WHen she heard that Cardinall Wolsev intend­ed to live at Yorke,Note that this Proph [...]cy was never exactly printed before.she said that the Cardinall should never come thither, which the Cardi­nal hearing of, was angry, and desired the King to send the Duke of Suffolke, Lord Peircy and Lord Darcy to her, who came with their men disguised to the King-house neer Yorke, where leaving their men, they went to Master Beasly to York, and desired him to goe with them to Mother Shiptons house, where when they came, they knocked at the doore, and shee said, Come in Master Beasly, and those Honourable Lords with you; and Master Beasly would have put in the Lords before him; but she said, Come in Master Beasty, you know the way, but they doe not. This they thought strange, that she should know them, and never saw them. Then they went into the house, where there was a great fire, and shée bade them welcome, calling them all by their names, and sent for some Cakes and Ale, and they dranke and were very merry. Mother Shipton, said the Duke, if you knew what we came about, you would not bid us so welcome; and she said the messenger should not be hanged. Mother Shipton, said the Duke, you said, the Cardinall should never see York; Yea, said she, I said he might sée York, but never come at it: [Page 2]But, said the Duke, when he comes to York thou shalt be burnt: We shall see that, said she, and plucking her kerchief off her head, she threw it into the fire and it would not burn: then she took her staffe and turned it in the fire, and it would not burn: then she took it and put it on againe. Then said the Duke, What meane you by this? She replyed, If this had burned, I might have burned.

Mother Shipton quoth the Duke, what think you of mée? My Lord, said she, the time will come, you The Duke was [...].will be as low as I am, and that is a low one indeed.

My Lord Peircy said, And what say you of me? my Lord said she, shooe your horse in the quick, and you will do well, if not, your This pro­ved true, for he rose in re­bellion in the N [...]r [...]h, and [...] when he migh [...], he was taken and beheaded at York, wher [...] his body was bury­ed; but his head was stoln away and carryed into France, [...].body will be buried in York pavement, and your head shall be stolne from the bar and carried into France, at which they all laughed, saying, that would be a great lop betwirt the head and the body.

Then said the Lord Darcy, And what think you of me? She said you have made a great gun, shoot it off, for it will do you no good, you are going to warfare, you will pyne many a man, but you will kill none; so they went away.

Not long after the Cardinall came to Cawood, and going to the top of the Tower, he asked where York was, and how far it was thither, and said, that one said, he should never see Yorke, nay said one that stood by, she said you should sée York but never come at it, then he vowed to burne her, when he came to Yorke, then they shewed him Yorke and told him it was but eight miles thence, he said he would soone be there, but being sent for by the King, he died in the way to London, at Leicester of a Lask.

And Shiptons wife said to Mr Beasly, yonder is a fine stall built for the Cardinall in the Minster, of Gold, Pearle and precious stones, goe and present one of the pillars to King Henry, and he did so.

Master Beasly seeing these things fall out as she had fore­told, desired her to tell him some more of her prophesies.

Master Beasly said she, before that This came to passe, for Trinity steeple in York was blowne downe with a tempest, and Owse Bridge was broken downe with a great flood; and what they did in repairing the Bridge in the day time with the stone of the Steeple, fell downe in the night, untill they (remembring this Prophecy) layd the highest stone of the Steeple, for the foundation of the bridge; and then the work stood. And by this was partly verified another of Mo­ther Shiptons Prophecies, (viz.) That her maid should live to drive her Cowe over Tri­nity Steeple.Owse bridge and Tri­nity Church meet, they shall build in the day, and it shall fall in the night, untill they get the highest stone of Trinity Church to be the lowest stone of Owse bridge.

Then the day will come that Hares shall kennel on cold hearth Supposed to be meant by the suppression of Abbies and other Religious Houses. And at the Lord William Howards house at Naworth, a Hare came and kinnelld in his Kitchin upon the hearth.stones, & lads shall marry Ladies, and bring them to their homes. A joyful day will be séen in England, a King and a Queen.

The first coming in of the King This was fulfilled in K. James his com­ming in, for such a multi­tude of people stood at Holgate Bar to behold him, as that to avoid the prease he was forced to ride by another way.of Scots shall be at Holgate Towne, but he shall not come through the bar. And when the King When King James was at London, his children were at Edenborough, preparing to come into England.of the North shall be at London bridge, his tayle shall be at Edenborough.

Water This is ve­rifyed by the conducting of water into York streets, through boared Elmes: And the Conduit-house hath a Windmill on the top that draws up the water.shall come over Owse bridge, and a windmyll shall be set on a Tower, and an Elme frée shall lye at every mans door.

When there is a Lord Major A Lord Mayor whose house was in Mynster-Yard in YORK, was killed with three stables.living in Minster yard in York, let him beware of a stab.

When two knights Sir Thomas Wentworth and Sir John Sa [...]l in choosing Knights for the Shire in the Castle-yard at York, did so fall out, that they were never after well reconciled.shall fall out in the Castle yard, they shall never live kindly all their lives after.

When all Colton Colton [...]g in her time was a Woodland ground full of trees, which bore corne seven yeeres, and the seventh yeere after that was the yeere of the comming in of the Scots, and their taking of New-castle.hag hath borne Crops of Corne seven yeares, seven yeares after you shall hear newes.

There shall two Iudges In the yeer 16 [...] Jud­ges of Assize went out at a gate in York, where never any Judges were known to go out before or since.go in and out at Walmgate bar. The day will come,

You shall have a yeare of pining hunger, and then a dearth without corne. You shall not know of the war over night, yet you shall have it in the morning, and when it comes it shall last three yeares.

When the battell of warfare begins, it shall be where Neer Lei­cester, where Richard the third was slaine in battell, there Colonel Hastings was one of the first in arms, endeavouring to settle the Commission of Array, in opposition to others that were then set­ling the Militia.Crookback Richard made his fray.

They shall say to warfare for your King for half a Crowne a day, but stir not. They will say to warfare for your King on paine of hanging, but stir not,

The time will come when England shall tremble and quake for feare of a dead man, that shall be heard to speake, Then will the Dragon give the Bull a great snay, And when this battaile is done, they will all go to London town.

There will be a great battell betwéen England and Scotland, and they will be pacified for a time, and when they come at Braman more they fight, and are again pacified for a time, then there will be a great battell betwéen England and Scotland at Knavesmore, then they will be pacified for a while, then there will be a great battaile betwéen Eng­land and Scotland at Storcktonmore, then will Kavens sit on theIt is to be noted & ad­mired, that this Crosse in the North in Mother Shiptons dayes, was a tall stone Crosse, which ever since hath been by de­grees sinking into the ground, and now is sunk so low, that a Raven may sit upon the top of it, and reach her bill to the ground.Crosse & drink as much blood of Nobles as of the Commons, then wo is me for London shall be destroyed for ever after.

Then will come a woman with one eye, and she shall tread in many mens bloods to the knée, and she shall méet a man leaning on a staffe, and shall say to him, what art thou? and he shall say, I am King of the Scots, and she shall say, go with me to my house, for there are three Knights, and he will go with her, and stay there three dayes and three nights, then will England be lost, and they will cry twice in one day, England is lost. Then there will be three Knights in Petergate in Yorke, and the one shall not know of the o­ther, there shall be a child borne in Pomfret with three thumbs, and these three Knights will give their horses to [Page 6]thisThere is a child not many yeers since born at Pomfrait with 3 thumbs.child (with three thumbes to hold, whilest they win England again, then come in clubs and clouted shooes, and they with the three Knights win England again, and all noble blood shall be gone but one, and they shall carry him to Sherif Huttons Castle six miles from York, and he shall dye there, and they shall choose their Earle in the feild, and hang their horses on a thorne, and rue the time that ever they were borne, to see so much blood shed.

Then they will come to York to beseige it, and they shall keep them out for three dayes and three nights, and a penny loaf shall be within the bar at half a Crowne, and without the bar at a penny, and they will swear if they will not yéeld to blow up the towne walls: Then they will let them in, and they will hang up the Major, Sherifs and Aldermen; there will three Knghts go in to Crouch Church, and but one of them come out again, and he will cause Proclamation to be made, that any man may take house, tower, or bower for 21. yeares, and while the world endureth there shall never be warfare again, nor any more Kings or Quéenes, but the Kingdome shall be governed by three Lords, and then Yorke shall be London.

And after this, shall be a white harvest of Corne gotten in by women. Then shall be in the North, that one woman shall say unto another, Mother I have séen a man to day, and for one man there shall be a thousand women. There shall be a man sitting on Saint James Church hill, wéeping his fill. And after that a ship come sayling up the Thames till it come against London, and the master of the ship shall wéep, and the marriners, shall ask him why he wéepeth, be­ing he hath made so good a voyage-and he shall say; Oh what a goodly City this was, none in the world comparable to it, and now there is scarce left any house that can let us have drinke for our money.