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Windmill should be removed to Luddinton Hill; that there should be a great Slaughter of Men; that Horses saddled should run about till their Girths rotted away; and that Olton Mill should be driven with Blood instead of Water.
Cholmondley is a very ancient Family in Cheshire; and the Seat of that Branch of it that kept Nixon is at Vale Royal. It was formerly an Abbey founded by Edward I.
Passages in the prophecy already fulfilled.
When Nixon prophesied, this Family was near extinct; but the Heir having married Sir Walter St. John’s Daughter, who, being with Child, was in Labour for some Days; at which Time an Eagle sat upon the House-top, and, just as she was delivered, it flew away.
It is also well known, that a Raven built a Nest in a Stone Lion’s Mouth in Over Church-steeple in the Forest of De la Mere.
Not long before the Abdication of King James, the Wall fell down, and fell upwards; and in the Rubbish were found the Bones of a large Man.
At the same Time a Pond ran with reddish Water, which it never did before or since.
Headless Cross, in the Forest, is now sunk within Half a Foot of the Ground, tho’ it was always many Foot deep since the Memory of Man.
At Budworth a Boy was born with three Thumbs, and is now living.
And in Nottingshire Mills there’s now a Miller whose Name is Peter. This Peter has two Heels on one Foot; but I find he does not intend to make use of them: For he is a very loyal Subject to King George; has a Vote for Knight of the Shire, and always gives it on the right Side: In fine, Peter stands up for the good Cause Nixon has lifted him to. Upon which the Lady Egerton, wishing for another Restoration, often perswaded her
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