17th century prophet.- Sadler (John, political theorist and reformer, 1615-74) A Prophesie related by Mr John Sadlor Warinell [Warmwell] in the County of Dorsett..., manuscript, 1½pp., in light brown ink, folds, browned, watermark of a cross on a shield surmounted by a crown, folio, n.d. [c. 1695].
⁂ Sadler was a polymath, at one time master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, town clerk of London and author of the political work, Rights of the Kingdom. "Sadler's religious experience in 1661 when he prophesied the great plague, the fire of London, three Dutch wars, and a dramatic event in 1688.
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