We had been all alike Good Christian-Men T is Birth and Education which doth make Religion that which Seals it is the Stake The Astronomers from Nabonassarus of Egyptian Years consisting each of 365 days 2401. They of all others can account the best Yet are accounted of but like the rest The snarling Priest who Numbers never knew More than to tythe his Pigs or whence they grew But like the Ale-wife chalks behind the door And sets even Christ and Moses on the score Gains more belief in striving how to bribe Our Reason than do all that Learned Tribe But know fond Men the Bible was not writ For you to draw Chronologies from it To prop up Faction warrant Breach of Laws Absolve from Oaths and Chain us to your Cause To teach Men Trades or Sciences or Arts 'T was made to rectifie and steer our Hearts Wretched those Souls who thus by you are fed With Tares and Husks instead of Heav'nly Bread From the Death of Alexander the Great 1976. He who Conquered all the spacious Earth Was Conquered himself for want of Breath He that whilst living could endure no Bound Rests now contented with six foot of Ground His Birth his Valour his Exploits and Glory All tumbled in a heap of Doubtful Story Even so at length Great Conqu'rours shall you be Or'e-come confin'd as close as low as he Ten Thousand Armies strength will not defend Your Conquests and your selves must have An End Nor can they yield you Comfort when you die Be'ng nothing but a splendid Robbery Since the Julian Institution 1698 Since the Gregorian Emendation 71 Our State have been Reforming twelve long Years The Church Court Country City Hair and Ears Should they the English Kalendar omit 'T will be forgot when they begun to sit Ages to come who thirst to Celebrate Their Famous Deeds shall find them without Date And know no more when CHARLES or Strafford dy'd Than some When Christ was Born or Crucify'd Perhaps mistake the Persons with the Times Finding so like their Suff'rings and their Crimes 2. Under the Feasts and Fasts What Changlings were the Presbyterian-Crew Who pull'd Old Crosses down to set up New And burnt Christs Picture whilst they did embrace Those Antick Draughts of Calamy and Case That durst adventure on such dangerous shelves As to un-Saint th' Evangelists themselves And leave us not a Festival beside What they so called and had Sanctifi'd But Heav'n is just For lo they 're forc'd to bow The Synod's down and stinking Elders too Only they bark at Moon-shine now and then To witness they are Dogs more like than Men. 3. Under the Kings c. I 've said y' are Gods Who dare you Tyrants call Since Good or Bad y' are his Vice-gerents all But you shall die like Men This I allow For Men must die So did our Saviour too When once the Rulers Priests and People cry Away with him Pilate must Crucifie 4. Under the Table of Terms Lawyers prefer the sharpest Laws as best To keep a Common-wealth in Peace and Rest If so why should those Gown-men Frown and Puff To see the Courts of Justice lin'd with Buff No Plea ere moved as a Sword can do For that or'e-ruleth Judge and Jury too 5. In January Welcom ye pregnant times whilst you shall be As cross to some as they were curs'd to me Welcom Prodigious Births wherein appear No fewer Monsters than are days i' th' year Thrice welcom are ye For y' are none of mine A Poets Issue is A Princely Line 6. In February Disturbed Heav'ns produce disturbed Pates Confused Councils more Confused States A Quarter-witted Clergy half undone Their Grand Impostures clear as is the Sun Whence Giddy Zelots take the Craft in hand And breath a Holy-madness through the Land 7. In the Month of May. Whither an Army now Well! I could say Who 't is will get or who shall lose the day Thrasillus-like inform you who shall prove Victorious in 's Ambition who in 's Love But I am silent Nay I must be dumb 'T is TREASON now to Pray Thy Kingdom come 8. In November The Nation mourns because of Monstrous Oaths Her Scarlet sins cause want of Bread and Cloaths Diseases rage and strongly multiply Our New-Republick's sick and like to die London bewails beshrews her lewd pretence Of begging for a Posture of Defence 9. Where speaking of the Mutations of Empires Kingdoms and Common-wealts he pithily Concludes Thus Changes come thus Changes will ensue Till these Corrupted Bodies change for new And put on Incorruption Men and Things Whole Countries Cities Beggars Princes Kings He who but lately wore a Crown of Gold Crown'd now with Thorns Exil'd or basely Sold He clad in Rags and fed with scraps before Now Thron'd in 's stead and surfeiting with store A Glorious Church and Kingdom but to day To Morrow both the Wolf and Foxes Prey The Learned Lawyer Orthodox Divine Once high esteem'd now rank'd with fi lt by Swine The Hospitable Lord erst fed the Poor And cloath'd the Naked nak'd turn'd out of Door His sorrowing Wife and helpless Children gone To try their Friends perhaps be frowned on And he in 's hoary-age Petition bare Those that his Grooms at best but lately were The Fool in 's Coat the Wise-man in his Chair Th' Indulgent Father and the Hopeful Heir The griping Land-lord and the greedy Clown The glittering Tissue and the gray-friz'd Gown The Rosy-Cheek and the unfurrowed Brow The Freckled Wainscot-Face that Milks the Cow The Flowry Bride girt with chaste thoughts about Will all once changed be their Lamps must out Nay Heav'n it self grows Old and will away It had a Birth and shall a Dying-day All all to Change and Dissolution tend Poor Almanacks ev'n they must have an end In Hemerosc 1654. this Ingenious Person wrote these following Heroick Verses 1. Of the Feasts c. GO ring the Bells let Priests and People Pray I know no Treason in a Holy-Day 2. Over the Table of Kings c. Here stands the Regal Table till it be Convict and Banish'd for Malignancy Under the Kings Call me no more Malignant since the Term Hath Hydra's Head I Hercules his Arm And though no God nor Worshipped at Tyre Remember yet great Jupiter's my Sire Let States and Kingdoms whirle mine shall not fall Except when time is done this Globe and all So Wolf and Lamb salute the first for blood The second to be offer'd for our good 3. Over the Terms Thus may the Terms begin thus may they end As yet we know not what we do intend Under the Terms Friends send your Sons no more to th' Inns of Court But breed them Souldiers Men of loud Report So need they fear no rude Return of words Or Writs nor yet Exception 'gainst their Swords So shall their Terms be never out of Date Nor liable to change but with the State So may they chuse the Trade most Profit brings Set up or Lawyers Priests or Petit Kings
Fra. Windebank Questioned Nov. 12. 100000 l. voted for the Scots 13. Sir George Ratcliff sent into Ireland 16. Bp. of Lincoln enlarged 19. Scotch Commissioners admitted Residence in London 21. Justice Howard assaulted aâ—d stabbed in Westminster-Hall 23. A Commis issued for treating with the Scots 28. Pryn and Burton Triumphantly into London Dr. Bastwick the like soon after Dec. 3. Pryn and Burton complain of their Prosecutors 4. Sir George Ratcliff committed 5. Secretary Windebank fled into France 7. Ship-mony Voted illegal The Judges questioned 8. E. Strafford committed to the Tower L. Ann dyed at Richm. D. Cosens committed 11. Lond. Petit. against Bishops 16. Canons Voted Illegal 18. Arch-Bish of Caâ—terbury sequestred committed to the Black Rod. 19. B. Wren accused of High Treason 21. L. Finch Voted a Traytor 22. He fled into Holland Jan. 23. Goodman a Priest reprieved Pryn Burton and Bastw Voted Innocent and satisfaction to be given them by their Judges 30. E. Strafford charged in the House of Lords Feb. 10. Match with the Prince of Orange propounded 11. Plots suggested 13. Judge Berkly Impeached committed 16. Bill for Triennial Parl. signed which occasioned Bonfires and ringing of Bells 24. E. Strafford made his Defence before the H. of Lords Remanded to the Tower 26. Arch-Bish accused of High Treason before the H. of Lords Ordered to the Tower Feb. Scots first styled Dear Brethren All Books Libels and Proclamat against them called in A Thanksgiving for the Peace with them March 1. Arch-Bishop committed to the Tower 10. Bishops Votes in Parliament null'd 22. E. Strafford's Tryal began Anno 1641. April Convocation H. Fined 15. E. Strafford's Tryal ended House of Commons voted him Guilty of High Treason which was Opposed by the L. G. Digby and others 20. Prince of Orange to London 21. E. Strafford voted the second time Guilty of High Treason by the Commons Bill of Attainder read in the House of Lords where many opposed it 29. Nevertheless the H. of Lords also vote him Guilty of High Treason May 1. King declared himself unsatisfied 2. Princess Mary Married to the Pr. of Orange 3. Thousands of the City came to Westminster crying for Justice against the Earl 5. Protestation taken by the Parliament 6. E. Strafford voted the second time Guilty of High Treason by the H. of Lords 8. Two Bills one for the Execution of the Earl the other for continuation of the Parliament tendred to the King 9. King consulted with the Judges and Bishops Some of the Bishops advised him to pass the Bills The Earl himself by his Letter to the King desired him to sign the Bill of Attainder May 10. Bill for the Execution of E. Strafford signed by the King So likewise that other for continuance of the Parliament which proved the Execution of himself 11. The King by his Letter to the Lords delivered by the Prince sollicited for his Life but in vain 12. E. Strafford Beheaded on Tower-hill 17. L. Goring resigned hâ—s place Master of the Wards L. Say succeeded him Bp. Juxton L. Treasurer resigned his Staff The Office committed to five Commissioners E. of Leicest made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Marquess Hertford Governour of the Prince in the room of the Earl 〈◊〉 Newcastle June 19. Voted thâ—â— the Scots should receiâ—â— 100000 pounds of theâ—â— 300000 l. at Midsummer 1642. the remainder at Midsummer 1644 July 2. Bill imposing the Tax of Pole-money 5. Bishop Wren Voteâ— against Two Bills passed for puâ—ting down the High Commission and Star-Chambeâ— Courts Sir Tho. Roe Ambassâ—dour into Germany Qu. Mother left England and dyed soon after a Cullein The five Judges who had formerly given their Opinions for Ship-money charged by the House oâ— Commons Aug. English and Scotch Armies disbanded 10. King began his Journey for Scotland An Order for taking away all scandalous Pictures out of Churches Sept. 8. Parliament adjourn'd till Octob. 20. A standing Committee consisting of fifty Members appointed during the Recess Octob. 22. Owen ô Conolly discovered the design of the Irish Rebellion Mac Mahon and the L. Macquire taken and secured 23. The Irish Rebellion first brake out the King being then in Scotland Nov. 5. 200000 l. voted to be raised for suppressing the Irish Rebellion The King referred the whole business to the Parliament Marquess Ormond by Commission from the Earl of Leicester and with the Kings approbation made Lieutenant General of all the Forces in Ireland King returned from Scotland Magnificently Feasted by the City King Feasted the Chiâ—f of the City at Hampton Court where divers Aldermen received the Honour of Knighthood Dec. 15. Remonstr of the state of the Kingdom presented to the King at Hampton Court 27. Tumults at Westminster threatning the Bishops 30. Twelve Bishops protest against Popery or any malignity against the State and against such Orders or Votes as had passed or which should pass in the Lords House during their enforced absence Dec. 31. Twelve Bishops accused by the Commons of High Treason whereof ten were committed to the Tower the other two to the Black Rod. Jan. 1. The Irish Proclaimed Rebels 3. Articles exhibited against the five Members 4. King in Person demandeâ— them 5. Houâ—es adjourn'd into London 6. Proâ—lamation made for Apprehending the â—ive Members 7. H. of Commons declared the Kings Proclamation to be â—alâ—e scandalous and illegal Sir Edward Hâ—rbert the Kings Attorney General committed for preferring the Articles against the five Members 10. The King Queen Prince and Duke of York to Hampton Court 11. The five Members Guarded to Westminster by Water 27. House of Commons Petitioned the King for the Militia Feb. 14. Adventures for Irish Land 23. Queen with the Princes Mary her Daughter imbarqued at Dover for Holland King to Greenwich whence he sent for the Prince and Duke of York They removed to Theobalds March 9. Thence to Newmarket 15. Thence to Huntington May 3. Protestation taken by the Parliament 26. Thence to York Anno 1642. April 8. King proposed to go in Person into Ireland Disliked by the Parliament 9. An Order of Parliament enjoyning their Members to attendance 22. Duke of York and Pr. Elector to Hull 23. King denyed admittance into Hull Sir John Hotham Proclaimed Traytor 24. King complains of the Affront 25. Sir John Hotham justified by the Parliament The Lords began to desert the Parliament and go to the King May 12. Gentry of Yorkshire attended the King at York 20. Voted that the King intended to levy War against the Parliament 30. Nine Lords with the King summoned to Westminster June 2. An Order of Parliament requiring the Revolted Members to return by the sixteenth of June Nineteen Propositions sent to the King 10. An Order for bringing in Money and Plate 14. King writ to the City 15. Thirty seven Lords protested in behalf of the King The nine Lords Summoned to appear were for default thereof Impeached of High Treason L. Keeper Littleton conveyed the Great Seal and afterwards himself to the King at
one mind and cordially to unite in Obedience to God and Loyalty to him their Pious Soveraign I have set the Scheme here that in case John Booker have occasion to write of it he may have it exactly done ready to his hand for the Meridian of London and publish it without fear of further Correction Thaema Coelicum ex tabulis Directionum Regiomontani ad tempus Apparens ☌ ♄ ♂ die Mercurii Junii 28. 1648. 1. Hor. 58. Min. 7. Sec. P.M. Latitude 51.32 You see Sir the Regal Sign Leo culminates the Sun who is Lord thereof and Venus and Mercury are in the ninth House of the Figure and Jupiter possesseth the Mid-heaven The Conjunction happens in the eleventh deg and eighth min. of Gemini the Ascendant of London and in the eighth House which is the House of Death Labours Sadness and Heritage of Dead men And Mars is Lord of the Ascendant for the third deg and 29 min. of Scorpio ascends at the time of this Meeting And he likewise disposeth of the second House where the Dragons Tail also miserably afflicteth I shall leave the Judgment to John Booker only I shall tell him thus much that I think the Cavaliers will by this time challenge a better esteem from the City of London than now they dare and perhaps enjoy their own without Composition I shall say no more but conclude with an Application of that pertinent and Pious complaint of the Aquitains occasioned upon the Deposing of King Richard the Second to the present condition of this wretched Kingdom O good God! Where is the World become Saints are turned to Serpents and Doves into Devils The English Nation which hath been accounted fierce only against their Foes and always faithful to their Friends are now become both fierce and faithless against their Lawful and Loving Prince and have most Barbarously betrayed him Who would ever have thought that Christians that Civil People that any Men would thus have violated all Religion all Laws and all Honest and Civil demeanor And although the Heavens blush at the view and the Earth sweats at the burthen of so vile a Villany and all Men proclaim and exclaim upon shame and confusion against them yet they neither feel the horror nor shrink at the shame nor fear the revenge but stand upon terms some of Defence for the Lawfulness of their dealing and some of Excuse for the Necessity Well let them be able to blind the World and to resist Mans Revenge yet shall they never be able to escape either the sight or vengeance of Almighty God which we daily expect and earnestly desire to be poured upon them Alas good King Charles thy Nature was too gentle and thy Government too mild for so stiff and stubborn a People What King will ever repose any trust in such unnatural Subjects but fetter them with Laws as Thieves are with Irons What carriage hereafter can recover their Credit What time will be sufficient to blot out this Blemish What other Action could they have done more joyfull to their Enemies more woful to their Friends and more shameful to themselves O Corruption of Times O Conditions of Men Hor. lib. 1. Ode 35. Eheu cicatricum sceleris pudet Fratrumque Quid nos dura refugimus Aetas quid intactum nefasti Linquimus unde manus juventus Metu Deorum continuit quibus Pepercit aris FINIS MERLINI ANGLICI ERRATA OR The Errors Mistakes and Mis-applications of Mr. Lilly's New Ephemeris for the Year 1647. Discovered Refuted and Corrected By C. GEORGE WHARTON Student in Astronomy Printed in the Year 1647. To the Reader IT is a common Proverb Dogs bark more for Custom than Fierceness And had I not assuredly known this Whelp Lilly to be one of that bawling Litter I should not have suffered his perpetual snarling with that Patience and Temper I did but before this would have alighted from my Saddle to hurle him one stone at the least to gnaw on But as he is now grown bolder and blacker in the jaws I must begin to have an Eye over him and a care to keep him at a distance lest he bite me till I bleed and thereby I become maniaque or Brain-sick like himself and so be more desirous of his Liver than his Heart I shall scorn to take notice of his former Grinnings nor will I trouble my self or the Reader with any repetition of his by-past Fooleries frantick Expressions and but a few if any of his many Errors and Mistakes so grosly committed in every of his Lowzy-Pamphlets for them indeed I have tyed and twitch'd up together in a Pack-thread as thinking them fitter for his Quondam Hell than the meanest Shelf in my Study but I will content my self only with that dainty bit this sweet Brat of his own begetting Merlini Anglici Ephemeris the fourth and perhaps the last of that name And examine I shall and that strictly of what metal it is compounded or whether it be simple like the Dad of it and the truth you have freely as followeth The Errors Mistakes and Mis-applications of Mr. Lilly's New Epheemeris c. I Will not trouble my self or the Reader in taking notice of any thing in his Long-winded-Preface save only the reverend mention he hath made concerning him whom he is pleased to term an A. B. C. fellow viz. Naworth of Oxford by whom as he pretendeth he found himself intolerably abused in Print and could do no less than vindicate himself in point of Art As for the Name Naworth which William Lilly and John Booker to make their Worships merry have so often and as wisely as wittily inverted to No-worth and Worth-nothing it is well known to be the Letters of my name long since transposed purposely to avoid the Scandal and obloquy which both these Mounte-banks so greatly delight in and indeavour so much to assume For whereas I observed the Common people generally possessed of a confident beliefe or rather a foolish conceipt that such as could write Almanacks were esteemed with a Country-reverence Wise-men like Lilly and Booker or if I shall render it in their own Dialect Conjurers or such as can tell all things past present and to come And so were usually haunted by the silly people with a number of unlawful unnecessary and ridiculous questions by means whereof many ingenious and honest Artists have not only been branded with the titles of Conjurers Necromancers Wizards Sorcerers and Figure-Casters in the worst sense but have often been imprisoned and Indicted and proceeded against upon the Statute against Witchcraft c. and hardly escaped with their lives especially when they came before Judges that were ignorant in or disaffected to Astrology after they had suffered several years imprisonment and thereby wasted and consumed their estates I say that I having resolved to write yearly which was not usual without prefixing a name nor for the reasons above mentioned would I then publish any thing of that nature in my own name
thereof Otherwise we can hardly explain this matter because of his Inscrutable Majesty That therefore the Celestial Bodies are Animate is hence rightly concluded For it were absurd to deny a Life and Soul to be in Heaven and the Stars the which Inspire both Life and Soul even in the vilest of these Inferiour Bodies They give Life unto Plants which grow without Natural Seed as we see in the Mountains and Places untill'd So likewise to the Earth For if a Lump be taken out of the Bowels thereof and for some time exposed to the Rays of the Sun it yieldeth Grass or some Herbs oftentimes the twiggs of little Trees The Stars also bestow Life upon Animals not generated by Copulation Nor can we be so stupid as to imagine that Plants Trees c. are of a Nobler Condition than the Celestial Bodies This manifest perpetual Operation cannot come but from a Pure and Cleansed Body These things I suppose are sufficient to prove the World hath a Soul placed in Heaven as in the most Noble Part thereof But perhaps you desire it may be further Proved that these Celestial Souls are Rational and participate of the Divine Mind The Matter is not obscure For if the World as Plato saith be the best effect that could be of goodness it self That is of GOD for we Germans so express it because Got sounds nothing else with us than Gut if we rightly enquire the Reason of the Idiom it must certainly participate not only of Life Sense and Reason but also of Intelligence The Soul is the Perfection of the Body And that Body most Perfect which hath the Perfectest Soul Wherefore if the Celestial Bodies be most Perfect they must of necessity enjoy the most Perfect Souls The Heavens therefore do Participate of the Intellect and Mind Which very thing the Platonicks plainly approve by Musical Concords For seeing that Musical Concord is as it were Living Rational and Efficaâ—ious what Resemblance hath it unto Life it self how Pleasing is it to the Mind and even Ravisheth the whole Man And which is more the Mind and all things else are made by the Soul By her they are preserved by her they are moved And therefore Plato did not amiss when he Described the Soul to be she that made preserved and moved all Natural things especially by Musical Numbers and Proportion constituted I say by Numbers not Mathematical as some Calumniate but by Ideal and Metaphysical Proportions of Numbers This Harmony consisteth altogether in Motion because that by an Aërial Nature posited in Motion it moveth the Body By a Purified Air it stirs up the Aërial Spirit the Chain of Soul and Body By affect it at once disposeth the Sense and Affection By signification it Operates upon the Mind Lastly through this Motion of the subtil Air it penetrates vehemently It floweth sweetly through the Contemplation And by its conform Quality poureth out it self with a wonderful Pleasure By its Nature as well Spiritual as Material it at once Ravisheth and Claimeth all that is Man Wherefore let us seriously consider how the Sounds of most sweet Musick elevate and as it were double and treble our Minds And in like sort judge the Melody of the Celestial Bodies who now by a slower but anon by a swifter Motion produce a tone that is Grave or Acute Whereunto agree in these Sublunaries Gravity and Levity Cold and Heat Moisture and Dryness of Elements So likewise Matter and Form in the Gâ—neration of things Meekness and Magnanimity Temperance and Fortitude in Humane Affairs Seeing therefore that Motion is â—very where Free in its own Nature it might easily prevaricate and wander unless it were Ruled by the Intellect and Mind The which we cannot further enquire of in this Place according to the Exigence of the Matter Besides it is absurd for us to have Reasons of our own works For the Celestial Souls and so the Soul of the Universe have no Reasons of theirs of whose Spirit even we our selves are generated and live continually If the Lesser World enjoy an Intelligent Soul such also enjoys the Greater But we will cease to prosecute this any further concluding that the World is a System of Celâ—stial and Terrestrial Bodies constant in Order Number and Measure but Living Animate Intellectual Whence we safely gather that the Soul of the World is a certain singular Life filling all things vivifying all things producing and connecting all things that it may accomplish and preserve one Fabrick of the whole World and be as a Monochord sounding out by the three-fold kinds of Creatures Intellectual Celestial and Corruptible at one Blast one only Life The Mystery of Unity is but known of a few Now can we here pass by the Authority both of the Holy Scriptures and also of the most approved Philosophers Deut. 4.19 Thou shalt not Worship the Sun Moon and Stars which God hath Distributed to all Nations under Heaven Deut. 28.12 God shall open unto thee his good Treasure the Heaven c. Deut. 33.13 Concerning Joseph Thy Blessing shall be of the Precious things of the Sun and of the Precious things of the Moon But above all let us consider those thingâ— which are in Levit. 26.19 I will make saith God your Heaven as Iron and your Earth as Brass The same is repeated Deut. 28.23 And also in Hosea 2.21 And I will hear the Heavens and they shall hear the Earth and the Earth shall hear the Corn and the Wine and the Oyl and they shall hear Israel Therefore we hereby see that God doth set the Root of Worldly Benedictions in Heaven as it were in the Soul of the Universe so that the Beginning of Blessings is from Heaven as the Beginning of Motion from our Soul which are of themselves perspicuous enough To this also belongs that in Job 38.33 Knowest thou the Course of Heaven or canst thou dispose the Rule thereof in the Earth The Rule of Heaven proceeds through Terrestrial and all Inferiour things as the Rule of an Emperour or King throughout his Empire and Kingdom As therefore a King is the Soul of his Kingdom so the Heaven and the Stars are the Soul of the World Likewise that of Job 26.13 His spirit hath garnished the Heavens Psal. 33.16 By the Word of the Lord the Heavens were made and by the spirit of his Mouth the whole Army thereof In whatsoever Body the Spirit of God dwelleth and shineth that Body without doubt shall be Animate and Intellectual Psal. 19. God hath set his Tabernacle in the Sun One Day telleth another and one Night teacheth another knowledge There is no Speech nor Language in those Heavens yet understandeth he their Voice Their Line is gone forth through all the Earth and their words unto the ends of the World in them hath he set a Tabernacle for the Sun Psal. 89.5 O Lord even the Hâ—avens shall confess thy wonderful Works John 3. Our Saviour saith to Nicodemus I have told you
mutatis autem temperamentis mutantur mores mutatis moribus Principum Subditorum Sequitur mutatio Reip. Heaven saith he most effectually Operates upon a Human Body best agreeable to it self and so also on the Body both of the Prince himself and his Subjects to wit so as that it changeth the Temperaments of Mens Bodies and with those Temperaments their manners or conditions and the manners or conditions of Princes and Subjects being changed a mutation of the Commonwealth followeth And with him agrees that excellent Mathematician and Astrologer Origanus part 3. Membr 2. Cap. 1. Non modo in Regnis varias mutationes translationes animadvertimus dum modo hos modo illos Regnare atque aliis Dominari comperimus verum etiam in ipsa superficie terrae nihil esse perpetuum ex collatione temporum locorum Siccum humido humidum sicco permutari terrasque alias aquis aboleri alias assurgere deprehendimus We Observe not only sundry Changes and Translations of Kingdoms whilst these and these Planets reign and bear Rule with others but also that upon the whole surface of the Earth there is nothings perpetual and by comparing of Times and Places perceive Siccity chang'd into Moisture Moisture to Siccity some Countries destroy'd others increas'd by Waters Thus He and that very truly For although God the Author of Nature and the First Cause of every Good thing changes Countries and Transfers Kingdoms at his pleasure yet seeing he hath engraven in the Book of Nature and chiefly in Heaven which measureth Times the Motions and Mutations of all things things that be Invisible even his own eternal Power for the greatest part yea and exposed Heaven unto our view that it might be for signs of Present and Future things I shall not think it contrary to true Religion or Good Manners if with Fear and Reverence I enquire the Superior Natural Causes of those Mutations so long as I ascribe no necessity thereunto Maugre the Croaking and Coaxation of some few Epileptique Prophets and other Religious Lunatiques who prate and perswade the Contrary The First Cause is the Change of the Absides of the Planets whereby the Five Planets together with the Sun transfer the Places in which they are highest and most remote from the Center of the Earth so also the Places wherein they are lowest and nearest thereunto and together with those Places their swiftness and slowness of Motion into several parts of the Zodiaque according to the succession of the Signs whereof Cardan Seg. 1. Aph. 37. in these words Permutationes Absidum Regna Regiones Religiones mutant Changes of the Absides alter Kingdoms Regions and Religions Thus from the Change of Saturn's Absis into Cancer Mahomet had his growth and by the Change thereof into Capricorn the Sign Opposite thereunto receives he Detriment and at length a final Destruction Spinaeus an Excellent Astrologian and Physician to the Duke of Mantua in his Catastrophe Mundi Genuinely English'd by the Polite Quill of my Oaken Friend Elias Ashmole Esq tells us that Mahomets Destruction initiated Anno 1630 c. and this he chiefly deduces from the Change of Saturn's Absiâ— out of Sagittary into Capricorn which indeed I confess fell out according to the Prutenick Tables in the end of the year 1630. But by the more accurate observations of latâ—r Authors the Absis of Saturn continues in Sagittary for many years yet to come For by the Philolaique Tables the best extant it enters not Capricorn until the beginning of the year 1728. and therefore it could not in the least be unless we will have the Effect precede its Cause that Mahomets Destruction commenc'd in this respect in or near the year 1630. Nevertheless I believe with Spinaeus that the many Revolutions of the Heavens in and about that year have already produced a sensible Commencement of Detriment unto him yet conclude not his final Destruction until after the year 1728. Wherein Saturns Absis will be Changed into Capricorn and that several other Causes concur to extirpate him and his Law There is no other change of the Absis of any Planet falling out in our time save only the Absis of Mars and this happen'd according to Bullialdus in the latter end of the year 1647. which was from Leo to Virgo and what a strange mutation ensued the year following viz. A Dissolution of the English Monarchy c. the whole World can witness which very thing signally confirms that of Ludovic de Reg. Aph. 9. Mutantur Regna Dominia Fides Sectaeque ac opiniones hominum dum mutantur Auges Planetarum de signo in signum dico illarum gentium quarum significator erit Planeta Augis permutatae Kingdoms and Governments Faith Religions and Opinions of Men are changed when the Auges or Absides of the Planets are changed from one Sign to another I mean the Kingdoms Governments Faith Religions and Opinions of such Nations as have for their significator the Planet whose Auge is changed Now all men know who know any thing of this Nature that Aries is the Ascendant and Mars Lord thereof the significator of England and so he is of France Germany Denmark and several other places who are herein no less concern'd than the English as a few years will assuredly manifest Mutatioque erit ad bonum vel malum secundum Naturam significatorum superiorum illorum temporum secundum Naturam signi mutationis And this change saith that same Author and Aphorisme shall be to Good or Evil according to the Nature of the chief significators of those times and Sign of Mutation We know Saturn Mars and Mercury have born the greatest sway in almost every Eclipse Revoâ—ution and other notable Configurations of the Planets 〈◊〉 and since that year especially in Two of the Three Eclipses of 1652. and in the great and Total Eclipse Anno 1653. in March And as for the Sign into which this change was made it is Virgo the principal house of Mercury a Cold and Dry Melancholy Barren Sign whereby we may easily judge of what Nature the Change is I spare to Expatiate Another Cause is the Change of the Sun's Eccentricity described of Copernicus cap. 20 lib. 3. Revol by the Motion of a little Circle having the Center of the Eccentrick in its Circumference and finishing its Period in 3434 years The year 1653. Offers it the least that can be according to Rheinoldus and Copernicus being 32190. such parts as the Eccentrick hath 1000000 or Part 1. 55′ 53″ 24‴ where the Semidiameter of the Suns Eccentricity hath 60. The greatest viz. 2° 3â— 7″ happen'd 36 years before Christ about the beginning of the Roman Monarchy Georgius Joachimâ—â— Rheticus callled this Circle the Wheel of Fortune by whose Revolutions saith he the Monarchies of the world assume their Commencements and Changes For like as the Roman Empire obtain'd its Highest Dignity when the Eccentricity was greatest so the same decreasing it is very much Impaired
and almost at the Brink of Destruction But the Turkish Empire began in the First Quadrant with the Law of Mahomet and hath been most swiftly augmented proportionably to the Motion thereof being at this Day wherein the Eccentricity is at the least in a Flourishing Estate But shall henceforward be diminished until the other Quadrant and alike swiftly God so pleasing hasten to Destruction Indeed according to Tycho and others of the besâ— Astronomers the Eccentricity is already notably increased viz. unto Part 2. 9′ or thereabouts Lausbergius makes it Part 2. 6′ 21″ Insomuch that if the Christians of Europe could but henceforth lay aside their Ambition and Avarice and Live at Peace among themselves the God of Nature presents them with an Age wherein they may totally subvert and lay waste the Empire of â—he Turks and put a speedy Period to the Law of their Prophet Mahomet A Third Cause is the change of the Obliquity of the Zodiack which when at the greatest according to Bullialdus is 23° 52′ 53″ And this was Anno Nabonassari 381. 367 years before the Nativity of Christ. When at the least 23° 31′ 7″ and that fell out Anno Christi 1434. so that the mean betwixt these is 23° 42′ 00″ In the year 1653. the greatest Obliquity of the Zodiack was 23° 31′ 55″ For the Motion of the Anomaly of the Zodiack's Obliquity was 6s. 21° 49′ The Prosthaphaeresis 0′ 48″ which added to the least Obliquity 23° 31′ 7″ gives us 23° 31′ 55″ as before So that the Obliquity of the Zodiack is now likewise increasing for it still increaseth and diminisheth with the Suns Eccentricity Whereby it appears that the Axis of the Earth's Poles by little and little changes its Inclination to the Plane of the Zodiack through some Motion of the Libration But to find out the Physical Cause thereof my Reason concludes it almost impossible For as Bullialdus truly saith Scimus rem esse sed causam motus illius ignoramus nâ—c potest humani Ingenii acumen pervidere causas illas We know saith he there is such a Motion but are ignorant of the Cause thereof nor can the subtilty of Humane Wit throughly perceive those Causes A Fourth Cause is â—he Conjunction of the â—wo Superiour Planets Saturn and Jupiter which according to Cardanus is three-fold Great Mean and Lesser The Lesser are they which happen in Signs of the same Nature or Trigon with others preceding them and so cannot occasion any great Change yet are not without their peculiar Effects as you may see in Cardâ—n Seg. 5. Aphor. 48. Of these there be ten in Number which do orderly succeed one another in the space of less than 200 Years The Mean are they which fall out in a differenâ— Trigon yet not in such as are altogether contrary is qualities that is when the Conjunctions pass from a Fiery into an Earthy Sign out of an Earthy into an Airy or from an Airy into a Watry Sign as from Ariâ—s into Capricorn out of Capricorn into Libra from Libra to Cancer As touching these it is certain they produce sundry Operations For they alter in one respect or other the Estate of Empires Kingdoms Common-wealths and Countries causing some new Empires and Kingdoms to emerge Like as that of Alâ—xander the Great in an Airy the Persians in an Earthy and that of Mahomet in a Watâ—y as you may read in Cardan Sâ—g 1. Aphor. 73. And of these Conjunctions if so be you account frâ—m the change of the Fiery Trigon into the Earthy thâ—re falleth out always three within the space of 596 Yearâ— The First in the Earthy the Second in the Airy and the Third in the Watry Trigon But they are called Great Conjunctions which begin to be Celebratâ—d in the Fiâ—ry Trigon chiefly in Aries the first Sign of thâ— Zodiack For when there shall be a Transit made from a Watry into a Fiery Sign which are as contrary â—ach to other in thâ—ir prime quâ—lities as Fire is to Water then also do great Mutations succeed all the World over And this is clear'd to all Men who have been â—ut never so little conversant in History For if we Calculate backward and allow for each of these Great Conjunctions 794 Years and about a half we shall be reduced from the Year 1603. in which there happened a Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Sagittary to the Year of Christ 809. in which the Roman Empire Destroyed by continual Wars is at length reformed and augmented under Charles the Great Thence to the Year of Christ 15. soon after which succeeded a great Mutation both of the State Ecclesiastical and Political From thence to the Year preceding Christ 779 soon after which followed the Institution of the Olympick Games and Times the Birth of Romulus and Râ—mus the Building of Rome and a grievous Affliction of the Kingdom of Israel by Tiglath Pileser King of the Assyrians and at length a Destruction thereof by Salmanassar his Successor Hence we recede to the 1574. Year before Christ near unto which Moses was Born who afterwards led the People of Israel out of Egypt by a Divine Power Thence to the Year 2368. within one Age after which followed the Universal Deluge afterwards to the Year 3163. and at length to the Year 3957. about which God Created the World of Nothing And 't is good Reason that like as Rome was Built a little after the beginning of the fifth Fiâ—ry Trigon the first being that under which the World was Created and afterwards by little and little increased and amongst other Cities the great Assembly of the Inhabitants People and Kingdoms she has subdued bore up her Head until at length about the sixâ—h Fiery Trigon she had reduced very many Kingdoms of Europe Asia and Africa to the Form of a Monarchy and Sovereign Empire and flourished in great Glory and that from thence the Empire bâ—ing divided into two East and West was observed to be fallen to decay been troubled with Intestine Wars and exhausted by the Alienations of Kingdoms and Provinces until about the seventh Trigon it was restored by Charles the Great and in some sort received its Pristine Beauty So also shall this Empire at this time under the eighth Fiery Trigon sustain great Mutations which I rather leave to Experience than Prostitute my own Judgment at so easie a rate Nor do only the Great Mean and Lesser Conjunctions of the two Superiours but also their Opposite and Quartile Configurations design great Mutations in the World as you may read in Cardan Seg. 5. Aphor. 49. and Seg. 7. Aphor. 6. Other Causes are Comets or counterfeit Stars c. such as that whereof Josephus Bell. Jud. Lib. 7. Cap. 12. makes mention which appeared for a years space in the form of a Fiery Sword over the City Jerusalem fore-warning her Destruction or as that at the Death of Mahomet seen at High-Noon in the shâ—pe also of a Sword which continued the space of a Month
Fortitudes Decade 1 Tenth House 5 Direct 4 Swift 2 Freedom from Combustion 5 17 Debilitated by reason of his Detriment Under the Sun-beams 4 Mars his Fortitudes Direct 4 Swift 2 Freedom from Comb. 2 8 Debilities Peregrine 5 In the twelfâ—h 5 Occidental 2 12 Fortitudes of the Sun In the tenth House 5 Debilities Peregrine 5 Slow in motion 2 7 Venus her Fortitudes In her house 5 Triplicity 3 In the tenth House 5 Direct 4 Swift 2 Free from Comb. 5 24 Debilities In ☌ with Cap. Algol 5 Under the Sun-beams 4 9 Mercury his Fortitudes In his House 5 Triplicity 3 In the tenth House 5 Direct 4 Swift 2 Free from Comb. 5 24 The Moon her Fortitudes Free from Comb. 5 Debilities Peregrine 5 In the sixth House 4 Slow in motion 2 Decreasing in light 2 13 An Astrological Judgment upon His MAJESTIES March. BY this distribution the Fortitudes and Debilities of every Planet in the precedent Coelestial Scheme are easily gathered It follows then that we likewise confer them among themselves according to the respective numbers of their Fortitudes and Debilities that it may yet more manifestly appear which of them are most strong and fortunate which most weak and infortunate and accordingly how they succeed one another in strength and power First then the Planet Mercury of all the rest is simply most strong and fortunate in the Scheme For if the number of his Debilities be deducted from the sum of his Fortitudes there still remaineth 22. Testimonies of strength which no other Planet obtaineth in the Figure The next in dignity is Venus who hath 17 Testimonies then Saturn and Jupiter who are both very powerful the first of them being endued with 13 the latter with 10 Dignities Mars and the Sun are both but weak in respect of their Essential Dignities yet for some Circumstances very considerable in this case the Sun may be said to be the stronger which being generally taken is a good and laudable token The Moon of all others is the most debilitated her Detriments exceeding her Fortitudes by 8 which will prove very advantagious to His Majesty as hereafter shall be noted And thus much generally touching the Constitution of the Planets in the Figure Now to descend more particularly to the present mâ—tter We are in this case principally to consider four things First the Ascendant of the Scheme which is the Significator of the City from whence His Majesty began his March From which House we are to collect the condition and state of this City during His Majesties absence Secondly the 10 House which according to Haly is the Significatrix of the Journey And from this we are to deduce our judgment of His Majesties Success during the time of his March The Third thing to be considered is the 7 House by which we are to judge how His Majesty is likely to be received in those parts where his Army shall pass and of his Success against the Enemy And lastly the fourth House whereby we are to inform our selves of His Majesties Success in the Return Unde si quis istorum locorum melior fortunatior fuerit factus significat bonitatem in illa sua significatione Et si quis fuerit malè asflatâ—s nocens significat damnum in illa sua significatione Vid. Haly pag. 328. As concerning the first we find the 22 degree of the Regal Sign Leo at that instant ascending our Horizon Cor Leonis in the Ascendant And the Dragons Head in the very Cuspe thereof And the Sun Lord of the First House not unfortunately posited in the South Angle of the Heavens whiâ—h is the House of Empire Rule Dignities Offices and Arts c. And he environed with the two Benign Planets Jupiter and Venus who likewise behold the Ascendant and are free from any Configuration with the Malevolents These are evident and undeniable Testimonies of the Honour and Safety of this Famous University and City of Oxford And of the care and vigilancy of those that are entrusted by His Majesty with the Government thereof Of the Fidelity Courage Industry and necessary expence of her Inhabitants for the Defence of it And of their Conformity to such wholsom Orders as either are or shall hereafter be made by the Wisdom of the Counsellours for the good and benefit of the City In a word all the good our hearts can wish for is promised us by the Scheme I hope the seasonable care taken and the directions already given for prevention of the Sickness will add very much to our happiness Some strange kind of Mortality must be expected this Year in most Cities and great Towns throughout the South South-East and South-West parts of this Kingdom But especially let London be fore-warned of her misery She is much and that deservedly threatned You may hear more of her after the 23. of May instant for from thencâ— doth the Influence of Saturn's Transit out of Aries into Taurus begin to operate As touching the second thing here considerable which is the tenth house we may observe the ninth Degree and 31. min. of Taurus Culminating which is the house and Triplicity of Venus wherein also she is most fortunately seated within 3 Degrees of the Cuspe thereof beholding the Ascâ—ndâ—nt free from Combustion or any Configuraâ—ion with the Malevolent Planets being Direct and Swift of Moâ—ion and Oriâ—ntal of the Sun To her therefore may we justly attribute the signification of His Majesties March Who being by nature Benevolent by her Essential and Accidental Position so fortunate We cannot pronounce less to His Majesty and his whole Army than a wonderful happy prosperous and successful March And contrarily exceeding much Fear and Terrour dissipation and utter Ruine to his Enemies The Dragons Head in the Cuspe of the Ascendant tells us Quod habebit bonum antequam se inde moveat in principio Itineris Haly par 3. pag. 308. This was verified in part by that gallant Encounter with the Enemy performed with so good success by the Right Honourable the Lord Goring near Newbridge the same seventh day occasioned upon His Majesties Motion hence The Generality of this good to His Majesty and his Army is further confirmed by the powerful presence of Jupiter the Sun and Mercury in the South Angle and the unfortunate positure of the Moon in the Figure c. Artabari dixit Si quando Rex vel alius voluerit capere inimicum qui sit valoris minoris eo statuat ☽ in ☌ aut ☠vel in via combust aut cum ☊ vel ☋ c. Et sol sit salvus purus ab infortuniis in medio Coeli sint fortunae etiam si quando magis infortunata fuerit ☽ erit pejus majus damnum pro illo inimico quia ☽ est significatrix Populi c. ac servorum Haly pag. 340. We have here as before we noted the Sun both the Fortunes and Mercury safely seated in the Mid-heaven And the Moon who naturally
silly Pamphlets by that profest Mountebank in Astrology John Booker to vindicate my self from the Calumnies Scandals and false accusations which his unsatiable Ambition and implacable malice hath most wickedly accused me of And thereby I shall discover how much his Envy to my Pen and Person hath transported him beyond the bound of modesty and rendered him incapable both of Reason and Knowledg in the Art whereof he professes himself to be a Master I have in part answered Mr. Lilly in my Prognostication for the ensuing year 1647. And here according to my promise I shall Catechise John Booker and both of them as occasion serves The subject or matter here intended is the notable Conjunction of the 2. Malevolent Planets in the Sign Taurus upon the 12 of June this year 1646. the effects whereof will be in great force untill the 21. day of October 1647. Which Conjunction hath lately been most ignorantly treated of by John Booker in a certain Pamphlet of his stiled A Bloody â—rish Almanack c. and many false observations hath he drawn thence and published not upon any 〈◊〉 grounds in Astrology but meerly out of his invâ—tâ—râ—t mâ—lice and hatred to the Kingdom of Ireland wherâ—by â—â—th that and this Kingdom hath been dâ—luded â—nd Astrology shamefully perverted and defumed In which respect as likewise upon this occasion to free my sâ—lf from his former Aspersions I have published the following discourse wherein the same Conjâ—nction of Saturn and Mâ—rs is more artificially handled and also their future Opposition with a touch concerning the next Conjunction which will happen in the Sign Gemini the Ascendant of London which will be far more terrible and of greater concernment to London and other parts of this Kingdom than the Conjunction in Taurus can be to Ireland I have palpably unmasked his malice discovered his ignorance divulged and corrected his Errors and misapplications of the Effects of this Coelestial meeting If his immodest Language hath any where incited me to too much freedom of speech I shall crave his excuse when he beggs my Pardon for his former Insolencies I hate not his or any mans person but his Sin The method is Rough cast like my self if the matter be better polished I care not I know I shall not please all neither would I some for want of Judgment and come for want of Love and others for lack of Loyalty will condemn me but none of these do I regard It is to the Impartial and juditious I appeal and to their judgment only will I submit And if they please to adventure but their Patience as I have done my Pains which is not a little I doubt not of the issue I have no ungodly ends in this or any other of my writings my Wishes are full as good as John Bookers I wish all happiness to the King and Queens Majesty and the Royal Progeny and an end to the Miseries of this languishing Kingdom I love and wish for the Book of Common-Prayer again that was Sealed with the Blood of so many Martyrs till which be I expect not to see Religion in its purity I delight not in War nor can I pray for an unjust or Dishonourable Peace From my Study in an honest Cavalierâ— houses in York-shire the 10 of Sept. 1646. So saith a true and free born English-man an abhorror of all manner of Treasons and Rebellions one that loveth all manner of Christians and is a great honourer of True and Lawful Parliamenis Geo. Wharton Bellum Hybernicale c. NOT many days before the famous and sometimes flourishing University and City of Oxford was sacrificed as a Peace-offering by some of the more Pacifical Lords and accordingly surrendered upon Articles otherwise honourable into the sacrilegious hands of the Sectaries and Schismaticks of this Kingdom viz. in this year 1646. which is from the Creation of the world 5595. to omit all other frivolous and fruitless computations and Chronologies wherein Booker hath foolishly stuffed and crammed up a malitious lying Pamphlet by him styled A Bloody Irish Almanack c. upon Friday the twelfth day of June there happened a notable Conjunction of the two malevolent Planets Saturn and Mars Which Conjunction notwithstanding it did not manifest it self with any storms thunder or lightning as John Booker prognosticated in his un-sainted state-lying-Kâ—lendar nor hath been the Prodromus of such loss ruin destruction and desolation to the Kingdom of Ireland as is mentioned in the said Pamphlet yet questionless the effects of that malicious meeting have already been notably shewed both in Ireland and in many other Kingdoms and Countries Cities and Towns and upon particular Persons who had any congruency therewith in the Radix or Revolution of their Nativities But to the intent that this barking mungrel may not delude the ignorant with his pedling trash nor detract from or otherwise abuse a whole Nation with his nauseous and menacing expressions I have assumed a liberty of publishing this following Discourse which is void of all Envy Malice or Partiality but freely modestly and sincerely relating whatsoever concerns this Coelestial Meeting according to the Rules of Art and the Judgment of the most approved Astrologers Ancient and Modern Wherein the judicious and indifferent Readers may plainly and orderly perceive the Ignorance and Malice of this trifling Parasite And rightly understand the Nature and Quality of the Effects of this Coelestial Congress when they shall begin to operate how long continue what Nations or Countries are therein principally concerned and how far the Kingdom of Ireland in particular concluding whether or no that so long oppressed Kingdom be ordained for the stage whereon such Bloody-minded Hell-hounds as himself are to perpetrate their Cruelty I will not trouble the Judicious Reader with any Examples of such Events as have formerly happened in England or elsewhere upon the like Conjunctions For that I acknowledge him to have Collected in part But I will first examine the Foundation whereupon he hath raised this so deformed a Structure and accordingly proceed either by adhering to him where he hath stumbled on any truth or in dissenting from and Correcting him where I meet with his Mistakes Ignorance and Malice And first I will Artificially erect the Figure of Heaven according to the Doctrine of Regiomontanus to the true or apparent time of this Conjunction and afterwards compare it with that which Booker hath published for I dare not take this or any other upon trust either from him or Mr. Lilly whereby I shall presume not only to discover his want of skill in this ordinary piece of Astronomy but likewise to benefit some others as Ignorant as himself if any such can be who desire to learn the exact manner of erecting the Figure of Heaven by this one Example for any moment of time out of the Tables of Directions First then we are to enquire at what time these two Planets are conjoyned I perceive that Booker hath endeavoured to follow Eichstadius and
semper plura testimonia sive boni venturi sive mali illa fuerint in Predictionibus Astrologicis Morâ—over Mars who is Lord of the tenth House which is the House that hath signification of Kings Emperours Princes Generals of Armies Governours of Cities Castles and Towns and all other Commanders c. is exceeding strong and powerful being very much assisted by the comfortable Beams of the Benign and bountiful Planets Jupiter and Venus and the Moon who naturally hath signification of the Commonalty is in mutual reception with Mars But the Ascendant and his Lord have principal signification of the People Nota quod ascendens Luna domini eorum sunt significatores Populi Haly pag. 380. The Sign Sagittary ascends and Jupiter Lord thereof is in Cancer the place of his Exaltation very strong beholding the Conjunctional Degree with a Sextile Aspect Mars likewise disposeth of the place of the Moon and a great part of the Ascendant having there the Dignities of Exaltation and term in the intercepted Sign Capricorn These several Positions and Configurations being carefully weighed induce me to believe that the Kingdom of Ireland shall never suffer that Misery and Ruine which Booker out of his Gall doth threaten them with It is very true that much Strife Contention Quarrelling and Blood-shed is portended unto them by this meeting of Saturn and Mars and we know they have tasted of it already and some body else have been sharers with them But I tell you Jack it hath been and is still likely for the most part to be with much Advantage to the Catholick Party They will gain and then you know Jack who must lose The Figure tells me that their Nobility and Prime Commanders shall be very Prudent Powerful and Prosperous in their Actions That they shall unanimously accord to repel the Enemy and work their own Freedom That the People signified by the Ascendant which is here free and safe from the Malevolents and Jupiter Lord thereof and the Moon shall voluntarily and freely assist and contribute to the maintenance of the War That thereby they shall be much impoverished in their Estates for the Dragons Tail afflicts the House of Substance and the Moon is approaching though slowly to Opposition with the Conjunctional-degree Yet there is a Prohibition for she comes first to the Trine of Jupiter which will abate much of the evil threatned by her infortunate Positure And it is evident that they shall have Liberty and Leisure to raise themselves Houses to till their Ground Sow and Reap maugre all their Enemies Malice Power and Plots In truth if any thing may be termed good that is gotten by the Sword this Conjunction hath signification of much good generally to befal that Kingdom by means of this War I confess it would have been more terrible to them if it had been in a Humane Sign which now it is not for Taurus is a Bestial Sign it may do harm to their Oxen and Sheep Et multiplicatur mors in mulieribus vincet cholera super eas There shall be many falshoods and terrible Rumours spread abroad the Waters shall be increased but not cut off as Booker tells us It foreshews the Death of many Excellent and Eminent Persons that the Inferiour sort shall be somewhat oppressed and undervalued That Women shall wax Impudent and Salacious That Horses shall be dear And there shall be a great destruction of Fruits and Trees through the abundance of Heat This is the sense of Albumazar But I see not any reason why they should be much pestered either with Famine or the Plague only this Saturnus Mars in Tauro infirmabuntur mulieres in mammis gutture viri in testiculis vesica Aid they have had already in abundance from Foreign Parts whereby their hopes have not been frustrated as John Booker Divineth pag. 41. and the interposiâ—ion of those Friendly Beams of the Sun and Jupiter doth promise much more unto them You see Jack thâ—y are both in Cancer the Ascendant of Scotland You would think strange if Ireland should have cause to thank Scotland for some such thing And I dare â—ver upon good grounds of Art that there is some such thing intented by the Heavens I have some Reasons for this my conjecture which you Mr. John Booker cannot apprehend or judge of But I know no Reason why you should subject the Kingdom of Ireland to the ill Influence of Saturn more than any other Nation that is under the division of Taurus Scorpio Aquarius and Leo for we know Helvetia Cyclades Islands Russia Asia Cyprus the lesser Media Parthia a great part of Swedeland Lorrain Campania Rhetia Franconia Persia and many more Kingdoms and particular Towns and Cities are in the same division and as much or rather more concerned than Ireland All that can be truly said is only that Ireland is like to participate with the rest of the Kingdoms c. before mentioned in the Influence of this Conjunction whether it be for good or evil For you to say that in regard of the horrid Murders that have been there committed upon the Protestants of that Kingdom it is likeliest to undergo the Divine Justice of God more than the rest it is no Astrological Reason nor for ought you know may some of the other Kingdoms before named be less guilty of the same sins than Ireland or deserve a less share of the ill Influence of this Conjunction I pray Jack let you and I suspend our judgments from intermedling much more determining things of that Nature It is more proper for Divines than Astrologers That which we ought to do is to contain our selves within the limits of Nature And it is questionable whether the English Irish or Scots have been the Authors of that Barbarism and Blood-shed you mention For he that will lay aside Passion and private Interest and rightly consider the real and radical causes of the Irish Insurrection may find others besides the Irish as much if not more guilty of the Bloud of those many thousands of Christians which hath been shed since the beginning of that Bloody War But this is Wormwood to an Orange Scarff and Feather Yet for their better Satisfaction I would advise them to peruse that moderate and judicious Philaerenus Mercurius Hybernicale and there they shall have the naked Truth clearly and impartially related I have been intimate with many of that Nation of several Qualities yet could I never discover any more inherent Cruelty or Barbarism in them than in our selves but for the most part I found them to be men of singular good Education and Naturally averse to all Inhumanity The Truth is they hate to Live in Bondage or to have their Consciences enforced And indeed the settling Religion by Blood-shed is none of the best State-policies Such Divines as have Tongues to their Consciences will tell you so For ought I know every mans Religion ought to be dearer to him than his Life and I know no
concern that Kingdom or City But in a Solar Eclipse it is necessary besides that the Sun be above the Earth and that his place agree to the Kingdom or City that the Eclipse be also visible to the Kingdom or City or otherwise the Effects shall in no wise concern the one or the other Now the Solar Eclipse here by him mentioned is not visible at all to us for it appears in the Islands de S. Pedro Barbados de Don Alfonso de Praxaros and to such as Sail beyond the Equator and under the Tropick of Capricorn through the Persian Sea And indeed in 13 and 14 deg of North Latitude it will be a very great Eclipse but of what concernment is this to England or why should it put forward this Lunar Eclipse in January seeing it is neither visible to us for at London it happeneth at their 11 a Clock at Night and so the Luminaries are both under the Horizon nor yet is the degree Eclipsed in the Sign or Triplicity of that Sign whereunto either England or Scotland are thought to be subject which is required by Cardanus his Rule before the Effects can concern either Whereby it appears that this Non-apparent Solar Eclipse can no way help or harm us nor augment or put forward the Effects of the Lunar Eclipse and that William Lilly in thus preferring his own idle Fancy beyond the Experience and more solid Reasons and Rules of Campanella Cardanus and of all other Authors that ever I read or heard of hath very much abused the Reader and rendred himself a very Novice and fondling in Astrology As touching the Lunar Eclipse in January 1647. I have writ of it already in my Prognostication wherein you may see what the Effects of it are and those that desire further satisfaction may have recourse to Origanus pag. 460. upon Mercury's being Lord of an Eclipse as he is of this But although this Lunar Eclipse be visible and fall out in a Sign of the Fiery Triplicity and in that respect doth generally concern England Yet in regard it is so small viz. but 4 digits 47 min. 42 sec. its Effects will scarcely be felt or observed by any body For as Eclipses nihil nocent illis Regionibus in quibus non videntur So parvae Eclipses parum nocent in pauca operantur It is true as both Lilly in his Anglicus and I in my Prog. have in effect observed that in caeremoniis religione to which he adds in reditibus regiis ac legibus mutationes affert A likelyhood as he saith of some change or alteration in Church-Affairs in the Revenues of Kings or more properly in such matters as at present the Parliament make use of for maintenance of their Wars and Affairs and of altering or abolishing many Laws formerly in use All this I grant him and why may it not admit of thus much malignancy in the application thereof viz. That the Kingdom are weary of the Presbyterial Government and will not endure the smell of Elders for Gentlemen are commonly Scholars and do Naturally affect freedom in the Exercise of their Religion and scorn to be constrained to give an account of their Belief to Broom-men Coblers Taylors and Tinkers or to any such Illiterate Mechanick and Profane Fellows or to subject their Understandings to the sense and Interpretation of so unsanctified a Society and shall therefore wish for and must justly endeavour a change of Government in the Church So likewise may His Majesties Revenue so long detained from him be in a better possibility of regaining or in some part restored to him or at least great means used to perswade those that have Usurped the Possession and Profits thereof to resign and account And that many Ordinances Orders and Votes that have passed and been formerly enjoyn'd and observed as Laws must admit of alteration and abolishment But as I have formerly noted these things will not be done effectually this Year in regard of the smalness of the Defect so that we shall be scarce sensible of its Operation Yet without all doubt the Dragons Head in the tenth House in the intercepted Sign Cancer bodes very much good to His Majesty to be begun and wrought by the Scottish Nation who shall partake of that Influence And whereas Lilly adds that Celerem Regis Principis vel nobilissimi viri alicujus infirmitatem vel praeclari viri cujuspiam mortem adducit That this small Eclipse portends some sudden Infirmity or Casualty to a King Prince or Worthy Man perhaps some eminent and Famous Man's Death c. He had done well to have cited his Author or given his Reasons for what he says here for I cannot pick out any such signification from this Eclipse as Mercury is truly and really Lord thereof Nor as he hath made Mars and Saturn to be sharers with him Indeed Mars stirs up Wars Intestine Seditions Tumultuous Uproars the wrath of Princes and by that means some unexpected slaughter And Saturn premonstrates perturbation of the Humours Fluxes and Quartan Fevers Poverty and Banishment Dearth Penury c. But I find no such sudden Infirmity or Casualty to befall any King or Prince c. as he chatters of yet I 'le undertake for him that if Prince Griffith should but this Year fall asunder of the Pox the next Year after Lilly will tell you that this Prediction was verified in him Nor know I any Reason why Scotland should be at all concerned in it seeing the Eclipse happeneth in the Fiery Trigon and that the Ascendant of Scotland which is Cancer is of another viz. the Watry Triplicity nor at all Asspected by the Sign wherein the Eclipse happeneth nor afflicted by either of the Malevolents but rather Fortified by the presence of the Dragons Head in it as before I noted in the Mid-heaven and although the Eclipsed Body be Dispositrix of the Sign Cancer yet for the Reasons formerly given the Effects of the Eclipse cannot be at all discerned in Scotland or scarce in any part of England and therefore it is but a foolery in William Lilly to make such a fluttering and a noise about nothing But I am well pleased to hear him scatter that one truth if so it prove that the Scots will stand like Oaks unshaken to their first Principles c. It behoves some body else to remember their Covâ—nant c. And truly the Scots do owe William Lilly a great many thanks for his confiding Epithets But I fear I fear I shall hear him ere long lash out of his open Sepulchre as much and us vildly as ever he did against the King and the Cavaliers though now he Court them with the Titles of Prudent and Wise People I hope they will be Wise enough for those they are to deal with What he says against the Irish is not material The more the Fox is curs'd the better he thrives But I suspect Lilly to be one of those London Adventurers who were dividing the Bears Skin
Conscience and the Principles of Art Nor can in my Opinion the Sun and Venus their being within Orbs portend any kind of restraint to His Majesty but rather absolute freedom in regard they are both His Majesties Significators and behold the Cusp of the twelfth House with an Aspect of true and perfect Amity Lilly But let me examine Astrologically whether there be any Affection or Unity betwixt His Majesty and Subjects which you may discern saith Bonatus Fol. 526. Per Conjunctionem significatorum ad invicem viz. By the Conjunction of each Significator to other or with other vel per eorum aspectum cum receptione quia ille ex significatoribus qui recipit alium committit illi dispositionem or by the mutual Aspect of the Significators with Reception for observe whose Significators receives the other commits his disposition or vertue to the Planet received or more properly may be said to be ruled or directed by him Here do I find the Sun Significator of our Honourable Patriots at Westminster in his Exaltation receiving Venus His Majesties in her Detriment viz. in a low condition c. Wharton If the Conjunction of the Sun and Venus had been by Application or a perfect Conjunction you had said something to the purpose but Mr. Wisdom you see Venus is separated from him and the Moon who is Significatrix of your Honourable Patriots is hasting to an Opposition with them both which are signs of small Affection or Unity betwixt them and as for that Reception you mention to be betwixt them I will not grant any for I learned when I was in my A. B. C. of Astrology that Receptio est duplex una ex domicilio altera ex exaltatione It is either from House or Exaltation which you cannot find here betwixt the Sun and Venus for although the Sun be in his Exaltation yet Venus is not in hers so that there is no Reception in respect of Exaltation and for matter of House you will grant there can be none Yet I remember Zael admits of this and one more as a kind of Reception and Origanus takes notice of them in him and Schonerus and calls them Receptiones minores but he does not commend or allow them but rather sets a mark upon them for invalid and Superstitious for saith he Posteriores receptiones non nisi in particulari ad Superstitionem inclinante judicio locum habent Pag. 427. So that if the Commonalty or Kingdom be no more Obedient and kind to the King than this reception inclines them to I shall despair of any Peace or Tranquility this Year nor expect better success of their formal addresses than formerly Lilly If we run a strain above Astrology the Hermetical Learning will tell us that the Angels Samael and Malchidael are the Intelligences or presiding Angels of the English Common-Wealth and Kingdom and generally every Astrologer is satisfied that Mars is the Planet and Aries the Sign to which Great Britain is subject If the greater Angel and his Minister stand firm for us as it 's thought they do and if the Planet be well Fortified and the Ascending Sign of this Kingdom not afflicted I see no cause in Nature to mistrust any general misfortune to happen within this Kingdom to the Inhabitants thereof in this present Year 1647. For though we find Mars our English Astrological Planet in his Fall yet we have him very Potently placed in the Heavens in Conjunction with Jupiter and Caput Draconis in the eleventh House and what Authors deliver upon such a Position as this you shall be your own Judges that read the Discourse Si Jupiter fuerit in undecima significat lucra merces in omnibus rebus Haly 378. When Jupiter is in the eleventh House he intimates much Trade and Mâ—rchandizing and great Wealth obtained thereby Si quidem Jupiter fuerit in undecima significat laudem bonam famam ex parte amicorum quod gaudebunt homines erunt in alacritate bonus effectus profectus in rebus de quibus habebunt homines fiduciam de quibus sperant bonum Bonat 567. Jupiter as now Posited portends great Comfort from Friends and that they shall merit Honour and a good Name that Men shall rejoyce and be cheerful and have good Effect and Encouragement in the Actions they seek after and of which matters thâ—y themselves expectâ—d good If we would dilate or â—xemplifie why from hence may we not expâ—ct all faithfulness and Honourable correspondency from the Scottish Nation contrary to the expectation of some and those not a few that Divine othâ—rways Wharton If William Lilly run not quite out of his Wits I shall here make him understand if not acknowledge another very gross Error of his notwithstanding the Angels Samaâ—l and Malchidaâ—l do both of them take his part For though I grant him that Mars is more powerful than he speaks of yet is the Sign Ascending of this Kingdom sufficiently afflicted by the Platique Square of Mars unto it who is also within three degrees of Conjunction with the Lord of the eighth House which is the House of Death Labour Sadness and Heaviness Heritage of Dead Men and the end of Life and the Ascendant of the Revolution is no less afflicted by the Quartile of Saturn unto it And the Moon who is Lady of the Hour although he hath here forgot to mention her is separate from the Sextile of Mars and in a partile Sextile with Jupiter but comes immediately to a Diametrical configuration with Aries England's Horoscopical Sign whereby you might have seen if you had not been worse than pur-blind cause too much to mistrust some general misfortune to befall the Inhabitants of this Kingdom I do not love to create new Jealousies and Fears but I presume Wil. Lilly will not upon second thoughts deny what I have said nor that he hath plaid the Fool in giving Judgment of Jupiter's Positure in the eleventh only without mixing the nature of Mars with him who is there likewise so powerful and near unto Conjunction with him But I have elsewhere told you what their Accidental Scite there doth signifie and therefore shall not need to give him any further Answer in this particular since what he here reiterates is only to clear his Brethren the Scots lest they become unruly and kick out that small proportion of his idle Brains Lilly And surely were not Mars over-swayed by the presence of Jupiter in that Nations Ascending Sign I should somewhat doubt of them my self but I do not for the truth is Religion and Faith over-masters their Natural Policy Really Mars in undecima inimicitias amicorum praenotat Mars in the 11. destroys the Leagues and Friendships of People c. Wharton And surely William Lilly a Horn-bookblade he would not divulge so much of his Ignorance at one clap as to say that Mars is over-swayed by the presence of Jupiter cujus contrarium verum est for as before I have
Aphorism of Haly's hath no signification here Saturn being neither infortunatus in alto loco nec sublevatus super omnes alios Planetas as William Lilly supposes him So that the South and Southeast parts of this Kingdom need not fear this Positure at all Next I desire the Reader to observe that he hath cut off corrupted and mis-understood that Aphorism in Bonatus 574. viz. Significat naufragia repente c. For that Aphorism is not deduced from the Dominion of Mars in the fourth and ninth Houses of the Figure but as you may see in Guido from the Situation of Mars in Cancer and his Triplicity and the words of Bonatus are these Et si fuerit Mars in Revolutione anni in Cancro vel ejus triplicitate Et maxime in Cancro erit apparitio eorum quae significaverit in partibus Septentrionalibus And thus much of that Aphorism Master Merlin hath quite left our which is thus much in English If Mars in the Years Revolution shall be in Cancer or his Triplicity but especially in Cancer the visibility of his Effects shall be in the Northern parts of the Kingdom Further In Cancro significat naufragia repente vâ—nientia ex forti atque subito flatu ventorum significat rixam atque contentionem bellum c. Mars in Cancer hath signification of unexpected Ship-wracks happening by fierce and sudden gales of Wind he also portends Strife Contention and War c. Lilly Gaudebunt Reges habebunt laetitiam securitatem that our Principal Governours and Officers that have with such Industry these many Years steered the Affairs of our Kingdom shall in this Year rejoyce Wharton Indeed Lilly you steer by a false Chart for there is no such thing absolutely signified to the Governours you speak of from the Sun as he is Lord of the Ascendant for he that will look into Guido pag. 575. whence he takes this judgment shall find the words to carry another sence viz. Et si fuerit Sol Dominus Anni ac Dominus Ascendentis fueritque liber à malis dixit Albumazar gaudebunt Reges habebunt laetitiam securitatem so that if you expect to have benefit by this Aphorism the Sun must not only be Lord of the Ascendant and free from the Malevolents but he must also be Lord of the Year which he is not in this Revolution and how far soever this Aphorism may be in force the King will have the best share thereof if the Sun be the Natural Significator of Kings as all Authors accord Nor shall those Governours he talks of want their part of what the Sun 's accidental Position in the eighth House doth signifie viz. Depressionem Divitum Magnatum seu Nobilium atque potentum eorumque diminutionem mortem ac improperium Bonat 577. I 'le lay my Life this Aphorism belongs to the Round-heads What Venus portendeth in the ninth as she is Significatrix of His Majesty I have told you in my Prog. And what Mr. Lilly hath added out of Bonatus 579. is not amiss only his application is like all the rest as idle and foolish as may be in that it concerns all the Clergy in general and not the Prick-ear'd Divines only as every Artist can testifie Now for that William Lilly seems to be very much offended with one Mr. Geere who as he saith was sometimes a Priest of Tewksbury and hath lately writ a Pamphlet called Astrologo-mastix which indeed is as full of old idle Sophistry as Mr. Lilly is of Malice and Ignorance yet I hold it no sufficient Answer to tell him a story of a Weather-cock or a Cock and Bull in stead of denying and avoyding his Arguments by better Reason Nor is it Scholar-like or savours at all of Common Civility to fall upon scandalizing of a mans Reputation when he hath not wit enough to requite him otherwise I think Lilly you would scarce accept of it as a sufficient Answer from me if instead of Correcting your Errors I should tell the World that you were but a Taylors Boy in St. Clements Parish and that the summity of all your Honour was to be afterwards a Scriveners Man and that he dying your Mistress taught you first to write Secretary in which respect I account you not worthy of the just Revenge of my Pen. This though it be true were but mean Logick but the truth is you are lame of that Leg and therefore you may do well to borrow a Crutch of Mr. Thomas Challoner that precise Logician c. Nor does it grieve me at all that I suffer so much for the justness of the Cause which I have undertaken and sworn to as to be traduced by you with the terms of an obscure Foot-man ungown'd and unbooted c. the time was when I have been on Horse-back where neither Lilly nor Booker durst have shewn their Faces and 't is no matter whether I wear Boots or Shoes either shall content me I have both And if I want a Colledge-Gown I believe Sir you are not in so much Credit as to take up one for me till my next Years Almanack may defray your Engagemenâ— however you are not so much Mâ—ster of your Tradâ— as to make it for me for to say the truth I was told your Master was a Womans Tayloâ— I find nothing left now worthy my Notice save only the Quadrate Aspect of Saturn to Jupiter which happeneth this Year which Mr. Merlin saith only signifieth mutationes res multas in Negotiis Regis similiter in lege very great alterations and many things concerning His Majesties Affairs and the Law But you see Mr. Merlin dare not tell us his Author and indeed he either will not or dare not yet nevertheless I have trac'd him and found Haly to be the Author of those words and of some other proceedings which you may guess he was unwilling to publish by the tenor of them Haly pag. 391. they run thus Significat saith Haly quod existent Rebelles qui adversabuntur Regi qui querent regnum c. The plain English is this it signifieth there shall be Rebels and Traytors who shall rise and oppose themselves against the King who shall endeavour to deprive him of his Kingdom c. And this together with the former is the genuine signification of the Square of Saturn and Jupiter and these very words I had noted in my Almanack but the Printer maliciously expunged and altered them and divers more whereby he hath unworthily abused me and made my Almanack look Weather-beat like himself As for the Conjunction of Saturn and Mars in Taurus which Mr. Merlin saith hath been so Learnedly handled by John Booker I have sufficiently laid him open in that Discourse I formerly mentioned and no doubt but it will serve both their turns Yet I cannot pass by one gross Error above all the rest committed by this wooden Prick-ear John Booker in his New Almanack for 1647. which may be easily known
of Peace concluded with those of Algiers by Sr. John Lawson 28 His Highness Prin. Rupert George Duke of Buckingham and John L. Middleton sworn of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council 30 Her Highness the Dutchess of York deliver'd of a Daughter at Saint James's May 14 Qu. Katharine landed at Portsmouth 15 Bonefires throughout all the streets of London for joy thereof 19 His Majesty Prorogu'd the Parliament till February 18 next following 20 His Majesty at Portsmouth 21 King Charles II. Donna Catharina Infanta of Portugal publickly married by Gilbert Lord Bishop of London at Portsmouth 27 E. of St. Albans set sail for Calis to wait upon the Queen Mother into England 29 The King and Qu. Majesty came to Hampton-Court June 2. The L. Mayor and Aldermen of London with the chief Officers of the City came to Hampton-Court and tendred their duty to the Queens Majesty 6 Sir Henry Vane Indicted and found guilty of High-Treason 9 Mr. John Lambert the like 11 Both received their sentence but Mr. Lambert's Execution Respited by order from His Majesty because of his Prudent and Civil demeanor at his Tryal 14 Sir Henry Vane beheaded one Tower-Hill Earl of Peterborough being returned from Tangier came to Hampton-Court 22 Rump Officers and Souldiers commanded by Proclamation to deparâ— London and Westminster 28 English Forces arrived at Lisbon July 9 His Grace the Duke of Ormond Lord Lieutenant of Ireland began his Journey towards that Kingdom 27 Landed in Ireland 28 Qu. Mother landed at Greenwich August 23 Queen Katharine came first to White-hall with great Triumph 24 Exit Jack-Presbyter Nevertheless 27 He presumed to Petition His Majesty for a Dispensation but to no purpose Septem 8 Mr. William Lenthal dyed very penitently 29 Sir John Robinson Knight and Baronet His Majesties Lieutenant of the Tower unanimously chosen Lord Mayor of Lon. for the following year Oct. 2 Captain Mynns with incredible Valour took the City of St. Jago with the Castle and Block-houses of the Harbor and six Sail of their Ships riding before it 5 Articles of Peace between His Majesty and those of Tunis concluded by Sir John Lawson 18 The like with those of Tripoli Sir Henry Bennet sworn Principal Secretary of State to His Majesty in the place of Sir Edward Nicholas Nov. 9 10 Several Conspirators against His Majesty seized on and secured in Dublin 12 A lamentable Fire at Tiverton in Devonshire 16 A Proclamation declaring His Majesties City and Garrison of Tangier in Africa a Free Port 19 All the Captives in Algiers Tituan c. who were Subject to His Majesty of Great-Britain redeemed from Slavery by the charitable Contribution of the Right Reverend Archbishops Bishops c. of the Kingdom Dec. 11 Tho. Tongue Geo. Philips Francis Stubs James Hynde John Cellars and Nathaniel Gibs arraigned for High Treason at the Sessions-house in the Old-Bayly of which James Hynde only Pleaded Guilty and on his Knees beg'd his Ma. Pardon The rest were all found Guilty by the Jury and condem-to be Drawn Hang'd and Quarter'd 22 Geo. Phillips Tho. Tonge Nathaniel Gibs and Francis Stubs Executed at Tyburn for High-Treason 24 One Mr. Gardner executed at Tyburn for Coining 26 A most lamentable Fire in Lothbury London wherein were consum'd Mr. De Laune a Merchanâ— and his Wife and with them 5 or 6 other Persons being all in the House 27 Col. William Legg return'd from Ireland 29 The Russian Embassador had audience of his Majesty and deliver'd his presents consisting of Sea-horse-teeth Hawks Horses Persian Carpets Sables c. Jan. 6 Mr. Edmond Calamy Prisoner to Newgate The right Honourable Geo. Earl of Norwich died at Brainford 14 Philip Gibbs brother to Nathaniel Gibbs lately executed at Tyburn for High-Treason apprehâ—nded and sent to Newgate 16 Mr. Edw. Bagshaw a Minister committed to the Tower for Treasonable designs and practices 18 Phil. Gibbs remov'd from Newgate to the Tow. 24 Archibald Johnston commonly call'd Laird Warreston brought prisoner to Dover having been found and apprehended in France a litâ—le before 26 That great-Souldier the L. Ruthâ—rford late Gov. of Dunkirk created E. of Tiviot in Scotland J. Ireton being brought back from Scilly-Island committed to the Tower Archibald Johnson committed to the Tower for crimes of High-Treason 30 Capt. Mynns with his wonted resolution stormed and â—ook the Fort and Town of Campeach Febr. 13 The Lorâ—s and Commons of Parliament met again at Wâ—stminster according to Prorogation the 19 of May last 19 The before named Philip Gibbs and one Baker another notorious conspirator arraigned at â—he Sessions-House in the Old Bayly who confessing themselves guilty of High-Treason received sentence of Death accordingly 23 Both were executed at Tyburn Mar. 18 The right Honourable Jerame Earl of Portland one of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council departed this Life Anno 1663. Apr. 2 Abraham Goodman committed to the Tower for attempting the Murther of his Grace the D. of Buckingham 4 Count de Conniges Ambassador from France made his publick entrance into London 5 He had Audience of His Majesty at White-hall 22 The King and Queen's Majesty arrived at Windsor in order to the Celebration of the Anniversary of St. Georges Feast which began that Evenâ—ng May 12 Capt. Blâ—ke Commander of â—he Lizard received into his Custody Archibâ—ld Johnston to be by him transported into Scotland 26 Col. Robert Overtâ—â— committed to the Tower 29 The Castilianâ— dâ—feated by His Majesty of Portugal in which Fight the undaunted English obtain'd great Honour June 9 The Rusâ—a Ambassador having had his last Audience and taken leave of His Mâ—jesty went away from York-house by Water July 1 The right Honourable Edward Earl of Clarendon L. High Chaâ—cellor of England Sworn L. Lieut. of the Country of Oxon in the place of that truly Noble L. the L. Viso of Falkland deceased 3 E. of Peterborough â—â—rived at Portsmouth being returned from Taâ—giers 4 Came to Whiâ—e-Hall 5 George Elton a Fifth Monarchy-man and one said to be of the Council of Six in the late Conspiracy committed to the Tower for Treasonable designs and practices 9 Dr. William Juxon late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury was buryed in the Chappel of St. John's Colledge at Oxford About a fortnight after the Body of that great Martyr Arch-Bishop Laud his predecessor in that See was removed from Barking Church near the Tower where he was Canonically buryed Jan. 11. 1664 by honest Mr. Tho. Fletcher to the Chappel of St. John's Colledge aforesaid and there interr'd close by the said A. B. Juxo 11 John Dodington Esq commited to the Tower 15 Alexander Jephson Col. Edward Warren and Lieutenant Thompson Executed at Dublin for High Treason 21 The Earl of Carlisle sent Ambassador to the Emperor of Russia 22 James Son to His Royal Highness James Duke of York was Christned at St. James's by Gilbert then Lord Bishop of London Archibald Johnston Executed at Edinburgh upon a Gibbet 22 Foot high 23 The King and
the Reader to consider but thus much with me that if as Sir Christopher Heydon hath said in his unparallell'd Treatise written in defence of Judicial Astrology against Mr. Chambers that Astrology is an Art which teacheth by the Motions Configurations and influences of the Signs Stars and Coelestial Planets to Prognosticate of the natural effects and mutations to come in the Elements and these inferiour and elementary bodies How I pray is it possible that this fellow can Prognosticate rightly of the natural effects and Mutations to come in the Elements and these inferiour and elementary bodies before he be able to Calculate exactly the true motions and configurations c. of the Signs Stars and Planets which you clearly see he is not And I marvel much that Lilly should be no more tender and cautelous of his credit then thus foolishly and frequently to divulge his unskilfulness for me thinks as he knows that he cannot Calculate the Houses exactly either by the Doctrine of Spherical Triangles or which is more ready and built upon the same foundation by the Tables of Directions in Regiomontanus to the degree and minute of each Cusp yet he should have held it a safer way if he purposed to palliate his defects to have set down the Cuspes only in whole degrees and not have published himself thus erroniously scrupulous which he might have done very easily by the Domifying tables without further help But I perceive him so impudent and shameless that he neither heeds nor cares what he does or otherwise he would have been more wary in supputating the places of the Planets For according to Eichstadius whom he endeavours to follow the Sun at the middle of the Eclipse should have been in 56 minutes of Aquarius and the Moon in 56 min. of the Opposite Sign Leo Venus in Capricorn 24 degr 29 min. and Mercury in Aquarius 3 degr 17. min. But this man's dscretion hath put the Sun in 53 min. of Aquarius iand the Moon in 53 min. of Leo Venus in 24. degr 39 min. of Capricorn and Mercury in the 3 degr 20 min. of Aquarius So that he hath erred 3 min. in the places of the Luminaries and Mercury and 10 min. in Venus as may appear to every man that will take the pains to Calculate the true places of these Planets by Eichstadius his Table to the Mean or Equal time of the said Eclipse And in like manner hath he playd the Botcher in his Figure at the Vernal ingress for according to the time therein posited the Cuspe of the tenth House ought to be 13 degr 44 min. of Taurus and the Ascendent 25 degr 48 min. of Leo yet he hath made the tenth House 14. degr 0 min. of Taurus and the Ascendent 26 degr 0 min. of Leo so that he hath committed 16 min. Error in the Cuspe of the tenth House and 12 min. in the Cuspe of the Ascendent nor is he less erronious in collocating of the Planets here than in the former Figure but especially in the Moon whom he hath placed in 27 degree 48 min. of Virgo whereas she ought to have been in 28 degr 14 min. of that Sign wherein he hath mistaken no less than 26 minutes And thus much I conceive sufficient to prove his ignorance in point of Art Now will I also unmask his Errors defects mistakes and mis-applications in matter of judgment I will not meddle with or question upon what grounds Prince Charles left his Native Country of England nor who were the original causes of this his so long absence It is sufficient that Wil. Lilly confesses him to be Enforc'd upon necessity exiled or banished for the honour of the English Parliament I will not enquire further then of the Scottish Papers whether the King be at present restrained from his Liberty as Lilly tells us he is Nor dare I interrogate by what Law of God or Man the King of Englands Person ought to be imprisoned or be disposed of by either or both of the two Kingdoms or by any or all of his Subjects Or whether His imprisonment c. be intended for the defence of his Majesties Royal Person c. and the Liberty of the Subject Or how it can consist with the Honour of the English Parliament to suffer his Majesties Honour thus to lye at the stake and his Sacred Name to be traduced by such Pamphlet-mongers as Lilly and Booker and that Pillory-man Walker without any restraint or punishment Neither do I care whether the Eclipse in Aug. 1645. pre-signified the P. of the Earl of Essex or whether he have merited so much Honour as to have a Statua in Crown Gold erected at the Charges of William Lilly and an Epitaph made and thereon engraven by Martin Parker or Mercer the Scot These things are all beside my Text my intention being only to examine Master Merlin's Astrological discourse and to shew him and all men wherein it is invalid and no more The judgment he hath given is generally deduced from the position of the Heavens at two distinct points of time viz. From the Lunar Eclipse the 10 of January 1647. Suns entrance into Aries March 10. 1647. The Eclipse he makes the first general subject of his Discourse the effects whereof as he tells us may be somewhat put forward by reason of a non-apparent Eclipse in the 15 th degree of Capricorn December 26. 1646. What the Simpleton meaneth by putting forward I know not 't is no term in Astrology but surely I have Put him out of doubt in my Prognostication 1647. that Eclipses are not hurtful at all to those Regions or Cities where they are not visible yet lest the Testimony of that Learned Author therein mentioned should not be enough to convince him of his Folly I shall further recommend unto him the words of Cardanus upon Ptolomy lib. 2. cap. 5. Text 26. if he can Translate them any better than he hath done the first fifty Aphorisms of the Centiloquie they sound thus Ut igitur locus à deliquio affici debeat in Luna duo sunt necessaria Unum quod Luna tunc temporis in hemisphaerio superiore illius loci sit cum Provincia illa concordet signo vel trigono saltem Secundo cum Civitate in solis loco vel Lunae vel Ascendent is vel cum medio Coeli illius qui regit Civitatem ipsam In sole verò necessarium est praeter id quod fit supra terram conveniat locus ejus Provinciae-vel Civitati Eclipsis ipsa appareat Whereby it is clear that unless in a Lunar Eclipse the Moon be above the Earth and likewise on the Sign or at least in the Triplicity of that Sign whereunto unto the Kingdom in whose Hemisphere the Defect happeneth is subject And unless that the Sun or Moon-place or the Sign Ascending or Culminating be also the Horoscopical Sign of the City or Town you live in or enquire after the Effects of such a Lunar Eclipse shall not any way