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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![Two Dukes sliall for the crown contend, And bring the M y to end. 7© liluhops shall fall into contempt and scorn, And gosptl-anglers shall the kirk adorn. ]f any ask, how these things come to pass ; The fox shall ride the goose, the goose the ass. 'f'he greatest part of what has been hitherto published under the title of ATother Shipton’s Prophecies, pliinly ap- pears to be no more than imperfect bits and scraps of this collection, carried away, perhaps, in the memory of such as might sometime have the opportunity of seeing it in the noble family inhere it was lodged. The whole seems en- tirely to point at the great events that have, and yet may happen to both church and state, in this and the neigh- bouring nations. The first thirty verses seem to relate to the disasters that should befall a great part of Europe,- during the time of King Henry VIII. for the twenty-ninth and thirtieth verses terminate in his reign, and arc the last wherein the rehia can be understood to he hinted at. EXPLANATIONS OF THE PROPHECIES. V. 29. And when the Cow shall ride the Bull. This seems to have been fulfilled when Henry VIII. married Lady Anna Bullen ; for he, as Duke of Richmond, placed the cow in his arms, and the crest of her family was a black bull’s head. V. 30. Then motley priest beware thy skull. Presently after the King’s marriage, the seizure of abbey lands, &c. and the dissolution of monastries ensued, where- by the skull, or'head-piece of the priesthood (i. c. gain) was mi^rably broke. V. 31. For a sweet pious prince make room. By this, doubtless, is meant King Edward VI, a part of whose character is thus given by the learned Dean Echard, in his History of England;](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22016892_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
