and likewise in the time of Harvest that in the Northern parts Corn and alll manner of Grain and fruits were corrupted and putrified and for two yeers following was a great scarcity of all things and much famine and a great mortality amongst Sheep And in the yeer 1346. the 28. day of August was a most terrible battle fought between Phillip of Valoys King of France and Edward the second King of England at Cresse where the English with 10000. men overcame 60000. French the King of Bohemia was there slain together with 30000 men 11. Princes 89. Barons and 1200. Knights and in the yeer 1347. King Edward winneth Calice John Copland defeateth the Scots takes David King of Scotland prisoner who is sent to the Tower Copland was made a Banneret and rewarded with 500li. per annum and in the yeer 1348. was such a mortality and pestilence amongst men as scarce hath been known the like 50000 were buried in the Charter-house Church-yard and many strange matters happened in those times which our Histories and Chronicles mention to which I refer you So likewise I will remember that terrible Eclipse of the Sun which was on the second day of October 1605. about one of the clock in the afternoon in the 19. degree of ♎ Libra being the opposite Sign to ♈ Aries under which England is supposed to be subject What a horrible unheard of damnable treason of the Papists was discovered the 5. of November following I hope will never be forgotten in England If I should but remember the Eclipse of the Sun which happened on Friday the 29. of March 1633. in the 19. degree of ♈ Aries I should be over-tedious I will refer you to my Almanack for that yeer and some yeers following in which the tyranny of the Prelats in these times manifestly appearing I my selfe not escaping their fury So also that Eclipse of the Moon the 8. of Octo. 1641. in the 26. degree of Aries or that of the Moon likewise the 4. of April 1642. in 25. degrees of ♎ Libra and another of the Moon the 27. of September following in the 15. degrees of ♈ Aries or that of the Moon likewise the 17. of September 1643. in 4. degrees of ♈ Aries I should but rub the gold horse back and put your in mind of the sad and deplorable condition too fresh in our memory this poor Kingdom of England is in I will set down these following Tables wherein you may understand unto what Signes Astologers have placed out of continuall observation and experience many Countries and Cities that thereby you may see when any Eclipse of the Sun or Moon or notable Conjunction or Configuration of the superiour Planets happeneth what places are subject or likely to participiate of the influence of any such Coelestiall position under such Signes their ☠opposite and □ Quadrate Aspects these Signs following Aries ♈ Taurus ♉ Gemini ♊ Cancer ♋ Virgo ♠Is opposite to Libra ♎ Scorpio ♠Sagitary ♠Capricorn ♑ Aquary ♒ Pisces ♓ And this Aspect is an aspect of perfect enmity and hatred and this is six Signs asunder So likewise these Signs following doe behold one another though not so violently yet they doe disagree very much in Nature and disposition viz. by a Quadrate Aries ♈ Taurus ♉ Gemini ♊ Cancer ♋ Leo ♌ Virgo ♠Hath a Quadrate Aspect to ♋ ♑ ♌ ♒ ♠♓ ♎ ♈ ♉ ♠♊ ♠Thus Aries beholds Cancer and Capricorn by a Quadrate □ Taurus beholds Leo and Aquary Gemini beholds Virgo and Pisces Cancer beholds Libra and Aries Leo beholds Taurus and Scorpio and Virgo beholds Gemini and Sagittary by a Quadrate Aspect which is called an Aspect of imperfect emnity or faigned friendship or trecherous amity c. and this is three Signs asunder But there is another manner of the Signs beholding one another two wayes viz. by a Trine Aspect which is an Aspect of perfect amity and friendship and is when Signs of one Triplicity of Nature behold one another As ♈ ♌ ♠are of the fiery Triplicity hot and dry ♉ ♠♑ are of the earthly Triplicicy cold and dry ♊ ♎ ♒ are of the aiery Triplicity hot and moist ♋ ♠♓ are of the watry Triplicity cold and moist Thus we see the fiery Trigonagrees with the earthly Triplicity in drinesse and with the Aery in heat and the earthly triplicity agrees with the watery triplicity in coldnesse and with the fiery triplicity in drinesse sic è converso These three Signes doe behold one another by a trine △ aspect and for the most part when any of the signes of one nature is well qualified or affected by a certain sympathy and agreement the other signes of the same qualitie participates of the same good or evlll influence and this Aspect is foure Signes asunder The other Aspect is called a ⚹ Sextile and is more imperfect then the Trine and the Signes doe thus behold one another viz. ♈ ♉ ♊ ♋ ♌ ♠Hath a Sextile aspect to ♒ ♊ ♓ ♋ ♈ ♌ ♉ ♠♊ ♎ ♋ ♠Here we see the fiery triplicity agrees with the Aerie in heat the Earthy with the Watery in coldnesse the Aery with the Fiery in heat and the Watery with the Earthy in coldnesse by a ⚹ Aspect and this is when Planets or Starres are two signes asunder Now I shall set downe the twelve Zodiacall Signs and such places Kingdomes Countries and Cities as have experimentally been found to have been subject to the said Signes and they are as followeth Vnder ♈ Aries these Countries England North and East part France Germany Suevia Silesia the higher part of Polonia Burgundie part of Denmark Basternia Syria Palestine Vnder ♈ Aries these Cities Naples Capua Ancona Ferrara Florence Verona Bergamo Lindaw Trajectum Padua Marseilles Epidaurum Crackow Augusta Caesarea Vincentia Vnder ♉ Taurus these Countries Russia Polonia the great the North part of Sweathland IRELAND Lorraigne Campania Helvetia Rhetia Franconia Parthia Persia the Islands Cyclades between Europe and Asia Cyprus the Sea towns of Asia the lesse Vnder ♉ Taurus these Cities Bononia Sena Mantua Tarentum Panorme in Sicily Perusium Parma Caput Histriae Brixia Tigure Lucerne Nantz Metis Herbipolis Carolstade Liepsig Posnania Gnesna Novagrade Vnder ♊ Gemini these Countries Sardinia part of Lumbardy South West part of England part of Flanders Brabant the Dukedome of Wittemberge Hircania Armenia Mariana Cyreniaca Marmarica Aegypt the Lower Vnder ♊ Gemini these Cities Carduba in Spaine Viterbiurn Coesena a City in Lumbardy Turin Vercelli Rhegium Lovaine Bruges in Flaunders LONDON Mentz Kitzing Hasford Bamberge Villacum Noremberge though Schoner and Cardan say it is under Sagitary yet Garcaeus proves it for many reasons to be under Gemini Vnder ♋ Cancer these Countries SCOTLAND Granado part of Burgundy HOLLAND Zeland Prussia Numidia Africa Bithynia Phrygia Colchis Carthage Vnder ♋ Cancer these Cities Constantinople Tunis VENICE Genoa Lucas Pisa Millain Vincentia Bern YORK Saint ANDREWES in SCOTLAND Lubeck Magdeburge
flourished about the yeer of Christ 1535. cotemporary with Bibliander Marlorat Viret Musculus c. all learned and men very excellent it is most true that from the yeer of Christ 800. to the yeer 1520. Paucae novae Haereses sunt Ortae multa autem fuerant Scismata ubi excellunt Scismata Pontificum Romanerum that is A few new heresies sprung up and many were the Schisms but those of the Roman Popes Bishops exceeded them all Alsted Chron. heresium pag. 390. And a little after the same Alsted saith Verum tamen enim vero non fuerint heretici illi Doctores sed Reformatores hereticae pravitatis in Regno Antichristi Romani these Doctors were not hereticks but Reformers of the hereticall pravity or corruptnesse in the Kingdome of the Pope the Roman Antichrist indeed if you will look a little further in Alsted he will tell you that ab hoc anno viz. 1520. Vsque ad nostram Aetatem pestilentes haereses ab inferis fuerunt revocatae nam Principio Anabaptistae furere caeperunt c. Anabaptists Antinomians Socinians Ubiquitarians Arminians c. were very busie and these were the Hereticks here meant though for my part I suppose the greatest Hereticks are Papists Jesuits c. and of all in the world those in Ireland the most damnable Next followes since the vertuous and holy Queen Mary of Scotland was beheaded in England 46. yeers Here is a manifest errour for if so then she should have been beheaded Anno Christi 1600. but that was not so for she was beheaded at Fothringhay Castle in Northamptonshire the 18. of February 1587. which was 13. yeers before this Computist reckons her body was buried at Peterborow and 25. yeers after viz. 1612. her body was removed to Westmninster she was born the 5. of December 1542. on which 5. of December 1560. Francis the second King of France who was her first husband dyed being married to her 1558. the 13. of October if you please to read Buchannan that learned Scotchmans books though they were prohobited 1584. some are extant they will tell you more I have read in Alsted in his Chronologia Regni Scotiae Maria haec Anno 1558. nupserat Francisco Regi Galliae quo defuncto redijt in Scotiam ubi nupsit Henrico Arli sive Stuarto quem interfici curavit unde in Insulam est deportata post elapsa in Angliam Anno 1568. postquam 18. Annos captiva fuisset detenta ibi est decollata and in Saturni Ephemeride Dedicated to King Charles pag. 382 Sub Titulo Scotland it is there said that in the yeer 1564. she fell in love with the Lord Darnley son to the Earl of Lenox got a Dispensation from the Pope for consanguinity and created him Earl of Rosse the next yeer after he is made Duke of Albany marrieth the Queen and is proclaimed King and that yeer that Duke of Chatteralt with divers Lords being put to the Horn fled into England but returning are reconciled The yeer 1566. Earl Morton and others fled into England and having murthered David Risius the Queens Minion in her Chamber Thaunus in his History Tom. 2. fol. 307. sayes Hemo vili conditione Citharaedi filius nomine David Rizius Angustae Taurinaurum natus and a little after he saith Faeminam per se praecipitem postremo impulit Rizius qui plus apud eam quam aut aequum aut ipsi decorum esset poterat Earl Morton returneth into Scotland and is pardoned that yeer King James was born and the next yeer viz. 1567. the King her husband was murthered by Earl Bothwell which Earl marrieih the Queen she goeth against the Discontented Lords and is taken Bothwell flies into Denmark and there dyes in prison the Queen resigneth makes an escape raiseth forces flies towards France and is cast on the English shore much more may be read of her in the Scottish History to which I refer you I shall use the words of Cambden in his description of Northamptonshire speaking of Fothringhay Castle fol. 511. As for that disaster which even here befell unto another most mighty Prince Mary Queen of Scots I had leiser it should be enwrapped up in silence then once spoken of let it be forgotten quite if possible if not yet be it hidden as it may in silence The next Chronologicall observation is since the birth of our gracious King Charles the 19. of Novemb. 46. yeers This I beleeve is true for I have often heard it reported that he was born at Dunfermling in Scotland the 19. of Novemb. 1600. Then succeeds since King Charles his return from Spain October the 5. 23. yeers this I remember was in Anno 1623. and it rained all or most part of that day at London Dic rogo cur toties Descendit ab Aethere nimbus Grandoque de Coelis sic sine fine Cadit Mortales quoniam nolunt sua crimina flere Coelum pro nobis solvitur in Lachrymas Then follows since the Birth of Prince Charles May the 23. 15. yeers This is erronious for our Prince Charles was born the 29. of May 1630. which is 16. yeers since at the revolution of this yeer 1646. and I very well remember the last of May being but two days after his birth there was a great Eclipse of the Sun in Gemini the 19. degree which was visibly beheld here and most part of Christendom all Authors agree that eclipses are very ominous and we have had sad experience thereof of late yeers Now comes again that memento with a witnesse viz. since the happy union of the Catholikes for defence of his Majesty his royall Issue c. which day is to be kept holy for a day of Thanksgiving being October 23. 1641. five yeers I have said enough already of this infamous 23. of October and I hope it will be remembred to the perpetuall ignominy of the bloody Rebels of Ireland And after that are renumerated severall victories since that Rebellion burst forth obtained by the Irish Confederates for his Majesty against the Round-heads I will not trouble my self or the Reader to mention them for I am confident they will sing O hone very shortly And the Irish Their dayes a number small shall make Another shall their Country take Their Children Vagabonds shall be Walk up and down most wretchedly God shall them put to endlesse shame And quite cut off their hatefull name If I should tell this Irish Chronologer of the severall wonderfull Victories it hath pleased God to give the Parliaments Forces in severall parts of the three Kingdoms against a potent powerfull malicious tyrannous and numerous Army since the beginning of this Parliament or since the most horrible Rebellion of Ireland was kindled I should exceed and swel into a volume I will only desire all the three Kingdoms to nay all the world may take notice of Gods great and wonderfull mercy he hath shewn to the Parliaments Forces in obtaining severall Victories against and strong holds taken
Saturn and Jupiter In the yeer 1584. there was fourteen Conjunctions of the Planets in Aries and the Sun and Moon Eclipsed ih Taurus In the yeer 1586. there will be thirteen Conjunctions of the Planets in Aries and one in Taurus of the Sun and Mercury and afterwards in the yeer 1588. twelve Conjunctions of the Planets in divers Signs without doubt after these Conjunctions will follow or succeed mischievous villanous and wicked Counsels and detestable Acts commotions or troubles seditions wars slaughters or killing in Cities Kingdoms and Provinces unknown or unheard of diseases the plague death of great Kings and Lords Infinite dissentions and new diversities of opinions in Religion and to conclude very great calamities in all the Countries of the world as many skilfull men in coelestiall matters suppose gathering these things from the events which are to follow these forepast Conjunctions now rehearsed I shall hereunto adde some particular predictions out of the same Rantzovius pag. 99. Friderici secundi imperatoris Astrologus ab eo interrogatus cur tantum honoris Rudolpho Haspurgensi Comiti pauperi in Aula sua tunc versanti exhiberet respondit mortuis tuis filiis quorum adhuc decem supersunt ipse posteri ejus ad tua Regna pervenient Author Albertus Argentinensis quod exitus ipse probavit Nam Anno Christi 1273. Calend. Octob. Rudolphus a Germanis principibus Francofurti in Regem Romanum eligetur cum Basiliam obsideret hodierno adhuc die videmus Rudolphi posteros Regnum Neopolitanum Ducatum Austriae Sueviae una cum Imperio Regno Neopolitano obtinere Modernus nam Imperator Rudolphus ab eo nomen ditiones haeditario jure accepit Philippus Hispaniae Rex ex eodem natus Regnum Siculum Neoplitanum nactus est That is The Astrologer of the Emperour Frederick the second being asked by him why he showed so much respect to Rudolph the poor Earl of Habspurg then frequenting his Court To whom the Astrologer answered Thy Sonnes being dead of whom ten are yet living He and his Posterity shall attaine to thy Kingdoms which the event proved for in the yeer of Christ 1273. the first of October Rudolph besieging of Basill was elected by the Princes of Germany at Frankeford to be King of the Romans and to this day we see the posterity of Rudolph to enjoy the Kingdom of Naples the Dukedoms of Austria and Suevia together with the Empire and Kingdom of Naples for the late Emperour Rudolphus by hereditary right received from him both his name dominions and Empire and Phillip King of Spain proceeding from him obtained the Kingdom of Scicily and Naples This Frederick the second was elected 1212. he raigned 38. yeers he dyed 1250. the Empire was void 22. yeers though Conrade his Son and Richard brother to Henry the third King of England who was Earl of Cornwall were elected in the interim and in the yeer 1273. this Rudolph was elected Emperour and so continued seventeen yeers nine moneths and sixteen dayes it being sixty yeeres before this prediction came to passe for ought I read to the contrary In pag. 97. in the same Rantzovius thus I find Magister Christianus Astrologus Pragensis Ladislaum Jagellonem Regem Poloniae per Sacerdotem praemonuit ut mortem sibi imminentem praecaveret quod multi Planetae conjungerentur fieret Eclipsis Lunae sub Terra mortuus autem nihil ominus est eo Anno qui fuit Annus Domini 1434. Anno Aetatis 49. That is Master Christian an Astrologer of Prague admonished Ladislaus Jagello King of Poland by his Priest that he should beware of imminent death for that many Planets were conjoyned this yeer and there would be an eclipse of the Moon under the earth notwithstanding that premonition he dyed that yeer of our Lord which was 1434. in the 49. yeer of his age In the same page the next adjoyning observation is thus Joannes Picus Mirandulae Comes edidit Librum adversus Astrologos hi inter quos fuerunt Bellantius Senensis Antonius Sirigatus Florentinus Angelus de Catastivis Carmelita ut Artem veram ostenderent illum annum aetatis 33. non transgressurum predixerunt ex directione Ascendentis ad Martem quemadmodum hinc inde editis constat that is Joannes Picus Earl of Mirandula published a Book against Astrologers These men that is to say the Astrologers amongst whom were Bellantius of Sena Antonius Sirigatus a Florentine and Angelus de Catastivis a Carmelite that they might shew it Astrology to be a true Art they foretold the said Picus that he should not escape the 33. yeer of his age by reason of the direction of the Ascendant to the body of Mars as it appears in the writings published upon this occasion I mention this the rather for that it is most appaâ—â—nt these three men were Astrologers and by Astrology foretold to this Picus the time of his death who flattering himselfe with a false comfort as if he could wrangle away Death by writing against Astrology indeavouring to prove the Art vaine his death concurring exactly with the time predicted confirmed the same Art to be true and more actually confuted that which he had written against it then if all the world besides had conspired to answer him I have rehearsed these things and been the larger upon them though I could shew above one thousand examples of rare observations Astrologicall and many of my owne experiment to cure that Episcopomania or An examination of Sir Christopher Heydons Defence of Astrology For would any man but a man not well in his wits T. V.B. of D. publish and Print that the Astrologer foretelleth that is true by the helpe of Satan that Astrologicall predictions depend not upon naturall Causes that Astrologicall predictions stand not by learning but by some instinct that Astrology considereth the fortunes onely of Fooles and wicked men that the first Inventor of Astrology was the Divell that the Astrologer attaineth not to his intended end in a Prediction without the helpe of Magicke with many other absurd Tenents I will tell you a story of himself as he writes it in his Epistle Dedicatory where he says thus That those predictions doe not always fall out jump and true as they would bear us in hand but that either the Devil doth misse sometimes or that his Instrument doth mistake his informations this I am able to justifie and make good by a plain story of my self when I was a child and went to School at Carleil where I was born there came an odde fellow about the Country he was reputed a cunning man and so called for that he took upon him to tell fortunes the fellow was dumb or at least faigned himself speechlesse but certain it was he had an instinct or familiarity with some Spirit This fellow being on a time in my Fathers house there were some there more simply honest then religiously wise made signs unto him to shew what should be my
so that now they may see these words to their shame and Gods glory fulfilled But I am tedious although no neede is thereof let any indifferent man judge on Mr. Lillies Observations in this present March 1646. He saith the first weeke Newes from severall quarters and some towne or fort surrendred so we had the surrender of Ashby and the town of Torrington Then he proceds some proposition from our weather beaten enemies Westward Is not this true in the Lord Hopton his surrender of 2000 horse upon modest propositions Againe his Majesty stands amazed who thinks lesse then so when he sees all is like to be lost Here 's strugling saith he this we in London know to be true Againe Three dayes promise our enemies successe but God may blinde their eyes to make use of none that is neither eyes nor time The poore fellowes were in Abington 2 March but were hastily and valiantly thrust out by the valour of the Garrisons this was one of their promising dayes In the second weeke of March they attempted it againe but to no purpose the same weeke they missed our Convoy of 20000 pound by contrary Intelligence so that its hoped their three dayes ore out of date and their eyes quite put out and they may wander with Rupert and Maurice to Ireland to cry Oh hone for here 's no more plunder to be obtained in England These his predictions in favour of Astrology I have repeated because they are excellent and notable expressions in the Art and manifestly visible They that would be further satisfyed repaire to the books themselves For what I have performed in the ensuing Tractate I leave to the candid censure of the well disposed and doe hope as Mr. Lilly and my selfe have the same principles in Art so our judgements in the generall and my owne particular notion upon the sollid foundation of Art will have answerable successe I hartily wish all happinesse to our present Parliament and abundant of blessing to the City of London wherein I now inhabit pray to God preserve both States in Unity and Concord that so the Affaires of the Publique may more vigorously be prosecuted Religion established and Peace universally succeed So wisheth a true English man an Abhorrer of the Irish Rebellion One that prayeth for the Peace of Church and State and the utter extirpation of Popery JOHN BOOKER A Bloody Irish ALMANACK for the YEERE 1646. NOt many dayes after the Irish Cabinet or his Majesties Secret Papers for establishing the Papall Clergy in Ireland came to publick view which is worthy to be perused by all true hearted Protestants of England There appeared an Irish Almanack intituled thus A new Almanack for the yeere of our Lord God 1646. being the second after Leap yeere and since the Creation of the World 5595. Calculated for the Longitude and Latitude of the City of Waterford and may serve generally for all Ireland By an Manapian Waterford Printed for the Yeere MDCXLVI Which Almanack I having had sight of and perusing the same I found many remarkable and memorable Chronologicall Observations agreeing so exactly with the transaction of the forepassed and present affaires betweene his Majesty and the bloody Irish who are called his Majesties Catholick Subjects That I held it a great injury to the English Nation if the same should have been smothered and not divulged I meane so much thereof as discovers the inveterate hatred of that inhumane people against the Parliament and the whole Kingdome of England The other part being either Popish Saints dayes or vulgar Observations in most common Almanacks I passed by as not materiall to the present taske in hand and indeede the whole of it and all of them I judge worthy no other then the fire In the leafe next the Title page Thus it is Printed Our most Gracious King Charles began his Raigne over great Brittaine and Ireland the 27 of March in the yeare of our Lord 1625. And hath Raigned 21 yeares compleate the 26 of March 1646. But the 27 day we write Anno Regni 22 Whom God prosper in all his Designes against his Rebellious Subjects the ☞ ROVNDHEADS of ENGLAND I trust God will not heare their prayer but turne it into Sin and Abomination Psal 109.7 Prov. 28.9 Hath the King Designes against his Subjects Are his Subjects termed Rebells Are they pointed out for destruction by a bloody hand and called the Roundheads of England O God blast all such designes And all yee true hearted English men looke about you unite your selves against the common Enemy the blood-thirsty Irish Papists Jesuites and their confederates c Why doe the Heathen rage and the people imagine a vaine thing The Kings of the Earth set themselves and the Rulers take Councell together against the Lord and against his anointed Saying Let us breake their bands asunder and cast their coards from us He that sitteth in the Heavens shall laugh The Lord shall have them in division he shall speake to them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure He shall breake them with a rod of iron and dash them in peeces like a Potters vâ—ssâ—ll Be wise now therefore O ye Kings be instructed ye Judges of the Earth serve the Lord with feare and rejoyce with trembling Kisse the Sonne least he be angry and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little But blessed are all they that put their trust in him Psal 2.1 2 3 4 5 9 10 11 12. The next Irish note which I observe is as followeth In the month of January over against the 10 day in bloody red letters this Manapian one borne in Menapia a City or Towne in the County of Weisford or Wexford in Ireland or Wexford it selfe as Camden thinks in his Description of Ireland fol. 89. mihi sets it downe thus The most pernitious Anarchicall Rebellion of the Roundheads of England It may be remembred that January the first 1641 The Parliament petitioned the King for a Guard foreseeing a designe upon them And the next day the Kings Answer was He tendred their safety as his owne and their life as the life of his children But the fourth day he came in person to the House of Commons attended with about foure hundred persons with Swords Pistolls c. to demand the five Members which unparallel'd attempt discovered the designe of the Enemy to make warre against the Parliament which afterward followed yea and the next day after the King himselfe came to the Guild Hall in London at a Common Councell to what intent appeared in few dayes for this tenth day mentioned in the Irish Almanacke The King with the Queen Prince Duke of Yorke left Whitehall and went to Hampton-Court ever since which time to this very day having forsaken his Parliament and left his people out of his protection hath beene the most horrible bloody unnaturall warre that ever was in England nay in all the world it being never knowne that a King
Pharaoh and the Red Sea yea God changeth the Times and the Seasons He removeth Kings and setteth up Kings Dan. 2.21 Who knowes but that the Hand-writing upon the Wall may be applicable to this present miserable deplorable time we live in for my part I tremble to thinke to what sad condition many will be brought in short time if God Almighty prevent not But Quos vult perdere Jupiter hos dementat And now though these two dismall Aspects in October be past their Effects continue And this yeare in April are many notable meetings of the Planets in the Signe Taurus governing Ireland As first of Saturne and Mercury on the 12 day Venus and Mercury the 14 day the Sun and Saturne the 17 day the Sun and Venus the 18 day and Saturne and Venus the 20 day all of them in the first Face of Taurus between the 6 and 10 degree of the said signe Lord what preparations doe the Irish and their confederate Friends the papall Party here there and from forraigne parts make what Consultations Messages Embassyes what Treacheries what combinations what Conspiracies doe they frame against the poore Protestants of England c But the longest day must have an end And on that day this yeere Mars and Saturne Lerma Lerma resonabunt who meeting in conjunction in the midst of Taurus will sound fearfull Alarmes in the midst of Ireland but of these more anon I thought to have found in the next Moneth in this Irish Almanack viz. November on the 5 day some commemoration of that damnable powder Plot 1605 that Popish hellish Conspiracy to destroy the Parliament but they in Ireland would be ignorant of that as not long since our corrupt ambitious Prelaticall Clergy endeavoured to have brought the same about here but let us in England for ever remember Gods mercy and be thankfull in our deliverance from the damnable Treason of the Papists on our 5 day of November 1605. Where there was both a Plot and powder And let us not forget the fearfull judgement of God in the downefall of Black-Fryers upon the Papists the 26 of our October being the 5 of their November 1623. where was no Plot nor powder O miranda Dei Judicis aequitas fraudis fraudâ— sua prenditu Artifex quis alios plagis irretire parabant hâ—sere impliciti pedes The wicked people in the pit are fallen themselves that digged it Yea their owne feet are fast insnar'd in hidden nets themselves prepar'd And thereby hath the Lord been known for having such a judgement shown In that the wicked are surpriz'd even in the snare themselves devis'd They in Ireland begin their Michaelmas Terme at Kilkenny as this Irish Almanack hath it on the 3 day of November on which day of November 1640. this happy Parliament in England so much endeavoured to be dissolved began but their Terme and our Parliament are heterogenean Our Parliament ere long will alter their Terme and as their Rebellion broke forth the 23 of October so we now begin our Terme on the 23 of October as if one should say all the Courts of Justice in England by a Divine providence were opened to give Judgement against the Irish for their Rebellion against them the 23 of October Well! This 23 of October will be remembred as a day of mercie by the Parliament and whole Kingdome of England for their great deliverance out of the hands of their cruell Enemy at Keynton Battell when the bloody Irish His Race and all his Generation Shall suffer utter extirpation And in the Age that next doth follow Oblivion shall his black name swallow It may very well be said of Ireland Bona Terra malu Gens But when that wicked Generation of men have drunke their fill of the bloud of the Saints then shall they as deepely drinke of the Cup of Gods wrath Quod differtur non aufertur The time hasteneth and is neerer then they are aware of I have briefely run over these Irish Notes which this Manapian in behalfe of that Kingdome of Ireland and to the same end as Naworth and Wharton the Oxfordians publish theirs in malice against the Parliament and the Kingdome of England have done Thereby discovering themselves to be a most Viperous Generation There are some other observations I might have made on the Popish Saints dayes which in this Almanack are very thin I hope in the next that is written there will be none at all And had this Irish Manapian beene as learned in Astrology as Wharton is and predicted as much as he did upon the Kings unfortunate march the seventh of May the last yeare I should have hoped the like successe as ever since hath befallen that Party My Friend Master Lilly in his Postscript to his Starry-Messenger lately Printed hath sufficiently refuted that Bloxford Astrolo-gazestar We neede not feare either of them one more then the other There is a lying Spirit in the mouth of all of them 2 Chron. 18.21 Their Religion their Learning is one and the same their Knowledge in Astrology very neere of kin There is not a Lunation that is A New Moone Full Moone or her other Quarters mentioned throughout this Popish Calendar that is truely set downe Some of them twelve houres some a day some two dayes and many three dayes erring from the truth I am sure of it never a one of them fitted to the Meridian of any part of Ireland for which it was intended nor for England against whom it was penned printed and published So that if the Oxford Writers take their Observations and ground their Judgements from the Lunations in the Irish Almanack we shall not neede to be dismayed at their pradictions And the fayre weather in the Irish Almanack will prove foule to them when the English come to correct the Printing Presse at Waterford I am now come to the end of the Calendar and in the next page I finde set downe The rising and setting of the Sun for every first and fifteenth day of every moneth in the yeare Why God maketh his Sun to rise on the evill and on the good and sendeth raine on the just and on the unjust Math. 5.45 There is likewise the length of the day set downe If they please to remember the Battell at Naseby the last yeare they will have small cause to rejoyce the 12 of June this yeare or not many dayes after Truely the longest day will be for ever fatall to the Irish and their Confederates if my Astrologie faile not and they know it seldome does After this Table followes A Compendious Chronology of things Memorable From the Creation to Noahs Flood Gen. 5.7.11 -1060 Yeares From the Flood to Abraham Gen. 11.32 12.4 Act. 7.4 -356 Yeares From Abrahams birth to Terah's death Gen. 11.32.12.4 80 Yeares From Terah's death to Israels delivery Exod. 12.40 41. -434 Yeares From that time till Salomons Temple 1 Kings 6.1 484 Yeares From the building of Salomons Temple to Christ 1032 Yeares From Christs birth
till this yeares end -1646 Yeares The full Sum from the Creation to this yeares end is 5092 Yeares This Irish Chronologer hath computed by his false Arithmetick the abovesaid numbers of yeares to be 5595 as he sets down both in the Frontispice of his Almanacke and in this place but both are equally erroneous It is true Non levis inter viros Doctos rerum historicarum annotationibus existit controversia That is There is no small controversie amongst learned men in their Annotations of Historicall matters Truely there is great diversity amongst them in many memorable Chronologicall Computations But never any that ever I read of computed lesse then 1656 yeares from the Creation to the Flood So that this Irish account is short of the truth in this very particular no lesse then 596 yeares now if we adde these 596 yeares to 5092 they will make in all 5688 which is too many by 93 yeares so that there is no truth at all in this compendious Chronology Methinks when I see 88. I call to minde that Annus ominosus fatalis The Spanish Invasion Cum formidabilis illa Classis Hispanica profligatur ab Anglis Duce Francisco Drake That terrible Armado The lively portraiture whereof is represented in those curious Works in the Lords House now in Parliament at Westminster But as that Armado then was Ventorum Ludibrium and was by Gods providence totally defeated by the English So the Irish Rebellion will have like successe Then follows the remainder of this Compendious Chronology with Since the destruction of Troy 2830 yeares This may be something neere truth for all Writers agree that it was before Christ 1183 yeares now if we adde 1646 being the yeares since Christ Birth to 1183 the yeares before his Birth they will make 2829 since the destruction of Troy Then followes since Bartholenus entred this Island of Ireland 4235 yeares who this Bartholenus I cannot learne but it seemes he came in the yeare of the world 1360 which was 296 yeares before the Flood which I prove thus If you substract 4235 yeares from 5595 there will remaine 1360 and if you substract this 1360 from 1656 the yeare of the World when the Flood was there will remaine 296. I beleeve he was one of the Off-spring of Cain though Camden relates in his description of Ireland fol. 64. that the Irish Historiographers say that he was a Scythian and then he came of Magog who descended from Japeth and that he fought right doughty Battells with Gyants In these times men lived many hundreds of yeares but when the Flood came all the People of the Earth were drowned save eight Persons which were Noah and his wife with his three sonnes Sâ—m Ham and Japeth and their Wives Now amongst all these there was never a Bartholènus and if there had been any such a one doubtlesse he had perished amongst the rest in the Flood If he came not from Cain before the Flood surely he descended from Ham who was the Father of Canaan after the Flood from these three sonnes of Noah all the Earth was overspread now Noah cursed Canaan and said a Servant of Servants shall he be unto his brethren To what purpose this Bartholenus is mentioned to have entred Ireland or who he was it much matters not neither if the Irish came from him or from whom else this I am sure of they are now a People farre exceeding the most barbarous Caniballs and inhumane bloudy men that ever I read of in any History Here may be moved a question why Canaan being cursed he should possesse the most fertile place and part of the World a Land flowing with milke and Honey so may I say of Ireland why such a good Country should be bestowed on so wicked a People I much wonder at it it rather shewes a blessing then a curse and that they should rather be Lords then servants but as one sayes Cum Israelitae deletis omnibus istis gentibus viz. Sidoniis Tyriis Hethaeis Jebusaeis Amorhaeis Gergesaeis Hevaeis Cannanaeis c. terram Cananaeam ingrederentur tunc sauè manifestata est veritas maledictionis Nohae dederuntque paenas impietatis suae ejecti excisi per populum Dei quem tandem triumphare oportet It is just the State and Condition of Ireland as then of Canaan And they must looke for the like measure of punishment by the English and Scotish Nation as Canaan did by the Israelites Then follows since the building of the City of Waterford by Sitaracus 1491 yeares This Sitaracus it seemes was about the yeare of Christ 155. About which time Valentinian an Egyptian that damnable Heretique spread his wicked Tenents and about this time lived Higinus the first that stiled himselfe Pope of Rome This City by the Irish is called Porth-Largy as Camden sayes in his description of Ireland fol. 79. And was built by certain Pyrates of Norway But I make a great question of the Antiquity of it neither is it to purpose Onely it is observable that Pyrates were the founders of Waterford I am sure of it Printing was not then used but it seemes now they have got a Printing Presse there Whether it and the materials came from Rome Doway Rhimâ—s or any such other Popish place I know not But they there and at Oxford of late and now print base and railing Pamphlets and lying Almanacks and in them most grossely abuse the Parliament and Kingdome of England who no doubt ere long will suppresse their Presses Now followes since the building of the City of Rome 2397 yeares about the yeare of the world 3198. It is a great dispute amongst Chronologers and Historiographers when Rome was built Some of them as Berosus and Râ—usner say The first foundation was layde in the yeare of the World 2341 by Roma daughter to Atlas or Kitim King of Italy about thirty yeers before the Birth of Moses Some yea the most thinke that it was built by Romulus and Remus as Livy Dion and others relate The Story is thus Procas King of Latium or the Latines having left his Kingdome after he had raigned three and twenty yeares to his two Sonnes Amulius and Numitor to rule by yearely turnes Amulius having gotten possession keepes the Kingdome by strong hold and causeth Numitor his Brother to live privately And because Amulius would not live in feare of Numitors issue he enticed Lausus or Egestus Numitors Sonne to goe hunt with him and then and there slew him And caused his daughter Rhea or Ilia to become a Vestall Virgin to keepe her from marriage or children But he was deceived For in the fourth yeare of his raigne which was as some suppose in the yeare of the World 3158. She was great with childe by an unknowne man but many thinke by Amulius himselfe in disguise because he knew she should dye if the breach of her Vow appeared by a great belly and was delivered of Romulus and Remus at a Birth For which she was buried quick
or beaten to death with Rods. But Dion saith she was saved at the request of Amulius his daughter but Romulus and Remus were delivered to some to be cast into Tiber in a cradle which could not be effected because the River was overflowne So they were left upon a Banke Faustulus the chiefe Shepheard to Amulius being at Court having heard their doome Followed Found and carried them to his wife Acca Laurentia called by the people for her lust and the Stewes of her Lupanaria Lupa Hence arose this Fiction That they were nursed by a Shee-Woolse She delivered them to a woman that had lost a childe a little before of her owne At the age of eighten yeares these Brothers fell out with Numitors Shepheard about feeding of their Flocks But when Romulus was absent Remus was carried before Amulius who upon their Complaint delivered him to Numitor to put him to death but Faustulus perceiving the danger revealed their birth to Romulus who reputed Faustulus till that time to be his Father and to Numitor upon a consultation they assaulted Amulius slew him and restored Numitor to the Kingdome who gave leave to them to build Cityes Romulus chose the Mount Palatine and built Rome and this was Anno Mundi 3198 as the Irish Computator reckons I will not much trouble my selfe concerning the truth of this Story Onely it is observable that Rome was built founded by Bloud Murther Lust Treachery c. And I know not why I may not suppose the Irish Nation to come from that Lupa For they are all of them of the same Religion with those nay of Rome the Whore of Babylon That Countrey of Ireland hath had many Wolves in it but never more then now And Camden in his description of Ireland Fol. 83. sayes some of the Irish and such as would be thought worthy of Credit doe affirme that certaine men in the County of Tipperary are yearely turned into Wolves Whether it be a meere fable or no I matter it not Unlesse that malignant humour of unkind Melancholy predominate in them and so cause that disease which Physicians call Lycanthropia and so they imagine themselves to be transformed into Wolves However that malignant humour hath reigned amongst them above this foure yeares That now the people are become more salvage and bloudy then Wolves or any other creature whatsoever But this Parliament the Physician that can under God cure all distempers of Church and State will cure Ireland of its Lycanthropia England was many yeares ago rid of Wolves by destroying them And I have read that King Edgar imposed a taske upon Ludwall a Prince in Wales to present yeerely to him three hundred Wolves or their skins for a Tribute which he did for three yeares together But the fourth yeere he gave over protesting he could find no more What King Edgar did I know not but thankes be to God there are no Wolves in England but of the Irish breed Though there hath beene an endeavour to bring over hath beene and now are and are daily expected some Wolvish Irish in England This I am sure of This Parliament hath passed an Ordinance of the 24 of October 1644 That no Quarter shall be given to any Irish man nor to any Papists whatsoever borne in Ireland which shall be taken in hostility against the Parliament either upon the Sea or within this Kingdome or Dominion of Wales But that they shall be excepted out of all Capitulations Agreements or Compositions with the Enemy And every such person to be put to death Nay any Officer by Sea or Land that shall be remisse or negligent in the observing the Tenor of this Ordinance shall be reputed a Favourer of that Bloody Rebellion in Ireland and shall be liable to such condigne punishment as the Justice of both Houses of Parliament shall inflict upon theâ— I trust this Ordinance will be throughly and duly prosecuted and then I hope both Kingdomes will shortly be cleared of the Wolves of Ireland or the Wolvish Irish After the building of Rome comes since the Captivity of Babylon by Cyrus 2284 yeares This should seeme to be in the yeere of the world 3311 as the Irish Computator reckons But herein severall Chronologers have their diversitie of Opinions This cannot possibly be true for Cyrus began to rule over Persia in the first of the 55 Olimpiade which was Anno Mundi 3390. So that here is 89 yeeres difference of this Computation And in the yeere of the World 4409 Cyrus invaded Babylon and conquered it c. And in Anno Mundi 4420. being the end of the 70 yeeres Captivity as Scaliger and others thinke he was in a second battell with 200000 men defeated by Tomiris Queene of the Scythians where himselfe lost his life Tomiris cut off his head and threw it into a vessell of blood And now let the Irish remember her saying to dead King Cyrus After blood thou didst thirst and with blood thou shalt be satisfied Next ensues since the desolation of the Temple of Salomon 2251 yeares This should be in Anno Mundi 3344. In which yeare there was no such thing done It is true the Prophet Jeremiah Anno Mundi 3340 foretold of the destruction of the City Hierusalem and Temple which came to passe twenty yeares after For Anno Mundi 3360 Nebuchadnezzar tooke it and destroyed it as Helvicus c reckons Then comes since Augustus Caesar began his Empire 1686 yeers And this after the Irish Accompt was Anno Mundi 3909. But here are seven years errour For all Authors begin it Anno Mundi 3902. And then the fourth Monarchy began in Julius Caesar who ruled Emperour but five yeares After him came Augustus Caesar Anno Mundi 3906 and reigned 56 yeares and in the 41 yeare of his reigne which was Anno Mundi 3947 Our Saviour Christ was borne Or as the received opinion is Anno Mundi 3949. Now if we adde this 3949 to 1646 They will make 5595 The yeares since the Creation as our Irish Chronology reckons After this followes since Hierusalem utterly destroyed by Vespatian 1563 yeares This should have beene Anno Christi 83. But then there was no such matter for it was in Anno Christi 70 So that there is an errour of thirteene yeares defective then there will be since Vespatians destruction of Jerusalem 1576 yeares as most Authors agree After this followes since Ireland first received the Catholicke faith by the preaching of the glorious Saint Patrick 1221 yeares And this was Anno Christi 425. About this time this Patrick lived Caelestine the first being Pope of Rome The Nestorian heresie was much spread abroad Many strange things have beene reported of this Patrick In memory of whom the 17 of March the Irish celebrate as a Festivall But I shall take a course to crosse him out of the Calendar Hiberniae fuit Episcopus primus imago illius exprimitur Serpentibus ad ejus pedes abjectis quoniam Divina illius virtute hoc
mirabiliter fieri traditur ut nulla venenata bestia ibi vivat Petrus Galasinius ex Beda lib. 1. cap. 1. Histor Angl. That is He was the first Bishop of Ireland and his Image is portrayed with Serpents cast under his feete for that by his divine vertue it wonderfully came to passe that no venemous Beasts can live there This is a miracle indeed if it be true Surely Panrick extracted all the Venome of Serpents Toades and such like odious creatures then in Ireland And by his preaching infused the same into the people There were before Patrick came such like creatures there and there be now in Ireland more Venemous and Serpentine people then the very creatures themselves can be in any other Countrey in the world which this late Horrid Rebellion doth sufficiently evince But I hope there will be a Reformation there as well as here more glorious preaching then that of Patrick or all Popish Bishops Priests Jesuites c. And the Faith Catholicke indeed not in a Popish sence Though I conceive this Manapian should have said since Ireland first received the Popish Catholicke faith c. This had beene to purpose and then I should not have excepted against it The next Chronologicall Observation is Since England first received the Catholicke Faith 1463 yeeres If he had said since England first received the Christian Catholicke Faith c. it had beene somewhat neere truth For King Lucius beginning his rule over the Brittaines hearing of divers miracles wrought by the Christians and amongst the rest of the plenty of Water in time of distresse and want thereof as of the great Victory obtained Anno Christi 173 for the Emperour Marcus over the Marcomanni Quadi by the prayers of the Christian Legion which he called Fulminatrix sent to Eleutherius then Pope of Rome to send him some learned men into Brittaine to instruct the people in the Faith whereupon he sent Damianus and Fugatius who Baptized King Lucius and his people He was the first Christian King of Brittaine and lived neere the time of Christian Religions Primitive purity when Popish Catholicke Religion was not heard of If any of the Popes were ought this Pope Elutherius was none of the worst He prohibited the superstitious refusall of eating any thing which was mans meate Et primus erat Episcoporum Romanorum qui non periit morte violenta King Lucius built Peters Church in Cornhill London about 430 yeeres before Pauls Church which was built by King Ethelbert who began his raigne Anno Christi 596. After follows since Henry the second arrived at this City of Waterford and the first Major of it 474. yeers This is neer an historicall truth for Anno Christi 1170. or thereabout at what time that ambitious turbulent fiery spirited Arch-bishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket was slain This King Henry the second had wars with Ireland and the next yeer he subdued it and I suppose King Henry the second at his comming to Waterford made it a Major Town and indeed as most men that have been there report it to be the second City in all Ireland and that the Kings of England have granted great priviledges to the same Who this Major was our Irish Chronologer doth not name I beleeve he was an English not an Irish man for I cannot conceive otherwise but they were then rebellious as now so that there is greater necessity of correcting their present rebellion by a new supply of valiant English men who if they land at Waterford the present Major may chance to be displaced and the Citizens lose their liberty The next is since the use of Guns invented in Germany and the first making of Powder by a Fryar Bartholdus Swartz 263. yeer This doth not much differ from the supposed time of their known use in Christendom although I have read that in the time of Charles the great who flourished about the yeer of Christ 800. Camoscus Frisiae Rex Slopeti ictu Hollandiae Comitem cum duobus filijs transuerberavit and Roger Bacan our famous Historian who flourished about the yeer or Christ 1280. makes mention of Gun-powder and I beleeve what Petrus Maffeus writes that Guns were of great antiquity and known in China many Centuries of yeers before they were used in Christendome However let us suppose that Bartholdus Niger vulgo Swartz Monachus Franciscanus Alchymista usum Bombardae vulgavit pro ut nunc est anno Christi 1380. as Alsteed sayes in his Chronologie Orig. var. pag. mihi 256. I think the Adage Turdus sibi malum cacat or as we in England have it he hath made a rod for his own breech will be exactly verefied this yeer Look to it all ye Irish Popish Fryars Monks Jesuits c. and the rest of that rabble of Locusts there are new Guns new Ordnances inventing preparing that will purge and cleer the three Kingdoms of all of you Now this Irish Chronologer Bellarmine like spets forth venome and rores out which since Lutheranism Calvinisme and such like heresies began in Germany 128. yeers he that would be throughly satisfied touching this worthy Doctor Martin Luther this Malleus Paparum Papistarum may be pleased to peruse the second Tome of Acts and Monuments or the Book of Martyrs written by that reverend and learned man Master John Fox p. 60 61. deinde of the last Impression 1641. he shall have his life and doctrine at large described he flourished in the yeer of Christ 1515. c. This is he of whom John Hus at the time of his Martyrdom prophesied 1415. Centum Revolutis annis Deo Respondebitis and Hierom of Prague 1416. at his Martyrdom who said Post Centum annos omnes vos Cito now 100. yeers after Martin Luther began first to write against the Pope which was exactly verified Reformation began in his time he opposed the Popes supremacy writ against his pardons Decrees Buls and so stoutly defended himself against them that he was excommunicated by the Pope and men hired to kill him nay the Devil the Pope the Emperour and almost all the Christian world were against him and by open force and secret fraud sought his destruction yet God miraculously preserved him for about thirty yeers space in despight of them all and at last he dyed in hia bed in peace at Islebia in Germany the 18. of Febr. 1546. from whence his body was removed to Wittenberg and there was buried the 22. of February 1546. it being just 100. yeers since this Febr. 1646. at what time I write this and now I may adde a third Prophesie or prediction to cite all Irish Priests and popish Fryars c. Quod post centum annos Luthero respondebitis this Chronologer most falsly accusing him of heresie whose sound doctrine hath so confuted the errours of those ignorant times that to this day the Papists could never answer him but most maliciously traduce him As for Master Calvin he was a most reverend orthodox man and
ruine and destruction to those great ones subversion of their ancient Families and ruine to their stately Buildings Cities Townes Towers and Castles That People shall be in most miserable and deplorable condition We see the Conjunction is in Taurus under which amongst other places Ireland is posited and that the signes Leo Scorpio and Aquary are sharers and must participate in this influence Famine Scarcity Plagues and terrible warfare shall happen to many places under those Signes If they expect ayd from Foraigne parts they will be frustrated Me thinkes I behold all the States of Europe involv'd in this Quarrell the French and Spaniard Matching the Hollander busie the POPE thundering his Bulls and Excommunications the Turke making great preparations so likewise the Germane Dane Swede Polonian Venetian nay what State in the Christian World is not disquieted If I should recount the Eclipses and great Conjunctions of the superior Planets in Signes to which most or all Countries in Europe are subjected and the events that have succeeded within these few yeares in these places I might rather make an History then a succinct discourse there were not long since two or three Eclipses of both the Luminaryes in the Signe Leo the effects of all which are strongly operating and for many yeares together will produce admirable and unexpected occurrences I believe the progresse of Saturne through the Signe Taurus out of which he will not fully free himselfe till the end of March 1648. will be very fatall to Ireland and most chiefely he will powre out his influence upon that place rather then any other For if we consider the present condition thereof since the Rebellion there broke forth The horrid Murthers and cruell slaughters by them committed upon many thousands of English Protestants whose bloud cryes for vengeance doe authorise me Astrologically to pronounce a fearefull doome of Fire Sword Plague and Famine to follow that bloudy Nation Let me tell the Spaniard French or what other Nation soever that is ayding or assisting them they must not escape the Divine vengeance which God by the Starres his Coelestiall Ministers doth menace them withall If the Pope send his Agents to prosecute their Designes he may chance loose his Triple Crowne in this unjust quarrell they have raised The Divell may rage for a season Sed si Deus nobiscum quis contra nos The fight from Heaven the Starre in their Courses fight against CaesAR Sisera I hope I shall speak truth if I tell the French Spaniard or any other friend the Irish or their Associates have that though they never made greater preparations yet with as like successe as that Invincible Armado in 88 had at what time fourescore of the Spanish Ships were lost with not so few as twenty thousand men The windes and Seas fighting at that time for England which was many yeares before threatned by the proud and insulting Spaniard This Armado consisted of 130 Ships nineteene thousand two hundred and ninty Souldiers eight thousand three hundred and fifty Mariners two thousand and fourescore Gally-slaves two thousand sixe hundred and thirty great Ordinance which Navy having been three yeares in preparing and at no small charge within one moneth was often beaten and at length put to flight and as I said 20000 of their men being slaine and not above one hundred of the English were missing the remainder of their Navy some in their slight were cast upon Scotland and some upon Ireland and those few that escaped returned with a great deale of dishonour into Spaine above 700 Souldiers and Seamen were cast upon the Scottish shore who were afterward sent over to the Low-Countries but those which by Tempest were driven upon Ireland found a harder measure for the wild Irish of their owne accord slew many of them I suppose their cruelty is not inferiour now to what it was then but suppose the French Spanish Irish Jesuite Popish Fryer Priest and the whole rabble of Antichristians in all the World were combined together against England let but an English man name 1588. or 1605. And without doubt the proudest and most cruellest of them all will be daunted and sink down with amazement so powerfull hath God showne himselfe in those times That in the first the King of Spaine himselfe acknowledged the misfortune that befell him to have been the handy worke of God and gave thanks to God and his Saints causing the like to be done throughout Spaine that it fell to be no worse And for that in 1605 certainly it was the eye of Gods Providence that discovered that horrid deed of darknesse the Gun-Powder Treason invented by the Divellish Papists to the destruction of the Parliament and so consequently to the whole Kingdome Let us looke back to the yeare 1587. In which yeare Mary Queene of Scots was beheaded for the position of Saturne and we shall finde that from the first of March that yeare to the middle of Aprill 1589 he walked through Taurus the Signe under which he now is c. under which Ireland is subjected as I said before In the moneth of August the 28 day was an ominous opposition of Mars from Scorpio to him in the 16 degree and if we observe this memorable yeare 1588. Upon the 28 of May Saturne and Mars were in Conjunction in the 19 degrees Taurus not farre from the place they now meete in not many dayes after which that Spanish Fleet was discovered on our English Coast If we examine our Chronicles we shall finde most Memorable Passages in divers parts of the World to have happened this yeare Was it not unusuall and strange that Polonia this yeare should have three Kings usurping the Title while the fourth viz. Stephen Battori was yet unburied Namely Sigismond the Sweden Maximilian the Emperours brother and Henry Valoys King of France of which three Maximilian in the beginning of this yeare was taken Prisoner his Army overthrowne by meanes thereof many thousands of men women and children carryed away Captives by the Tartars Thus saith Gallobelgicus and further that Suetia was all on fire with tumults and lost certain places of strength to the Muscovite The Muscovite himselfe ranne mad and lost his wits The King of Denmarke Frederick the second dyed In France the Barricados of Paris the flight of the King from thence The slaughter of the Duke of Guise and his brother the Cardinall of Lorrayne The death of the Queen Mother the poysoning of the Prince of Condee and the Overthrow which the King of Navarre gave unto Duke Mercury all which Les derniers troubles de Fraunce do testifie and gave that Kingdome sufficient cause to thinke that yeare 1588 to be an extraordinary yeere At the same time the Duke of Savoy prepared his Army and surprized Carmagmall the King of France his chiefe Magazine in Saluze The Turke suffered great overthrowes in Hungaria And in Constantinople by reason of false moneys wherewith the Jauizaryes were payd their wages they fell into a