Neighbours of Croyden Rygate c. so troubled May 25. Stows Annals 605. in the very day on which the ☌ ☉ ☿ is noted Another famous one in September An. 1563. which shook Northampton and Lincoln noted by Thuanus also who describes it in its frightful Circumstances There is a ☌ ☉ ☿ in Stadius's Ephemerides noted at the end of the Month So are we in England concerned in the pretence Anno ejusd Nov. 29. great Terraemotus in Island at what time Mount Hecla Flamed Purchas tom 3. 648. Stadius gives a ☌ ☉ ☿ the day before An. 1601. Sept. VIII an Earthquake enters with the Century and shook almost all Europe though Calvisius names only Switzerland and the adjacent parts 'T is too much for ☿ only to do so But was not he one of them Yes he is one which can do what Archimedes brag'd of Move the Earth For if it be Old Stile 't is ours if not we have others will own it and in the mean time in the following Earthquake which was at London in Dec. of the same year and in Christmas Stow p. 797. ☌ ☉ ☿ falls in the very Holydays In the year 1617. Kepler assists us with the Fame of an Earthquake on Jan. 26. or Febr. 7. St. Novo he acknowledges Thunder and Lightning and Meteors but alii saith he Terraemotus which Fame was very probable you see by the Circumstances and who was in the wind but a ☌ ☉ ☿ An. 1618. Aug. XV. a sad Earthquake in the Evening among the Grisons in Germany where a vast Mountain buried its Neighbour Inhabitants dicto citius 1500 buried in a trice saith Calvis ☌ ☉ ☿ makes one here also An. 1624. May VIII at Ratisbon where they were in some apprehensions of Dooms-day saith the same Calvisius our ☿ is 6 degr distant Again July IX or XIX ☿ is 9 degr distant from the Sun But before both these March XXI Terraemotus ingens in Argenta a Town in Italy 12 Miles from Ferraria and the Alps. Calvis ☉ ☿ are 12 degr distant An. 1625. Pestilential years as 1625. was with us are accompanyed abroad at least with Earthquakes where at Norimberg the Diary observes One Dec. XVIII when it Thunder'd the day before the ☌ ☉ ☿ well answers both There is one noted before at the beginning of the year Febr. XII at Bamberg There is a △ ♄ ♂ and ☿ is 10 degr distant An. 1626. Febr. 6. A Rock hanging over a certain Lake in Germany cleft in two by an Earthquake saith Kepler ☿ being then 10 gr distance An. 1627. July XXX St. N. Poor Apulia felt a most horrible Earthquake which makes every Man that hath Humanity tremble by consent several Towns being utterly destroyed and a Bill of 17000. Persons that were lost It seems to be a Sin to offer any thing like a natural Cause But what is the Stone Let us look at the Hand which threw it God is not to be excluded from his own work Enter praesenter Deus est ubique potenter is a good School-verse I have warrant beside Reason to look on the Creation with some Fear even the Caelestials And I cannot but observe that our Caelestial ☿ though 12. degr distant is nearest of all to the Sun whether one way or the other Nor can I but observe that it Thundred in Germany I know not what it did in Italy three continued days before when ☿ was within 8 degrees This may lead one to suspect that the Vicinity of ☿ is the cause of both Some may put in for the Eclipse Lunar just before to be a Concause which if a free Astrology may be allowed formally considered cannot stand for how shall a Light obstructed or intercepted be advanced in Influence Whether it be a Sign or no we have elsewhere considered for the Affirmative for God did not time that Eclipse in vain An. 1629. Another dire Terraemotus in the Alps mentioned by Kepler and the Norimberg Diary when it thundred for a week together in most places in Germany as we see by the consent of the Diary the Day is neer upon Aug. 6. or 16. where there are other Aspects 't is true and ☿ is 11. gr from the Sun But before this we meet another Jan. XXV with Storms and thunder while ☿ Retrograde was conjoyned with ☉ the 19. day An. 1632. Vesuvius breaks out with Earthquakes at Naples on the day of the ☌ ☉ ☿ An. 1636. Sept. 16. Terraemotus with Thunder and a Meridian Iris at Norimberg an exact ☌ ☉ ☿ and ♀ within 9 degr of both ☉ and ☿ An. 1638. July 3. Betwixt Tercera Islands Lat. N. E. came Fire out of the sea and an Earthquake before it 8 Days Sandersons Hist James I. ☿ was 2 degr distant and in two days after followed the exact ☌ Again Anno eodem Decemb. XIX at Norimberg Terraemotus when lo there is a ☌ ☉ ☿ the day before with shaking Fit if it holds 3 or 4 days more it may for all that while ☿ is within 4 or 5 degrees An. 1640. Jan. 25. the German Diary informs us of another accompanyed with terrible Stormy winds and much Rain in other places Thunder and he fixes it right on ☌ ☉ ☿ among other configurations the ☌ is noted Day 19. Again March 21. and 24. by the Rhine Terraemotus neer Munster ☌ ☉ ☿ is apparent die 20 Idem The next year An. 1641. Octob. 16. at Lintz a great City near the Danow an Earthquake with Stormy Winds ☌ ☉ ☿ within a day of it to whose Influence with a □ of ♃ the Diary imputes it An. 1646. In Apulia May 29. a great concussion an Iris Rain and at Prague Thunder ☌ ☉ ☿ within a day or two at most An. 1649. Vesuvius is very hot in the Mouth and afflicts Naples an Earthquake swallows up Ships at Messina Calvis Append. This I have reason to believe was on Febr. 10. because of some reports of Prodigies happening at Bristol hereafter to be mentioned on that day An. 1657. July 8. Terraemotus at Bickley in Cheshire a ☌ ☉ ☿ 8 degr distant An. 1668. Sept. 29. A great Earthquake at Poictiers in France Lond. Gazet. N. 302. ☌ ☉ ☿ within 2 degrees An. 1669. The vast Eruptions of the Flaming Mountain Aetna are scarce forgotten A vast Effect but as great is the Cause the Conspiracies of the vast Caelestial Bodies The Second Eruption was on March XXII where ☿ was not above 10 degr distant The remainder is already presented in a Table § 57. And what can be said more Who can bring stronger Testimony then Aetna or Vesuvius Now I did reckon once to look back no further on this account than the year 1617. because the Calculations before Kepler from the Alphonsine or Prutenick Tables are liable to Exception Stofler Stadius Maginus Leovitius c. so that the Reader cannot see what he buyes but we find not that either of these Computations are so wide but that they will come under
♒ 29. ♃ ♠10. ♂ 1664. Dec. 4. per 3. menses Hevelius vide sub ♄ ♃ Dec. 9. Comet 6 m. S E almost as big as big as the ☽ angry and terrible Nor could all my Epicurean Principles applyed to my fancy perswade me to the contrary ☌ ♃ ♂ vide sub ♄ ♃ 1681. News of a Comet in Lithuania Dei 8. ♋ ♑ ♃ ♂ Vide etiam sub ♄ ♃ § 64. Now it will be time to turn the Scenes from Admiration to Fear or admire still if our Aspect be of an Earth-Shaking Spirit and it seems so for we have at hand a Table of Earth-movings as Copious as need to be I have not bespoke the Aspect at the time of the Concussion nor have I by an Engine or Helmont's Spirit Infernal mov'd the Earth at the time of the Configuration I have only studied part of Natures Alphabet and made a shift to put the Letters together and interpret by History § 65. We begin with the last Century A◠1500. Vesuvius Flagrat ardente Cometa Ricciolus ♃ ♂ are found in July ♃ and ♂ in Aug and Sept. 1577. June 26. Nordling in Germany Saw the Ruin of 2000 Houses by T. M. and Hurricane Lyc. ♃ ♂ in ♌ joyned with as great Movents viz. ♄ opp ☉ ☿ ♀ in Trop 1530. At Cubagua Sept. 1. The Sea rose 4 Fathoms from its ordinary Course The Earth did open in many places whereout sprung much Salt Water as black as Ink c. Many Houses fell Purch III. 868. ♀ ☉ in ♎ Yea ♃ and ♂ on each side the Aequator 1531. Lisbon in the Month of Febr. You heard of before in ♄ ♂ but in July 13. ♂ came again Mizald. Lyc. There I promise you an ☠♃ ♂ in ♈ and ♎ 1538. Italy shook for 15 days ♃ and ♂ were entred already in March and at a competent distance such as makes Work in the Earth besides other Aspects 1537. Mount Aetna flamed said Fritschius who heard the news Lycosthenes puts it the year before April 1. and tells us that all the Country near the Puteoli were so harass'd that there was scarce a House standing Agricola is certain for March 23. Lib. de Fossil IV. 20. We have no Aspect for his year of 1536. but for 37. when Aetna burnt still we have ♃ ♂ in Power April May and June throughout But stay No Aspect for March 23. 1536. Yet △ ♃ ♂ I was going to say a Cardinal △ pardon the absurdity 'T is better than nothing 1540. T. M. in Germania Dec. 14. Lyc. Many Houses shaken It haps at the Winter Tropic and therefore ☉ and ♀ in ♑ oppos ☽ in ♋ must be allowed and then the next is our Asp ☠♃ ♂ in ♌ ♒ ad gr 20. dist 1551. Jan. 28. Lisbon A fatal day for beside terrible Meteors and Rain of Bloud saith Frytschius an Earthquake beat down 200 Houses and kill'd 1000 persons ♂ returns Retrograde to joyn with ♃ at the end of ♊ Other places suffer this Month by Tempests and Inundations Violences seldom come alone Add the Hill Pocatepec whose Mouth or Crater was half a League over this Hill had not emitted any thing for 10 years before Purch III. 1124. Also at Guixos 70 houses were sunk Purch II. 1695. See the consent of the parts of the World Some years more discernible than others Wisely noted by Thuanus before 1556. April 10. Constantinople T. M. threw down many Towers and the Church of Sancta Sophia of a Truth ♃ ♂ are just entred on their Aspect ♉ 3. ♃ ♠3. ♂ 1570. They say Ferraria in Italy had fits of shaking for two years together From. In the former of these years viz. the present I have an ☠of ♃ ♂ from the end of Febr. to the midst of June ♂ going Retrograde on purpose to oppose ♃ and when that expires a ☌ of ♄ and ♂ begins These two Aspects we have told you are unquiet when they meet 1571. The second of these unquiet years we meet with an Earthquake of our own at Kinaston in Herefordshire Feb. 17. Stow 668. ♃ ♓ 1. ♂ 17. the midst of ♓ ☉ also in the beginning of the Sign ☿ and ♀ at the end Our Aspect alone do's not effect it nor is it done without it 1571. Nov. 1. At Venice thence to Florence thence to Cortray in Gallia Togata destroying that City once the finest in Italy Thuanus ♃ and ♂ in ♓ and ♠in the middle See elsewhere for this year in the Isle of S. Michael A o 1591. Purch 1581. Angoango a Village of Peru was ruin'd thus a great part thereof was raised up and carryed away many of the Indians smothered and that which seems incredible the Earth that was ruined did run and slide upon the Land as if it had been Water or melted Wax which I by the way note for St. Peter's sake who mention the melting of the Elements But the Month is not specified all we can say is this if this direful Calamity was inflicted on these Sorcerers and Idolaters for such they are noted In the first half year we shew God's Celestial Scourge in our Aspect the saddest criticalplace of Heaven viz. it s Tropical Purliews 1586. July 9. June 29. T. M. in the Cividad Real the Royal City in the West Indies which run 170 Leagues along the Coast and overthwart in the Sierrae 50 Leagues it ruin'd a great part of the City the Sea ran two Leagues into the Land rising above 14 Fathom Acosta Fromond Purch III. 941. Let the Reader be judge of our Superstition our Aspect now is in ☌ of the Tropical Heights as before it was in ☠Believe this when you see that the same ♃ and ♂ at the same year caused an Earthquake and a dire one too for all the City fell and some People slain at Guatimala Purch III. 929. even on Dec. 23. 1586. At the chief Town in Java Major fituate near a burning hill says Dr. Heylin This year the Hill brake forth exceedingly oppressed infinite numbers of men and cast great Stones into the City for 3 days together But now ♂ is got in a Cardinal □ to ♃ Are Squares also by the way of such Power Ask our Famous Cavendish whether within three Months after he felt not another Earthquake how did the Shore tremble when he felt the concussion at Sea Lat. 33. on March 22 Hakl p. 810. at what time ♃ ♂ were not far from the □ a Cardinal □ But we must not meddle with Quadrates much less with Trines as but now Only let the Reader see how vast are the Inlets of a Due Astrology 1591. In the Isle of St. Michael Purchas p. 1677. we meet with an Earthquake which lasted a Fortnight from July 26. ad Aug. 12. It belongs to ♄ and ♂ as plain as Nature can write being opposed in Tropical Aspect but information sends us back to such another Earthquake falling 20 years agone which if it happened in the last Quarter of
14. XXV R. store m. m. p. Nly Ely XXVI Angry clds p. m. set to rain 10 p. c. Wly XXVII R. a. L. cold windy very cold vesp Wly XXVIII Close wetting fine p. m. Wly XXIX Drisling showres p. m. S W. June 1681. Die 18. ♋ 6. XVI Cloudy sometime lowring wind N W. Several Dolphins sporting in the mouth of Severn XVII Lowring m. p. mist at n. per N W. At Ferrara an Earthquake swallowed up Trees Five Mile So at Lions in France XVIII White frost clear most part wds N E. XIX Clouds in Scenes some drisle 7 p. Meteor with a train 9 p. A tempest of Lightning and R. 3 Leagues from Lyme § 6. I acknowledge the Table hath its Length but if it be consider'd what the experience of 30 years is for such an Aspect as ☌ ☉ ♀ the Table should be look'd on as a Cimelium rather than a surfeiting Superfluity Alass I wisht it longer for he that shall survey the Table will find that there are 4 or 5 Months wanting it requires almost another 30 years And let no man be grieved here that we have allowed too many days 13. or 14. towards the Verge of our Aspect not so much for security sake in case of a defective Calculation which in ♀ it seems is not controverted But for the more sure comprehension of those Effects which by clear right belong to the Aspect though at the Distance of two degrees since the Aspect challenges 7 days to it self even while they are close among themselves in the same degree § 7. As to the Warmth of this Aspect when we have met with days of Soultry Heat not seldom accompanyed with Lightning and Thunder They who weigh those Effects and the determinate time of their appearance will find forgetting all foolish conceits our Feminine Planet to be Masculine so far to be a Virago partaking of Pallas the Flashing Fiery Goddess § 8. Thus is she a Friend to Warmth but so as sometimes you see to Cold. Not as the Toy takes her how then should we comprehend her Fickleness Or bring it under Rule But according as she is attended or abandon'd by the rest of the Company 'T is no News that the same Planet under various Circumstances should cause Heat and admit yea and in some measure acuate Cold. The ☌ ☉ ☽ the ☌ ☉ ☿ did so For we cannot dissemble that in the year 1663. we find Extream Frost for 13 days together even through the whole Period almost but we may note that 't is not there alone but generally all Conjunctions as such in some respect favour Cold. Even the ☌ ☉ ☿ it self How so I answer not as 't is congress of Luminous and Calorifique Bodies since 't is impossible but Heat should be intended and increased by such Union but because in all Conjunctions there is a Co-arctation or Reduction of the Luminary to precise Points and Distances which 't is certain may and do act more at a less confinement in the Illumination of the Medium no man to enlighten a fair Room will set the Tapers contiguous but will distribute them at a certain and proportionable Measure The Medium being more enlightned by such distribution than when the Luminous Bodies are contiguous Well may some part of the Room have a Light more than ordinary but the whole Area shall be darkish Just as two Seed-men in a Field that sow more ground at convenient distance than if they walked together in the same Furow The Partile Congress of Two Calorifick Bodies doth increase and also abate heat under several considerations It increases it as to the point it abates it as to the Circumference it increases it as to the proper place it abates it as to the Common for the Congress is Lineal wherein the Planets so meeting are united 't is true but they are constrained and restrained to a precise point a narrow appartment whereby the remoter parts being forsaken by that Influence which erewhile spread it self there is left cold naked and bare of that Influence which was more diffusive when they were at distance not unreasonable § 9. For the Sentiments of the Antients what do they declare when Venus is in Dominion Then saith Ptolemy she makes a fine temperate Air 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pure and Fair. She brings also many and Fruitful Showres 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Raising saith he the Waters Next a windy Constitution with those showres 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he adds also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Star must be fruitful if she be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 she must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Arabs agree for all I see Albumazar and his Mamareth which I suspect to be the Dominion is much for Rain and that in store 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Ptolemy calls it very often For next to the ☽ our Venus is reckoned moist and therefore Benifique because moist Tetrab c. 5. and therefore again Feminine he saith because moist Cap. 6. That 's their reason § 10. For the First of these that ♀ makes a fine Air I thought it had bin a forced illusion to the Beauty of the Planet wherein the Fiction of Venus Aurea and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 must have bin glanced at But when on a review I cast my Eye on the Diary I saw there was no Poetical Fiction in the case Our ☌ ☉ ♀ oft-times makes a bright Air and clear as her Hue pretends Nor will we stand to Imagine any probable reason therefore but this that what causes the one that may be the Author of the Other The Intrinsique brightness of the Planet may perfuse the Air with a suitable Gleam This may appear not only in the bright days or parts of days which are found under her whether Hot or cold frosty Constitutions but even where some wet may happen For how clear is the Air many times except perhaps in Winter how Holiday-like I say doth it look when yet a showre may step in and muffle the azure mirrour In like manner after a morning Foggy though it be may prove a clear and bright day when the sullen Fog may sculk here and there in its scatter'd Atoms apaling the brightness which at other times may be more vivid I shall not stand much upon this only produce one notable Testimony mentioned in the Diary where I was never able to see in our City Horison the Centaur's Head but once and that you see is on our ☌ of ☉ and ☿ § 11. For what follows in Ptolemy we are ready to prove as to Showres and Dropping She brought Rain in above 200 Instances and that will do And Rain or Snow all or most part of the day neer 40 times Once or Twice she continues the Fog all day even therein shewing her Partnership with the Sun and how true she keeps to him so that if under a ☌ of ☉ and ☽ or ☌ ☉ ☿ you will plead you can find the like I answer Nay For
Anno 1654. ♈ 7. Jan. 29. XXIV Fair. S W. XXV Misty Halo ☽ XXVI XXVII Fair mist rainy S. XXVIII Misty cloudy so 29. S W XXX Close m. open S W. XXXI Frost close m. S W. Feb. I. High winds some wet frost m. N W. II. High wind some snow vesp frost m. III. H. winds very cold threatn snow N W. IV. High winds being cold threat snow N E. V. High wind s snow VI. Frost cloudy suspicious VII Clouds showry so at night Iterum 15. ♉ March 23. ♀ R. XVIII High winds clearing N E. XXI Windy N E. XXII High wind cold XXIII High wind snow hail N W. XXIV Windy some rain at night N W. XXV XXVI Windy cloudy m. p. N W. Tertiò ♠23. Octob. 5. II. Rain powring noct tot violent wind 〈◊〉 powring vesp N W. III. H. winds ante L. variable wet m. stormy day S W. IV. Cloudy rain wind Lightning N. N W. V. Dark and rainy a. m. showres N. S W. VI. Wet at evening S W. Anno 1656. August 24. 〈◊〉 8. XX. XXI Fair hot Halo N W. XXII Very hot Gossamere S W. N W. XXIII Great fog very hot XXIV Fog hot storm of wind 11 p. XXV Wet till 3 m. Bright very cool N E. XXVI Fair N. W after N E. XXVII High winds Ely offering N E. Anno 1658. ♌ 22. July 13. IX Windy rain 9 m. S W. X. Soultry wind S W. XII Melting day Meteors S E. XIII Windy melting day Meteors S W. XIV High winds threatning meteors 11 p. W. XV. VVindy drisle m. XVI Meteors XVII Showry W. Anno 1660. ♌ 18. June 14. IX Open and warm p. m. windy W. X. Close hot W. XI High winds hot H. winds at night N W. XII Hot p. m. S W. W. XIII Soultry ground-mist at n. W. XIV Soultry XV. Soultry scalding air W. XVI Blew mist drops 5 p. showrs lightn 7 p. XVII Showrs 2 m. S W. XVIII H. showrs 4 m. Hot. S W. Iterum August 17. ♠20. ♀ R. XV. Very hot S W. XVI Fog rain 10 m. very hot S W. XVII Soultry hot XVIII The same XIX Hot day tot Rain at midnight XX. Drisle m. Anno 1661. ♒ 16. Febr. 25. Tunbridge in Kent XX. Rain 9. m. and m. p. W XXI Rain die toto wet night great Floud XXII Rain 11 m. n. rain 2 p. N E. XXIII Cloudy warm even S W. XXIV Stormy wet n. W. XXV VVindy rainy 9 m. S W. XXVI Storms of Rain and hail Halo 2. S W. XXVII Little frost fair V V. XXVIII Frost fog misty Halo ☽ S. March I. Sad rainy a. m. Rain p. even S. II. Very rainy windy S. Anno 1663. ♑ 28. Jan. 12. VIII Little frost fair fog at n. S W. IX Fog die tot and night frost E. X. Thick fog die tot cold E. XI Foggy frost chiefly p. m. E. XII XIII Foggy frosty E. XIV Foggy sleet E. XV. Foggy some wet 4 p. 10 p. S. XVI Fog warm S W. XVII Fog rain 8 p. c. m. p. Anno 1664. ♑ 8. Novemb. 27. XXIII Hard frost cold fair N. XXIV Fog frosty N E. XXV Hard frost rain 11 p. E. S E. XXVI Drisling m. close rain E. S E. XXVII Misty rain 11 m. and p. m. 6. p. XXVIII Wet ante Sun ort so m. S W. XXIX VVet ☉ ort some drops 8 p. N E. XXX Close rain p. m. misty 6 p. ad 11 p. Dec. I. Some drisle at n. N E. An. 1665. ♋ 3. July 18. ♀ Stat. Waltham Cross XIV Cloudy m. hot N E. XV. Excessive hot high winds p. m. lightn and a showr p. XVI Much Lightning 2 m. Blew mist extended on the Hills S E. XVII Blew mist over Sun vesp cloudy in S. with two Terrible flashes and a clap of Thunder and Rain from London to Edmonton XVIII Thunder and Lightning with storms 1 p. and coasting round the Horizon P. M. N V V X XIX Fog all m. Hot fine rain 10 p. W. XX. Refreshing rain at break of day and at ☉ rise cooling Showrs W. XXI Dash 10 m. Thund Lond. 11. and Rain S W. XXII Cool High winds coasting showr o. S W. XXIII s showrs 4 p. S W. Iterum ♌ o. Aug. 29. XXII Warm cloudy m. p. V V. XXII Warm drisle 6 and 7 p. S W. XXIV Warm much Lightning and Thunder 10 p. a showr S W. XXV Misty m. misle Rain 9 p. S W. XXVI Close m. p. warm blew mist Meteors E. S E XXVII Warm showring 4 p. 8 p. S W. S E XXIX Suspicious morning windy fair XXX Windy tot noct offering S W. XXXI Wind close m. N W. Sept. I. Frost very cold ante ☉ wet 9 p. m. S W. II. Warm close S V V. III. Warm misty m. N W. Anno 1667. ♒ 28. Jan. 10. ♀ R. VII Windy thaw close V V. VIII Rain at day break S E. IX Cold m. p. Rain and snow N. X Frost and snow offers die tot gusty cold N. XI Frost Thaw noct tot S. XII Dark day Fog taken up S. Iterum ♋ 28. Aug. 6. II. Hot p. m. winds at night N W. III. Hot. N E. IV. Fog m. hot Lightning according to prognostick W. V. Fog m. hot windy S E. VI. Fog m. melting day yet brisk winds S W. VII Fog m. and falls a. m. hot hail 2 p. Lightning N E. melting day and fickly time W. VIII Hot n. fog a. m. melting day dry Thunder toward London o. High winds vesp Lightning at night in the N E. S W. IX Fine showr stormy winds Meteors 〈◊〉 6. p. X. Windy showring 10 m. ad 1 p. S W Anno 1669. ♋ 12. June 23. XX. XXI Warm mist m. W. XXII Fog 8 m. hot rain desired S W. XXIII Mist m. fog 9 m. hot mist m. p. Sly XXIV Warm close S W. N E. XXV Close m. cold n. N E. XXVI Fog m. N. XXVII Fog m. pale thick Clouds a dry season W. Anno 1671. ♊ 27. May 12. VIII IX Windy hot E. X. Much heat N E. XI Mist m. Ropes soultry W. XII Very hot misty showr at Moon rise XIII Soultry yet brisk cool winds S W. XIV H. wind showr 2 p. Dewy n. S W. XV. Windy offer a. m. showr at Humsted S W. XV. VVind showr ☽ so 4 p. showring S V V. Anno 1673. ♊ 28. April 23. XVI Misty air heat E. XVII Hot day mist Field and City XVIII Close morn offering o. heat N E. XIX High wind and rain m. p. showr 4 p. XX. Windy and rain XXI Close high wind m. shedding Noon XXII Windy some dropping p. m. S W. XXIII Lowring High cool wind Sly XXIV Windy Sly XXV Drisle 10 m. and 3 p. S W. XXVI Warm some drisle 6 7 p. S W. XXVII Showr o 4 p. mist S W. XXVIII Close day some moisture 5 p. S W. XXIX Close m. no mist N E. XXX Hot. N E. May I. Showr 6 m. soultry Thunder 4 p storm of Hail and Lightning 9 p. Ely m. Wly p. m.
S W. VI. Wet at evening S W. Anno 1656. August 24. 〈◊〉 8. XX. XXI Fair hot Halo N W. XXII Very hot Gossamere S W. N W. XXIII Great fog very hot XXIV Fog hot storm of wind 11 p. XXV Wet till 3 m. Bright very cool N E. XXVI Fair N. W after N E. XXVII High winds Ely offering N E. Anno 1658. ♌ 22. July 13. IX Windy rain 9 m. S W. X. Soultry wind S W. XII Melting day Meteors S E. XIII Windy melting day Meteors S W. XIV High winds threatning meteors 11 p. W. XV. VVindy drisle m. XVI Meteors XVII Showry W. Anno 1660. ♌ 18. June 14. IX Open and warm p. m. windy W. X. Close hot W. XI High winds hot H. winds at night N W. XII Hot p. m. S W. W. XIII Soultry ground-mist at n. W. XIV Soultry XV. Soultry scalding air W. XVI Blew mist drops 5 p. showrs lightn 7 p. XVII Showrs 2 m. S W. XVIII H. showrs 4 m. Hot. S W. Iterum August 17. ♠20. ♀ R. XV. Very hot S W. XVI Fog rain 10 m. very hot S W. XVII Soultry hot XVIII The same XIX Hot day tot Rain at midnight XX. Drisle m. Anno 1661. ♒ 16. Febr. 25. Tunbridge in Kent XX. Rain 9. m. and m. p. W XXI Rain die toto wet night great Floud XXII Rain 11 m. n. rain 2 p. N E. XXIII Cloudy warm even S W. XXIV Stormy wet n. W. XXV VVindy rainy 9 m. S W. XXVI Storms of Rain and hail Halo 2. S W. XXVII Little frost fair V V. XXVIII Frost fog misty Halo ☽ S. March I. Sad rainy a. m. Rain p. even S. II. Very rainy windy S. Anno 1663. ♑ 28. Jan. 12. VIII Little frost fair fog at n. S W. IX Fog die tot and night frost E. X. Thick fog die tot cold E. XI Foggy frost chiefly p. m. E. XII XIII Foggy frosty E. XIV Foggy sleet E. XV. Foggy some wet 4 p. 10 p. S. XVI Fog warm S W. XVII Fog rain 8 p. c. m. p. Anno 1664. ♑ 8. Novemb. 27. XXIII Hard frost cold fair N. XXIV Fog frosty N E. XXV Hard frost rain 11 p. E. S E. XXVI Drisling m. close rain E. S E. XXVII Misty rain 11 m. and p. m. 6. p. XXVIII Wet ante Sun ort so m. S W. XXIX VVet ☉ ort some drops 8 p. N E. XXX Close rain p. m. misty 6 p. ad 11 p. Dec. I. Some drisle at n. N E. An. 1665. ♋ 3. July 18. ♀ Stat. Waltham Cross XIV Cloudy m. hot N E. XV. Excessive hot high winds p. m. lightn and a showr p. XVI Much Lightning 2 m. Blew mist extended on the Hills S E. XVII Blew mist over Sun vesp cloudy in S. with two Terrible flashes and a clap of Thunder and Rain from London to Edmonton XVIII Thunder and Lightning with storms 1 p. and coasting round the Horizon P. M. N V V X XIX Fog all m. Hot fine rain 10 p. W. XX. Refreshing rain at break of day and at ☉ rise cooling Showrs W. XXI Dash 10 m. Thund Lond. 11. and Rain S W. XXII Cool High winds coasting showr o. S W. XXIII s showrs 4 p. S W. Iterum ♌ o. Aug. 29. XXII Warm cloudy m. p. V V. XXII Warm drisle 6 and 7 p. S W. XXIV Warm much Lightning and Thunder 10 p. a showr S W. XXV Misty m. misle Rain 9 p. S W. XXVI Close m. p. warm blew mist Meteors E. S E XXVII Warm showring 4 p. 8 p. S W. S E XXIX Suspicious morning windy fair XXX Windy tot noct offering S W. XXXI Wind close m. N W. Sept. I. Frost very cold ante ☉ wet 9 p. m. S W. II. Warm close S V V. III. Warm misty m. N W. Anno 1667. ♒ 28. Jan. 10. ♀ R. VII Windy thaw close V V. VIII Rain at day break S E. IX Cold m. p. Rain and snow N. X Frost and snow offers die tot gusty cold N. XI Frost Thaw noct tot S. XII Dark day Fog taken up S. Iterum ♋ 28. Aug. 6. II. Hot p. m. winds at night N W. III. Hot. N E. IV. Fog m. hot Lightning according to prognostick W. V. Fog m. hot windy S E. VI. Fog m. melting day yet brisk winds S W. VII Fog m. and falls a. m. hot hail 2 p. Lightning N E. melting day and fickly time W. VIII Hot n. fog a. m. melting day dry Thunder toward London o. High winds vesp Lightning at night in the N E. S W. IX Fine showr stormy winds Meteors 〈◊〉 6. p. X. Windy showring 10 m. ad 1 p. S W Anno 1669. ♋ 12. June 23. XX. XXI Warm mist m. W. XXII Fog 8 m. hot rain desired S W. XXIII Mist m. fog 9 m. hot mist m. p. Sly XXIV Warm close S W. N E. XXV Close m. cold n. N E. XXVI Fog m. N. XXVII Fog m. pale thick Clouds a dry season W. Anno 1671. ♊ 27. May 12. VIII IX Windy hot E. X. Much heat N E. XI Mist m. Ropes soultry W. XII Very hot misty showr at Moon rise XIII Soultry yet brisk cool winds S W. XIV H. wind showr 2 p. Dewy n. S W. XV. Windy offer a. m. showr at Humsted S W. XV. VVind showr ☽ so 4 p. showring S V V. Anno 1673. ♊ 28. April 23. XVI Misty air heat E. XVII Hot day mist Field and City XVIII Close morn offering o. heat N E. XIX High wind and rain m. p. showr 4 p. XX. Windy and rain XXI Close high wind m. shedding Noon XXII Windy some dropping p. m. S W. XXIII Lowring High cool wind Sly XXIV Windy Sly XXV Drisle 10 m. and 3 p. S W. XXVI Warm some drisle 6 7 p. S W. XXVII Showr o 4 p. mist S W. XXVIII Close day some moisture 5 p. S W. XXIX Close m. no mist N E. XXX Hot. N E. May I. Showr 6 m. soultry Thunder 4 p storm of Hail and Lightning 9 p. Ely m. Wly p. m. II. Warm wet 3 p. N E. III. Warm close mist Field and City N E. IV. Close m. p. some wet 4 p. Nly Iterum ♋ 15. May 21. ♀ R. V. Drisle once or twice cool N E. VI. Drisle 6 p. cool day some wind N V V. VII Very cold m. Nly VIII Rain 10 m. brisk wd N E. IX Coasting showr 8 p. N E. X. Some wet overcast N. XI Clouds clearing some Rain or Hail 2 p. N. XII Gentle rain 1 p. 5 p. 7 p. very cold night XIII Wet p. m. tot S V V. clouds ride Nly XIV Wetting m. offer p. m. Nly XV. Showry 3 p. 5 p. N E. XVI Rain m. brisk wind XVII Brisk wind N E. XIX Temperate blew mist N. XX. Windy offering mist taken up S W. Parelii at Womondham in agro Leicest XXI some showrs 9 m. S W. XXII s showrs at o. and vesp Sly XXIII Showrs coasting and towards midnight XXIV Showr ante 1 m. 4 m. smart at
Oct. 3 8 9 11 13 14 18 22. Dec 11 12 14 25 27. A o 1678. Feb. 21. by Fits 24. March 3 4 5 6 11 15 16 17. by fits 18. 20 21 23 29. A o 1679. Nov. 27. Dec. 1. 10 11 15 20 21 25 27 28 31. A o 1680. Jan. 3 5 7. 12. by fits March 1 3. April 5 6 8 9. by fits 13. 15 16 17. A o 1682. Febr. 18 20 24 25 28. March 3 7 9 12 13 20 25 27 28 30. May 23 24 31. Of these we find some days wet throughout July 16. 1652. June 26. 1656. Aug. 22. 1658. Nov. 21. 1662. July 21. 31. Aug. 1. 1675. § 21. The Winds raise a greater Sum among which though more there were without doubt yet these came to our Hands of Harmful and Pernicious Report A o 1675. Dec. 14 23 27. A o 1677. Oct. 14 22. A o 1678. March 18 21. A o 1679. Dec. 20. A o 1682. March 12 22 23. 19 20. May 13. The rest of these follow A o 1652. April 18 19 20 24 27 29. May 29. July 12 4 18. A o 1654. June 25. July 3 4 19 24. A 1956. June 7 16 17 18 20 21 25. July 17 18 19 21 28 29 30. Aug. 27 29. Sept. 6. A o 1658. Aug. 16 21 25 30. Oct. 18 19 25 26 29. Nov. 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 12 13 15 22. A o 1661. July 30 31. Aug. 4. Nov. 10 11 A o 1661. Jan. 3 12 13 15 18 21 22. Febr. 6. 13. A o 1662. Nov. 10. 10 12 13 14 15 22. A o 3663. April 17. May 1. A o 1665. Jan. 3 18. Febr. 4 5 6. A o 1667. March 21 22 25 26 27 28. April 30. May 6. A o 1669. June 9. A o 1671. May 14 31. June 8 9 13 14. A o 1673. July 27. Aug. 3. Sept. 12 16 17 19 21 23. Octob. 11 12 15 18. A o 1675. July 24 25 27. Sept. 24 25. Oct. 7 8. Dec. 6 8. 15 17 22 26. A o 1677. Sept. 12 13 27 29. Oct. 11 14 28. Dec. 8 10 12 13 14 27 28. A o 1678. Febr. 20 21 25. March 9 15 16 18 20 21 22. April 2. A o 1669. Dec. 8 9 18 19 20 22 25 26. 27 30. A o 1670. Jan. 2 3 4 5 7. March 1 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16. A o 1682. Febr. 18 20. March 8 9 13 14 23 24 25 28. April 2 May 31. § 22. This Evidence is proper when we shall glance on the History of the Harmful Winds which began not till the Year 1675. the First Year of various Printed Intelligence of which we made this innocent use In the First we note Harm on Those days to our City Buildings In the Second IX Ships cast away at Mount Bay In the 3d. A Hurricane such are always terrible being near Earthquakes as here The Next October 14. 1677. At Bridlington Bay Shipwrack and die 22. at Swansey a Storm wherein the Wonder no more harm was done And News of Wracks October 18. with Dead Bodies cast upon Shore 1678 c. which I desire might be consider'd how frequent would their mention have been if the same Publique Intelligence had been Stirring For I will make the Reader Judge whether at least every Raging Furious Turbulent Tempestuous Gust noted in the Diary did not bring for the most part such a sad Story when I find more than once such unwelcome Informations given us ever where Little or no Wind is noted by Observation XII Ships cast away is a dismal Report We speak of no Forreign Wreck March 29. 1682. and yet no Wind noted in the Diary The like as in the Swanzey Storm Oct. 22. 1679. For the other greater Sum of Lofty Winds it may not be amiss I should own that I have not reckoned those Days which are termed Windy simply which yet would have made the Pomp the Greater and it may be had right to be reckoned with their Glass The Winds before day I thought it reasonable to account them Lofty because either they were violent or might be presumed so if but audible to those who in their warm Beds or drowsie Pillows are disposed to hearken to a good quiet Sleep than an unquiet busling Blast They who please may see more to their satisfaction in Kepler or Kyriander and so much for the Unruhigten pair of Planet ♂ and ♀ in Aspect § 23. If you please to allow the Summer Months the next is Thunders c. and ♂ ☿ are pretty good Firemen See them Exercise A o 1652. June 9 18 19 20 21 24 25. July 7 22. A o 1654. June 25. July 8. Sept. 23. A o 1656. June 10 12. July 20 25 26. Sept. 9. A o 1658. Aug. 14 17. A o 1660. Aug. 4. A o 1662. April 6. A o 1669. August 8 9 12 27. A o 1671. Sept. 23 24. A o 1675. July 23. A o 1677. Dec. 13. A o 1682. May 22 31. Will you please to have more from elsewhere A o 1622. from abroad June 19 21. Aug. 27. A o 1624 May 27. at Lintz 28 at Norimberg 29. at Linta 31. at Norimberg June 1 2 7 8. 9. at Norimberg 11. usque ad 15. at Lintz 16 18. at Norimberg A o 1626. July 31. Aug. 16 31. at Lintz 4 11 12. at Norimberg Sept. 30. A o 1628. Aug. 7. Lightning both at Lintz and Norimberg December 22. Calum Ardens in both places A o 1630. Dec. 21. Lightning and Thunder at Midnight at Lintz A o 1635. March 6. April 22. June 3 14. A o 1637. May 15 16 17 22 23. July 25. Aug. 11 20. A o 1641. April 23. A o 1648. April 29. § 24. The next is Comets Gardan you have heard pronounces that all Comets own their production to this Aspect seeing they are of a dry Influence You see what we have said of the Dryth of ☿ but 't is a fancy of His reckoned only to make an Aphorism Some Comets are noted in his time which should give him occasion to say so but I wonder why he should appropriate it to our Aspect since he made no Catalogues for then he would have seen not only ☉ ☿ but ♄ ☿ ☉ ♀ ♂ ♀ though of moist Influence as dry for this matter as ♂ ☿ Alass All the Planets we have said contribute to these Lucid Productions And as Good Astrologers perhaps as He have adventured to sort out several kinds of Comets to each Planet respectively Some Saturnine others Jovial some Lunar A Notion which I thought had bin trifling but that I see Hevelius also espouses it who is afraid to discourse any thing like an Astrologer even where they ought not to be disdained He perceived the Truth concerning their Original As for their Natures to me they seem Entia per Accident and so cannot brag of any Nature unless it be Relative a Sign or so of what follows § 25. But I hope this great Truth may find reception one day that every Aspect
even beyond a Quincunx profess their inclinations but the distance is too wide nor is it our interest to prove our Planets to have a Natural tendency to such Excesses yet because the Reports are so large p. 613 614. we refer them to the ☠♄ ♂ in ♌ and ♒ and to the Planets in ♋ in ♋ I say of which ♃ is the chief § 52. I need not force in any Instances the Rhine will bear Witness A o 1553 June 19. to such Excesses endamaging all the Cities I think for they say They were infinite that are situate near its noble Stream Take Notice if you please of ♃ and ☿ 's Congress but withal note that ♃ and ♄ are in Oppositional Quincunx ♌ 4. ♓ 4. Lycosth 616. Yea in Aug. A o 1552. Die 13. Budissina Peucer's Native Country felt the smart of a Cataract they call it a piece of a Cloud a Spout they would say that drown'd all for the space of 2 miles with 30 men lost Peucer p. 340. A strong ☠of ♄ and ♃ with other Planets to back him or seeing we have heard of the Phrase before now to make a Conspiracy Sooner or later doth not vary the Species a Spout there is a Floud which the Seamen describe to be a Cloud with a Tail like a Serpent drawing the Waters in a Smoak or Mist and wherever it falls Wo to the Sea-farer Hakl Vol. 2. p. 106. One of these in Aug. XXVII Another Octob. XX. p. 110. In the First a Partil ☠of ♄ and ♃ in the second X. degrees distance § 53. A o 1564. Sept. 20. Our Thames overflowed and drowned much Cattle Let any man look into the Ephemeris and take notice how many of the VII are in ♎ IV. of VII yea or the 20. day V. reckoning ♈ to its opposite Sign A notable Instance of what we have asserted about Equinoctial Tides and the Raising of Water by Rarefaction which our late ingenuous Theorist of the Earth considered not when concerning the Floud he affirmed there was no Water in Nature sufficient for it § 54. A o 1565. in January and February at Lovain the River Dilia overflowed in that Prodigious Winter which scarce ended before April The later of these Febr. 11. did much harm Gem. 2. 42 43. ♂ and ♀ are in ☌ we have said before but so is ♃ and ♄ which hath Influence not only on that over-long Winter but also in the excess of Snow or Rain according as they were provok'd § 55. The next ☠lands us on 1573. in ♉ and ♠upon which account the years concerned are famous upon Record Comets Flouds Pests Why I tell you the New Star in Cassiopeia as sure as you are there is the Offspring of ♄ and ♃ Let me dispatch the Flouds and I will prove it But Oh the Flouds If it be but that at Lovain Jan. 8. 1573. where the Waters rose upon the Thaw above 17. Cubits high so described by Gemma by ruining of Houses Trees Bridges Mills Pillars Floating of Beds Trunks and all manner of House-hold Goods Consternation and Shrieking of all Sorts and Sexes that it brings a cold Steam upon the Heart of the Reader so prodigious that an Astrologer though he be allowing the Snows and the Thaw and all that still wonders at the Cause and offers at some Fermentation which he imagines to arise from the mixture of Snow-Water c. A Point which ought to be consider'd but neither so was he yet satisfied He might have been satisfied had he consider'd the pure fermenting Power of our Aspect opened by the Appulse of ♂ and ☽ for there was neither Change nor Quarter in respect of the Sun if he had consider'd the Reach of our Aspect which is confess'd in in its Partile Estate to cause Flouds and Inundations which it concerns us to know for the Relator himself was almost drowned in common danger though the Floud coming by day God be thanked not above 8 or 9 were lost § 56. But there is more Wo yet In the same year and in Summer time in the beginning of July it self a Deluge happened not in one City or so but the Country it self Holland with Frieseland were plagued Inaudita Clade Gem. 2. 167. where the Learned Man tells us that the New Star in Cassiopeia was at that time abated of its Greatness and Splendour yea but ♄ and ♃ were under no abatement They were in a ☌ Partile not above a Month before we must not dare to mention the Pleiades engaged between them But so it was whether our Planets signifie any thing or no that we in England heard of a harmful Floud at Tocester by a Storm of Hail and Rain June 7. which gives us a little tast what was the Constitution of the most part of June which raised such Flouds there and elsewhere Let the Reader be pleased to consider and he will allow something to our Alms-Basket especially when there comes a 3d. or 4th Inundation in West-Frieseland as rueful and as masterless In the mean time let me tell him my Opinion that these and other such like Attentendants of the New Star are manifest Indications of its Nature Homogeneal to that of the Bearded Comet which will we nil we are too oft attended only with such Retinue § 57. We hear of no Flouds till about the next ☠which makes me remember that the ☠is better at such Tragical Sport than the ☌ and first with our selves A o 1594. we meet with Rain very sore for 14 hours April 11. which is an unlucky Prologue to what we hear of May 2. great Water-Flouds in Sussex and Surrey June also being as much a Trespasser as May Nor does it cease in July though it please God to send a fine August Both one and the other were the effect of our Aspect even the Rain from ♒ and ♌ as well as the fine Weather to see what Providence can do though it return to its wet again the Month following where we reckon a double Influx of ♄ and ♃ yea and of the rest too in their proportion a generative Faculty of Wet when all Requisites are supposed and a Spirit communicated to that Wet whereby the Moisture is Proud and Swelling apt to clime and outrun its bounds As the Bubble in a smart and warm Showr is a Sign of a Spirit which starts up and carries with it a Film of Water Fatter than ordinary Least any should say that seeing we like Gemma's Philosophy of some Ferment in the Waters we should therefore deny that our Planets were not contributers to the Moisture as well as the Tumor which we must assert they do But our Tres-Grand-Aspects are not so easily got off for A o 1595 the Scene lies in Germany the Rhine the Maes the Maene the Neccar the Danow all with one consent obey their Superiours and make such Work about Colen Mentz Francfort worse than they did A o 1573. of which before at Lovain c.
the Augmentation of its Force then in its Diminution though alike gradual But for Sickly Times I don't find that as many Distempers or to speak plain Pestilences succeed the Aspect as go before it How it is in the Arabian or other Climes I know not but consulting Escuids Table which is the Compend of Albumazar I find Erit Mors inter homines when our Aspect haps in ♌ under ♄ 's Dominion and the same Mors multorum Hominum with greater Men when ♃ has the Dominion Cardan bids us enquire into Eclipses two years before or a little more Nay he will give us an Example of a great Pestilence at Milain A o 1524. which followed the Eclipse in Aug. A o 1523. I turn to the year 1524. and there I find another cruel Cause of a terrible Pestilence what d' ye think Our very ☌ of ♄ and ♃ He tells us of ☿ with ☉ unfortunate in the ☠of the ☽ c. and ♂ respecting ♄ and ☿ from ♠I tell him Frustra fit per plura even if what be said were all unquestionable § 84. For our Evidence we will not vapour and run back to the Incarnation as we seem'd to do in the Comet which method indeed was only a Mercurial Finger if any shall delight to Travel on the like Design We will come nearer Home and content our selves with the beginning of the former Century where the first ☌ which appears compleat is found in ♋ 20. June A o 1504. what Sickness do's attend Gemma answers for Brussels Pestis Virulenta A o 1502. Again A o 1505. in Flanders Gem. 2. 249. and our Sweating Sickness the second time in London A o 1506. saith Stow. Note that in June 1502. ♄ and ♃ are both in ♊ in 1505. both in ♌ in 1506. within Terms This for the first 1. The Second Congress of our Superiours after 20 years past in the year 1524. ♓ 10. for the year 1524. we may remember Honest Cardan has furnished us with one example from Milain and before that A o 1522. Kircher informs us of a cruel Pestilence at Rome our Planets being within Terms in April at least and October which instance being far from Solitary gives us just Cause to suspect that the Vicinity of ♄ and ♃ even beyond the Tedder of 30 gr is of dangerous signification which is confirmed presently from the Winter Mortality noted in London A o 1525. where our Planets are 10 degrees distance but secretly link'd together by their mutual Approaches to the Equinox even on ♃ 's part not here to be treated of 2. The third meeting of ♄ and ♃ in September A o 1544. about ♠27. Here is Pestilence at London again in the Month of July as Stow informs our Planets within 20. degr distance 3. The next meeting is found in the end of ♋ Aug. 1563. In the year 1562. a Strange Murrain of Cattle says Gemma This was in the beginning of the year and our Planets were out of Bounds only in Oct. I find a note of Variolae Morbilli Small-Pox c. with another Murrain it should seem But in A o 1563. a great Plague in Germany saith Untzer our City of London not escaping that time Add A o 1564. Pestilence at Brussels says Gemma at the end of the year Yea A o 1566. the Strange Plague in Hungary within the Terms of our Planets or not above 4 degrees excess 4. The Fifth ☌ happens about ♓ 20. April 1583. and we meet with a new Disease at Lunenburg July 1581. as Dimerbrock informs us Now though the time of the year does but border upon our Aspect and ♄ and ♂ answer for the Distemper yet we have said that even bordering years are dangerous upon the account that though our Planets be without their Bounds or Limits yet they may be fetch'd to life again as it were by a Third Planet stepping in between the Extreams and a good shift too as we see practised before § 14. of this Chapter for verily both ☿ and ♀ from the opposite Quarters do so face ♄ and ♃ that they unite them for the present and force their Contribution to the mischief This I do not mention for lack of Instances for we find a furious Pestilence in 1584. but because I see 't is of great concern in my Judgement to solve the appearances often occurring 5. The 6th ☌ happens about Christmas A o 1603. in ♠10. And here we meet with a Pestilence in London as it pleased God so to order it in the first year of K. James the first of that Name any one may see it was our two Planets ♄ and ♃ in the hand of the great God unless all we have said hitherto is Vanity by the New Star and the Frost that followed the year ensuing proper Attendants on our Aspect which I hope we have made out and can further evince it by running back into past Centuries yea or Chiliads of time Note here again A o 1604. while London was clear saith Stow other Cities Villages and Towns Corporate were extreamly visited 6. Go we now to the year 1623. and observe the Congress in the beginning of ♌ in the Month of July Threescore years ago is within Memory when our City smarted under the farewell of our Planets in ♠We know to what great purpose we have before observed the Equinoctial ☠of ♃ and ♂ in the hottest time of this Visitation but we are not bound therefore to put out our Eyes or say we do not see that this grand Fatal ☌ or Positure of the two Supreams by commission from Heaven doth conspire with the like fatal Positure of the Third Superiour We will not anotomize the year but we may discover the Footsteps of our Aspect by the Droughty Summer noted in New England A o 1623. Purch IV. 1866. by the Fire-ball that was seen all Germany over By other Meteors mention'd also by Kepler A o 1624. not to forget the Maculae Solares which Hevelius has left upon Record were more frequent in that year than ever any he met with 7. All this while we forget the ☠of ♄ and ♃ at Midsummer 1513. in the beginning of ♠and ♉ at what time England labour'd with its Metropolis says Mr. Stow. We take no notice of those Distempers mention'd by Fracastorius A o 1511. or that strange Murrain mention'd by Fernelius Quae Solas Feles corripuit 8. In the next ☠we find Pestilence in France A o 1534. mention'd by Valeriola apud Dimerbrock 9. The next ☠we hear not of But that of 1573. before Midsummer in ♠and ♉ Gemma will tell us for his Country lasted two year A o 73. 74. the cure of which he discourses And may we not say the New Star in Cassiopeia is a Concomitant of this ☠Yes even as the New one in Serpentarius was of the ☌ 10. We shall name but one ☠more in the 36th year of Q. Elizabeth A o 1593. which is