%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A / Strange and Wonderful / PROPHECY, / CONCERNING / The Kingdom of England, much whereof is already come to pass, within our Memory; tho of / several hundred Years standing. / [I]t was taken out of an Old Manuscript, by Capt. George Withers; and Printed in the Year, 1646. / and now Reprinted, for the Benefit, and Satisfaction of all Ingenious, and True-hearted Eng- / lishmen, and others, to whose hands it may happen to come. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 07/12/2021 37597

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VVHen here a Scot shall think his Throne to set, / Above the Circle of a Brittish King; British Library - Bagford Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 3: 65 A / Strange and Wonderful / PROPHECY, / CONCERNING / The Kingdom of England, much whereof is already come to pass, within our Memory; tho of / several hundred Years standing. / [I]t was taken out of an Old Manuscript, by Capt. George Withers; and Printed in the Year, 1646. / and now Reprinted, for the Benefit, and Satisfaction of all Ingenious, and True-hearted Eng- / lishmen, and others, to whose hands it may happen to come. A Strange and Wonderful PROPHECY, CONCERNING The Kingdom of England, much whereof is already come to pass, within our Memory; though of several hundred Years' standing. It was taken out of an Old Manuscript, by Capt. George Withers; and Printed in the Year, 1646. and now Reprinted, for the Benefit, and Satisfaction of all Ingenious, and True-hearted Englishmen, and others, to whose hands it may happen to come. Printer J.K. ?-? J.K.

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WHen here a Scot shall think his Throne to set, Above the Circle of a Brittish King; He shall a dateless Parliament beget; From whence a furious armed Brood shall spring. That Army shall beget a wild Confusion; Confusion shall an Anarchy beget: That Anarchy shall bring forth (in Conclusion) A Creature which we have no Name for yet. That Creature shall conceive a sickly State, Which shall an Aristocracy produce: The many headed Beasts not liking that To raise Democracy hall rather chuse. And then Democracys production shall A Moon-Calf raise, which some a Mole do call; So acting for a while, few Men shall know, Whither among them a Supream or no. Five of them shall subdue the other Five; And then those Five shall (by a doubtful strife,) Each others Death so happily contrive, That they shall dye, to live a better Life. And out of their Corruption rise there shall A true Supream, acknowledged by all: In which the Power of all the Five shall be, With Unity, made Visible in Three. King, People, Parliament, with Priests and Peers, Shall be a while your emulous Grandees; And make confusion Pentarchy some years, And leave of their distinct claim by degrees.
Then shall Righteousness ascend the Throne, And Love, and Truth, and Peace re-enter shall: Then Faith and Reason shall agree in one, And all their Vertues to their Councel call. Then timely after this, there shall arise That Kingdom, and that happy Government, Which is the Scope of all these Prophecies, That future Truths obscurely represent. But how this shall be done, few men shall see; For wrought in Clouds and Darkness it shall be: And 'ere it come to pass in publick view, Most of these following signs shall first ensue. A King shall willingly himself unking; And thereby grow far greater than before, The Priests their Priest-hood to contempt shall bring, And Piety shall thereby thrive the more. A Parliament itself shall overthrow, And thereby shall a better Being gain, The Peers by setting of themselves below, The more enobling Honour shall obtain. The People for a while, shall be enslav'd; And that shall make them for the future Free, By Private loss, the Publick shall be sav'd; The Army shall by yielding, Victors be. Then shall God own his People, and their Cause, The Law's Corruption shall reform the Laws. And Bullocks of the largest Northern breed, Shall fatted be, where now scarce Sheep can feed.
London Printed, and Sold by J.K. next Door to the Sign of St. Paul, in Pauls Chain, 1689.