Allan Boyd

“ He is reported by historians to be a quite sober man, given to no manner of vice but prone to piety and devotion a famous monthly prognosticator concerning the state of the weather, and government of the world by studying the planets, He being one day asked by a nobleman what sort of a day it would be to-morrow? He answered, that before high noon, a blast should blaw, that Scotland should not overcome the evil Seeds thereof for twenty years therafter. ”

“ THE explication of the above prophecy concerning Hempe being come and also gone, and leaving Scotland and England join'd in one, is fulfilled in the late K William, who came out of Holland, which in o'd times was vulgarly call'd the land of Hempe, and the joining the two nations together, signifies, the union. These things were foretold by the two Scots prophets in the reign of King Arthur ist by the marvellous Merling, who is said to be got by the devil, who ravished a young woman, his mother, in a wood near Coldstream, in the south of Scotland ”

“ A Chieftan unchosten shall chuse forth himself, and rule the realm as his own.
As to King Charles II; he calls him a sly fox bird, who would turn to Christ with tods, and foxes wyles, meaning his swearing the covenants. When speaking of the battle of Preston pans in the year 1745, he names the very two neighbouring villages to be the spot where it was fought, viz, Goseyfoord Green and on saying, between that and the sea, sorrow shall be brought by the light of the moon, which action realy came to pass that morning the battle of Preston was fought. ”