_Nixon the Prophet_ (Vol. viii., p. 257.).--MR. T. HUGHES mentions Nixon
"to have lived and prophesied in the reign of James I., at whose court,
we are farther told, he was, in conformity with his own prediction,
starved to death." I have an old and ragged edition, entitled _The Life
and Prophecies of the celebrated Robert Nixon, the Cheshire Prophet_.
The "life" professes to be prepared from materials collected in the
neighbourhood of Vale Royal, on a farm near which, and rented by his
father, Nixon was born--
"on Whitsunday, and was christened by the name of Robert in the
year 1467, about the seventh year of Edward IV."