Lilly's celebrated book of _Hieroglyphicks_, which procured the author the dubious honour of an examination before the committee appointed to inquire into the origin of the fire, is well known. In one of the plates, a large city, understood to denote London, is enveloped in flames; and another rude woodcut, containing a large amount of graves and corpses, was afterwards interpreted to bear reference to the Plague. Aubrey seems to be a {174} little jealous of the renown which Lilly acquired by these productions for he asserts that-- "Mr. Thomas Flatman (poet) did affirm that he had seen those _Hieroglyphicks_ in an old parchment manuscript, writ in the time of the monks."--_Misc._, p. 125. ed. 1721. Nostradamus also, more than a century before, is said to have foretold the very year of the burning. In the edition, or reputed edition, of 1577, cent. ii. quatrain 51., is the following: "Le sang du jusse à Londres fera faute Bruslez par foudres de vingt trois les six La dame anticque cherra de place haute De mesme secte plusieurs seront occis." Those of your readers who incline to dubiety on this subject, I refer to the copy from whence it was taken, in the Museum Library, press-mark 718. a 14. If it is a forgery (and such I take it to be), it is decidedly the best I ever met with. Some time ago the Queries of your correspondent SPERIEND elicited some interesting particulars relative to Nostradamus and his prophecies; but I do not think the question of his claim to having predicted the death of Charles I. was finally decided. I should be glad if any of your correspondents could tell me whether the quatrain above, or anything like it, occurs in any of the _genuine_ early editions. Dugdale, by the way, evidently believed in its authenticity, and has inserted a version in his _History of St. Paul's_. Such a promising theme as the destruction of London was, of course, too good a thing to escape the chap-book makers. During the period of the Civil Wars, we find many allusions to it. In a little quarto brochure, published in 1648, entitled _Twelve Strange Prophecies_, the following is placed in the mouth of the much maligned and caricatured Mrs. Ann Shipton. The characteristic termination I consider a fine stroke of the art vaticinatory. "A ship shall come sayling up the Thames till it come to London, and the master of the ship shall weep, and the mariners shall ask him why he weepeth, and he shall say, 'Ah, what a goodly city was this! none in the world comparable to it! and now there is scarce left any house _that can let us have drinke for our money_.'" This string of notes, turned up at different times, and while in search of more important matter, can no doubt be materially increased from the collections of your correspondents. If my researches prove interesting, I may trouble you with another paper: at present I leave the facts brought together above to the candid investigation of your readers.