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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    young; that she herself was one of them, and the cry among the people was, “ Nixon’s pro¬ phecy is fulfilled, and we shall have a foreign king.” She declared, that she had read over all the prophecy many times, when her sister was with child of the heir who now enjoys the estate. She particularly remembered that James II. was particularly pointed at, and that it was foretold that he should endeavour to subvert the laws and religion of this kingdom, for which reason they would rise and turn him out; that the eagle of which Nixon prophesied, perched in one of the windows all the time her sister was in labour. She said it was the biggest bird she ever saw; that it was in a deep snow, and that it perched on the edge of a great bow-window, which had a large border on the outside, and that she and many others opened the window to try to frighten it away, but it would not stir till Mrs. Chol- mondeley was delivered, after which it took a flight to a great tree, opposite the room her sister lay in, where, having stayed about three days, it flew away in the night. She affirmed further to the Lady Cowper, that the falling of the garden-wall was a thing not to be questioned, it being in so many people’s me-