Editing Mother Shipton (section)

===River Ouse===
<blockquote>"Water shall come over Ouse Bridge, and a windmill shall be set upon a Tower, and a Elm Tree shall lie at every man's door".<ref name=":2"/><ref>Martha, Robert Nixon, and Shipton. "The Life and Prophecies of Mother Shipton". Chapter. In ''Prophecies of Robert Nixon, Mother Shipton, and Martha, the Gipsy'', 103–96. London: Published for the booksellers, 1866.</ref></blockquote>The [[River Ouse, Yorkshire|River Ouse]] was the river next to York, and [[Ouse Bridge, York|Ouse Bridge]] was the bridge over the river. This prophecy meant nothing to the people of York until the town got a piped water system. The system brought water across Ouse Bridge in pipes to a windmill that drew up the water into the pipes. The pipes they used were made out of Elm trees and the pipes came to every man's door delivering water throughout the town.<blockquote>"Before Ouse Bridge and Trinity Church meet, what is built in the day shall fall in the night, till the highest stone in the church be the lowest stone of the bridge."</blockquote>Not long after Mother Shipton uttered this prophecy did a huge storm fall on York. During the storm the steeple on the top of Trinity Church fell and a portion of the Ouse Bridge was destroyed and swept away by the river. Later when making repairs to the bridge, pieces that had previously been the steeple of the church were used as the foundation of the new section of the bridge. Effectively making Trinity Church and the Ouse Bridge what was built in the day and fell in the night, and the steeple from Trinity Church, the highest stone, be the foundation of the bridge, the lowest stone of the bridge.<ref name=":2"/><ref name=":5">Harrison, William H. ''Mother Shipton Investigated: the Result of Critical Examination in the British Museum Library of the Literature Relating to the Yorkshire Sibyl''. Folcroft, PA: Folcroft Library Editions, 1977.</ref>