APPENDIX V. PROPHECIES BY WELSHMEN. 1 Thalysonne savthe that in the liijth yere their shalbe a battell in Brytaine, betwene the sede of the blasinge lambe and the sede of the spanishe woman, for the seat of Cadwaldour, their shalbe great preparinge to battell in those dayes; the raven for hounger shalbe lick to perishe, and yet betwen the twoe battelles shalbe neuer a stroke stroken. Then A pilgrimage to marye in Aken of women shalbe wofully sought; & after the mylde countinaunce of this, m[arye] shall depart from kenyngale, to which she tooke hir waye, and towardes the light she shaH bare A countinuale heat. A man of bondes she shall release by menes Iudgment. in hir yere shalbe many Tyrantes abrode that were in bondes, & they shall sitt strayt in Iudgment to opresse the light. A welch-man called Robart locke vppon the liiij yeare G. beinge dominycall leter. he did recyte that A woman wytles shoulde reigne in Cadwaladors seat, and do out the heate of the sommer, and cause paynted cloudes to seme bright after the metinge of A lord & A lady in on daye. these plages shall not ceasse vntill the man god haue the full tuicion and strength, and his ministers shall have greate gyftes. And yet I beheld on woman, !? Taliessin. the wife of two men, gyvinge hir honor to the man god; & ase for xxxti dayes shall he execut fyer & sword; & I loked toward the Santuary, & ther I sawe the throne of the vnknown god, & the wicked having the vpper hand, whetting ther tussh like bores in blude. David Apiuan sayth these wordes: "in liiijth I sawe the lyonesse execute great iudgment. I beheld when this troble beganne, ther weir fyve wicked monthes, & in the v wicked monthes I save xxxti euell dayes. out of heaven I beheld A white lambe, and a great scroll in his hand, and mens names writte in with blod, & yet I save the Egles chicken layng hand vppon the croune & Septer, and executed the sword with bloud xij dayes together; & in these dayes the counsell of the prisoner shalbe swefter then the wynd. & I beheld A white hare standinge in iudgment in Ceasars house, & caste a grime countinaunce A-gaynste the former witt of the ffox, & he ceased not vntil he conveyed the ffox cleane, & no man again in britaine shalbe combred with him; and in those dayes the mone shall losse hur light. coke that crowed wonderos bould, & A young henne did egerly barke, & the lione began to rore; and kent reioysed, & Sussex daunced, & manye chekynes more for gladnes; for now the Egles chickyn is gonne, & the widowe of calabrye shall whet hir tuskes, but the bores counsell shalbe of non effecte. & I be-held another sorowe more grevoser then the fyrst: great crye wase ther Amongest women betwen the hiest of the sonne & the reping of the corne." Then I beheld A yong Edward Aprian Trevar for the liiijth yere also sayth: "wher is the lionesse that executed iustes falsly for Thomas Buynytes (?) sayth that anne arrow shalbe the destruction of thangry lyonesse." "Edward Apovel sayth that the tong shall cleaue to the roffe of hir mouth, & the arrowe that shaft strike [leaf 23, back] hir is death, & [she] shall [have] no tyme of Inward repentance, but shall deliver hir sovle to mans merits: then shall the bright Cler sonne begyne to apere././ Also Robart Duce in the same liiijth yere sayth, "that A dead man shal Aryse, a kynge whose generation was of a dunne cowe, and generated out of the sea, & this kynge shalbe gouerned one yere by an aungeH. vppon Eedward the vj thy time is comme; the profisie sayth then necessarye for god, thou must lose that which other men haue mad strayght; & vnringed swine thou must rote out; & this sayth god, 'thou sonne of man muste asswage the prid, mossell the mouthe of prechers that preache mens dreames: the moste parte of the peopl shall saye 'wher are thaye cleane consumed in on yeare.' A Byshoppe beinge no gentillman shall enioye the crowne, & vse it as him lysteth for on yeare; & xxviij days shall he bringe many wonders to passe, & then the sonne of man, after iij sorowes, shall occupe the sword, & make euery man & woman offycere, & geue comaundement on payne of death to kyll all that were with the pye, the pykerd, & the fulmer; for all that shalbe kylled are knowne by ther marke; and then shalbe sene many A blodye Rochet, & the lione shall hunt the bore out of his denne. "An I. & a Roche shat blede to dethe for their traterous plaie, & the yelowe lyone tongles also shall suffer execution), & many also of the affutie 2 of the blodye pie; & Immediatlye shaH euery man enioye his owne wife a-gayne; and I did see the hedd of the world cleane vanishe awaye, and his dignitye cleane banished out of England. and A chyld with A chaplett had againe in his owne honor;" and Robart Duce speaketh no more of the liiijth, yet he sayth that "the dead man that neuere woman sawe borne, nor neuer ' MS. y* the 2 ? affinitie man shall se buried, shalbe kinge of syx kyngdomes, and Emperour of Rome." Owen longheith sayth that "A lyon shalbe generated out of the sea by the full strengthe & natur of A dunne cowe, and that lyone shalbe gouerned by an Aungell, which Aungell shalt blede to death. And in the liijth yere thys lyon shalbe gonne. but verye few shall fynd him, & he shalbe awaie xvj monthes; and after xvj monthes hee shall come agayne, and execute iustice in his fathers house; & that which is darke shall he make lyght, & shall make free waye to the holye Crosse." David Trevar sayth that the same lyone shal neuere be defyled, & that this is the lxxxxj of the house of Tuheodre that shall geue Armes, & Edward is his name & he shalb[e] crownid Twyse in Englond & once at Rome. Merleon le Paule sayth "he shalbe the stronge bul that shall enter in the yerly wynter, & he shal destroye the hedd of the world; & by this tokene shatt you knowe him, ffor he shall neuere be borne of A woman. his name shalbe Edward of the house of Tuheodore, & he shalbe bakynge xviij score dayes, lx dayes, & xl dayes, & thene shall he entyer in-to Britaine with thre grevous bestes, A redd lyon, A redd dragone, & A white graye-hownd; & then shall the land of the mone reioyce." Iohn Aprobardwyn sayth "the sonne of man is caled A commone proverbe maledene steremone for the generation of the Theodorse, otherwise caled tewthers, came out of Englond; and yt is profisied1 of him that he should kyll his mother, & yet shall have hir blesinge, & the blesinge of god and the britanes. & he shall make glade the people that shalbe out-castes in those dayes, & he shall labour to se the sedde of the egle; but he shall neuer fynd him, nor neuer anye after him, 1 MS. propised [leaf 24] & shall make A swifte requiring for the shepherdes that he lefte be-hind him. then shatt euerye man to his owne livinge agayn, & stablish a lawe in Britaine. ther is no more to speake of him that is caled Edward in the liiijth yeare; but in the lvth yere he shall go forth to conquere; & or he shall ceasse, he shall plant a trve religion in syx kyngdons, & shaH make A vniuersall pease thoroughout all the worlde." ffinis ffinis. [leaf 24, back, blank.]• [leaf 25] [A PROPHECY OF A MOLE, A DRAGON, A LION, AND A WOLF.] (Ashmole MS 378, leaf 25.) After this lambe shal come a mold warpe, Cursed of goddes mouth, a caytife, A cowarde, an heare; he shall haue an elderly skyne as a gote / & vengeaunce shall falle vpon him for sinne. ¶ In the first yere of his regne he shall have, of all good, grett plentie in his lond, & toward him also / & in his londe he shall have great praysinge/ till the tyme that he shall suffere his people liue in to moche pryde with-out chastisinge, wherfor god wilbe wrothe¶Thenne shall aryse vp a dragon of the north that shalbe full ferse / & shal move warre agaynst the forsayd moule warpe / & shall yeue him battell vpon a stone. Thys dragon shall gader ayene into his company a wolfe, that shall come out of the west to move warre againste the forsayd mold warpe in his side / so shall the dragone, & bynd their tayles to-gyders ¶ Then shall come A lyon out of Irelond that shaH fall in company with them; And thene shall tremble the londe that shalbe calede IMS. their the |