The true prophecies or prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, and one of the best astronomers that ever were. / A work full of curiosity and learning. Translated and commented by Theophilus de Garencieres, Doctor in Physick Colleg. Lond.

by Nostradamus

XLIII.

French.

Avant qu’aviene le changement d’Empire,

Il adviendra un cas bien merveilleux,

Le Champ mué, le Pilier de Porphyre,

Mis, translaté sur le Rocher Noileux.

English.

Before the change of the Empire cometh,

There shall happen a strange accident,

A field shall be changed, and a Pillar of Prophyry,

Shall be transported upon the Chalky Rock.

ANNOT.

This will not seem incredible to those that have read the English Chronicles, who relates that in a County of England (I think it is Herefordshire) there was an Earthquake, which transposed a large piece of ground in another place, with the Trees that were in it, and if I remember well, half a Chappel, those that have the Books may examine the truth of the History, and satisfie themselves better.