Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . s of Extra-ordinary Popular Delusions, are still believedin many of the rural districts of England. In 312 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Camden To\Vn. cottages and in servants halls her reputation is stillgreat; and she rules, the most popular of Britishprophets, among all the uneducated or half edu-cated portion of the community. She is generallysupposed to have been born at Knaresborough, inthe reign of Henry VIL, and to have sold hersoul to the devil for the power of foretelling futureevents. Though during her lifetime she
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . s of Extra-ordinary Popular Delusions, are still believedin many of the rural districts of England. In 312 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Camden To\Vn. cottages and in servants halls her reputation is stillgreat; and she rules, the most popular of Britishprophets, among all the uneducated or half edu-cated portion of the community. She is generallysupposed to have been born at Knaresborough, inthe reign of Henry VIL, and to have sold hersoul to the devil for the power of foretelling futureevents. Though during her lifetime she waslooked upon as a witch, yet she escaped the doubts concerning things to come; and all returnedwonderfully satisfied in the explanatiojis that shegave to their questions. Among the rest, tells us, who went to her was the Abbotof Beverley, to whom she foretold the suppressionof the monasteries by Henry VIII., his marriagewith Anne Boleyn, the fires for heretics in Smith-field, the death of Cardinal Wolsey, and theexecution of Mary Queen of Scots. She also fore-. THE OLD MOTHER RhU CAP, IN I746. [See pa^C 3IO.) usual witches fate, and died peaceably in her bedat an extreme old age, near Clifton, in stone is said to have been erected to hermemory in the churchyard of the place, with thefollowing epitaph :— Here lies she who never lied,Whose skill often has been tried ;Her prophecies shall still survive,And ever keep her name alive. Never a day passed, says her traditionarybiography, wherein she did not relate somethingremarkable, and that required the most seriousconsideration. People flocked to her from far andnear, her fame was so great. They went to herof all sorts, both old and young, rich and poor,especially young maidens, to be resolved of their told the accession of J^mes I. to the Englishthrone, adding that with hiin— From the cold north Every evil shall come forth. On a subsequent visit, she is said to have utteredanother prophecy, which, perh
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