foretoken

A prognostic; a premonitory sign; warning or presentiment.

Therefore know you Gentlemen (to whom from my harte I wish that it may not proue ominous foretoke[n] of misfortune to haue mette with such a miser as I am) that whatsoeuer my sonne (ô God, that trueth binds me to reproch him with the name of my sonne) hath said, is true.

To betoken beforehand; prognosticate; foreshadow; give warning of; presage.