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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    mory. That it was foretold that the heir of Vale-royal should live to see England invaded by foreigners, and that he would fight bravely for his king and country: That the miller men- tionediis now alive, and expects to be knighted, and- is in the very mill foretold : That he should kill two invaders, who shall come in^ the* one from the west, and the other* from the north: that he from the north, should bring with him of all nations. Swedes, Danes, Germans, and Dutch, and that in the folds of his garments he should bring fire and famine^ plague and murder: that many great battles should be fought in England, one upon London-bridge, which should be so bloody, that people wilfride in London streets up to their horse’s bellies in blood; that several other battles should be fought up and down most parts of Cheshire; and the last that ever would be fought in England should be on De-la-mere Forest; that the heir of Olton, whose name is E-n, and has married Earl Cholmondeley’s sister, should be hanged up at his own gate. t Lastly, he foretells great glory and'prosperity to those who stand up in defence of their laws