Strange and Remarkable Prophesies and Predictions Of the Holy, Learned, and excellent James Usher, Late L. Arch-Bishop of Armagh, and Lord Primate of Ireland. Giving an Account of his foretelling I. The Rebellion in Ireland Forty Years before it came to pass. II. The Confusions and Miseries of England, in Church and State. III. The Death of King Charles the First. IIII. His own Poverty and want. V. The Divisions in England in matters of Religion. Lastly Of a great and Terrible Persecution which

Name: Strange and Remarkable Prophesies and Predictions Of the Holy, Learned, and excellent James Usher, Late L. Arch-Bishop of Armagh, and Lord Primate of Ireland. Giving an Account of his foretelling I. The Rebellion in Ireland Forty Years before it came to pass. II. The Confusions and Miseries of England, in Church and State. III. The Death of King Charles the First. IIII. His own Poverty and want. V. The Divisions in England in matters of Religion. Lastly Of a great and Terrible Persecution which
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Full title: Strange and Remarkable Prophesies and
Predictions Of the Holy, Learned and excellent James Usher, Late L. Arch-Bishop
of Armagh, and Lord Primate of Ireland. Giving an Account of his Foretelling I.
The Rebellion in Ireland Forty years before it came to pass. II. The Confusions
and Miseries of England, in Church and State. III. The Death of King Charles
the First. IV. His own Poverty and want. V. The Divisions in England in matters
of Religion. Lastly, Of a great and Terrible Persecution which shall fall upon
the Reformed Churches by the Papists, wherein the then Pope should be chiefly
concerned. Written by the Person
who heard it from this Excellent Persons own Mouth, and now publisht earnestly
to perswade us to that Repentance and Reformation which can only prevent our
Ruin and Destruction. Licensed November the 16th.

 

4to. f. [1] (blank),
pp. 8. Signatures: A4. Bound in red water buffalo hide, by John
Field. An apparently unrecorded variant printing, of poor quality, probably a
piracy.

 

A highly popular anti-papist
and separatist concoction, the first published hoax by Robert Ware–branded by
one victim in 1917 as ‘the most audacious fabricator of historical documents
who ever lived’ –and absurdly attributed by him to the long-deceased Archbishop
of Armagh. Attributed to Ussher by
Wing (D. Wing (ed.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England,
Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in
Other Countries, 1641–1700. 4 vols. New York, 1982-98 (2nd ed.),
U225), but described by the Dictionary
of National Biography (v. 20, p. 72) as an "untrustworthy
production." ‘Prophesies’ and ‘predictions’ are not all in capital
letters, and ‘ruin’ is so spelt, but the setting is altogether different from
those signalled by ESTC. See Bib# 4102902/Fr# 391 in this collection for another
1678 edition of this work.

 

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