Past, present, and to come. The prophecy at large, of Robert Nixon ... Also some particulars of his life. Likewise Mother Shipton's Yorkshire prophecy, with their explanations / [Robert Nixon].
- Nixon, Robert, active 1620?
- Date:
- [1810?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Past, present, and to come. The prophecy at large, of Robert Nixon ... Also some particulars of his life. Likewise Mother Shipton's Yorkshire prophecy, with their explanations / [Robert Nixon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![fronts onall have no churches nor houfes, And places where images flood, Lined letters fhal] be good, Lngliai books through churches are fpread, -I here fhall be no holy bread, It is not my intention to recite every particular he is fain to have foretold, which regard e.the^ private fliUes tion what IS frefh in every one’s memory, who lives r r and was vouched to^me by feve- ral of the oldeft inhabitants: ^ Through Weaver-hall fhall be a lone, * Lidley-pool fhall be Town and mown, And Darnel-park fliall be hacked and hewn. Lhe two Wings of Weaver hall are now flandin? and between them is a can road; Ridley-pool is filid ■up, and made good meadow land; and in Darnel-nark 'M-ounT^ palture I vvas alfo afTured, that he foretold the ufe of broad whee s, &c. and that the town of Norwich, now a conliderable place of trade for fait, will be deflroved by water, whi^h is expe^ed to come to pafs, by the na- tives of Chefliire, as much as any other part of his prophecy has dorie; and fome urge, that the navio-ablc cuts lately made is the water meant; but whether a%re- judice againft thpfe ufeful improvements may not have given rife to this notion, time only can determine. Lut what rendered Nixon the mofl noticed was that at the time when the battle of Bofworth field was ^ught between King Richard the Third and Kincr Henry the Seventh, he flopped his team on a fudden° and pointing with his whip from one hand to the odier^ “ The term used in this country for a.Iare,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22016892_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
