Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1879 — “Mother Shipton.” [ARTICLE]

“Mother Shipton.”

Concerning“ Mother Shipton’s Prophecy,” beginning— Carriages without horses shall go, and ending— England shall at last admit a Jew; The world to end shall come In eighteen hundred and eighty-one “ Texan ” writes to the New York World from Texas, to ask who was the author and when was it published, and that paper makes reply : This prophecy is an old friend of ours. It appeared in the edition of Mother Shipton’s prophecies issued by Mr. Charles Bindley, of Brighton, in 1862, a book purporting to be an exact reprint of a chap-book version issued in 1641, but really as old as 1448. It did not take long to expose the fraud. The earliest edition to be found in the British Museum proved to be of 1641, and neither that nor any of the later or es contained a line of any importan. e, being a vague jumble of local predictions, and not long after Mr. Hindley confessed that he had fabricated the “ prophecy ” of which our correspondent speaks, and ten others, so as to make his book sell. The Galveston News says: “The fact is admitted all around that immigration to Texas, if not coming to an abrupt close, is greatly on the wane. Immigration agents on the railroads are all discouraged. Real estate in Texas has depreciated in value the last two years fully 8 per cent.”