Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey].

  • John Aubrey
Date:
1784
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Credit: Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ScoTLANp, reciteth of one of their Kings, James IV. the following very remarkable Paffages. BH EB prefence of this King ie re- quired to be with his army, whither he was going, at Linlithgo, whilft he was at Vefpers in the church, there entered an old man, the hair of his head being red, inclin- ing toyellow, hanging down on his fhoulders ; his forehead fleek thro’ baldnefs, bare-headed, in a lont coat of aruffet colour, eirt with a linen girdle about his loins; in the reft of his afpect, he was very venerable ; he preffed thro’ ' the crowd to come to the King: when he came to him, he leaned upon the chair on which the King fat, with a kind of ruftick fimplicity, and befpoke him thus; ‘‘O King,” faid he, “Tf am fent to warn thee, not to proceed in thy in- tended defign; and if thou neglecteft this ad- mecnition, neither thou nor thy followers fhall profper. Jam alfo commanded te tell thee, U that
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