About 2-3 years ago someone shared on the Internet about Mother Shipton, a lady who lived in England about 500 years ago. Mother Shipton, a Christian, prophetically described much about our present time, including the advent of automobiles, airplanes, submarines, and modern, high-speed communications. She also spoke of all this in the contExt of the latter days. I do not understand all of it but some of it is quite clear.

Our friend Dr. Jean Kincaid sent me the below information. Thought you might enjoy.

Jim

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Mother Shipton's Prophecy Concerning The Latter Days"

A carriage without horse shall go
Disaster fill the world with woe
In London, Primrose Hill shall be
It's center hold a Bishop's see
Around the world men's thoughts shall fly
Quick as the twinkle of the eye
And water's shall great wonders do
How strange, and yet it shall come true

Then upside down the world shall be
And gold found at root of tree
Through tow'ring hills proud men shall ride
No horse or donkey by his side
Beneath the waters men shall walk
Shall ride, shall sleep and even talk
And in the air men shall be seen
In white, in black as well as green

A great man then shall come and go
For prophecy declares it so
In water Iron shall float
As easy as a wooden boat
Gold shall be found in streams and stone
In lands that are as yet unknown
Water and fire shall wonders do
And England shall admit a Jew

The Jew that once was held in scorn
Shall of a Christian then be born
A house of glass shall come to pass
In England, but alas, alas,
A war will follow with the work
Where dwell the pagan and the Turk
The states will lock in fiercest strife
And seek to take each other's life
When North shall divide the South
Then tax and blood and cruel war
Shall come to every door

Three times shall sunny, bloody, France
Be led to play a bloody dance
Before the people shall be free
Three tyrant rulers shall she see
Each springing from dynasty
Then when the fiercest fight is done
England and France shall be as one
The British olive next shall twine
In marriage with the German vine

Men shall walk beneath and over streams
Fulfilled shall be our strangest dreams
All England's sons shall plow the land
Shall oft be seen with book in hand
The poor shall now great wisdom know
And water wind where corn doth grow
Great houses stand in far flung vale
All covered o'er with snow and hail

And now a word in uncouth rhyme
Of what shall be in future time
For in those wondrous far off days
The women shall adopt a craze
To dress like men and trousers wear
And cut off all their locks of hair
They'll ride astride with brazen brow
As witches do on broomsticks now
And when their virtue shall be shorn
Wear shoes with heels like devil's horns
Then love shall die and marriage cease
And nations wane and babes decrease
Then wives shall fondle cats and dogs
And men shall live the same as hogs

In nine-teen hundred twenty six
build houses light of straw and sticks
For then shall mighty wars be planned
And blood shall flow in every land
When pictures seem alive with movement free
When boats like fishes swim beneath the sea
When men like birds shall scour the sky
Then half this world, deep drenched in blood shall die
But those that live to see all this through
In fear and trembling this will do
Flee to the mountains and to the dens,
To bogs and forests, to the wild fens.

Then shall mighty wars be planned
Fire and sword shall sweep the land.
For storms shall rage and oceans roar
When Gabriel stands on sea and shore
And as he blows his wondrous horn
Old worlds shall die and new be born."
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More on Mother Shipton:

My grandfather, Enoch Wootton read Mother Shipton's poem while he
was a schoolboy in the 1880's in Ashington, Northumberland County,
England, about 50 miles north of where Mother Shipton had lived near
York about 325 years earlier. Grandpa said that he read in his
schoolbooks her poems describing the cars, planes and submarines fo the
twentieth century, long before they were invented.
The name Mother Shipton has become legendary throughout the English
speaking world.
She was born in July, 1488
The Encyclopedia Britanica states : "Tradition has it that her
maiden name was Ursala Southill, and her parents were peasants, living
near Dropping Well, Yorkshire, and that she was born about 1486-1488.
She was phenomenally ugly and was regarded by the neighbors as the
"Devil's Child". When about 24 she married a builder of York, Tobias
Shipton. She is said to have died at Clifton York, in 1561. She was
baptized by the Abbot of Beverly. Her stature was larger than common.
Her body crooked, her face frightful; but her understanding
extraordinary."

S. Baker, who published a book about her in 1797, states that she
foretold the very hour of her own death, and departed this life with
much serenity. A monument marked her burial, between Clifton and
Shipton. This is her epitaph:

"Here ly's she who never ly'd
Whose skill often has been try'd
Her prophecies shall still survive
And keep her name alive"

Mother Shipton made sensational prophecies concerning
prominent men at the court of Henry V111. Concerning Cardinal Woolsey,
the Duke of Suffolk:

"When Cardinal Woolsey intended to move his residence to York, she
announced that he would never reach the city. The Cardinal sent three
Lords of his retinue in disguise, to inquire whether she had made such a

prediction, and to threaten her if she persisted in it. She was then
living in a village called Dring Houses, a mile to the west of the city
(of York).

"The retainers led by a guide named Beasley knocked at the door.
"Come in Mr. Beasley and three noble Lords with you. "Said Mother
Shipton." She then treated them civilly and served them oatcakes and
ale.
"'You gave out, said they, the Cardinal shall never see York.'
"'No, she replied, "I said he might see it, but never come to it'
"They responded; 'When he does come he will surely burn thee.....'
"Cardinal Woolsey on his arrival at Catwood ascended the Castle
Tower and while viewing York, 8 miles off, vowed he would burn the witch

when he reached there. But ere he descended the stairs, a message from
the king demanded his presence forthwith, and while on his journey to
London he was taken ill and died at Leicester." (S. Baker, 1797).

Mother Shipton was a great student of the Bible. In her writings she states,
"Prophecy declares it so." She saw what was going to take place in the 20th
century, or "the Latter Days", written shortly before her death as the poem, given
above.
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