The Military Prophet..., April 1750 Umberto I At Buckingham Palace

At Buckingham Palace

1st Baron Hastings (c1431-1483) was one of the most powerful figures in England during the reign of Edward IV

He now put on a gaily coloured jerkin and a staw hat decorated with colourful ribbons the clothes of a morris dancer

It is an appeal for precautions against forgery by the Bank of England

The Military Prophet..., April 1750 Umberto I At Buckingham Palace'The Military Prophet: or, A Flight from Providence. Adressed to the foolish and guilty who timidly withdrew themselves on the alarm of another earthquake, April 1750.' Incredible numbers of people, being under strong apprehensions that London and Westminster would be visited by another and more fatal earthquake on this night, according to the predictions of a crazy life guardsman, and because it would be just four weeks from the last shock as that