MOTHER SHIPTON 1648 STRANGE PROPHESIES Soothsayer LIFE DEATH 1687 PREDICTION
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Reference Number: Avaluer:7021328 | Year Printed: 1648 & 1687 |
Publisher: RICHARD HARPER | Language: English |
Place of Publication: LONDON |
PROPHESIESBesides Mother Shiptons and Mr. Saltmarsh, predictingwonderfull events to betide these yeares of Calamity, inthis Climtae, whereof divers are already come topasse, worthy of observation.
1. A prophesie of K. Richard the 3.2. Mother Shipton Prophesie.3. Mr. Truswels, recorder of Lincolne.4. Sibyllaes prophesies.5. Ignatius prophesie.6. Merlins Prophesie.7. Orwel Bins prophesies.8. Mr. Brightmans prophesies6. Ancient prophesies in Meeter.
Where...to is added the predictions of Mr. John Saltmarch, to his Excellency, and theCounsell of his Army. And the manner of his Death.
Printed by an exact true copy, with new marginall Noteson Mother Shiptons prophesies.
Printed for Richard Harper, at the Bible and Harpe in Smithfield1648
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THELIFEANDDEATHOFMother Shipton
Being not only a true Account of her strange Birth; the most importantPassages of her Life; but also all her Prophesies, now newly Collected, and Historically Explained, from the time of her Birth in the Reign ofKing Henry the Seventh, until this present year 1667. Containing themost important Passages of State during the Reign of these Kings andQueens of England following,
viz., Henry the Eighth.Edward the Sixth.Queen Mary.Queen Elizabeth.King James.King Charles the First.King Charles the Second.
Strangely preserved amongst other writings belonging to an old Monastryin York-shire, and now Published for the Informationof Posterity.
Licens’d and Entred according to Order.
LONDONPrinted for W. Harris and are to be sold by him in Dunnings-Alley, withoutBishops-Gate1687
Rebound with red leather spine and corner tips, and marbled paper covered boards. Gilt titles to spine. Measuring approx. 21.5cm x 16.5cm x 1cm. Extremities lightly scuffed and worn. Leather little grubby. Internally there is a bookplate to inside front board (Henrici Cuiliffe Armigeri) and an ink inscription, and further bookplate to front endpaper (Fox Pointe Collection, Library of Dr. & Mrs. H. R. Knohl). Bookplate causing a little wrinkling to front endpaper. An article has been tipped-in to later front blank. Couple of ink numbers to top of both title pages. More recent endpapers to front and rear, and several blanks have been bound in to support integrity of the binding (first work also has interleaved blanks). Blanks have some creases. Lacking frontispiece & one prelim leaf from second work. Contents are worn and grubby with toning and patchy foxing/browning (see photos). One leaf has small chip/hole, and there is the occasional mark. Thumbed and outer page edges are tatty/frayed (see photos). Else in very readable and firm condition.
Two incredibly rare works, detailing the Prophesies and The Life & Death of Mother Shipton, the famous English soothsayer and prophetess.
Woodcut to title to first work, and smaller woodcut to last leaf of second work
Foureteen Strange ProphesiesTitle page, A2-A4Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan: 15th".
Wing, S3444
Life and Death Of Mother Shipton[Lacking frontispiece & one prelim leaf] Title page [4] I-30Wing, H1259
The first work is extremely rare, with only one (British Library) copy listed on ESTC.
Ursula Southeil (c.1488-1561), better known as Mother Shipton was remembered as an English soothsayer and prophetess, however, given that the first publication of her prophesies did not take place until 1641, 80 years after her death, it seems probable that much credited to her is spurious. Nevertheless, her name and prophesies became linked to numerous events across the UK, Australia and North America throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
The first work is much adapted for the time in which it was published, with several of the prophesies very clearly referencing the English Civil War:
"The 15th of this Month of May/ Shall be a sad disastrous day, / And they that Charles his part do take/ Shall directly suffer for his sake/ And many of his friends shall fly/ Like Dust before the Enemy."
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