Talk:Robert Nixon (prophet)

Details taken with permission from "It's All Over" by J. Brian Curzon, 2006. However, it has been pointed out (thank you) that the details contained therein are in opposition to the dates of English Kings given in the article. A websearch confirms that there are two competing dates for the lifetime or Robert Nixon. Older sources go for the older date but there seems to have been new prophecies added (with concomitant changing of dates) at times when, presumably, someone felt a new prophecy was needed. IantheLibrarian 22:37, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Have corrected the statements re the last abbot of Vale Royal; he was not named Harrow, rather it was John Hareware, and he was certainly _not_ executed by Holcroft (who did not have that power), but rather continued to live on his fat pension until at least 1546. My source for this is the VCH, cf http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=39978

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madness of crowds[edit]

in extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds there is a pretty big section on him. Would this be considered a valid source? 173.56.252.247 (talk) 03:49, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It was published in 1841, which really makes me think that at best, it's a secondary source, a collection from other sources.

I first read about Nixon in Frank Edwards' Stranger Than Science when I was in high school (class of 1982), and while his article is interesting, I'm not sure that it could be cited as a source, either, except to note that it's a secondary source.

Best regards TheBaron0530 (talk) 12:51, 5 August 2016 (UTC)theBaron0530[reply]