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A91502	Mene mene, tekel upharsin. The second part of Mene tekel, treating of the year MDCLXXXIX. : And modestly shewing what may probably be conjectured to succeed in the affairs of Europe in general, and of England, Holland, Scotland, and France in particular; with something also about the affairs of Ireland, and the French King's forces there. : To which is added a treasonable paper dispersed among the papists, by J. Gadbury, with some reflections thereon, and also on his almanack for 1689. / By John Partridge.	Partridge, John, 1644-1715.; Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1689 (1689)	Wing P619A; ESTC R203323	33,895	50

soon after will either desert and leave them or else forbear to act as they had done before in short the Effects of this Revolution will frown on their Affairs and the Conclusion of all will be sharp and fatal notwithstanding there may be much Blood spilt and a great deal of Confusion Destruction and Ruin but let this be our Comfort that it will be the Ruin of those that began it and the Destruction that they intended will fall upon themselves and the Snare they laid will catch their own Feet Thirdly We may observe that Mars is just before the Ingress turned Retrograde in Taurus his Detriment this shews that the Arms and Warlike Affairs of some Prince or other are grown scandalous by their ill Success and the Fate that attends them their Reputation declines and themselves grow diffident of their own Courage and Conduct and yet this is but the beginning of it to the purpose we shall hear more hereafter In the Figure we find the Moon in exact Trine to the tenth House a popular Position and will be of good Consequence in whose Nativity it shall have a proportional one like it But for the rest of the Positions I see none good they all being according to the principal Motion inclined to what is violent and troublesome I might have spoke of the Square of Mars and Venus in the Zodiack the Mundane Parallel of Jupiter and Mars the Mundane Square of the Moon and Mars and the Moon and Saturn but the Effects of them being couched in the Judgment of the other Rays and Motions it would have been but so much time protracted in my Writing and your Reading and therefore omitted as needless and inconvenient Honest J. Gadbury in his Judgment of the Scheam of this Ingress which is indeed very short gives the same Judgment as he did of this Summer Quarter before it that it will be attended with very bad weather I doubt his head was full of Vapors when he wrote that and that he had the sound of the Confusion of Popery in his Cranium which it seems he mistook and thought it had been nothing more but the Concussion of the Elements and a fit of an Ague in the Air. Ah John what pity it was that your Catholick Soul should be thus deceived what Pennance must you undergoe for it why really I think instead of keeping one Whore as you used to do formerly for this offence you ought to keep half a dozen remember the Nosegay The whole considered together and applyed to particulars of Men and Things c. IN the preceding discourse I have given you the General of their Effects according to the Order and Course of Nature that may be expected in those Countrys where the God of Nature hath designed them to spend their Power and Influence this perhaps might suffice it being the Common Method that is used by those who call themselves Astrologers but I will endeavour to come nearer to the Agent and Patient and give it more particular as to Countrys Princes People and Things where these Effects before mentioned may probably terminate and who they are that are like to be passive under them The Eclipse of the Moon which was in March was celebrated in the 16 degree of Libra under that Sign is some part of Germany and also some parts of Turkey which may expect to feel some of its Effects but it more immediately concerns the Kings of Spain and Denmark for it falls in the Mid-Heaven of the King of Spains Nativity and Saturn at the same time on his Radical Horoscope in Square to his Mid-Heaven these Positions will give some Disturbance either to his Health or Government perhaps both In the King of Denmarks Nativity this Eclipse falls in his Horoscope and Saturn at the same time in Opposition and Mars in Square to his Radical Sun this shews rather Injury to his Subjects and Commotion in some of his Territories than Sickness to his Person because neither Sun nor Horoscope are Givers of Life in his Radical Figure But it will certainly give some Commotion in the Dominions of the Grand Signior for according to Ptolomy's Doctrine part of his Dominons are under Venus and Libra and more also of those Eastern Countreys the Eclipse also particularly concerns the late King for Evil and not for Good for Saturn is there on the place of his Radical Sun and also the Moon is in Opposition to his Mid-Heaven and Hileg At the Solstitial Ingress we find the Sun and Mars in Square from the beginning of Aries and Cancer under these two Signs are England Holland Scotland France and also some parts of Germany These Countrys according to their General Capacities and Qualifications for War seem to approach toward Action and that considerably too the English French and Dutch for Sea Action the Germans and Scots for Land. At the New Moon preceding the Ingress the Sun was in the Eleventh in a Western Sign and in a South-East part of Heaven Mars was in a South-West quarter this shews some Action by Sea West or South-West from England and this about the time of the Ingress and also about the middle of July when the Sun comes to the Square of Saturn so likewise in the South-West part of Germany by land about those times neither will the Kingdom of Scotland be idle This Aspect happening from Cardinal Signs will make the Action and Effects the more famous and considerable and the rather because the Sun and Mars are Essentially strong Mars in his own House and the Sun in Cancer in reception with the Moon in Leo and to shew it will be something of Violence the Moon at the same Time is on the Ecliptical place of the last Conjunction 1682 c. and for an Argument of the French Tyrant being concern'd be pleased to consider that Mars is in Conjunction with the Sun in his Revolution and Saturn exactly on the place of his pars fortunae and now stationary on the place of his Sun by Direction at the time of this Square the Sun is on the King of Denmarks Mid-Heaven and Mars on his seventh House in a Mundane and Zodiacal Square which may also give him some Action either by Sea or Land or both On July the 12th the Sun comes to a Square of Saturn from the beginning of Leo and Scorpio this doth particularly Affect the late King and gives disturbance to his Mind as well as Opposition and want of Success in his Affairs because Saturn is on the Radical place of his Sun and the Sun on the Radical place of his Moon in the Ecliptick In the beginning of August there is an Opposition of Saturn and Mars from the beginning of Taurus and Scorpio the Sun at the same time in Opposition to Jupiter from Leo and Aquary This doth particularly concern that King last mentioned now in Ireland for Saturn is on the place of his Radical Sun Mars in Opposition to it this gives all

Sun in a certain Persons Nativity who is now in Tribulation At the Postventional Full Moon we find there the Moon to be separating from the Square of Mars and applying to the Body of the Sun and next after that to the Square of Saturn the Sun is in Domo Octava and the Moon in Secunda and she in that part of Heaven having at the Full Moon five degrees of South Latitude made her within Rays of the Square of Saturn so that we may conclude both the Preventional New and Postventional Full Moons do exactly agree with the Figure of the Ingress here before us and do really agree in describing the Circumstantial Adjuncts likely to attend this Quarter which is indeed like to be ushered in with Violence and violent Actions and therefore let those that are like to suffer therein take care how they manage their ticklish Fortune for here is such Work approaching that is not to be dallied with and he that once plays and loseth seldom or never comes to his Stake again Having already said how the Preventional and Postventional New and Full Moon agree with the Figure of the Ingress I come now to insist on the Figure it self and the various Positions Aspects c. therein contained And the first thing to be considered is what is like to be the Effects of this Quarter in the general for here we find as perhaps some will say no Extraordinary Positions to give Violence because the Sun is in Trine to Jupiter and Saturn and the Moon in no evil Aspect except by her Latitude in Opposition to Jupiter from the first and seventh houses And now going to the Sextile of Saturn and the Sun all that is may they say is the Sun in square to Mars in the Ascendent Alas they that expect to find Causes in Mundane Ingresses to predict or forshew Actions of that kind of quality that we must now expect are extreamly deceived and cheated for in all things of this Nature we must first consider the Motion of the Superiors Saturn and Jupiter for they are the Salt or Leaven of the World and from their Motion proceeds the variety of those Causes which Mankind oftentimes so severely feels and indeed it is that and that only which is equal in another branch of this Study to the primary Directions and these Ingresses are but like Revolutions that may either abate or aggravate the Direction in its time and quality of Operation but whether the Revolution or Ingress concur or not the Direction certainly works without it and therefore we are not beholden to the Figure of the Ingress for discovering to us the Cause of Mutations Wars c. but the time when God and Nature think fit to obtrude them upon us Hence therefore be pleased to consider that there have been three Squares of Saturn and Jupiter and the last of them was last January Saturn being then in Square and Jupiter in Opposition to the last Conjunction in ♌ in the year 1682 / 3 and this also on the place and square to it of the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in October preceding and in the end of March last there was also a Square of Saturn and Mars the latter of which was then in Opposition to the place of the last Conjunction and to the Ecliptical place of the Moon in this Figure and you see that altho matters and things have been working yet they have not produced any thing material more than preparation for Action and Things of a greater Nature and this not only in this part of Europe but also in Spain and Germany and the parts adjacent There are other things that are to be considered in this Judgment but because they will occasionally fall in with other matters in this discourse therefore I omit to mention them for these are the principal that I have already noted and according to the Method I and all others that pretend to Astrology do or ought to proceed in their judging Mundane Revolutions concerning Wars Plagues Mutations of Government Abdication of Kings Plenty Famine c. Therefore in the first place we shall confider what may be the Consequence of this triple Square of Saturn and Jupiter of which the two first were from Libra and Capricorn the one an Equinoctial and the other a Tropical Sign but the last was from Scorpio and Aquary two fixed rough succedent Signs from whence I draw this Judgment that the first two thirds of their Effects shall be quick noble and glorious mighty things soon dispatch'd and done and the reason is because they were from Cardinal Signs but the last part will be slow tedious and full of labour apt to go sometimes backwards and sometimes forward and variety of success attend it Now for a proof of this let us look back to the Conjunction of the two Superiors in 1623 in Leo and observe when they made their Square which was but a single one and that from the Ends of Libra and Capricorn in the Month of February in the year 1629 and compare that and its Effects then with these three now and the prospect of things likely to attend us at this time and then say whether like Causes have not like Effects for in 1629 the Hollanders took the Hertogenbosch stom the Spaniards and also many of their Ships the Janizaries quarrel with the Grand Signior the Polanders make peace with the Sweeds A Great Diet at Prague the Kings of England and France make peace having together destroyed the poor Protestants at Rochel The French make great preparations of War against Italy and in the beginning of the Next year the King of Swedland did Invade the Empire and took Francfort upon Odor and Lantsberg c. How England stood affected at that time and what the Designs of the then King were your own Histories will inform you I have onely given you those that were forreign Thus you see the same Kingdoms and Countries were concerned in Action at that time as are now but the Quarrels and pretences different yet the Popish Crew then in Spain France and Germany were for rooting out the Protestants and the Protestant Religion and yet we even we are for succouring and defending them tho I thank God I am of another perswasion These things considered are sufficient to prove the Position that I laid down before that like Causes have like Effects and that the Motion of the Superior Stars are to be considered in the publick Affairs of the World c. But I must turn into my way again this discourse being not exactly pertinent to the Affairs in Hand Haly an old Arabian and one well acquainted with this kind of Doctrine tell us Significat quod existant rebelles qui adversabuntur regie qui quaerunt regnum Etian significat Mutationes res multas in negotiis regis similiter in Lege says he the Square of Saturn and Jupiter signifies that people shall rise against their King and

MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN THE Second Part of MENE TEKEL Treating Of the Year MDCLXXXIX And modestly shewing what may probably be Conjectured to succeed in the Affairs of Europe in General and of England Holland Scotland and France in Particular with something also about the Affairs of Ireland and the French King's Forces there To which is added a Treasonable Paper dispersed among the Papists by J. Gadbury with some Reflections thereon and also on his Almanack for 1689. By JOHN PARTRIDGE Licens'd May 23 1689. J. Fraser London Printed for Awnsham Churchil at the Black-Swan in Ave-Mary-Lane MDCLXXXIX To the Honest Reader SInce Heaven and our good Stars have been so kind to give me an opportunity to kiss your hand in this nature again in my Native Country without danger of being whipp'd or Jail'd for affronting Popery c. or being indicted for Sedition for writing against it in my way so I hope these Lines will find you also in a better and a more satisfied Condition than formerly and your Jugulars more free and safe from Popish Knives and Halters a Curse too common within a few Months foregoing but God be thanked the case is altered and to our Advantage the Tables are turned and the Nation is in a very fair way to retrieve its ancient Peace and Grandeur again under his present Majesty But this by the way the Errand of my Epistle is to acquaint you with three or four things before I come to the thing in hand First then It may perhaps seems strange to see a thing of this nature come from me at this time the Year being now half spent and indeed for that reason I did not intend to have wrote any thing this Year my Almanack for 1690 excepted it being not my custom at this Season to do it But finding by Reports from divers of my Acquaintance that there was a very ill use made of my Silence not only by Papists and Tories but also by true honest Englishmen Friends to the King and Government who have reported and believed because I had not writ this Year as I use to do that from thence they judg'd it was my Opinion that the late Abdicated King would return again to his former Power and Dignity in England therefore to undeceive them and let the World know it is not my Opinion nor any thing like it I have published these few Sheets following Secondly I have often been asked by my Friends since my Return to England if I had writ any thing Prophecies being cried about the City and Country in my Name and many of them bought and indeed I have heard them cryed my self This therefore I will tell you ance for all That I never did write any thing by the name of Prophecy nor never will and therefore you may be sure if any such thing shall be published at any time under the Notion of Prophecy or any other Title in a single Sheet in my Name it is not mine but an Abuse upon me and a Cheat upon you done and managed by some of the little People that cheat by Retail Thirdly Perhaps it may seem a little rough and hard to some modest Readers when they hear or consider what I have said of John Gadbury especially he and I having been very intimate formerly and he one that pretends to have been my Tutor in these Studies 'T is true the Man was civil to me when I began to study but I own no Master but Dr. Francis Wright But to undeceive the Reader I must give a short account of the Affairs betwixt him and I. We first came acquainted in 1665 and from thence as often as we had opportunity we continued it in the usual ways of Conversation and Fellowship till the Year 1680 at which time he took occasion to differ with me about Popery and then we began to be strange one to the other till I left England in 1685 and from our first Acquaintance to that time I can speak it with a safe Conscience in the Presence of God that I never let fall an unseemly word concerning him in any Company for I had a respect for the Man because of our long Acquaintance neither was I willing to give any ground for a Quarrel But in the Year 1687 about the time that he went to Mass openly and declared himself a Papist he wrote a Book against me which he called a Reply printed by Nat. Thompson in which Treatise he abused me in such undecent and ungentile Expressions that it would have been a Scandal for any one to have used them at Billingsgate it self Rogue Rascal Traitor Villain and Renegado being the Subject of his Book and the lively Touches of his Pen and all this without any Cause or Occasion given to him on my side and I challenge him to tell the World if he can when or where I ever gave him the least occasion imaginable for it So that now I leave it to the World to judg between us and whether I am not justly provoked to do what I have and shall do for I do assure you I take no delight in Controversies of this nature neither is it a peevish passionate Humour that moves me but really to shew the World how unjust and unsteady a Man he is in his Morals and Divine Things that hath abused me and also how ignorant he is in his Profession his principal Skill and Art being his Cant and Hypocrisy But let me tell him that this is but the beginning of our Difference Fourthly I find some peevish People are apt to exclaim against Astrology because the late King did not dye in October or November 1688 pretending that I had said in Print he would then die but I would very fain have them show it to me where I have so said Indeed I did think he would have died and yet his not dying is no Injury to Astrology unless among those that are malicious and something worse However I shall say but two things in the case 1. To those that understand Astrology or pretend to it for I hear a double-sighted Man hath talked more than came to his share what I predicted was fully verified for it happened within a Month of the time mentioned and now the thing is over I will defy them to give any reason for it that shall have the same Effect in another Nativity or something like it Let them out-do it if they can 2. To those that know nothing of Astrology there is no blame to be laid on the Art nor indeed I cannot see how they can blame me for the Effect is so like Death that it doth as well for the Deliverance of the Nation and I hope they cannot say but it happened at the same time I had predicted it too It is indeed a Civil Death and to him I think worse than Death however there are some that would have quarrelled with it too if he had then died at the time exactly and said it was

is over and ended which will not be quickly Secondly Observe That it was after a Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Leo Anno 1623 that the Papists used all their Endeavours to bring in that most abominable Perswasion into England under the Notion of Religion and to set it up by the Power of Law upon which Endeavours of theirs there began and continued so cruel a War in this Nation between two Parties the one to bring in Popery and the other to keep it out that the like had not been known in many Ages and now under such a Conjunction as that was we have the like thing attempted over again and it had succeeded too had not the Almighty appeared for us in a wonderful manner Twit us no more about your Forty One For they that twitted us have us outdone Again observe that when Saturn and Mars came to a Conjunction in Aquary in 1640 in Opposition to the place of that Conjunction in 1623 there was indeed three Conjunctions of Saturn and Mars then as now three Oppositions immediately after the next Opposition that most horrid Murder of the Protestants in Ireland was acted which began on the 23d of October 1641 and lasted a Month in which Action the Bloody Papists used such Barbarities that one would think it could not enter into the Heart or Mind of Mankind to think or contrive but it is such a Religion that if the Priest says they must murder their Fathers Mothers Brothers or Sisters being Protestants they think their disobeying him will incur Damnation such is the Ignorance and Folly of those who are Bigots to Priests I say in this Massacre they ripped up Women with Child and cruely murdered the Infants set Men up to the Neck in Earth and play'd Bowls at their Heads and when they had done leave them to die at leisure strip Men and Women and drive them naked into the Field being Winter and there let them starve with Hunger and Cold take fat Men and kill them and with their Fat make Candles to say Mass by murder the Parents before the Children to terrify them and the Children before the Parents to do the like go into Cities and commit all the Villanies and Outrages imaginable and then take with them what number of both Sexs they pleased to hang murder torture or otherwise to use them as they according their Irish Sense Discretion and Mercy thought convenient and in this Condition were the poor Protestants in that Kingdom at that time for the space of a Month and more till they had murdered about two hundred thousand And this is the Condition that poor Nation is now in again at this time being fallen into the Hands of a merciless Enemy full of Rage Barbarity and Revenge till God in his Mercy and good time will deliver them I hope by the same Hand that he hath delivered us And assure your selves that if ever you permit Popery to enter into this Nation again for I see some are whining after it you must expect no other Favour Mercy nor Kindness from their Priests and Governors bind them never so secure by Oaths and Promises but Fire Fagot Gibbet and all other kind of Tortures Ruins Dragooning and whatever the Irish Papists gave the Protestants in 1641 so that if you like it on those terms you may as soon as you please submit fetter your selves and lay your Throats to the Knife for that must be the Effect and Consequence of bringing in Popery a Popish Government and Papists into England tho perhaps many may believe that they can bring it in so far as they please and no farther but let none trust to that for we have of late seen a large and almost a dear-bought Experiment I come now to the Revolution and Ingress of the Sun into Libra to speak something to that and so hasten to what I have promised and design'd In that Figure we may observe that the Moon is separated from the Square of the Sun and Mercury and Sextile of Saturn and Trine of Mars and is now by her Latitude in exact Mundane Square to Saturn and Mars which shews the Position to be violent and something agreeable to the other Figures that we have before considered and Jupiter upon the opposite place of the last great Conjunction in 1682 and in this Figure in an exact Mundane Parallel both with Saturn and Mars and in Opposition to Mars who is on the Cusp of the second in a certain Persons Nativity and the Sun here in Opposition also to his Part of Fortune hence we may judg First The Breach of some private Treaty because Saturn and Mars are in the Houses of Embassies Leagues and Ambassadors the Sun and Mercury in the ninth House the Angle of Journeys and the Moon on the Cusp of the second in Capricorn a Moveable Tropical Cardinal Sign it also may as probably be the discovery of some Traiterous Design that hath been going on for some time but this I dare assert that about the time of the Ingress or a little after it you will certainly hear of the Dissolution of some Treaty or the end of some Debate without Effect that was carrying on in order to some great Affairs or else some Treachery and Villany discovered about the Affairs of Ireland that hath been long in Agitation and contriving and now at last proves Abortive and of no Service to them that did endeavour and attempt the effecting of that precious Work and all this seems the rather probable because the Moon did last of all separate from Mars in the fifth House Retrograde and afflicted Besides this will divide the Councils and confound the Projects of an evil sort of People that are restless and contriving the Ruin of all those that are not of their wicked Perswasion and this seems to attend them as a Curse intailed on their Endeavours and Attempts in general and is like to continue for the Sun who is here in a particular way a Significator of them is in Conjunction with Mercury and they both going to a Zodiacal Parallel with Saturn and Mars Secondly We may judg that a certain Prince his Affairs go on very evil his Treasure very low and his Friends grow fewer than ever for Saturn in the eleventh House hath Signification of the Treasury an Exchequer of Princes their Council and Assistants Supplies of Mony and those Noble Men that attend their Courts now Saturn is here their Significator and in a very ill Condition for he is Perigrine in Opposition of Mars and Square to the Moon these Positions shew as ill things to attend him as possible can be for it doth not only shew him poor but also like to continue in that Capacity and Condition it makes their Councils treacherous and divided and what is worse the best of their Councils and Advice will be in the general frustrate and fruitless and divers of those Noble Men and Gentlemen about the time of the Ingress or

he will Court you by his Dragoons c. Before he gave you your selves leave to look after your Estates but now he will take Care of them himself left you should do your selves an Injury buy Arms and offend the good Catholiks and so come to be Hanged for Rebels Before he desired and intreated you to take off the Penal Laws and Test but now he will take them off himself and make such too in their rooms as shall according to the French Manner make your Hearts ake and your Estates too in his Brothers time he delivered you over to the Devil and Dr. P -- ld to be buffeted but when he was on the Throne himself he stopt all that to shew you that he was a good-natured Gentleman but now he will pay you for the New and the Old and really I should think it would be a Comfort to any one to be brought before half a dozen fine grave old Men sitting in their Jesuitical Formalities and receive Sentence to be sent either to the Galleys or to Tyburn In short if you desire him again you must take him with Thanks to him for all the Oppression Trouble Ruine and Destruction that he hath brought upon the whole Nation in general and every Man in particular and lay your Necks at his Feet and beg of him to make you Slaves of what Quality and Degree he pleaseth to set up what Religion he likes best to protect you according to the Irish and French Modes and to destroy all your antient Laws Rights and Priviledges For I hope you have more Sense with your Experience than to believe he is to be bound by Laws Oaths or Obligations Yet this is not all for we must expect to have our Oppressions and Chains wrought upon the French Anvil for you see plainly now by the Affairs in Ireland that the French King is his Tutor and Master and that he is wholly under his Guide and Management and therefore at the same time you take James for your King you must take the French Tyrant for your Governour and expect all the Oppression and Tyranny that the poor Protestants in France have suffered and indured these last six or seven Years I say under these Considerations what People must these be that desire or wish him here again or hinder and obstruct the Regular Ways and Methods taken for the Safety and Setling of the Nation upon its antient Basis of Peace and Liberty Why it is soon answered Let their Circumstances be what they will and let them be under what Character soever of Distinction either of Laity or Clergy they will in the end prove very dangerous to the Government As for the Papists we know what their End is in all they endeavour and therefore there is nothing expected from them but our Ruin if they carry their Point which is to establish Mother Church As for the Dissatisfied Party they are a sort of People many of them that care neither for Nation nor Religion if they can but turn the Penny they will overturn both or either according as they are hired or at least-ways do their endeavour for it as we have seen in our Time when there was a large Crew of Pensioners paid to pervert the Nation c. and made no Scruple of it These People at this Time are not Guiny-men nor such as deal with Angels but they are Pistol-Proof they are equipt of the French Mode and so well learned in that Language that they can write an Acquittance without mistaking either Method or Matter they are a sort of Catterpillers with soft Skins and in curious Colours but their Work and Nature is to destroy the Fruits of the honest Country-Man's Labour and are a Curse to any Kingdom where they are sent and come they are excellent Casuists that never want Arguments which perhaps sometimes may seem against themselves but like the Serpent in the Fable that last no longer than they have an Opportunity to shew their Endeavours bare-fac'd in short they are like Water-Men that look one way and row another and will be very angry too if you will not take them for honest Men they are Serviceable to all Governments and their Pay prevailes before their Conscience and like a Spaniel they will be wrigling their Tails till they get into Business Now you may know this sort of unhappy and Disaffected Men by their Language and Carriage for they always either talk in favour of their Abdicated King drink Healths to their old Master thank God they had no Hand in driving him out nor bringing in his present Majesty do all they can to shelter Papists and ill Men from Justice or else when any thing is to be done they raise doubts and difficulties lay Bears and Lyons in the way if it is for the Service of his Present Majesty but remove Mountains if it be for the other side Others cry out For the Lords sake take Care of the Church Oh the Church will be destryed when there is not the least Ground to suspect it for God be thanked we have a King that is a Gentleman and will not break his Word and Oaths as others have done before him he his one that hath promised and also sworn to defend the Church of England and to maintain it as by Law established and we have no reason to doubt it and therefore this Noise is but to amuse the Ignorant and disturb the Waters that the Jugling Authors thereof may with the more ease catch the Silly Gudgeons So that if these kind of Symptoms appear you may be sure they are not Men that wish well to the Settlement of our Religion the Peace and Honour of the Nation nor the Good and Welfare of their Majesties the Savers of our Nation and Religion but are in the French Interest and by his Pistols purchased to poison the Nation raise Differences hinder Business of the greatest Consequence alienate the Hearts of their Majesties Subjects and if possible to put the Nation into a flame that their Master may the better accomplish his ends now on Foot Secondly consider that these very People that now use all their endeavours to divide the Nation were the only People most possessed with Fear and Terror about 10 or 12 Months agoe and with Passion used to say as the Jailor in the Acts did what shall we do to be Saved when will the Prince of Orange come Oh why doth he delay so long will he let us be a Prey to our Enemies Pray God send an East Wind that we may be delivered and more such Expressions to this purpose they often used And now they are delivered the Note is changed and they Cry Why do they not prove the Child an Impostor why do they not prove the Earl of Essex his Murder and why do they not prove that Charles the Second was poysoned c Why what is this to us whether they do or not Suppose they cannot prove any one of these what

must we revert into Popery and put our Lives into our Enemies hands again to give them an Opportunity to try their good Nature and see whether they will Cut our Throats or not possibly it may pass upon and among Passive-Obedience-Men but never upon me and I hope many more However I doubt not but these Things will be proved when it is convenient In the mean Time God bless them that take care to secure the Nation against Popery and Tyranny and assure yourselves they that will not believe the pretended Prince of Wales to be Supposititious before 't is proved will as much doubt it then and so of the rest for they are certainly Favorers of that pious Cause These were good humble People before and then the Prince of Orange was an Angel to them but now I hear that they talk so unreasonable as if they seem'd to long to be sent to Prison and Secured and indeed they do not stick to say the Government dares not meddle with them But I shall say no more to these ungrateful Persons but this that their present Majesties are our Lawful King and Queen that they are Protestants and have promised and sworn to defend our Liberties and Religion and all that are Protestants are bound by the Laws of God and Nature to stand by and defend them to the utmost of their power and he that is not of this Opinion neither deserves their Protection nor their Permission to live in their Dominions but like Cain to be driven forth and be a Vagabond on the Earth as he was Now the God of Heaven preserve King William and Queen Mary our Lawful Soveraigns and give them plentifully of his Spiritual Wisdom that they may govern us according to his Will let them live long and happy and become a Terror to all their and our Enemies and as God hath given a signal Testimony to us by them and the great Miracle they have wrought in our Deliverance so let us always sincerely implore the Throne of Grace to defend them all their days and when this Life shall end to make them partakers of his Eternal Bliss for ever and ever So wisheth J. P. A Copy of a Malicious Paper given forth among the Papists by that grand Impostor and Apostate J. Gadbury a litele before the Prince landed in these words following 1. THe Prince of Orange hath an Effeminate Geniture and therefore can never prove a Conqueror 2. He is under a most malicious Revolution at the present as having a Square of Mars and Mercury therein as in his Radix denoting much Treachery to be acted not only by but against him I conceive the Dutch are weary of him and also of the English Renegado Rebels and therefore make use of him as the Munkey did of the Cats Foot viz. at once to disembogue themselves of the said Rebels whose Company renders them obnoxious to so great a Prince as the King of England and likewise to be totally rid of Him without Dewitting him 3. His Hylegical Directions are pernicious he hath lately passed M. C. to the Square of the Moon a Direction of fixed Malice but could not work his Ruine because the Moon delights in Taurus the place of the Direction But he is under at present his Horoscope to the Square of Jupiter and the Sun of a violent Influence and Import in earnest as happening in Opposition to the Pleiades a turbulent and violent Constellation 4. At this very time when his Maritine Busse and Preparation is at the greatest the Moon his own and Nations Planet is eclipsed in Aries an Equinoctial Sign and the Horoscope of England viz. under the Dominion of England's Soveraign 5. And if he go on Ship-board on Monday next the Moon will be in Taurus in Opposition to the Sun and Jupiter in his own Geniture and this among the Pleiades also and likewise in Opposition to a powerful Mars in Scorpio in a Figure of Heaven that greatly favours England and all its present Affairs which seriously considered with the Revolutions Directions and Eclipses before noted is an absolute Prodromus of his Ruine according to natural Causes and in little time in case of Invasion we shall hear of his and his Party 's total Overthrow and Destruction Probably some of his great ones and perhaps Himself will be brought against their Will to make Speeches at Tower-hill and at Tyburn c. 6. England was invaded by the Spaniard in 1588 but what did they get by it their Armado was ruined and this Noble Nation was quickly rid of its pestiferous Enemies and so I doubt not by God's Blessing but 't will be so again in 1688 the English Nation is wise tho stubborn and will sooner submit to a merciful pious Prince they know than come under the Yoke of a Conqueror Some short Animadversions thereon HIS first Paragraph is needless for the Prince now our King did not come to Conquer but to Deliver the Nation from Popery and Tyranny and also to preserve the Peoples Throats from being cut In his second the King is mightily beholden to him for his modest Simily of comparing him to the Cats Foot do but observe the Malice of the Fellow in what scandalous Terms he useth one of the greatest Princes in Europe and how he licks the Popish Fops up with Oil of Fool for the Dutch were not as he calls it obnoxious afraid of the then King of England and the reason was because they knew him better than to fear him But pray you John why the Cats Foot is it a Popish Witticism or hath the Cat deserved ill of Mother Church for I see you use it out of Contempt because you gave it to the then Prince of Orange and I suppose you thought by giving the Prince ill Names your then Client the Popish Lady to whom you gave that Lying Paper would more willingly part with her Mony but this is no News for it shews you to be Honest John Gadbury still let what Religion will come thou wilt be sure to be on the rising side You know at that time you could give no Protestant a good word and I wonder you used the Prince so kindly and you know John when it was the fashion to whip honester Men than your self for less Crimes than this His third Paragraph shews not only his Malice but his Ignorance also in Astrology for the first Direction he speaks of hath been over this 20 Years and the second will not come up these 20 Years yet to come but suppose it were true where is the violent Effect he so idly talks of This is like his Story of Sir Frechvil Holles and just as true for he promised him he should live 20 Years and he was kill'd within six Months after Ah Jack thy Astrology is as true as thy Religion thou art an Infallible Tool In his fourth he hath strain'd his Nonsence to a Miracle for none but J. Gad. did ever give that Judgment of an Eclipse in