When there is a Lord Mayor living in Minster-yard in York, let him beware of a stab.
A Lord Mayor, whose house was in Minster-yard, was stabbed by an assassin in three places, which caused his death.
When two Knights shall fall out in the York Castle-yard, they shall never live kindly all their after lives.
Sir Thomas Wentworth and Sir John Savile in choosing Knights for the Shire in the Castle-yard at York, did so fall out, that they were never after well reconciled.
When all Colton-hag hath borne crops and corn for seven years; seven years after that you shall hear news.
Colton-hag in Mother Shipton’s time was a woodland ground full of trees, which some long time after her death was cultivated and bore crops and corn for seven years; and the seven years after that, was the year of the coming in of the Scots, and their taking of Newcastle.
You shall have a year of pining hunger, and then a dearth without corn. You shall not know of the war over-night, yet you shall have it in the morning; and when it comes it shall last three years.
Between Calder and Aire
Shall be great warfare,
When all the world is aloft,
It shall be called Christ’s Croft.
Calder and Aire are two rivers in Yorkshire; and this Prophecy relates to the Civil War in the time of Charles I.
When the battle of warfare begins, it shall be where Crookback Richard made his fray.
It was near Leicester where Richard the Third was slain in battle. There Colonel Hastings was one of the first in arms at the commencement of the civil war. Or it may thus be understood—That as King Richard began his march from Nottingham when he first set out against the Earl of Richmond, so also should these wars take rise from thence. And indeed at Nottingham, on Aug. 25th, 1640, Charles I. set up his standard, and there continued it to little purpose.