PART III


Containing prophetic observations relating to the affairs of Europe and
of Great Britain, more particularly from 1720 to 1729.

1. In the latter end of 1720, an eminent old lady shall bring forth five
sons at a birth; the youngest shall live and grow up to maturity, but the
four eldest shall either die in the nursery, or be all carried off by one
sudden and unexpected accident.

2. About this time a man with a double head shall arrive in Britain from
the south. One of these heads shall deliver messages of great importance
to the governing party, and the other to the party that is opposite to
them. The first shall believe the monster, but the last shall discover
the impostor, and so happily disengage themselves from a snare that was
laid to destroy them and their posterity. After this the two heads shall
unite, and the monster shall appear in his proper shape.

3. In the year 1721, a philosopher from Lower Germany shall come, first
to Amsterdam in Holland, and afterwards to London. He will bring with
him a world of curiosities, and among them a pretended secret for the
transmutation of metals. Under the umbrage of this mighty secret he
shall pass upon the world for some time; but at length he shall be
detected, and proved to be nothing but an empiric and a cheat, and so
forced to sneak off, and leave the people he has deluded, either to
bemoan their loss, or laugh at their own folly. N.B.--This will be the
last of his sect that will ever venture in this part of the world upon
the same errand.