The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-10

Frederick William Nv, VINO became
King in 1910, and that his successor
would be William, who would last
King of Prussia and first Emperor of
Germany. William / assembled the
Prussian throne in 1861, and in 1871,
twenty-one years after my authority
was published, became Emperor. Jas
pers also predicted the Crimean war
and the building of the Cologne Minden
Railroad.
At dinner party given six years
prior to the French Revolution, during
a great deal of jesting about prophecy,
M. Gazette, the eminent poet aros., and
looking seriously at one of the guests,
made prediction as to his future. This
excited much merriment, although his
manner was strangely serious. He con-
tinued, and told NJ. Condorcet that he
wauld die stretched on the floor of a
dungeon from poison taken to avoid the
block. He said De Chamfort would
open his veins with twenty-five razor
cuts, that De Nicolai would die on the
scafold, and also De Malesherbes, and
that the Duchess De Grammont would
60 to the scafold in an executioner's
cart. He added that the king would be
guillotined and would be the only one
allowed confessor. His words caused
much embarrassment to those who
were addressed and the party broke up
in great confusion. These events took
place exactly as they were predicted.
Robert Nixon, in 1857, predicted
various events in English history.
These were the FIRE and plague of Lon
don, the death of Cromwell, the coming
of William, Prince of Orange, and the
accession of the Georges. Lady Cooper
published book many years after,
verifying the fulfllment of his predic-
tions.
One of the most famous of English
prophets was William Lilly, a profound
astiologist and educated gentleman, who
fourished about 1850. He published
many remarkable prophecies, and hav-
ing predicted the fire and plague of
London, in book printed in 1851, was
brought before Parliament after the
event. He said his predictions were
based on the confguration of the heav-
emily bodies, and that this same predic-
ton had been made by Nostradamus,
one hundred and eleven years previous,
who said: The blood of the just which
has been split in London requires st to
be burned in 1866" In Lilly's book are
two cuts to illustrate his predictions
The first cut is intended to represent a
great mortality, in which the number
of deaths would SO far exceed the supply
of coffins that the dead must needs be
buried in their shrouds, or stitched up
in sheets. The second is an astrologi-
cal hieroglyphic, the horoscope at the
left being introduced, and the two chill
dren are Gemini, which in astrology rule
London. Their falling into the fire de-
scribes the injury that London was to
suffer fifteen years after.
In work entitled "Memoirs of Ex-
traordinary Popular Delusions," by
Charles Mackay, 1852, occurs the fol-
lowing:
can eye witness of the great fire of
London, in an account preserved among
the Harleian MSS, in the British Mu-
scum, and published in the transactions
of the Royal Society of Antiquarians,
relates another instance of the credulity
of the Londoners. The writer, who ac-
companied the Duke of York day by
day through the district included be-
tween Fleet-street and the Thames,
states that in their efforts to check the
progress of the flames they were much
impeded by the superstition of the peo-
pie. Mother Shipton, in one of her
prophecies, had said that London would
be reduced to ashes, and they refused to
make any efforts to prevent ii"
The prophecy referred to is:
&c When fate to England shall restore
King to reign as heretofore,
Great death in London shall be though,
And many houses be laid low"
"The prophecies of Mother Shipton
are still believed in many of the rural
districts of England. In cottages and
servants halls her reputation is great
She was born at Knaseborough in 1886
and old chronicles say she soId her SOU
to the devil for the power Of predicting
future events. Though looked upon as
witch, she did not share a witch'i
fate, but died peacefully. A stone was
erected to her memory in Clifton, York
shire, bearing these words:
Here lies she who never lied,
Whose skill often has been tried;
Her prophecies shall still survive,
And ever Keep her name alive
"Neyer day passed that she did no
relate something wonderful, and tina
required the most serious consideration
People focked from far and near, he
fame was so great. Among the res
went the Abbot of Beverly. to whom sh,
foretold the suppression of the monas
teries by Henry VIII, his marriage witt
Anne Boleyn, the fires for heretics il
Smithfeld and the execution of Mary
Queen of Scots. She also foretold tn
accession of James /, adding, that witt
him
From the cold Iorth
Every evil should come FORTH
"But the most famous of her prophe
cies is one relating to London. Thou
sands of people still shudder to thin
of the woes that are to burst over thi
unhappy realm when London an,
Highgate are Joined by one continuou
line Of houses. When this takes plac
Mother Shipton predicts revolutions
the fall of mighty monarchs, and tn
shedding of much blood, The very an
gels, afflicted by our woes, are to tur
aside their heaGs and weep for naples
Britain
This was written by Mackay in 1885,
and London and Highgate were no
then joined. The junction is about com
pleted now.
An old lady, now residing in Georgia
says that she remembers hearing O
Mother Shipton when child ON Primo
Edwards Island. Especially does sh
remember the prediction that "Eng
land should be lost, won, and lost again
when three Kings horses heads shoul
be held together on Blackfriar
Bridge and that during the visit pai
by the allied Kings to the Regent
George w, their three horses head
were held together on the bridge tina
day, and a great question in Parliamen
was decided.
Mother Shipton's best-known propht
cies, perhaps are these: