Nixon's Cheshire prophecy at large / Published from the Lady Cowper's correct copy. With historical and political remarks ; and several instances wherein it is fulfilled. Together with the life of Nixon. By John Oldmixon, Esq.

  • Nixon, Robert, active 1620?
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[1761?]
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Credit: Nixon's Cheshire prophecy at large / Published from the Lady Cowper's correct copy. With historical and political remarks ; and several instances wherein it is fulfilled. Together with the life of Nixon. By John Oldmixon, Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    London, they forgot the fool in the hurry, and he was really ftarved to death. There are a great many paffages of this fool- prophet’s life and fayings, tranfmitted by tradition from father to fon in this county palatine ; as that when be lived with a farmer before he was taken into Mr. Cholmondley’s family, he goared an ox fo cruelly, that one of the ploughmen threatened to beat him for abufing his matter's bead. Nixon laid, <c my matter's beaft will not be his three <c days.” A life in an eftate dropping at that time, the lord of the manor took the fame ox for a her- riot. This account, as whimfical and romantic as it is, was told to the lady Cowper in the year 1670, by Dr. Patrick, late bifhop of Ely, then chaplain to Sir Walter Sr, John; and that lady had the following farther particulars relating to this prophecy, and the fulfilling of many parts Of it, from Mrs. Chute, fitter to Mrs. Cholmondley of Vale-Royal, who affirmed. That a multitude of people gathering together to fee the eagle before mentioned,, the bird was frightened from her young, and that fhe herfelf was one of them, and the cry among the people was, “ Nixon’s prophecy is fulfilled, and we (hall “ have a foreign king.” She declared that (lie read over the prophecy many times, when her fitter was with child of the heir who now enjoys the eftate. She particularly remembered that king James II. was plainly pointed at, and that it was foretold he ihould endeavour to fubvert the laws and