[1] [2] In [...] of [...], or [...] as [...] writers haue. Sée M. Fox, [...] first, pag. 331. There was in this season an heremit, whose name was Peter, dwelling about Yorke, a man in great reputation with the common people, bicause that ei|ther inspired with some spirit of prophesie as the peo|ple beleeued or else hauing some notable skill in art magike, he was accustomed to tell what should fol|low after. And for so much as oftentimes his saiengs prooued true, great credit was giuen to him as to a verie prophet: which was no good consequence that therefore his predictions comprised vndoubted e|uents. Naie rather, sith in this pseudoprophet or false foreteller of afterclaps, these necessarie concurrents (namelie,
were wanting, and that he was contrarilie qualified to that which this heptastichon comprehendeth, neces|sarilie it foloweth, that he was not as he was taken, but rather a deluder of the people, and an instrument of satan raised vp for the inlargement of his king|dome; as the sequele of this discourse importeth. This Peter about the first of Ianuarie last past, had told the king, that at the feast of the Ascension it should come to passe, that he should be cast out of his king|dome. And (whether, to the intent that his words should be the better beléeued, or whether vpon too much trust of his owne cunning) he offered himselfe to suffer death for it, if his prophesie prooued not true. Herevpon being committed to prison within the ca|stell of Corf, when the day by him prefixed came, without any other notable damage vnto king Iohn, he was by the kings commandement drawne from the said castell,The heremit and his sonne hanged. vnto the towne of Warham, & there hanged, togither with his sonne.si sensus at effectus compresserit omnes,Si spernens prorsiss mortalia gaudia, seseAbdicet a cur [...]s terrenis, assiduòConetur studio ad superos extollere mentem,Tunc etenim sapiens fiet, poterít futuraCer [...]ere, vel vigilant vel s [...]mno oppressus inerti,Hoc pacto cecinêre olim ventura prophetae)