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Two famous prophesies and predictions of Mr. William Lilly, the most judicious and learned astrologer of the age : taken from his secret writings, penned by him in 1644 : the former of which, exactly pointing at the times, by foretelling the mischief, danger and misery these, and other Protestant kingdoms, should be exposed to, by the crafty counsels and treacheries of the Romish priests, and by what means their deliverance should be wrought.
William LillyDate: [1688?]- Books
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The Protestant almanack for the year from the incarnation of Jesus Christ, 1684, our deliverence from popery by Queen Eliz. 125 : being the bissextile or leap-year ... : with the change of the moon, the rising and setting of the sun, some observable fairs, and the eclipses, together with the moons place in the zodiac, throughout each month of the year, calculated according to art, for the meridian of Babylon, where the Pope is elevated a hundred and fifty degrees above all reason, right, and religion, above kings, canons, councils, conscience, and every thing therein called God, 2 Thes. 2, and may without sensible error, indifferently serve the whole papacy / by Philoprotest, a well-wisher to the Mathematicks.
William WinstanleyDate: 1684
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A rioter in the Gordon Riots has a cudgel in his hand and Newgate Prison is on fire in the background. Etching attributed to J. Gillray.
James GillrayDate: June 9th 1780Reference: 36239i- E-books
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Remarks upon a pamphlet written by the Rev. Mr. Caleb Fleming , in a letter of admonition to the Rev. Mr. Samuel Pike, &c. entitled No protestant popery. With some strictures upon the remarkables in Mr. Fleming's scale of first principles. Addressed to the Reverend the Doctors of the Sorbonne By John Dove.
Dove, John, d. 1772.Date: 1756- Books
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A declaration of a strange and wonderfull monster : born in Kirkham parish in Lancashire (the childe of Mrs. Haughton, a Popish gentlewoman) the face of it upon the breast, and without a head (after the mother had wished rather to bear a childe without a head then a Roundhead) and had curst the Parliamnet [sic]. Attested by Mr. Fleetwood, minister of the same parish, under his own hand; and Mrs. Gattaker the mid-wife, and divers other eye-witnesses: whose testimony was brought up by a member of the House of Commons. Appointed to be printed according to order: and desired to be published in all the counties, cities, townes, and parishes in England: being the same copies that were presented to the Parliament.
Date: 1646

