Volume 1

Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters.

Date:
[1819?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    proceed so far as a town in Cheshire ; but a Miller, named Peter, shall be born with two heels on one foot, and at that time living* in a mill of Cholmondeley’s, he shall be instrumental in delivering the nation. The person who governs the nation will be in trouble, and sculk about; the invading’ king shall be killed, laid across a horse’s back like a €alf, and led in tri¬ umph. The miller having been instrumental in it, shall bring forth the person that then governs the kingdom, and be knighted for what he has done, and after that England shall see happy days. A young new set of men, of virtuous manners, shall come, who shall prosper and make a flourishing church for two hundred years.” “ As a token of the truth of all this, a wall of Mr. Cholmondeley’s shall fall; if it falls down¬ wards, the church shall be oppressed, and rise no more; but if upwards, next the rising hill on the side of it, then it shall flourish again. Under this wall shall be found the bones of a British king.” “ A pond shall run with blood three days, an^l the cross stone pillar in the forest sink so low