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MOTHER SHIPTON INVESTIGATED.

will doe you no good, you are going to warre, you will paine many a man, but you will kill none, so they went away.

"Not long after the Cardinall came to Cawood, and going to the top of the Tower, hee asked where Yorke was, and how farre it was thither, and said that one had said hee should never see Yorke; Nay, said one, shee said you might see Yorke, but never come at it. He vowed to burne her when he came to Yorke. Then they shewed him York, and told him it was but eight miles thence; he said he will soone be there: but being sent for by the King, hee dyed in the way to London at Lecester of a laske; And Shipton's wife said to Master Besley, yonder is a fine stall built for the Cardinall in the Minster, of Gold, Pearle, and precious stone, goe and present one of the pillers to King Henry, and hee did so.

"Master Besley seeing these things fall out as shee had foretold, desired him to tell him some more of her prophesies; Master, said she, before that Owes Bridge and Trinitie Church meet, they shall build on the day,