Mercurius propheticus. Or, -a collection of some old predictions: O! May they only prove, but empty fictions. Consensu populi regnum subsistit. That Kingdome will establisht be wherein the people well agree.

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Mercurius propheticus. Or, -a collection of some old predictions: O! May they only prove, but empty fictions. Consensu populi regnum subsistit. That Kingdome will establisht be wherein the people well agree.

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[London :: s.n.],

Printed in the yeere, M.DC.XLIII. [1643, i.e.1644]

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Prophecies

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Contents

• title page
• The Preface.
• MOTHER SHIPTONS PROPHECY.
  • part
  • Another old Prophecy transcribed out of an ancient manuscript.
  • This following Prophecy was shewed by Sir William Norris to King James, upon the uniting of the two Crownes of England and Scotland under the name of Great Britaine.
  • An old Scotch Prophecy delivered many yeares since by the Bishop of Rosse to a great Lady.
  • To these may be added another Prophecy of great antiquity out of our famous Historiagrapher, Henricus de Huntingdon, which before the year of our Lord 1000. foretold thereby that this Kingdom of England (for its manifold wicked∣nesses) should be conquered by the Normans, and should also by the Scots be afterwards brought to a deserved chastizement, &c.
  • This is also ancient, though common.
  • Another Prophecy very ancient, in old Meeter.
  • Another very ancient Prophesie.
  • Another.
  • This Prophecy is Fathered upon Ignatius, and was long since found in St. Benets Monastery in Norfolk.