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MOTHER SHIPTON'S PROPHECIES.
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when the one is downe they will go to London Towne; Then there will be a great battell betweene England and Scotland, and they will be pacified for a time, and when they come to Brammammore, they fight and are again pacified for a time; then there will be a great Battle at Knavesmore, and they will be pacified for a while; Then there will be a great battell betweene England and Scotland at Stoknmore; Then will Ravens sit on the Crosse and drinke as much bloud of the nobles, as of the Commons, then woe is mee, for London shall be destroyed for ever after; Then there shall come a woman with one eye, and she shall tread in many mens bloud to the knee, and a man leaning on a staffe by her, and she shall say to him, What art thou? and he shall say, I am King of the Scots, and she shall say, Goe with me to my house, for there are three Knights, and he will go with her, and stay there three days and three nights, then will England be lost; and they will cry twice of a day England is lost; Then there will be three knights in Petergate in Yorke and the one shall not know of the