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 ...

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,* 1.1 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,* 1.2 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,* 1.3 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.

* 1.4The 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.

* 1.5By 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,* 1.6 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* 1.7 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,* 1.8 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.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Another Pro∣phecie of the White King.
• * 1.2

  NOTE.
• * 1.3

  NOTE.
• * 1.4

  Chicken of the Eagle to dye young.
• * 1.5

  All Prophecies against Monar∣chie.
• * 1.6

  All Kingship ending in the late King.
• * 1.7

  Heavenly rule.
• * 1.8

  Conversion of the Jewes and recovery of Je∣rusalem.