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 ...

THE PROPHECIE OF PAƲLƲS GREBNE∣RƲS, Concerning these TIMES.

PAULUS GREBNERUS was here in England with Queene Elizabeth Anno 1582. and presented her with a faire Manuscript in Latine, describing therein the future hi∣story of Europe, here and there limming in water-colors some principall passages.

Doctor Nevil, Clerk of the Closet, being in favour with the Queen, obtained this Book of Her, and be∣stowed it on the Library of Trinitie-Colledg in CAMBRIDG,* 1.1 where it hath been published to the view of all persons, till about five or six years ago, by much perusing and ill handling it was much slurred and defaced.

In his Predictions

He describeth the Troubles of Russia, and the Election of a Swedish King, Sigismond by name, to be King of Polonia,* 1.2 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,* 1.3 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,* 1.4 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,* 1.5 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,* 1.6 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,* 1.7 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,* 1.8 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:* 1.9 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;* 1.10 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.* 1.11 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* 1.12 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,* 1.13 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* 1.14 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,* 1.15 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,* 1.16 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,* 1.17 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;* 1.18 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,* 1.19 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.* 1.20 His Prophecy of our Civill Warres,* 1.21 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.* 1.22

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,* 1.23 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,* 1.24 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,* 1.25 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,* 1.26 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.

Severall English Prophecyes, relating to the life and death of Charles Stuart, late King of Brittain, and unto the finall extirpation and rooting up of Monarchy in England.

WEE usually say Prophecies and Oracles are best under∣stood, when they are performed, many having com∣plained of the ambiguity of Oracles, and their Ambodex∣trous interpretations; as many also finding fault with the ob∣scurenesse

of Prophecies, imagining no mortall men can give the proper sence of any Oracle or Prophecy, except indued from above with the same Divine spirits as were given unto the first Authors. Were I to meddle with divine Prophecies, I could transcend a volum in discourse of this subject; but I have confined my present indeavours in the ensuing traitise, onely to manifest unto the whole World, and this Nation principally, the certain and unquestionable Events, of very many English Prophecyes,* 3.39 long since delivered unto us, and still remaining amongst us, which have so clearely and mani∣festly declared the Actions of these present times wherein wee live, and with that lively portratur, that it were the highest of incredulityes to question their abilityes in the guift of Prophecying, or by unnecessary & ambiguous Queries to make the World beleeve there can bee any other interpreta∣tion rendred of their sayings, then such as wee have visibly with our eyes beheld even in this very age and tyme wee now live in: And if any curious impertinent shall bee so nice as to question by what divine Furie, or heavenly Rapture infu∣sed into them either by Dreames, Visions, or any other nocturnall Revelation these reverend Persons became so wise so foreknowing; I must first intreat such Criticks to acquaint mee how, and by what meanes either the Sybills or many others, and especially Balaam the Prophet came so truly to prophecy either of Christ, as the most learned beleeve hee did, or of the Kingdom of the Jews, or of both, in Num. 24. vers. 17. Then shall come a Starre out of Jacob, and a Scepter shall arise out of Israel. I willingly consent with the severall expo∣sitions of the learned upon those words, yet do thinke it no heresie, if I say Balaam intended by the Starre there mentio∣ned, Jesus Christ, and by the Scepter, that the people or Nation of the Jews, should in future time become a great and mighty people, and have Kings to rule over them as other Nations had at that present; whereas the Jews were onely governed by Moyses at that time; yet wee know Balaam was not of the people of the Jewes, and yet in the 16 vers. of that Chap. hee plainly sayth: Hee heard the words of God, and knew the know∣ledge

of the most High: Wee must acknowledge that hee pro∣phecied very truly; for the Scripture, against whose evidence there is no Appeal to bee made, confirmes it: But if Ba∣laam loved the wayes of unrighteousnesse, and laboured with that continued infirmity of the Clergy and Priesthood. viz. Covetousnesse let us lament and pitty human kind, that so excellent a man as hee in many things, should blemish all his rare parts, with those filthy but pleasing Mineralls Gold and Silver.

If God Almighty, in those times of so great darkenesse or Heathenisme, did not leave some Kingdomes destitute of Pro∣phetique spirits, though the true causes by which they did prophecy, lye concealed unto posterity, or are manifested un∣to very few at present living, shall wee now thinke that in the purest tymes of Christianity, God either hath been or is lesse mercifull then unto former ages hee was, or that hee is not as able or willing to infuse into some Christians the spirit of Prophecy as into some Heathens of old. How truely did Homer deliver that Prophecy of Aeneas, many hundred yeares before it came to passe:

At Domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur Oris, Et Nati natorum, & qui nascentur ab illis.

A Prophecy it was of the greatnesse of the Roman Empire; which wee all know was fully verified. How true is also that of Seneca:

— Venient Annis Secula seris, quibus Oceanus Vincula rerum laxet, &c.

Which was a Prophecy of the discovery of the West-Indies and America, never known to the Ancients, & to us not above 150 yeares since. But I leave mentioning of Heathen Pro∣phets, &c.

What shall wee say of that Prophecy of Henry the VI,* 3.40 King of England, which hee delivred so positively upon Henry the VII. then a boy, and holding water unto him:

This is the Lad or boy, saith hee, that shall enjoy the Crowne, for which wee strive.

* 3.41Or of David Ʋpan or Ʋnanthony, who many yeares since prophecyed of the pulling downe of Charing Crosse, his Pro∣phecy was printed 1588. the words are these:

To tell the truth, many one would wonder, Charing Crosse shall bee broken a sunder:

P shall preach. R shall reach, S shall stand stiff.

R signifies Round-head: P Presbitery: S the Souldier, &c.

Charing Crosse, wee know, was pulled downe 1647. in June, July and August, part of the stones converted to pave before White-Hall, I have seen Knive-hafts made of some of the stones, which being well polished, looked like Marble.

But I leave further determination of these things, unto some other pen or discourse, and come unto the present in∣tended discourse it selfe, wherein I shall make it very cleare∣ly to appeare, that all, or most of our Antient English, Welch, and Saxon Prophecies, had relation to Charles Stuart, late King of England,* 3.42 unto his reigne, his Actions, life, and death; and unto the now present times wherein we live, and unto no other preceding King or times whatsoever; Which I prove onely by this undeniable argument, viz. no King or Queen reigning in this Nation or Kingdome did ever write or stile, him or her selfe King or Queen of Britaine before King James, who beeing naturally King of Scotland, and successively of En∣gland and Wales, was the first that ever either really was King of all Brittaine, or that did so intitle himselfe; nor was ever any King crowned in White apparell but King Charles, besydes there is a Prophecy extant and printed long before Queen E∣lizabeth died, viz.

* 3.43When HEMPE is sponne, Englands donne.

OR

When HEMPE is come and also gon,* 3.44 Scotland and England shall bee one.

Which words intimate, that both Henry the VIII, Edward the VI, Mary, Philip, and Elizabeth, Kings and Queens of En∣land, must first have reigned, before Merlines Prophecy could take place, in King James both Nations were united, and not before. Let mee also add unto this, a very Antient Prophecye of the Welch, viz.

Karonog fab Anē y^• wna diwedh ar y dro gane.* 3.45

In English thus:

The Sonne of Ann crownd, ends all our Prophecies.

We never had yet any King whose mothers name was Ann, but King Charles, his mother was Ann, Sister to the King of Denmarke late deceased.

The putting to death of the late King was Prophecied,* 3.46 of above 80 yeares before it was done by Nostradam, the booke it selfe was prin-ted about 1578. as I remember in Century 9^th. these are the words:

Senat de Londres mettront a mort leur Roy, viz.

The Senate or Parlament of London, shall put to death their King.

These examples shew that Christians have had the spirit of Prophecy,* 3.47 & foretold plainly many ages before what should succeed.

The most significant of all our English Prophecies, is that of Ambrose Merlin, which I have made choyce of in the first place, repeating orderly a Verse of the Prophecy, and then how it was fullfilled.

A Prophecy of the Wite King, wrote by AMBROSE MERLIN 900. years since, concerning CHARLES the late KING.

* 3.48When the Lyon of Rightfullnesse is dead, then shall rise a White King in Brittaine, first flying, and after riding, after ligging downe, and in this ligg down, hee shall bee lymed, after that hee shall bee led.

* 3.49Wee have seen with our owne eyes and thousands besides, first King James, who raigned peaceably, and was therfore cal∣led Jacobus Pacificus, is dead, viz. that stiling himselfe King of great Britaine, and reigning 22. years, dyed 1625. the 27. of March.* 3.50 Many affirmed he had the picture of a Lyon on his brest or side, but its probable he had some eminent naturall Mole there, which might cause that errour; because in his Nativi∣ty he had both Saturn and Mars in Leone. In regard of the great tranquillity and peace we enjoyed in King James his time, and the little or no blood-shed in his reigne, and in con∣sideration of the propagation and free admittance of the Gospell all over this Kingdome, he was rightly by the Pro∣phet stiled, The LYON of righteousnesse. But if the Prophet had given him the name of LYON in any other sense, he had notoriously failed, being King JAMES was the most pusillanimous Prince of spirit that ever we read of, and the least addicted unto Martiall discipline. But in judgement ei∣ther in things Divine or humane (whilest sober or unbiassed) the most acute and piercing of any Prince either before or since.* 3.51 He was admonished of his Death by a Dreame. He Dream∣ed that his Master Buchanan appeared unto him in his sleep, and gave him these two Verses: I thought good for the rarity ther∣to repeat.

Sexte verere Deum, tibi vitae terminus instat, Cum tua candenti flagrat Carbunculus igne.

English whereof is:

Thou Iames the sixt of that name King of Scots,* 3.52 fear God, the terme of thy life is neer or at hand, when thy Carbuncle stone burnes in the hot fire.

The King told his Bed-chamber men and some other Lords of these Verses next morning, relating them really, and aver∣ed he made not the Verses, nor could his Master Buchanan ever almost get him to make a Latin Verse; the successe was thus. The King had a very large and faire Carbuncle stone usually set in his Hat,* 3.53 and we have seene him Pictured many times with such a Carbuncle fixed to his Hat: But thus it happe∣ned, Sitting by the fire, not long after, this great Carbuncle fell out of his Hat and into the fire; a Scotish Lord tooke it up, and observed the KING sickned and also dyed very shortly after.

After King James was dead, Charles Stuart his then onely Sonne was proclaimed King of great Brittaine, by a generall consent of the people, his tytle being inquestionable. The oc∣casion of the Prophets calling him White King was this,* 3.54 the Kings of England antiently did weare the day of their Corona∣tion purple clothes, being a colour onely fit for Kings, both Queen Elizabeth, King James, and all their Ancestors did weare that colour the day of their Coronation, as any may per∣ceive by the Records of the Wardrobs; contrary unto this cu∣stome, and led unto it by the indirect and fatall advise of William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury, hee was perswaded to apparrell himself the day of his Coronation in a White Garment, there were some dehorted him from wearing the white ap∣parrell, but hee obstinately refused their Counsell. Canterbury would have it as an apparrell representing the Kings inno∣cency, or I know not what other superstitious devise of his.

And of this there is no question to bee made, my selfe though not ocularly seeing him that day, yet have had it related ver∣bally by above twenty, whose eyes beheld it, one or two were workmen that caried his Majestie apparell that day, so that, I challenge al the men upon earth living, to deny his wearing White Apparel that day of his Coronation, &c. It is also reported, and I beleeve it to be true,* 3.55 that such was his haste to have the Crowne upon his head, that hee had not patience to await the coming of the Archbishop, whose office it was to do it, but impatiently in great haste, hee placed the Crowne upon his head with his owne hands, which mooved the Spanish Embassadour, who was then present, to say; the Kings putting the Crown upon his head so rashly with his own hands, was an ill Omen.

* 3.56First Flying.

King Charles summons a Parliament Novemb. 1640. the troubles of Scotland arising in 1641.* 3.57 hee left the English Par∣liament sitting, and went in person himselfe to settle the di∣sturbed affaires of Scotland,* 3.58 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 Ja∣nuary 1641. the Citizens of London,* 3.59 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.* 3.60

The first Horse his Majesty raised, were in Yorkeshire,* 3.61 and these in or about July, August, and Sept. 1642. pretending they were for a Guard for his person, from which time, un∣till 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.* 3.62

From the time of his owne voluntary rendition unto the Scots untill his dying day,* 3.63 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 es∣caped to that fatall place the Isle of Wight.

In this ligg downe hee shall bee lymed.* 3.64

During the time of his Imprisonment,* 3.65 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 occa∣sions tempted or treated withall (every one thinking them∣selves 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.

* 3.66After that He shall be led.

* 3.67After 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 for∣merly 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 unwil∣lingly.

* 3.68And there shall bee shewed whether there be another King.

* 3.69Since 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.

* 3.70Then shall bee gadered togather much folk, and He shall take helpe for him.

* 3.71How 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 Priest∣hood, most cordially and unanimously followed him, and as∣sisted 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,* 3.72 as of an Horse or an Ox.

This part of the Prophecy was exactly verified in King Charles, or the White Kings time,* 3.73 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 for∣raigne Plantations: Some were sold deare, others cheape, ac∣cording 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. Scot∣land, and are arrived into Heaven. There was in 1644. 1645. &c. exchanging of Soldiers and Prisoners, but in 1648. abso∣lute 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,* 3.74 but bed for head.

What Prince or State of Europe,* 3.75 was not attempted since 1642. unto 1648. to assist his late Majesty, but in vaine, Pro∣vidence 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,* 3.76 another there the Sun gone downe.

Intimating no more,* 3.77 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

to Holland, others to France, others to severall Countries, as their fancies or occasions led them; or it may import his Ma∣jesty 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 con∣dition of many Noble families, which still to this day con∣tinues in forraign parts, poore, beggerly, and in a most un∣comfortable condition.

* 3.78After 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.

* 3.79After 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.

* 3.80Bee 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.

* 3.81I 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.

And hee shall have it for his owne.

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 ra∣puerit, 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 & Coun∣try, 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,* 3.82 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;* 3.83 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 can∣not 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 pur∣loyning where ever they came, even unto a Dish-clout. You shal have one example of two Scots in Lancashire 1648. quar∣tered

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 Ala∣rum 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.

* 3.84And Ovens shall be made like Kirkes or Churches.

* 3.85If it were not publickly done in many places of this King∣dome 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.

* 3.86After, 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.

* 3.87Afterwards the Chicken of the Eagle shall come with the Sun upon wodden horses, &c.

Verily in a former Treatise of ours,* 3.88 wee were not much estranged from verity, yet our modesty was such, and our re∣spect to his Majesties person, we were in many things silent; But upon further consideration,* 3.89 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,* 3.90 as doubt∣lesse 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 re∣gard 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 re∣straint; and it must of necessity then follow, that the Chicken here mentioned is the Scots King; for the Chicken is mentio∣ned 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.* 3.91

This shewes a continuance of the Wars, either abroad or

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 & Re∣bellions appeared against the Parliament; besides, the Scot∣tish 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.

* 3.92Then 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,* 3.93 or set on shore some Forces of his in any part of England, which was in July 1648. or Au∣gust, 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 Ma∣jesty was obtained. The Parliament had just cause to feare no good would come from thence; the White King, who ever lov∣ed to fish in troubled waters, gave such ambiguous Answers unto the Parliaments Propositions, as signified Nothing. Where∣upon, 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, po∣led 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 be∣leeve as I doe that there is a God in heaven.

After the White King feeble shall goe towards the West,* 3.94 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,* 3.95 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 Go∣vernour of Carisbrough Castle in the Isle of Wight. That Castle stands neer or upon the water. From this time of his surren∣dring 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 furnish∣ed him with that smutty sheet Elencticus,* 3.96 which accused me of Connivance with one How of Glocestershire about Arabella Scroop, one of the naturall daughters of the Earle of Sunderland. I chal∣lenge the whole World, and both How and his Wife, and Ha∣mond, 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 wo∣man: 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 vindica∣tion 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 singu∣lar freind, both acquainted me of the man, and his great la∣bour 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 affe∣ction

unto this honorable Person, that were my fortune ne∣cessitous, (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 Au∣thority 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.

* 3.97Then 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.

* 3.98When 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.

* 3.99After the White King shall fall into a Kirk-yard, over a Hall.

* 3.100We 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, a∣gainst 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 perti∣nently it was prophecied, He should fall into a Church-yard, over a Hall. It is affirmed for a certain truth, that neare the

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,* 3.101 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 for∣tune, &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.

The Lion of righteousnesse being dead,* 3.102 there shall arise in Brittain a White King; first flying, then riding, then descending, & in his descent he shall be insnared.

Then men will point with their fingers, and say, Where is this White and Noble King.

At that time there will be chaffering of Men, even in the same nature as we do with Sheep and Oxen, and it will be publiquely by some reported, There is a King; others shall say, There is no King.

After these things, he shall lift up his head as a King, or shall manifest himselfe to be King, it will be a time of Gleads or Kytes, and seven yeares shall this War continue within the Kingdome.

After that the young one of the Eagle, or his Chicken, shall come upon woodden Horses, within a yeare and a halfe into Brittain, and then there shall be Warre in Brittain, at what time little shall be the Charity of

most men, for what a man is M^r. of overnight, shall be taken from him in the morning.

After that the White King shall go towards the West to an antient place, neare to a running water. Then his enemies shall make haste to meet him, and their Army shall be formed in shape of a Buckler, the King shall be straightned before and behind, & on eve∣ry side. And then the White and Noble King will slide into an Hall.

After the young one or Chicken of the Eagle shall build in the highest of the Rocks; nor shall he be slain young, nor shall he come to old age. Then the glo∣rious Gentry shal suffer no injury to be done unto him, who shall slay all; the Kingdome being pacified, then shall come the day of Judgment.

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 af∣ter shall come a new Rule from Heaven, and settle ho∣ly 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 to∣tius Britanniae, &c.

An other Coppy hath it:

In summo rupium, viz.

After the death of the White King, the Chicken of the Eagle shall build in the highest Rock of all Brit∣tain, &c.

An other Coppy, hath it, In the highest of Rocks, and men∣tions not Brittain.

These words acquaint us with what this Nation must ex∣pect to ensne after the death of Charles Stuart,* 3.103 late King of England, the true and unquestionable White King. Its very ob∣servable, 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,* 3.104 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 world∣ly condition be in this world; he shall be inforced to betake himselfe into some Mountainous Island or Countrey adja∣cent, or belonging to the Dominion of England or, elsewhere, where either by consent or connivance of the English Parlia∣ment and Governours, all that time, or perhaps by the inacces∣sablenesse 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 Worthi∣nesse, viz. either the present House of Commons or Parlia∣ment 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.

* 3.105The 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.

* 3.106By all which hath been said, its evident this Prophecy as all others are absolutely against Monarchy, shewing that it en∣ded in CHARLES. It also relates that this very present Government,* 3.107 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 stru∣cture upon Earth of humane Government shortly to appeare. No, some of these Men have been men of Blood, of Covetous∣nesse, of Selfe-ends, of Oppression, of Bribery; others so full of Corruption and Selfe-interest, they shall have no ho∣nour 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 RULE* 3.108 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 poten∣tially 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 Na∣tion 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

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,* 3.109 we Christians shall recover the Holy Land, viz. the terrestriall Je∣rusalem, out of the hands of the Turkes; then also shall Almigh∣ty 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 under∣stand lesse verity: All these things I mention, or most of them, are very neare approaching, and admit not of Centu∣ries of yeares before their performance.

Severall ancient English Prophecies, af∣firming there shall be no more Kings in Eng∣land, or all of them tending unto the abolishing or finall extirpation of Monarchy.

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.

Carolus Anglorum, ultimus Brittannorum Rex.

When one, named Charles, shall be King of the English, he shall be the last King of the Brittans.

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.

Mars, Puer, Alecto, Virgo, Vulpes, Leo, Nullus. Henr. 8. Ed. 6. Mary, Eliz. James, Charles, None. after Leo should rule this Nation, there shall be no more Kings in England.

The late King Charles was he signified by the Lion. After him is imported there shall no more Kings succeed in Eng∣land. 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 where∣of was.

That there should no King raigne in England, the Noblemen and Gentelmen to be destroyed, and the Realm to be ruled by four Governors, to be elected and appointed by the Commons, holding a Parlament in Commotion, to begin at the South and North-Seas of England.

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,* 3.110 Sheriffes and Aldermen hanged: While the World in∣dureth, after that there shall be no more Kings or Queens in England, but three Lords or Governors shall rule the Nation.

Sixt Prophecy.

Accurst in E. (viz. Queen Elizabeth, who had no issue) Normans heire, Englands Crown shall never weare.

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.

Again,

Remember M D. C. L X,* 3.111 V and I, then near a REX.

viz. In 1666. there will be no King here, or pre∣tending to the Crowne 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.

C. the White King of Brittains Diadem, Shall most unfortunately lose his Realm By evill Counsell; and his Kingly head And life shall part from body, not in bed. His wife shall flee unto her native Nest,

His Bearn's both rob'd of honour, meanes and rest. His Sonne, successive to the Crown, shall be Enforced unto forreign parts to flee For ayd, his right and Crowne for to regaine; Many shall promise helpe, yet prove all vaine And false to him; for thus it is decreed, No King from hence shall rule on this side Tweed.

Eight Prophecy.

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

* 3.112Et semen Regis erit mendicum in terra aliena in aeter∣num. viz. The Off-spring of the King shall be poore, and for ever after live in a strange Country. Then not in England.

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:

* 3.113The Crabb shall contend with the Sunne, and the twelve houses of Heaven shall bewail the absence of the Planets.

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

Here are no more Kings to be expected to reigne in England.

* 3.114We 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;

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 Nor∣thern Lion, who most assuredly shall appeare unto the World, the Prodromus whereof was that Starre, which appared 1572.* 3.115 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 decli∣ning age of the World, do wonderfull Acts in Warre, equal∣ling, if not transcending, all those we read of in preceding Histories, either Prophane or Divine;* 3.116 but they all unani∣mously proclaime a short reigne and a violent death, or in his younger yeares; and to say the truth, there is scarce a Pro∣phet 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;* 3.117 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:

Ex sanguine Caroli Caesaris & Regum Galliae Impe∣rator orietur, Carolus dictus, dominabitur is in tota Euro∣pa,* 3.118 per quem & Ecclesiae collapsus status reformabitur, & vetus Imperii gloria restituetur, &c.

Of the blood of the Emperor Charles the great, and of the Kings of France shall arise an Emperor named Charles, who shall rule imperially in Europe, by whom the decayed estate of the Church shall be reformed, and the antient glory of the Empire again restored; for there shall come a people without an head,* 3.119 and then woe shall be unto Priests: Horrible mutations of

all Kingdomes are then at hand; The beast of the West, and the Lion of the East shall beare rule over all the World.

* 3.120This 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.

* 3.121Woe unto the Citty of Philosophers, woe unto thee Lombardie, for thy Towers of joy shall be broken downe; all the Tyrants shall be put out of Gods Church, and there shall be made a generall Conversion to the faith of Christ by the great Lion.

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

And Sybilla Erithraea* 3.122 sayth in an Imperiall Manuscript, that the Lion-Monarch shall be made famous unto all, and shall sub∣vert Kingdomes, People and Nations.

* 3.123Frier Vincent of the Order of Dominicans, he speakes of three Armies from the West, East and North, and these to fight toge∣ther 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.

* 3.124In 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.

Par la puissance de trois Roys temporels, En autre lieu sera mis le sainct siege.

There shall three temporall Princes translate the Holy Sea, viz. the Popedome else where. Thus Nostradamus* 3.125 in his 8. Century and 99. Quadrin.

There shall arise in the last times a Prince,* 3.126 sprung from the Emperor Charles, which shall recover the Land of Promise, and reforme the Church, and shall be Emperor of Europe. Thus Ay∣tinger the German, &c. And no lesse then the same thing is in∣timated 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 Inha∣bitants, many Cities forsaken of People, the Nobility slaugh∣tered, principall Persons ruined, great changes of Kings, Com∣monwealths, and Rulers.

The North prevaileth against the South, a learned and elo∣quent 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,* 3.127 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 Germa∣ny, &c. then shall the thunderbolts of the Bulls of Rome be in no force. And these things shall happen at what time the Pope∣dome 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 Sa∣binian elected Pope, know all these things draw neare to per∣formance, 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.

* 3.128The 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,* 3.129 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 Angli∣cus foretelleth,* 3.130 that the English and the Venetians, being in League together, shall unite their Sea forces, and have a prin∣cipall hand in overthrowing, vanquishing and chasing the Turk out of and from the confines of Italy. Yet after that the Turk shall take Venice;* 3.131 nor shall Braband, Flanders, Zealand, or Holland, escape severall very great inundations of waters, innu∣merable 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.

* 3.132When I looke upon the fate of the City of Venice, I trem∣ble 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 wo∣full calamity, which shall in lesse than halfe a Century of yeares befall the French Nation,* 3.133 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,

called Henry is twice made King,* 3.134 and a Duke of Florence turned Protestant.

Rex Franciae depelletur à suis finibus à propriis sub∣ditis, excercebit enim in eos tyrannidem in gentem & contra Ecclesiam Christi, instigatus ab Episcopis & Pon∣tificibus, qui proditoriè apertâ pecuniâ oppugnati eum seducent & tradent: ipse vero videbitur haec facere in gratiam affinium: verum cum fuerit amotus & falsus so∣lus relinquetur in exilio, ab his in quibus erat confisus: in fine autem secundi incursus hoc fiet, sic pendet clipeus in stipite.

The King of France shall be driven from his owne Coasts and Confines, by his own Subjects;* 3.135 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 Ro∣manists, 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,* 3.136 and the Northerne Eagle destroy the Monasteries of Germany. Then the greedy Hollander shall enough repent his dissertion and fals∣hood 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 in∣dustrious but self-ended Christians be.

An Eagle shall appeare from the most high Rockes of Germa∣ny, 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 Pro∣phecies, I onely evince thus much:

* 3.137That 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 ei∣ther such wonderfull Deeds in War or Peace, as the admirers of Grebners false Printed Prophecy would fa∣sten upon him.

To make an end of this Story, I shall conclude with the Prophecie of Sybilla Tiburtina,* 3.138 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, to∣wards the great House of the North; whose beams shal unexpectedly enlighten the whole World.

* 3.139This 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 discontinu∣ance 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

Warre, shall inlarge his Dominion unto the Coast of the An∣tipodes.

But first France must submit or be overcome by this Prince.* 3.140 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,* 3.141 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 prodigi∣ous Comets, and strange Apparitions in the Ayre: Little safe∣ty will be amongst mortall men in any place, untill the fir∣mament of Heaven with its Creatures,* 3.142 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;* 3.143 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 Nor∣therne Starre or Prince that should arise in Europe,* 3.144 and doe fa∣mous 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 for∣mer appeares, he also dyes untimely in his youth. Unto this last Man,* 3.145 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 per∣sonally come, or whence he shall first appear, viz. neer the Ibe∣rians, or very far Northward.

It hath been the onely labour of this Discourse all along,* 3.146

to manifest unto this Nation,* 3.147 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 fa∣mous 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 Sco∣tish, Welch and English Prophets, and from their Writings have discovered,

* 3.148That 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.* 3.149

Fourthly, we have in severall places delivered many assur∣ed 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 Pro∣phecie 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 open∣ed with cleer manifestations of his spirituall Visions.

An auncient Saxon Prophecie of the last TIMES.

IN the Northerne parts of the World there is situate a Forest Trianglewise, invironed with a Wall of Brasse; from the which Forest shall flye a fortunate Fowle, that shall swim even to the Borders of Africa, and there light upon a Golden Tree, from whence he shall pull three branches of Gold, and so tri∣umphantly return unto the Forest againe; at which there

shall an Eagle, that buildes her nest upon a Golden steeple,* 3.150 very much repine, and therefore send forth many secret fires to burne and wast the sayd Forest; but every secret fire how great soever intended shall be quenched and quite extinguished, be∣fore the Blaze be kindled; many Princes of the Earth shall seeke by Policy to hunt therein, but at the Gates thereof shall suffer a great repulse; so fortunate and fruitfull shall this Forest be, and invincible her Towers of Brasse, that all the Kingdomes of the Earth shall admire her fortitude, and grace her with the title of the blessed Paradise, which God gave Adam at the Worlds creation.

After this the Sea shall bee mightier than the Land,* 3.151 for therein the Corners of the World shall meet and fight a terrible battle, wherein a mighty Man shall be overthrown.

In the West shall lurke a bloody Serpent in a Denn, which hath not seen the Light this many yeares, but yet this Serpent shall have many stings, which shall stretch into all the Corners of Europe, and be annoyance unto the whole State of Christen∣dom; then from the North part shall come a Dragon,* 3.152 that shall break out the Serpents teeth, and pluck forth his stings, that he shall neither bite or sting, yet shall the Serpent keep his Denn, and receive succour from the Eagle in the Golden steeple.

In the South shall live a Wolfe of the Commons blood,* 3.153 and gnash downe Townes into his thirsty Throat, but in the midst of his bloody banquet, he shall choake himselfe and dye: Out of the East shall come a dismall black Dogg, that like a theefe by night shall enter Germany,* 3.154 in which enterprise he shall lose one of his limmes, and so depart with such a yelping sound, as that upon the noyse thereof the limits of Africa and Asia shall quake.

This Dog shall afterward forsake his Master, and chuse him a new Man, whereby the Scripture shall be fullfilled. This Dog shall signifie the Turk,* 3.155 which shall forsake his Maho∣met, and chuse unto him the name of a Christian, which is a signe the day of Doom is at hand, when all the Earth is subject unto one God, or that all people acknowledge one onely God.

* 3.156The Flower de Luce and France shall live long at variance, but at the length agree. The bowels of Spain shall be split in sunder, and divided for want of Governement, in those dayes when the Golden steeple shall be consumed with fire,* 3.157 even then the seaven headed Citty, now more brave than Jerusalem, shall be a place more desolate than Jerusalem; then shall the cleare Word spring forth & flourish through the World, which ne∣ver shall be taken away.

After this shall a milke white Dove* 3.158 be lifted up to honour with two golden Lions, and receive a Crown of Gold; but after all these things the end of the World shall approach, and there shall be heavy and pittifull dayes, with much Warres and other alterations of the World, &c. and not long after universall peace, &c.

This Prophecy following, was found by chance in a wast Paper, wherein was wrapped a paire of gloves, that a Man bought upon the Exchange,* 3.159 written in an old Saxon hand in red letters above threescore yeares agoe.

Draco maximus & fidelis potentissimo brachio aemulos Proditores exterminabit, terram superbia inculcabit, Galliam etiam comprimet, multa regna inviset, tota vita victoriosus erit, & tandem cum Rege ut Caesar venera∣bitur.

* 3.160A great and faithfull Dragon shall banish by his most powrefull Arme envious Traitors, in his pride he shall enter by force their Land, he shall oppresse France, he shall visit many Kingdomes, all his life he shall be victorious, & at length with the King shall be saluted as Caesar or Emperor.

I thought good also though out of order, here to repeate M^r. Williams his Prophecy, about the fourteenth yeare of King James, in regard of the strangnesse of it.

M^r. Williams his Prophecie about the foure∣teenth year of King James.

Christ went to Court some seven yeares since,* 4.1 and there he left his Asse. The Courtiers Kickt him out of doores, because there was no grasse. The Beast went mourning ever since, and thus I heard him Braye: Although there was no grasse at Court, they might have given me Haye.

But sixteen hundred fourty one, Who ere shall live that day, Nothing shall see within that Court, But onely grasse and Hay.

And then you may be sure,* 4.2 The yeare that next ensues, One silly Asse shall be more worth Then all the Horse ith' Mewes.

Some conclude it thus.

The time shall come, when onely men shall see nothing at Court, but onely grasse shall be. But now of late, my M^r. tould me that time shall not be untill 1643. the first day of September. Let him that so despise this Asse, this Asses words remember. And if not then, before the midst of March ensues, he will not give his Asse, for all the Horse ith' Muse.

Written by S^r. James Oxenden, a Knight in Kent, with his owne hand, in a Book the yeare aforesaid, and a Coppy thereof sent lately to M^r. B.

Divers Gentlemen then Courtiers remember this Prophe∣cy, then contemned as likely never to come to passe. This Williams above said was executed at Charing Crosse, for saying, that King James his escape from the powder treason, was not a preservation, but a reservation for a worse turne.

Have a little patience to reade the following Prophecy, deli∣vered long since in Saxon metre.

Dragon Hoord that Hill so high, The mettle mold that there doth lye, Is able for to ransome home a Prince, To find it out go get thee hence, If thou wilt learn how for to know The Hill wherein this Mettle doth grow, Mark my words, I have good skill, And Ile teach thee to know the Hill. In great Brittain there it is, * 4.3On Malvern Hill withouten mis. Go to the top, mark well the tayle, Let three points passe, t'will not prevaile, But measure it truly with a line, And keepe it duly in thy mind. And thou shalt find it fall as right, As Moon and Starres do serve the night. If thou do hap to find that ground, Tell it not for many a pound. But digg and delve, annd gett thee health, And lay up daily Worldly wealth. Calidon Martyn Silvery.

The certain yeare of these monthly predictions is not to be revealed,* 4.4 but such there will be in that great yeare, before the wonderfull Catastrophe of this world shall happen.

JANUARY.

A showre of blood shall raine continually for one howres

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 gene∣rally 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,* 4.5 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,* 4.6 occasio∣ning 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,* 4.7 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,* 4.8 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

with all their wealth and treasures, even as they lodge in their Tents, &c.

JVLY.

* 4.9So 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.

* 4.10Great 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;* 4.11 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.

* 4.12The 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 ver∣mine, that the Earth will be empoysoned, and receive no Fruit to increase.

OCTOBER.

* 4.13A 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.

* 4.14One appeares suddenly and unexpectedly a great Conqueror,

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.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Some leaves have been cut out of it by the Royall party, for it pleased not them.
• * 1.2

  This false Cop∣py came out 1648 verba∣tim as here re∣lated, the Ori∣ginall true one followes.
• * 1.3

  Grebner abu∣sed by the for∣mer paper.
• * 1.4

  The Queene abused and be∣lyed by the Prophecy:
• * 1.5

  If he appeare not before he will never hurt us.
• * 1.6

  Parlament a∣bused.
• * 1.7

  The late King confessed to be a Tyrant.
• * 1.8

  A fift univer∣sall Monarchy.
• * 1.9

  Age of the Scottish King at present.
• * 1.10

  He must be 80 years of age when he enters on the fift Mo∣narchy.
• * 1.11

  The Scot••ish Kings live not 80 years.
• * 1.12

  Lyon of the North.
• * 1.13

  The true Con∣junction was July 1623.
• * 1.14

  Baudensis.
• * 1.15

  The end why this Prophecy was forged.
• * 1.16

  He intends the Jewes.
• * 1.17

  A meer contra∣diction to the former asserti∣on.
• * 1.18

  A blinde Pro∣phet.
• * 1.19

  No such thing in the Original
• * 1.20

  A meer untruth
• * 1.21

  Gebner never mentioned the late King.
• * 1.22

  A second coun∣terfeit Prophe∣cy father'd on Grebner, Printed 1650.
• * 1.23

  The whole Na∣tion know this to be a lye.
• * 1.24

  The Authors intention disco∣vered.
• * 1.25

  Eclipses and their Portents.
• * 1.26

  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
• * 3.39

  Verity of An∣cient Prophe∣cyes.
• * 3.40

  Henry the six his Prophecy.
• * 3.41

  David Vpan of the pulling cown of Cha∣••••ng-Crosse.
• * 3.42

  King James first wrote King of Britain.
• * 3.43

  Viz. after E∣lizabeth dyed, King James wrote King of Britain.
• * 3.44

  King James u∣nited both King¦domes into one.
• * 3.45

  A Welch Pro∣phecie.
• * 3.46

  Nostradam his Prophecie of the late Kings death.
• * 3.47

  The King put to dea••h, Jan. 1648.
• * 3.48

  Prophecy.
• * 3.49

  Verif••cation.
• * 3.50

  King James had not the pi∣ctur of a Lion on his breast, but a naturall mole, the rea∣sons thereof in Astrology.
• * 3.51

  Admonished of his death in a Dream.
• * 3.52

  King James his rich Car∣buncle.
• * 3.53

  King James dream proo∣ved true.
• * 3.54

  When King Charles was the White King.
• * 3.55

  Charles put the Crown on his head with his own hands.
• * 3.56

  Prophecy.
• * 3.57

  Verification.
• * 3.58

  Londoners in∣constancy.
• * 3.59

  They affront the Bishops and Lords.
• * 3.60

  Prophecy.
• * 3.61

  Verification.
• * 3.62

  Prophecy.
• * 3.63

  Verification.
• * 3.64

  Prophecy.
• * 3.65

  Verification.
• * 3.66

  Prophecy.
• * 3.67

  Verification.
• * 3.68

  Prophecy.
• * 3.69

  Verification.
• * 3.70

  Prophecy.
• * 3.71

  Verification.
• * 3.72

  Prophecy.
• * 3.73

  Verification.
• * 3.74

  Prophecy.
• * 3.75

  Verification.
• * 3.76

  Prophecy.
• * 3.77

  Verification.
• * 3.78

  Prophecy.
• * 3.79

  Verification.
• * 3.80

  Prophecy.
• * 3.81

  Explanation.
• * 3.82

  Prophecy.
• * 3.83

  Verification.
• * 3.84

  Prophecy.
• * 3.85

  Verification.
• * 3.86

  Prophecy.
• * 3.87

  pro ut fol. 24.
• * 3.88

  Explanation.
• * 3.89

  Chicken of the Eagle, the present King of Scots.
• * 3.90

  King Ch••rles the Eagle in∣tended by Merlin.
• * 3.91

  Prophecy.
• * 3.92

  Prophecy.
• * 3.93

  Explanation.
• * 3.94

  Prophecy.
• * 3.95

  Explanation.
• * 3.96

  The Author vindicated of a Slander.
• * 3.97

  Prophecy.
• * 3.98

  Verification.
• * 3.99

  Prophecy.
• * 3.100

  Verification.
• * 3.101

  King Charles buried at Win∣sor.
• * 3.102

  Another Pro∣phecie of the White King.
• * 3.103

  NOTE.
• * 3.104

  NOTE.
• * 3.105

  Chicken of the Eagle to dye young.
• * 3.106

  All Prophecies against Monar∣chie.
• * 3.107

  All Kingship ending in the late King.
• * 3.108

  Heavenly rule.
• * 3.109

  Conversion of the Jewes and recovery of Je∣rusalem.
• * 3.110

  This predi∣ction was in part fulfilled, when our Ar∣my beseiged York: All the Alder∣men being at the Parla∣ments mercy.
• * 3.111

  None to write King of Eng∣land after 1666.
• * 3.112

  The late Kings issue to wander poore in other Countries.
• * 3.113

  An astrologi∣call prediction of Merlines, concerning the extirpation of Kings.
• * 3.114

  No more Kings in England.
• * 3.115

  The Star in Cassiopea 1572. the fore∣runner of some great Prince.
• * 3.116

  A short reigne assigned to the Lion of the North.
• * 3.117

  Some Karolus, others Caro∣lus.
• * 3.118

  Church restored and reformed by a Charles.
• * 3.119

  A people with∣out a Head.
• * 3.120

  King of Scot∣land not that Charles.
• * 3.121

  Padoa.
• * 3.122

  Sybilla Eri∣thraea,
• * 3.123

  Frier Vincent, their Prophe∣cies.
• * 3.124

  Northern Ea∣gle, enemy to Monkes.
• * 3.125

  Nostradamus.
• * 3.126

  Severall Pro∣phecies, who shall be the Northern Lion.
• * 3.127

  With what let∣ter his name shall begin. The place from whence he shal come. Germany named for the place. Popedome translated when the Ro∣man Church shall be de∣stroyed.
• * 3.128

  Discord of Western Princes.
• * 3.129

  The Turk to hurt Italy.
• * 3.130

  The English and Venetians joine in expel∣ling the Turk.
• * 3.131

  Venice to be taken by the Turkes. Zealand, Hol∣land, Braband too scourged.
• * 3.132

  Venice her hard fate.
• * 3.133

  France threat∣ned: their Monarchy to fall.
• * 3.134

  Vide Capi∣stranum. Duke of Flo∣rence turned Protestant.
• * 3.135

  King of France driven out of his Kingd••me by his owne subjects.
• * 3.136

  Monasteries of Germany de∣stroyed by the Northern Eagle.
• * 3.137

  King Charles not the Lion of the North.
• * 3.138

  Sybilla Tibur∣tina.
• * 3.139

  Sybilla her Prophecy.
• * 3.140

  France over∣come.
• * 3.141

  Death of the great Prince or glorious Starre.
• * 3.142

  Nobles destroy∣ed.
• * 3.143

  Civill Wars amongst the Commons.
• * 3.144

  A great Prince to be borne neare Iberia.
• * 3.145

  A second great Prince dies untimely.
• * 3.146

  The intentiō of th•• Author in this discourse.
• * 3.147

  Present King of Scotts not Charles the great.
• * 3.148

  England to have no more Kings.
• * 3.149

  Parlament not to be overcome by Scotts.
• * 3.150

  An Eagle on the top of a Golden steeple.
• * 3.151

  The Sea grea∣ter than the Land. A Sea fight.
• * 3.152

  Dragon of the North.
• * 3.153

  Wolfe of the South.
• * 3.154

  Germany threatened.
• * 3.155

  Turke to for∣sake Maho∣met.
• * 3.156

  France in da••∣ger. Spain also.
• * 3.157

  Rome also.
• * 3.158

  White Dove.
• * 3.159

  Saxon Pro∣phecy.
• * 3.160

  A great Dragon.
• * 4.1

  Though its no∣thing to the purpose in hand, yet I held it not unfit to relate it.
• * 4.2

  In 1642. the King had no Horse ith' Mewes.
• * 4.3

  These Hills ly in Worce∣stershire.
• * 4.4

  The wonder∣full yeare of the World.
• * 4.5

  Holland, Zea∣land.
• * 4.6

  England vi∣ctorious.
• * 4.7

  Twelve Woe∣men glad of one Man.
• * 4.8

  Fire from Heaven.
• * 4.9

  Great drought and want of water.
• * 4.10

  Mortality Pla∣gues.
• * 4.11

  Noysome flyes.
• * 4.12

  The Earth em∣poysoned.
• * 4.13

  Dearth of Corne.
• * 4.14

  A great Con∣queror ap∣peares.