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 when Tarbet's Craigs are tumbled into the Sea, and the next ſeaſon or ſummer thereafter, great ſorrow and bloodſhed ſhall happen to this realm, the chief thereof, eſpecially ſuch as harling on ſleds and chopping off heads. This Tarbet ſtands near the mouth of the river Clyde, but whether its being tumbled in the ſea, fhall happen by an earthquake, thunder, or by the hands of men, is a myſtery unknown. There is alſo mention made of a Lord with a lucken or double hand, which certainly is of royal blood, and will bread great ſtir and confuſion in Britain. This man is alive in this very preſent age, and of the Stuarts race, now in Italy: And there is plainly pointed out that in his time, a great battle ſhould be ſeen in Fife.

Where ſaddled horſes ſhould be ſeen,

Tyed unto the trees green,

Not only in Fife, but the four chief rivers of the realm, there ſhould be a battle on each of them, that ſhould make the rivers run with blood, to wit, Tweed, Clyde, Forth and Tay, and laſt of all, a bloody deſperate battle in Northumberland, on the river Tyne, alſo great havock and ſlaughter about the broad walls of Berwick all theſe things are yet to come to paſs, and when the firſt appears, the reſt will ſoon follow after.