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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    and liberties, and ruin and misery to those who should betray them. He says, the year before this would happen, bread-corn would be very dear, and that the year following more trouble should begin, which would last three years; that the first would be moderate, the second bloody, and the third intolerable; that unless they were shortened no mortal could bear them; and that there were no mischiefs but what poor England would feel at that time. But George, the son of George, should put an end to alL That afterwards the church should flourish, and England be the most glorious nation upon earth. The same Lady Cowper was not content to take these particulars from Mrs. Chute, but she enquired of Sir Thomas Aston of the truth of this prophecy; and he attested it was in great reputation in Cheshire, and that the facts were known to have happened as Nixon said they would; adding, that the morning before the garden-wall fell, his neighbour, Mr. Cholmon- deley, going on a hunting excursion, said, as he passed by it, “ Nixon seldom fails, but now I think he will, for he foretold this day my garden- wall would fall, and I think it looks as if it