The mystery and romance of astrology / by C.J.S. Thompson.

  • Thompson, C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel), 1862-1943.
Date:
1929
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    mother, I have seen a man.’ The women shall have to finish the harvest.” He offers however no comment on this prediction. Lilly re-printed the first edition of the prophecies in 1645 and so they became well-known in London. In 1667 Richard Head published an account of the “ Life and death of Mother Shipton ” and Thomas Thomson wrote a play which he called “ Mother Ship- ton, her life.” In an edition printed in 1684 it is stated that: “ Her prophecies are strangely preserved amongst other writings belonging to an old monastery in York¬ shire,” and in another version published in 1877, it is related that, “ the prophecies were discovered in the British Museum written in an old manuscript work A.D. 1448.” This statement is without foundation. In 1862, Charles Hindley reprinted Head’s “Life and death of Mother Shipton,” with the addition of some fresh prognostications, which he declared foretold among other events the end of the world ! These fictitious predictions apparently deceived no one, although they show some ingenuity. They are as follows: “ Carriages without horses shall go And accidents fill the world with woe.” Hindley wrote this prediction in 1862, which might well refer to the many accidents on the road to¬ day. “ Primrose Hill in London shall be And in its centre a Bishop’s See.”