Title: Strange and remarkable Prophesies and Predictions Of the Holy, Learned, and excellent James Usher [sic], Late L. Arch-Bishop of Armagh, and Lord Primate of Ireland. Giving an Account of his Foretelling I. The Rebellion in Ireland […] 
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;background:#FFFFFF;">Full title:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;background:#FFFFFF;"><span> Strange and remarkable Prophesies and Predictions Of the
Holy, Learned, and excellent James Usher [sic], Late L. Arch-Bishop of Armagh,
and Lord Primate of Ireland. Giving an Account of his Foretelling I. The
Rebellion in Ireland Forty Years before it came to pass. II. The Confusions and
Miseries of England, in Church and State. III. The Death of King Charles the
First. IV. His own Poverty and want. V. The Divisions in England in matters of
Religion. Lastly, Of a great and Terrible Persecution which shall fall upon the
Reformed Churches by the Papists, wherein the then Pope should be chiefly
concerned. Written by the Person who heard it from this Excellent Persons own
Mouth, and now publisht earnestly to perswade us to that Repentance and
Reformation which can only prevent our Ruin and Destruction. Licensed, November
the 16<sup>th</sup></span>.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#2C2C2C;background:#FFFFFF;">8vo. ff. [2], pp. 8, f. [1] (blank).
Signatures: A4. Bound in black mule deer hide, by John Field, marbled
pastedowns. Frontispiece pasted on recto of prelim I. “(31)” in ink on title page.
A highly popular </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(44,44,44);font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;">anti-papist and separatist concoction, the first published hoax by Robert Ware–branded by
one victim in 1917 as ‘the most audacious fabricator of historical documents
who ever lived’ –and absurdly attributed by him to the long-deceased Archbishop
of Armagh. Attributed to Ussher by Wing (D. Wing (ed.), Short-title Catalogue
of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and
of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641–1700. 4 vols. New York,
1982-98 (2nd ed.), U225), but described by the Dictionary of National Biography
(v. 20, p. 72) as an "untrustworthy production." ESTC describes three
editions of 1678 of which the present work corresponds to the second, with
‘prophesies’ and ‘predictions’ not all in capital letters, line 19 of title
has: ’Persons own Mouth, ... publisht’; the last line of title before license
ends ’Ruin and Destruction’. For other settings, see ESTC R504328, R220946, and
R235771. </span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;">See also Bib# 4102903/Fr# 392 in this collection
for a putative piracy edition of this work.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;"><br /></span></p><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4102902" rel="ugc nofollow">
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