Volume 1

Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters.

Date:
[1819?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nearly six feet above, the cross itself having’ been destroyed long since. It is also remarkable, that Headless-cross is spoken of by Merlin de Rymer^ and several other English and Scotch prophets, as the last place in England on which a decisive action will happen; but as to the period, when these things will come to pass, is very uncertain, no specific time having ever been mentioned. One day as Nixon was returning from plough^ ing, he laid down the agricultural implements which he had in his hands, and, after remaining a little while without speaking, exclaimed, with a coarse voice, ‘‘Now I will prophecy:”—and proceeded as follows ;—^ » “ When a raven shall bvdld in a stone-lion’s mouth, on the top of a church in Cheshire, then a king of England shall be driyen out of his kingdom, and never more return.” “ When an eagle shall sit on the top of an house, then an heir shall be born to the Chol^ mondeley’s family ; and this heir shall live to see England invaded by foreigners, wjio shall I