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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    trance, and never could be brought to pronounce a fenlible word, more than an ay or noy as hath been faid, unlefs when he was pronouncing his oracles. There happened fomething with refpe£t to Nixon, and his going to court, like what I met with in the pamphlet you lent me, called the Drummer of Tidworth. For as that drummer left beating when king Charles's courtiers came to be upon the watch with him, and would not fa- tisfy their curiofity, fo our clown of a prophet, after he came to court, was entirely dumb, and, pronounced no more prophecies. It is faid he was not long there before he was ftarved. \ , t Nixon was very grateful to his mafter Chol- mondley; he prophefied that <{ the heir to be <c born to the family threefcore and ten years after, <c Chould be endowed with very eminent qualifi- <c cations, and arrive at greater honours than any iC of his anceftors had done/’ That he fhould diftinguifh himfelf by his loyalty and fervices to the king then reigning, and that after the happy fettlement which would fucceed the ftruggle, tc the peace would be lafling, with a continued ic feries of honours and glory to the nation. This <f child, faid Nixon, {hall be known by the ap- “ pearance of an eagle at the time of his birth”, with the circumftances mentioned in your pro¬ phecy. A long time before the eagle appeared, the country people ufed to look out for it; and as often as the lady of Vale-Royal lay in, they would