AND IT CAME TO PASS.

Shannon News, 16 March 1926, Page 3

AND IT CAME TO PASS.

MOTHER SHTPTON’S prophesies.

I “Mother Shipton’s prophecies have recently been discovered in the British Museum written in an old manuscript’ work, A.D., 1448, and portions have I .been published in the “Globe” newspaper of February 17th, 1877. , This wonderful woman lived till she was an extraordinary age. She died ' at Clifton, in Yorkshire, from which is ' taken the following epitaph copied I from a stone monument:— “Here lies she who never ly’d, Whose skill often has been try’d, ! Her prophecies shall still survive, | And ever keep hex name alive. Carriages without horses shall go, And accidents fill the world with woe; | Primrose Hill in London shall be, * And in its centre a Bishop’s See. I Around the world thoughts shall fly, i In the twinkling of an eye. Water shall yet more wonders do, How strange, yet shall be true, The world upside down shall be; And gold found at the Toot of tree. Through hills men shall ride, And no horse or ass be by their side, Under water men shall walk; Shall ride, shall sleep and talk; In the air men shall be seen, In white, in black, and in green. A great man shall eome and gol Three times shall lovely France Be led to play a bloody dance; Before her people shall be free, Three Tyrant Eulers shall she see; Three times the people’s hope is gone; Three Eulers in succession see,. ! Each spring from different dynasty. Then shall the worser fight be done, England and France shall be as one. The British Olive ii'ext shall twine, In marriage with a German Vine. Men shall walk over rivers and under rivers; Iron in the water shall float, As easy as a wooden boat. God shall be found and found, In a land that’s not now known; Fire and water shall more wonders do, England shall at last admit a Jew. The Jew that was held in scorn, Shall of a Christian be born, and born. A house of glass shall eome to pass, In England, but,alas! ( War will follow with the work, In the land of the Fagan and Turk; And state and stage in fierce strife, Will seek each other’s life. But when the north shall divide the south, An Eagle shall build in the Lion’s mouth. Taxes for blood and war, Will come to ever door. All England’s sons that plough the land, Shall be seen book in hand, Learning shall so ebb and flow, The poor shall most learning know. Waters shall flow where corn doth grow, Corn shall grow where waters doth flow. Houses 'shall appear in the vales below, And covered by hail and snow, ■ The world then to an end shall come, In eighteen hundred and eighty-one.”