Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies / Edition 1

by Eleanor Davies, Esther S. Cope

Overview

Eleanor Davies (1590-1652) was one of the most prolific women writing in early seventeenth-century England. This volume includes thirty-eight of the sixty-some prophetic tracts that she published. Inspired to prophecy by a visionary experience in 1625, the year of Charles I's accession to the throne, she devoted herself to warning her contemporaries that the Day of Judgement was imminent. Her zeal and her intricately constructed tracts confounded contemporaries who called her mad. She experienced repeated imprisonment and also confinement to Bedlam, London's mental hospital. The tracts tell her own story as woman and prophet. They offer an opportunity to study her experiences as wife, mother, and widow; they also exhibit her extraordinary intellect, extensive education, and fascination with words. In showing how England's history was fulfilling the biblical prophecies in the book of Daniel and the book of Revelation, she commented about the political and religious controversies of the turbulent period preceding and during the English Civil War and Revolution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195087178
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/21/1995
Series:	Women Writers in English 1350-1850
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.37(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.07(d)

About the Author

University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vii
	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	xi
	List of Abbreviations of Titles	xxiv
	A Warning to the Dragon and all his Angels	1
	Woe to the House	57
	Given to the Elector Prince Charles of the Rhyne	59
	Bathe Daughter of BabyLondon	71
	Spirituall Antheme: Elea. Tuichet	73
	The Lady Eleanor Her Appeal to the High Court of Parliament	75
	To the most honorable the High Court of Parliament and Samsons Legacie	85
	The Star to the Wise	101
	From the Lady Eleanor, Her Blessing	115
	A Prayer or Petition for Peace	131
	As Not Unknowne. This Petition or Prophesie	139
	Great Brittains Visitation	143
	For Whitson Tyds Last Feast	157
	For the Blessed Feast of Easter	163
	The Day of Judgments Modell	173
	The Lady Eleanor Her Appeal. Present this to Mr. Mace	181
	Je le tien. The General Restitution	199
	The Gatehouse Salutation	217
	Ezekiel the Prophet Explained	221
	The Excommunication out of Paradice	225
	Reader, the Heavy Hour at Hand	235
	The Writ of Restitution	239
	Her Appeal from the Court to the Camp. Dan. 12	245
	The Blasphemous Charge Against Her	249
	The Crying Charge	255
	The New Jerusalem at Hand	259
	Sions Lamentation, Lord Henry Hastings	271
	A Sign Given Them Being Entred into the Day of Judgment	277
	The Everlasting Gospel	285
	The Bill of Excommunication	293
	The Appearance or Presence of the Son of Man	309
	Before the Lords Second Coming	317
	Elijah the Tishbites Supplication	325
	The Lady Eleanor Douglas, Dowger, Her Jubile's Plea	329
	Hells Destruction	333
	The Benediction. From the A:lmighty O:mnipotent. I Have an Errand	341
	The Restitution of Prophecy	343
	Bethlehem Signifying the House of Bread	369

Editorial Reviews

"[An] important addition to the ‘canon' in carefully edited, accessible, and affordable text."—Dr. K. Blumreich, Grand Valley State University

"This book will be of use to anyone interested in English prophecy and apocalypticism in the reign of King Charles and the War of the Three Kingdoms, and to those interested in early modern women's religion of British aristocratic culture and family life."—Sixteenth Century Journal

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