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 is yet to come there is ſome remarks will yet happen when the time draws nigh; ſuch as when Tarbert Craigs are tumbled into the Sea, and the next ſeaſon or ſumnmer thereafter. great ſorrow and bloodſhed ſhall happen to this realm, the chief thereof eſpecially ſuch as harling on ſlades and chopping off heads. This Tarbert ſtands near the mouth of the river Clyde, but whether its being tumbled in the ſea, ſhall 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 breed great ſtir and confuſion in Britain. This man is alive in this very preſent age, and of the Stewart's race now in Italy : And there is plainly pointed out, that in his time, a great battle ſhould be ſeen in Fife,

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.