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stand up in the Defence of their Laws and Liberties, and Ruin and Misery to those that betray them. He says, The Year before this would happen, Bread should be very dear; and that the Year following more Troubles should begin, which would last three Years; that the first would be moderate, the second bloody, and the third intolerable; and that there were no Mischiefs but what poor England would feel at that Time. But that George the Son of George should put an End to all: And that afterwards the Church should flourish, and England be a happy Nation.
’Tis observable, that Mr. Cholmondley, going by the Garden-wall the Morning before it fell, said, I believe Nixon is out in his Prophecy; for he foretold that this Day my Garden-wall should fall down, and I think it looks as if it would stand those forty Years. But he had not been gone Half an Hour before the Wall fell upwards, which, as Nixon would have it, presaged a flourisshing Church. This is the more remarkable, because Workmen were yearly kept to support the Wall, and to inspect it every Month; and, just before it fell, they gave in their Report, that it would last an Hundred Years without Repair.
Peckforton-mill, according to the Prophecy, was removed to Luddinton-hill by Sir John Frew; and Sir John being asked, If he did it to fulfil the Prophecy? he solemnly declared, He never thought of it.
Prodigies and Prophecies are no uncommon Things in the County of Cheshire. Camden the Historian tells us, That at Brereton there is a Thing as strange as the Perching of the Eagle, or Falling of the Wall, which he says is well attested; It is this, That before any Heir of the Family (belonging to the Seas aforesaid) dies, there are seen, in a Lake adjoining, the Bodies of Trees swimming up the Water for several Days together. This the learned Camden relates in his Description of Cheshire. And the Opinion of the Trees swimming in the Lake aforesaid, prevails all about the Country to this Day; with this Difference only, that some say, ’tis One Log, and others, that ’tis Two Logs that swim.
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