The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-05-03
A Very Interesting Reply 10 'ne Iuss
diem OF Il. Concerning Meaher s'asp'
Ysr, and her Prophecies

Eassors Dispatch: II seven Grec'ah cues
1lafsa the honor Of being the o'tth'Paes W
imn,ortsl Homer, there arc, perhaps seven
times seven English villages that c'a'in nke
distinction As the natal-phce OIL .ue n'us.
,o,,s Mother Shipton. 1t Is preSty cer'ain'
however. that she WIS born in 1ofksnire
during the reign Of Ncnry VII, ana now
lice bnried In q littk country church'gara
near Clifton, 10 tha, county, Whese .he cu'l'
ous IN snch matters may SUI aec'phel on
the unpre,enCinS store which marks her
last res,inc-pisce the following epitome OF
her many virtues:
"Herc Tics she who never lied,
Whre skill Often has been tried:
Her pro vhccics shall! srili survive,
Aud erRtey her name alive
Among the most remarkable OF her pre-
dic,ious was thai N regard TO the great tire
of London (ChareS ~, which, in the interest
of her credit, should have destroyed the en-
tire city. An account Of that terrible CLAIM
ity, written by an eyewitness and now 10
be found among the Harleian manuscripts, 10
the British museum. states that it was IN
possible to check the progress Of the flames
because Of the widespread SUPERSTITION,
among the pnpu!acc. Mother Ship.on,"
they said, chad prophesied that London
would he reduced TO ashes, and 1t was use
their arms and looked on.
These facts were recently published in the
transactions Of the Royal Society OF Antigua
RIGS as an illustration of the credulity OF The
people 10 that age.
Perhaps the most significant popularity o
this sihIfs representations lies in the iac
that the prophecy was seldom heard OF unll
after its fuItilmcnt. Thus she iorctold The
suppression Of moDaS'erieS by Henry VIII
the marriage OF that monarch with Anht
Bcieyn: the bur ming Of hcretlcs in Smlthhcit
market. The execution Of Mary Qncen o.
Scots: the accession Of james j., a.; the
whole series OF predictions coming regularly
to light iu the order of their accomplish
merit.
Bur She did more than this. She fore
told" the >aien, events OF bygonc dyna>ticS
II is certain that she lived with The last Of thu
Tudor race, vet her ali-embrac!ng prcscicrct
sweeps The mystic veil from the lives OF tho
Planlae.ncis. and we are told that
"Thc lions heart viii 'gainst The slraccn rise
And purchase from him many Il glorious prize
And again:
..ton,..,I ,n and ca.cI then shall the lion be.
Bui, after sunrancc, raEsomcd and set free
Poor Richard III. is forc-ordainCd latter
This fashion,
a hun cl,-hackcd monster who with teeth is born
The mUCkCrS al art ana nature scorn,
Shall, from tie lower earth on which he stood,
" adc, every step lie nouns, hhcc-decp In D!o"d.
The prophecy published in the dispatch
Of yesterday, directly abiding TO railroads.
the telegraph, modern diving. bells. and iron
steamships, has probably been written with
in the past thirty years. There is no trace
of it in an edition OF Sbipton lore, pub
lishcd near the period when Robert Fulton
was little boy.
We may conclude that the law Of chances
will sometimes hit eff happy copjnncture>;
but We presume there is no closer relation
between ShakeSpcarc's Puck, who'll
..Clap girdc roundabout the earth IN forty min
u;cs,
and the modern telegraph than there is be-
tween Colcrdgc's fairy
'Slidng TO earth new-iallcn s,a-
and Ben. Buffers yct-tc-Jc developed scheme
of mechanical acrcoslat'op. WAu ZEE.
Glen allen, Va, April so, 1915.