The Miraculous Prophecies, Predictions, and Strange Visions, of Sundry Eminent Men, &C: From the First Dawn of Literature, Touching Revolutions That Have Happened, and Revolutions to Come, in Which Is Given a Most Striking and Faithful Picture of the Time
The Miraculous Prophecies, Predictions, and Strange Visions, of Sundry Eminent Men, &C: From the First Dawn of Literature, Touching Revolutions That Have Happened, and Revolutions to Come, in Which Is Given a Most Striking and Faithful Picture of the Time
Excerpt from The Miraculous Prophecies, Predictions, and Strange Visions, of Sundry Eminent Men, &C: From the First Dawn of Literature, Touching Revolutions That Have Happened, and Revolutions to Come, in Which Is Given a Most Striking and Faithful Picture of the Times, With What Is to Follow If I had a mind to look into the antiquities of this county, I might find that Prodigies and Prophecies are' no unufual things there. Camden tells us', that at irereton, not many miles from vale-royal, which gave name to a famous, ...
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Excerpt from The Miraculous Prophecies, Predictions, and Strange Visions, of Sundry Eminent Men, &C: From the First Dawn of Literature, Touching Revolutions That Have Happened, and Revolutions to Come, in Which Is Given a Most Striking and Faithful Picture of the Times, With What Is to Follow If I had a mind to look into the antiquities of this county, I might find that Prodigies and Prophecies are' no unufual things there. Camden tells us', that at irereton, not many miles from vale-royal, which gave name to a famous, ancient, numerous, and knightl'y family, there is a thing as fiiange as the 'perching Eagle, or the falling of the wall, which he fays was tefted to him by many perfons, and was commonly believed; that before any heir of this family d there are feen in a lake adjoining, the bodies of trees fwimming upon the water for leveral days together. He likewife adds, that near the Abbey of St. Maurice, in Burgundy, there is a fifii pond, in which a number of fillies are put, equal to the number of Monks ofithat place: and if anyone of them happens to be lick, there is a tilh feen floating on the water; and in cafe the fit of ficknefs proves fatal to the Monk, the fifll foretells it by its own death fome days before. This the learned Camden relates in his delcription of Chefhire, and the opinion of the trees fwimming in the lake near Brere ton prevails all about the county to this day, only with this (inference, that fome fay 'tis one log that fwims. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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