptas sibi ab ipsorum piratis naviculas quasdam, qui pertrepidi ad novum Danorum Regem (nomine Christiernum) con∣fugient, 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,* 1.22 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 go∣vern his Kingdome, and be greater than Charles the Great. And about the year 1663. the King of the most ancient Bri∣taines,

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 con∣cluded rather by an happy agreement and composition, than by Sword and Musket,* 1.23 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 ma∣ny untruths, and abusive Predictions, referring the Reader on∣ly 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 E∣states with fire and faggot; I say, whether this Oratory will be pleasing to the Commonalty of England yea or no; or whe∣ther such language will make them dote on Monarchy I much

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,* 1.24 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 formida∣ble to Austria, Silesia, Hungary, Holland, France and Portugall; portending the mutations of all those several States, and that the Revolution of time is come,* 1.25 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:

Thy first Issue

Inclines to Warre, plague doth the next subdue; But Lyon fierce sprung from the Northerne shore Shall bring from deepest Hell and Waves that rore A blazing Army; He shall men ore-run,* 2.1 Cities and Cattle, yea the Moon and Sunne Shall he remove; and Father like, the least Make highest, and give Lawes to the weak West.

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 Scot∣land, 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

bring forth the Conversion of the Jewes;* 2.2 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 Au∣stria 1694.* 2.3 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 o∣ver 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, Cat∣tle, &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, Na∣tions, Countries. Dic & eris mihi magnus Apollo, In quibus, &c. viz. In what Countrey shall this great Alexander be born, &c.

* 2.4In 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 here∣after to be copious on this subject, but herein we must give credit to the many Prophecies of former ages, rather than the

single opinion of one or two men, and they not endued with the spirit of Prophecy.* 2.5 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 conclu∣ding his sudden death and short time of reigning.

By the thred we shall recover the needle,* 2.6 for at last our Au∣thor 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,* 2.7 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 Moun∣taine, 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 Au∣thor tels us he found it in a Manuscript; for you must know he dares quote no Authors but invisible ones, and Manu∣scripts of his owne in Ʋtopia to aver this Scot Merline,* 2.8 or Mer∣linus Caledonius. Illis autem temporibus revolutis, Cauda Virginis Leonem intrabit, & Sagitiarii dorsum Scorpius Ascendet, Borealia regna à messoribus obterentur, Australes principatus in statum pulve∣reum 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, & Lu∣na cineritiis cothurnis ad nundinas totulabit. Rides O Rex? At qui∣bus haec supervenient, luctu & maerore contabescent. Haec omnia vix plene peragentur, quum Princeps regali origine coronatus ex Borealibus

plagis proveniet suis inexpectatus, alieniginis desideratus: qui eò quod Leone ferociente insignietur, Leo nuncupabitur. Non conquiescet do∣nec Synodo per eum convocata minisque dissoluta, victricia arma in bo∣stes 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 bellipo∣tens 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 redi∣get. Dum haec agentur, complures Reguli ex India in Syriam cum in∣gentibus irrumpent excercitibus, & circa vallem Jehosaphat praeli∣abundi Leonem opperibunt, ubi ab ipso ad internecionem omnes dele∣buntur. 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 en∣ter 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 ver∣milion 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 a∣way. 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 for∣reigners; 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

advance his conquering Armes against his Enemies,* 2.9 and by wofull successe shall harrasse the territories of neighbor Prin∣ces. He shall exceed Alexander the Great in vertue, and Cyrus in successe: he shall passe the Seas, and be saluted Emperour by many Kings.* 2.10 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 o∣ver 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.* 2.11 Whil'st these things are in Action, divers petty Kings from India shall break in∣to 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,* 2.12 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 Pro∣phecy [had it not seemingly tended to his purpose, we had not seen this rarity; but if we admit it one,] can any way preju∣dice 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,* 2.13 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 un∣to him, nor hath it any to the present Scotish King; the very words of the Prophecie are so significant, they need no refu∣tation or further exposition, they agreeing wholly with ma∣ny others in the same thing, viz. That a certaine Prince shall in the last times arise,* 2.14 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 fur∣ther, 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,* 2.15 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 Do∣minion,* 2.16 and the greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole Heaven shall be given to the People of the Saints of the most High, whose King∣dome is an everlasting Kingdome, and all Dominions shall serve and obey him.

* 2.17God 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 menti∣ons, 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

assure the English if he never hurt us untill the scattered Jewes are converted, we may safely take our rest and sing lullaby.* 2.18 Oh that our Prophet might cry Probatum est, as to that part of his Prophecie, which affirmes this-Kings Army shall be of in∣visible 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 re∣storer 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 other∣while this great Prince must stay till the conversion of the Jewes; then afterwards he must have an Army of Saints invi∣sible; 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,* 2.19 or such an A∣sinego 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,* 2.20 he tels us in page 36. that the German shall be servi∣tors to the King of the North in 1700. and that this Nor∣therne 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 authen∣ticke 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,* 2.21 yea and conquer the French Nation, and surely then will Paris come unto destruction, Ant∣werpe long before that time, Venice by the Turke or one of Ma∣homets Religion, Prague in Bohemia long after Venice by the Ger¦mans, London is London yet. However by this Prophecy, the

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,* 2.22 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 Au∣thor 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 Prophe∣cies and Predictions; and though he relate other mens, he makes no paraphrase on them.

* 2.23We have wearied our selves too long in reciting the false∣hoods 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 im∣posture 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 some∣times and examined it with the Originall.

SIR,

The Prophecy of Paulus Grebnerus which you sent me long since, I have compared with the Originall, and also with two other Coppies ta∣ken out from thence 1639. which all agree together unto a point.

Cambridg 1. Mar. 1649.

De nova acri & strenua Germanica, Bavarica cruenta Leonum pugna & Conflictu. vexillum 173.* 3.1

ROmano sceptro & diademate ab Austriaca domo fatali necessi∣tate deposito & ablato, eaque à Germanis & exteris Gallis, An∣glis, Danis, & Suecis hinc inde Confluentibus oppressa, horribilis in∣de cruenta ac acerrima pugna exorietur, qua universa Europa gravis∣sime Concussa contremiscet, & varie dilacerata & vastata insignibus mutationibus obnoxia erit. Ad eam pugnam & ad faciendas irruptio∣nes in Pomeranorum, Megapolensium, & Danorum Provincias, hujus temporis Rex Sueciae invitabitur, Scriptis atrocium Romanae sedis Legatorum, quibus si ille obtemperaverit, Socius belli sed malè & in∣auspicatè fit, ipsi propinquitate Conjunctissimus. Quamobrem suadeo Sueciam in eo statu quo eam acceperit, relinquat. Sic ipse stirps, & posteri ejus tranquillè pace & quiete fruent ur, suis contenti quibus imperant ditionibus, gentem & subditos suos reservabunt, & sibi de∣vinctos in officio retinebunt. Si verò secum Corde suo constituet, popu∣lum suum persuadere ac in devia abducere, dominus eum è medio tollet. Et sic è Carolo Magnus Carolus regnans fit, qui magno successu & fortuna septentrionalibus populis dominabitur. Et feliciter Classe sua contra Hispanicam potentiam & tyrannidem, ac eorum Classem seu Armadam ut hostis pugnabit. Et una cum Christianis junctis viribus fortiter & acriter dimicabit; Deus autem Regis conjugem Papisticam ex hac vita evocat, unde Pontifex Romanus magnum concipit terro∣rem, qui postea magis ingravescet cum Carolus Rex ipse Antichristo sese opponit, eique adversatur, & Germanorum ac vicinorum manui & robori suas copias conjungit, & oppugnat Hispanicum Diadema. Et tunc Suecus felicissimo successu, Classe & suo populo terra marique in hostem utitur.

Ex Manuscript. Pauli Grebneri Snebergensis in Bibliothe-Col. Sanctae Trinitat. Cantabrig. ex dono Eliz. Reginae Angliae.

Of a fresh Fight and conflict sharply and fiercely maintained by the bloody Lyon of Germany and BAVARIA.* 3.2

A Fatall necessity having torne and pull'd from the House of Austria the old Roman Scepter and Diadem,* 3.3 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 Eu∣rope, which shall cruelly shake and breake away part thereof, yea shal expose the same being strangely spoyled and dismem∣bred 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, be∣ing 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 in∣tire, and keepe in good order and allegiance their owne Sub∣jects officiously disposed to peace and tranquillity. But if He shall in his heart propose to pervert his Subjects by faire per∣swasions,* 3.4 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 conjuncti∣on 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

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, giv∣en there by Queen Elizabeth.

The Title of Grebners Manuscript, is,* 3.5

Sericum Mundi Filum, sive Vaticinium Quo subita mutatio Antichristi, &c.

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.* 3.6

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 Tu∣tors 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.* 3.7

Paulus Grebnerus of Missinia the German A∣strologian, 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 fal∣len 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 Groi∣ning 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.

* 3.8The 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, Eng∣lish, 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 Bat∣tell and to the making of eruptions into the Provinces of the Pomerans,* 3.9 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 com∣panion 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 Po∣sterity 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

to them in duty.* 3.10 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 ter∣ror, 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;* 3.11 and then the King of Suevia shall use with happy successe his Navie and his Peo∣ple both by Land and Sea against the Enemy.

238.

Bohemia doth feele tumults and warlike noyses,* 3.12 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 na∣ture of which at last he knowes, and by experience is taught, that these Spectacles of the House of Austria are encourage∣ments, or flattering and glozing words, wicked and treache∣rous 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 Peo∣ple 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, Burgun∣dians, the French and the Portugals shall be restored to their for∣mer Estates. And a Noble and stout Bohemian Lord doth pos∣sesse and recover his Jurisdiction the meeting together of

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 An∣cestors.

There arises a new fortunate Bohemian Zisca, most strong fa∣mous 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 bur∣ning be set upon the Head of this Teutonicall or German Zis∣ca. 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;* 3.13 the ninties being past by lit∣tle and little between the six hundred and six years. Then shall be a most lively explanation of those things which Eze∣kiel and Daniel have Prophesied of the last Act of the old age of the World.

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

The Lyon of the House of Burgundie, having gotten the Em∣pire, 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 Iu∣piter, Iuly 1623.

1 Divers sinister events shall seeme to conspire together for the crossing of a great Prince,* 3.14 who by oppressing the com∣mon People, shall in the end drive them to Sedition.

2 The Conjunction of Jupiter and Sa∣turne 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,* 3.15 which shall be the 27. of February, is fore∣told, That some King or Prince shall un∣dertake 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,* 3.16 let him looke warily to his feet for fear of slipping; because so great a fall is threatned him, as shall pro∣cure 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 di∣rection of one,* 3.17 who was no way capable of so weighty a charge, shall be sensible of the great fault he hath committed, where∣of he shall too late repent.

6 The stirrers and Incendiaries of Se∣dition shall make residence in the Houses

of Kings and Princes.

7 War deferr'd through want of Mo∣ney.

* 3.188 The Land and Towne Geminist shall bewaile the want of her Sun.

* 3.199 There shall be great levying of Soul∣diers for the execution of some Strata∣gem, but all shall turn to nothing; for the sudden departure of a great Personage shall cause much Murmuring and Dis∣content.

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.* 3.20 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 Peo∣ple 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;* 3.21 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 un∣truths;

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.* 3.22 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 Domini∣on 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 a∣gainst Austria; Therefore the time of fulfilling this Prophecy, if we may call it one, is not come; and besides, Grebner posi∣tively 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 Nati∣ons 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 cor∣rupt or counterfeit,* 3.23 or such as are in private hands or Libra∣ries, 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 pre∣dicted; the arrivall of our Men and Ships. These were De∣dicated 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.

1 Scotland be sad now, and lament thy child whom thou hast lost:Line 1 Bereft of Kings, falsly undone by thy owne kindly hoste. * 3.242 Alace, the free, bond is become, and deceit is thy fall;Line 2 Thy falshood to the Brutish race hes broght thee into thrall. 3 The grave of the most noble Prince to all is great regrate,Line 3 Not subject to Law, who doth leave the Kingdome and estate. 4 Oh Anguish great, where every kinde and age doth lament,Line 4 Whom bitter Death hes tane away, shall Scotland sore repent. * 3.255 Lately a Land of rich increase, a Nation stout and true,Line 5 Hes lost their former dear estate, which they did hold of due: 6 By hard conflict, and by chance of Mobile fortunes forceLine 6 Thy hap and thy prosperity is turned into worse. * 3.267 Thou wont to win, now is subdude and come in under Yoke:Line 7 A stranger reignes, and doth destroy what likes with sword stroke. 8 The English race, whom neither force nor manner doe approve;Line 8 Woe is to thee, by guilt and slight is onely win above. 9 The mighty Nation was to fore invincible and stout.Line 9 Hes yeelded low to destiny, great pity is but doubt. 10 In former age the Scots renown did flourish goodly gay,Line 10 * 3.27But now ah lasse is overcled with a great darke decay. 11 Then marke and see what is the cause of this so wondrous fall;Line 11 Contempt of Faith, falshood, deceipt, the wrath of God withall; * 3.2812 Ʋnsatiable greedy of worlds gaine, oppression, cryes of pooreLine 12 Perpetuall, a slanderous race, no justice put in ure. 13 The hauty pride of mighty men, of former vice chiefe cause;Line 13 The nurriture of wickednesse, and unjust match of Lawes. 14 Therefore this case the Prophets old of long time did presage,Line 14 As now has happened every point into this present age. 15 Since fate is so, now Scotland learn in patience to abideLine 15 Slanders, great feares, and sudden plagues, and dolors more beside. Line 16

16 For out of thee shall People rise, with divers happinesse:Line 16 And yet a Pen can scarcely write thy hurt, skath and distresse.* 3.29 17 The English Nation shall invade, &c.Line 17

Out of the Scotish Merlin, concerning the Invasion.

Then shall a Hunter in haste come forth of the South▪ With many Ratches in row ruled run right And shall goe on his foot over the water of Forth;* 3.30 And in Fife shall he fight, and the field win.

Of our Horse Boats or Barges and Ships arriving at the Basse, hear Berlington the Rymer.* 3.31 Our Boats or Barges and Ships arrived about May 1651. Every Barge was to carry fifty Horse and fifty Men, they were flat bottomed.

Betwixt Temptallon and the Basse, Thou shalt see a right faire sight Of Barges and Bellengers, and many broad sail, With three Libberts and the Fowerdeluces hye upon hight.

And afterwards thus:

There shall come a Hound out of the South,* 3.32 And with him a Rayment of Ratches ruled right. And Actor for the Keinly shall he come, And in Fife shall fight and the field win.

Next comes Thomas Rimer a Scotish Prophet, upon whose words they build very much, though to no purpose.

He saith,

Our Scotish King shall come full keene, The red Lyon beareth he. A feddereda 3.33 arrow sharpe I weene Shall make him winke and warr to see: Out of the field he shall be led, When he is bloody and woe for blood:* 3.34 Yet to his Men he shall say, Turne againe, And give those Southern folke I fray, Why should I lose.

And presently after.

* 3.35Our bloody King that weares the Crowne, Full boldly shall hee battle bide, His Banner shall bee beaten downe, And hath no hole his head to hide.

Towards the latter end of his prophecy hee sayth:

A French Wife shall beare the Sonne Shall rule all Brittain to the Sea.

This was fullfilled in King James, whose Mother was the Widdow of the French Kings eldest Sonne.

Heare what Waldhave prophesied of the late King and his posterity.

* 3.36The Bastards blood left is for ever. Then in Brittain, that day see who so will, Shall never Bastards broock a foot broad of earth, Hee shall bee hurled, and harled, and hasted to death, With a Wolfe out of Wales, and bring him out of dayes, And conquest the clean Crowne of Englands right, Hee shall bring all England into good peace.

The Bastards blood in the off-spring of William the Con∣queror, the title King James had to the Crowne was derived from a daughter of Henry the VII, and his right from the issue of William the Conqueror, who was a Bastard; many conceive the Wolfe of Wales, to bee a person of quality now living, who had a speciall hand in bringing the late King to Justice,* 3.37 and if you will know the time of the extirpation of Monar∣chie, hear Sybilla the Prophetesse: Take a thousand in calcula∣tion	1000
And the longest of the Lion	0050
Foure Crescents under one Crowne	400
	100
With St. Andrews crosse thrice	30
Then three score and thrice three	69
In that yeare there shall a King,	1649

A Duke and no crowned King, Because the Prince shall bee you••g, And tender of yeares. Much sorrow and strife, Shall bee in Lowthian and Fife.

King Charles was beheaded in Jan. 1648. his Soon King Charles wrote King of Scotland presently after, and all 1649. but was not crowned that yeare; wee also know the Duke of York was abroad all that yeare.

These are all the Scottish Prophecyes, which ever I could attaine sight of, and yet none of these make any mention of a fift Monarchy, or the Lion of the North, or do any other-ways mention that so great a King as Charles the great, nay grea∣ter then hee shall bee borne of Scottish Race, or in Scotland, or shall come from Scotland. Certainly, these Scottish Pro∣phets would have piped, rimed, ballated, and chanted out such a thing to purpose in honour of their Nation, and to comfort their miserable Contrimen, if their Daemon or An∣gells had foreseen any such things. From all which I onely conclude thus much: That the present King of Scotland is not that great Lion of the North, or hee that must conquer the English,* 3.38 or the present commonwealth of England. I shall now peruse our En∣glish and Brittish Prophecyes, and examine their successes, or whether they speak of any such great power and Dominion, but first you shall observe an exact verification of the White Kings Prophecy in Charles the late King.

Notes

• * 1.1

  This false Cop∣py came out 1648 verba∣tim as here re∣lated, the Ori∣ginall true one followes.
• * 1.2

  Grebner abu∣sed by the for∣mer paper.
• * 1.3

  The Queene abused and be∣lyed by the Prophecy:
• * 1.4

  If he appeare not before he will never hurt us.
• * 1.5

  Parlament a∣bused.
• * 1.6

  The late King confessed to be a Tyrant.
• * 1.7

  A fift univer∣sall Monarchy.
• * 1.8

  Age of the Scottish King at present.
• * 1.9

  He must be 80 years of age when he enters on the fift Mo∣narchy.
• * 1.10

  The Scot••ish Kings live not 80 years.
• * 1.11

  Lyon of the North.
• * 1.12

  The true Con∣junction was July 1623.
• * 1.13

  Baudensis.
• * 1.14

  The end why this Prophecy was forged.
• * 1.15

  He intends the Jewes.
• * 1.16

  A meer contra∣diction to the former asserti∣on.
• * 1.17

  A blinde Pro∣phet.
• * 1.18

  No such thing in the Original
• * 1.19

  A meer untruth
• * 1.20

  Gebner never mentioned the late King.
• * 1.21

  A second coun∣terfeit Prophe∣cy father'd on Grebner, Printed 1650.
• * 1.22

  The whole Na∣tion know this to be a lye.
• * 1.23

  The Authors intention disco∣vered.
• * 1.24

  Eclipses and their Portents.
• * 1.25

  All must yeeld to the Northern Lion.
• * 2.1

  A Prophecy to no purpose, but absolutely a∣gainst the Sco∣tish King.
• * 2.2

  Jewes conver∣ted 1683.
• * 2.3

  House of Au∣stria to be de∣stroyed 1694.
• * 2.4

  A fifth Monar∣chy pretended.
• * 2.5

  No fifth uni∣versal Monar∣chy.
• * 2.6

  Merlinus Ca∣ledonius.
• * 2.7

  A Scotish Merlin much crackt of for a rare Prophet.
• * 2.8

  Prophecy of the Scotish Merlin
• * 2.9

  A great hrag to no purpose.
• * 2.10

  Look to it Lon∣don this is of thee.
• * 2.11

  The King of Scots must fight in Judea if this Prophet lye not.
• * 2.12

  The Scots are fugitives all over the World.
• * 2.13

  King James a veey coward.
• * 2.14

  A great Prince to appeare.
• * 2.15

  An invisible Nation prated of••
• * 2.16

  Proo••e of a fift Monarchy.
• * 2.17

  Answer.
• * 2.18

  Scottish King n••ver is to con∣quer the Par∣lament.
• * 2.19

  Admonition to the Eng••ish.
• * 2.20

  Five great Ci∣ties to be fired by the Nor∣thern Lyon.
• * 2.21

  Paris, Prague, Venice, Ant∣werp and Lon∣don to be de∣st••oyed.
• * 2.22

  London ad∣monished.
• * 2.23

  The true origi∣nall of Greb∣ner.
• * 3.1

  Grebneri ve∣ra Copia.
• * 3.2

  Banner 173
• * 3.3

  The true Pro∣phecy of Greb∣ner in English
• * 3.4

  Charles of Charles.
• * 3.5

  The Worlds silken string, or a Prophe∣cy of Ante∣christs sudden confusion.
• * 3.6

  This is a true and exact ac∣count of Greb∣ners Prophecy.
• * 3.7

  A second true transcription of Grebnerus.
• * 3.8

  This out of the originall booke of Grebnerus.
• * 3.9

  Read the French Inven∣tory or Cronicle fol. 9••9. 22 years sinte was this Prophecie fulfilled.
• * 3.10

  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.
• * 3.11

  Loe, here the Lion of the North, as Greb¦ner thinks.
• * 3.12

  This Prophecie was also in the Paper with the former.
• * 3.13

  In which se∣venth year M. Brightman writ his book of the Revela∣tion.
• * 3.14

  This came to passe accor∣dingly in King Charles his reigne.
• * 3.15

  King Charles his succes∣lesse journey into Spain.
• * 3.16

  Read the Annals of 1624. 1625. and 1626.
• * 3.17

  King Charles relying on Canterbury and other silly fellowes makes this good.
• * 3.18

  London here is intended.
• * 3.19

  It intends the private rai∣sing of Horse in Germany which were to have into England.
• * 3.20

  Grebnerus cleared of in∣tending the Scots King to be the Charles here mentioned
• * 3.21

  Stockholm in Swevia hath 59° 30′ of North Latitud
• * 3.22

  The Charles in Grebner his Prophecy not yet born.
• * 3.23

  Scotish Prophe¦cies tending to the overthrow of Mona••chy and its exter∣pation, and the present invasi∣on of our Army
• * 3.24

  Hark Presby∣ter to the Scot∣tish faith.
• * 3.25

  Not too much of truth in a Scot.
• * 3.26

  Observe this part of the Ri∣mer.
• * 3.27

  Oh excellent Poet.
• * 3.28

  Scottish vertus Excellent Gospell.
• * 3.29

  So our Army of English did invade in 1650.
• * 3.30

  Our Army pro∣mised victory in Fife.
• * 3.31

  A Scotish Pro∣phet or Rimer.
• * 3.32

  Successe of the English if they get into Fife.
• a 3.33

  Why not a Bullet.
• * 3.34

  Beware O K of Scotland, this concerns thee.
• * 3.35

  A sad Prophe∣cie for that present King.
• * 3.36

  A Prophecie that none of William the Conquerours issue to reigne in England.
• * 3.37

  The Scotish Sybilla of the year when Mo∣narchy should down.
• * 3.38

  King of Scots not to conquer the Parlament