of another Opinion I should be glad to see his Doctrine published Since I wrote this I have sound his Life in my Study written by Mr. J. G. which I did not think of before and he says He dyed September the 20th Anno 1668. of a Hoarsness with a Catarrh and Consumption In the Nativity of Mr. John Sabye it is said He was born July the 1st hor. 5. min. 15. P. M. 1621. Lat. 52. and that he dyed on the Direction of the Ascendent to the Opposition of Saturn But that cannot be for Two Reasons First The Ascendent is not Hileg and Secondly Saturn is under the Sun-Beams and therefore cannot kill by a positive Rule Besides what reason have we to believe the Ascendent to the Opposition of Saturn hath more power to kill here than in Mr. Hooper the Merchant's Peter Gassendus Sir Robert Holburn the Minister pag. 111. Frederick King of Denmark and divers others where his Title to kill is full as good as here and yet did not do it In the Scheme that he hath given Jupiter is Hileg but I judge the time was given him half an Hour past 5 or between 5 and 6 and then the Sun will be Hileg by which means the Nativity will be doubtful Mr. John Collins the Mathematician was born die Saturni March the 5th hor. 6. min. 12 P. M. 1625. Lat. Oxford Our Author makes him the beginning of Libra Ascending but I rather think he hath the latter end of Virgo ascending or else I cannot imagine what kill'd him at 58 years and 6 months old But I am certain our Author can give no reason for his Death by the Figure he hath printed unless he will make the Sun to the Body of Venus mortal which perhaps some may be so weak in their Understanding as to believe because she is in the Eighth I judge he was born at 6 or a very little afterward and then the Moon is Hileg and directed to the mundane Parallel of Saturn followed by his Body and the Opposition of Mercury But as to the Correction he hath made by the Midheaven to the Trine of the Sun for his Office and the Ascendent to the Trine of the Mooâ— for his Marriage it is false and those Two Accidents were not from those Two Directions This Gentleman was an excellent Mathematician and taught it in London many years with great Approbation and I have heard him recommended for a man of great Reason and Ingenuity which if true how shall we construe the 36th Aphorism in the Collection which says Mercury in Pisces makes a man Confident without Reason and pretend to what he knows noâ—â— Mr. Will. Leybourn was born die Mercurii October the 18th hor. 5. min. 41. P. M. 1626. and hath lived in defiance of their Stars and the Continuance of his Life hath given the Lye to most of their Rules now in fashion for he hath outlived the Midheaven to the Opposition of Saturn that killed Duke Hamilton and James Sibbalds He hath outlived the Ascendent to the Square of Mars that killed Oliver Cromwel He hath outlived the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn that killed Lewis XIII King of Francâ— and Prince Maurice He hath outlived the Sun to the Square of Saturn that killed Judge Reeves He hath outlived the Moon to the Opposition of Saturn that killed Mr. Eastwood He hath outlived the Moon to her own Square and the Opposition of Mars that killed Bishop Morton and the Sun to the Square of Mars that killed Dr. Gouge And if he hath got this Art and Power of Living I believe they must be forced to find out some new Stars for the old ones will not do you see The Moon in this Nativity is Giver of Life without any doubt and though she hath passed her own Square in their method yet she hath not in mine and that is followed by a Mundane Parallel of Saturn but when that happens I cannot tell because I suppose this Figure is corrected as he calls it by the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn for his Fever at 24 years of age which I am sure alters it much from the estimate Time I know a Thickheaded Astrologer who on such an occasion altered his Estimate time but Three Hours to crowd in such a Direction upon us and therefore I must suspect this by that Rule We are told by our Author That the famous Mr. William Lilly was born the 1 st of May at 8 minutes past 2. manè 1602. Lat. 52. 38. and we all know he dyed the 9th day of June 1681. being then 79 years and a month old And a Club of Authoâ—s in a Book lately printed have told us He dyed on the Moon Hileg to the Mundane Parallel of Mars which I should be glad to see proved to do which will I am sure require a Club of a double number and the Famous and Learned Mr. C to be one of them But to be short there was no such Direction as that at that time nor within 20 years of it but if there had been such a one as they say it is at that time it could not kill because they say it is a Converse Direction and Ptolemy says There is but one Converse Direction kills and I am sure this is not that which he means and therefore I give Credit to their Figures both alike Indeed had they told us of the Moon to the Zodiacal Parallel of Saturn to the Zodiacal Parallel of Mercury and Body of Mercury it might have had some Credit but the other non at all Had I any certain ground to proceed on I am very willing to take some Pains on this famous man's Nativity but the Estimate Time being so uncertain nay the day is no more but guessed at and the time of the day for ought I see is more uncertain than that and therefore to pretend to take pains on such a doubtful Subject is but to abuse the world with another Imaginary Nativity which I am not willing to do The next I shall consider is that of the Author himself Mr. Joâ—n Gadbury which he hath printed three or four times already and in my Judgment every one of them false The Accidents that he corrects it by are the Ascendent to the Sextile of Venus for his Marriage at 24 and 10 months and to the Opposition of Mars for a Surfeit at 19 years and 8 months and when all this is done he hath not given us the Estimate Time And therefore let me say this in short If he should bring twice as many such Arguments more to prove it I will not believe one of them unless he can solve the main Objection about the Mid-heaven to the Body of Saturn on which Direction I say he was Committed to Prison As to his saying It was the Midheaven to the Square of the Sun gave that Trouble it will admit of a Debate whether there be such a Direction or not but this of the Mid-heaven to the
of Parma was born the 28th of April at 17 minutes past 3 manè 1612. sub Polo 48. This Prince dyed September the 11th anno 1646. being very fat and corpulent And it was his Misfortune to dye on the Ascendent directed to the Pleiades notwithstanding the Moon is Hileg Here you may see he hath broken his own Rule for he kills the Duke of Mantua just now mentioned with the Ascendent to the Body of the Sun and yet here you see it hath not Power to kill the Duke of Parma Do you think this is not very fine Astrology and fit to be believed Yes certainly by those that have forfeited their Reason and by no body else See the Scheme Thus you see the wonderful Ascendent doth every thing and so it will do till some witty Heliocentrick man can contrive a Scheme of Heaven without a Horoscope and then they will be all at a loss if not undone I really think among all the Nativities this Author hath given us which are 117 he makes at least three fourths of them dye on Directions to the Ascendent Why should we not as well believe the Sun to the Square of Mars Lord of the Eighth in Conjunction with Saturn was as likely to kill him as the Ascendent to the Pleiadâ—s I must needs say it seems to me one of the most improbable Directions to give Death that ever â— heard assigned by so learned a man as our Author was to let him outlive the Sun to the Square of Mars and Saturn and the Ascendent to the Body of Mercury and the Sun and every one of them Lords of obscure Houses and at last kill him with a little paltry Star of the Third Magnitude methinks it is below a Philosopher to give such a Reason and too contemptible a thing for a Prince to sall by Again can any man believe this to be his true Nativity when he tells us of his Corpulency and Fatness and yet placeth Mars and Saturn on the Ascendent It is not likely they should make a man corpulent they commonly make peevish morose uneasy people and I believe you will conclude with me That they are seldom fat and I think I may say never to excess Upon the whole matter I am certain this Scheme is not true nor am I able to say what Figure is true but with a little alteration I think the Moon being Hileg comes to the mundane Parallel of the Sun and might kill being succeeded by the Squares of Saturn and Mars in the Zodiack but if the Ascendent by Direction could have killed at any time he had never outliv'd the Body of the Sun Argoll says Bernardus Duke of Veimar was born August the 16th 8 min. past 10 of the Clock before Noon 1604. sub Polo 51. as you may see by the Scheme it self This Prince going from Basil to a Fortress not far distant on the 15th day of July 1639. perceived himself to be ill and therefore hastned to Naumburg where he died on the 18th of the same month and being opened the Physicians found his Liver and Spleen hard and his Lungs corrupted which they attributed to his constant Labour of Body and Anxiety of Mind For his Death Argol says he had the Ascendent directed to the Body of Mars and yet both Sun and Moon in Aphetical places Thus you see according to Custom he was sent out of the world by the power of the Ascendent which had no power at all to kill if you will know the truth of it You may be certain the Time was not given to 8 minutes but either at 10 or half an hour after it and that he did alter the time to make the Ascendent come to the Body of Mars for his Death And you may be sure that this was done after he was in his Grave for if the Prediction for his Death had been made while he was living they would have been in a sad confusion what to have judged able and willing to kill him for there are divers Candidates stand fair for the Election according to their Rules as you may see by examining the Scheme Why should not the Sun to the Square of Saturn and Jupiter or the Ascendent to the Opposition of the Moon or the Moon to the Square of the Sun in the Eighth House or to the Opposition of Saturn there also I say Why should not some of these have been as likely to kill as the Ascendent to the Body of Mars Nay I can assure you if the Ascendent to that Direction had power to take away Life he had never lived so long for the Opposition of the Moon had done the business 7 years before In the next place consider how many he lets out live the Ascendent to the Body of Saturn and Mars and not kill this you may see in the Nativities of Sixtus Quintus Urban VII Urban VIII Clement VIII all Popes but in the last of them it was the Opposition of Mars which I do esteem equally violent with the Body Nay in that of Cardinal Columna he had the Ascendent to the Bodies of Saturn and Mars together almost and yet both their Force had not power to kill him What do you think of these things Was not this Duke 's a very hard Case to be sent out of the world by that which would kill no body else Let not this be told to the Unbelievers lest they laugh you to scorn and set your Stars in derision But perhaps you will now ask me What I think killed him since I refuse to believe what he says did it And I care not much if I comply with your expectations though I dare not be positive because I know not the estimate time but believe it to be later than this printed and the Right Ascention of the Midheaven in my Correction is 121 degrees 41 minutes and the Sun beyond all doubt giver of Life and so he would be if the Time were an hour sooner or 3 hours later and therefore I will endeavour to correct according to my Sentiments and Opinion and leave other men to the Enjoyment of their own desiring them to make me happy in the sight of a better Correction than I give them The Directions that I conclude kill'd him were the Sun directed to the Mundane Parallel of Mercury Direct and Convers and this followed by the Mundane Square of Saturn and I really think that these Directions are both suitable and probable to produce such Distempers whereof this Duke dyed I am sure more likely than the Body of Mars by far and the Operations for them are thus The distance of Mercury from the Tenth House is 6 degrees 22 minutes the distance of the Sun 24 degrees 5 minutes the proportional distance to be added to Mercury's distance is 25 degrees 28 minutes which gives the Ark of Direction of the Sun to the Parallel of Mercury d. d. 31 degrees 50 minutes which turned into time gives almost 35 years and so long this
in the Nativity of Cardinal Farnesius before going the Sextile of Saturn alone did the business Thirdly Why did not the Ascendent to the Antiscion of the Moon Lady of the Eighth kill here as well as the Ascendent to the Antiscion of Saturn in Cardinal Farnesius's Case or to the Antiscion of Mars as in Cardinal Salviatus Federicus Feltrius Prince of Urbine Vitellius Archbishop of Urbine Cardinal Crescentius Laurentius Mancinus with others Or to the Antiscion of the Sun as in Cardinal Sabellus with divers others too tedious to name For in my opinion if the Antiscions can do in one they should by the same Rule have the like effect in another which you see he doth not let them have and so I present you with the Scheme of his Birth I do not deny but that the Direction mentioned by Argol for his being made Cardinal is proper enough if it were true for no man can deny the Midheaven to the Trine of the Sun to be a Direction likely to give a man Preferment even to the highest degree But instead of this he had at that time the Midheaven to the Trine of Mercury who was in the Radix in a Zodiacal parallel with Jupiter and this Direction came up exactly at the same time as any one may try if they please whose Ark is 51 degrees 36 minutes which turn'd into time gives 55 years and almost six months As to his death it was not the Ascendent to the Trine of Mars but the Moon Hileg to the parallel of Saturn Motu Rapto to the parallel of Saturn in Zodiaco and to the body of Mars Motu Converso and this I do perform by his own Figure altering only some few minutes in the right Ascension of the Mid-heaven but I differ with him 43 minutes in the Moon 's place because I find her so by the Caroline Tables and with these alterations I do perform the operations for these Directions with a great deal of ease thus The R. A. of the Midheaven is 179 54. the R. A. of the Moon is 259. 51. which gives the distance of the Moon from the Midheaven 79. 57. The part proportional to be substracted from the Moon 's primary distance is 17. 27. which leaves the Ark of Direction 62 degrees 30 minutes This turn'd into Time gives 66 years and almost Nine months The next is the Moon to the Zodiacal parallel of Saturn and this is thus performed The Pole of the Moon is 40 and her oblique Ascension under that Pole 277. 44. and she meets the parallel of Saturn's Declination in 27 degrees of Aquary whose oblique Ascension under the Moon 's Pole is 277. 44. which gives the Ark of Direction 64 40. The other is the Moon by Converse motion to the body of Mars thus The oblique Ascension of Mars under the Pole 9 is 196. 37. The oblique Ascension of the Moon 263. 12. The Ark of Direction 66. 35. But he that would work it with more exactness ought to take Mars his distance and the Moon 's and with the Horary Times or semi-diurnal Arks work to find out the Fourth number which must be substracted from the Moon 's primary distance The way is thus If the Horary Times of Mars gives his distance what shall the Horary Times of the Moon give And that brings out theâ— fourth number which compleats your work And thus you may see them in order as followeth  d. m. y. m.  Medium Coeli ad â–³ ☿ 51 36 55 5 1627 made Cardinal ☽ ad paral ♄ Mâ—t. Rapt 62 30 66 9 1638. dyed ☽ ad paral ♄ in Zodiaco 64 40    ☽ ad ◠♂ Motu Converso 66 35    Cardinal Gypsius says Argol was born the 14th of October at 50 minutes past two Afternoon 1564. sub Lat. 44. and he makes him 28 degrees of Aquary Ascending with 14 degrees of Sagitary on the Midheaven This man had passed through all degrees of Preferment of the Church from the lowest to the highest except Pope and was at last made Cardinal the 19th of January 1626 on the Midheaven ad Trine of Venus But at last he dyed on the 6th of April on the Ascendent directed to the Dragon's tail having been about twenty days sick of a Diarrhea which Argol says is naturally presaged by the Cauda with other effects caused by the Terms and Trine of Mars following it This is a bold daring Touch you see for all those improbable Directions that Argol hath ventured at before are nothing to this and I am sure that whosoever can believe this Direction hath power to kill can believe any thing nor will there be any impossibility that his Faith cannot swallow It is strange and seems sornething improbable to me that the Dragon's tail which is but an imaginary point should afford such strange effects as they father upon it For if you consider it is a moveable point and hath no Light nor Beams and for that reason how it should have such influence as this I cannot apprehend but when you have considered the Nativity that followeth this you will cease to wonder here and remove your admiration thither because he kills him with the Dragon's head Just such a Direction as this doth Hâ—mminga make a noise with in page 90 of his Treatise against Astrology and that is the Ascendent to its own square And â—erhaps it may serve well enough too with such Astrologers as 〈◊〉 who like some others undertook to write against the Art and yet knew very little more than the name of it only But to be short with you these and such kind of Directions as these are serve only for Loop-holes and Back-doors to creep out at when they are constrain'd to assign some reason or other to the Reader or Antagonist for such or such an accident But suppose I should allow this Direction to be good which I do not pray why did not the Ascendent to the Opposition of Venus kill because she is Lady of the Eighth But I am sure they can have no excuse in the case why the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn and the Moon should not kill and this the rather because Saturn hath Dignities in the Eighth House which makes the case more certainly mortal Nay the Horoscope also passed the oppositions of Mars the Sun and Mercury and yet none of these could kill him till the Dragon's tail came and after all the hard Usage by these rugged Stars to no purpose it was very unkind of the Dragon's tail to come behind him and like a Footpad knock him down cowardly and yet when this is done had the Caâ—da known he had been a Clergyman he had certainly had better quarter for Jupiter's sake It is plain to me that this Native could not dye on the Ascendent to the Dragon's tail and therefore we must endeavour to find out something more rational and agreeable to Rule and also more probable to be believed by men of
Elevation and Sleswick in particular So that I judge that 51 should have been 55 or 56 unless he was born in his Mother's Country at Berlin in the Dukedom of Brandenburg which I do not think he was And therefore I will conclude him born under the Pole 55 degrees 43 minutes He was first Bishop of Bremen elected King of Denmark and Norway in 1648. was block'd up in his City of Copenhagen in the year 1659. by the Swedes and he dyed February 9th 1670. This NatIvity we are told hath not its fellow among the most Illustrious Genitures and for that Reason I think it worth my Consideration and Pains How this Gentleman did get this Nativity I know not and if I ask it will be to no purpose The principal thing that this Author values himself upon in this Nativity is His Prediction from the Scheme and Directions when the King was a Prisoner in Copenhagen that he should again recover his Liberty his Kingdom and his former Honour but if he had given me the Reason for his Prediction I should have been better satisfied in the point for one would think Saturn in the Seventh and the Moon Lady of the Twelfth in the Sixth in Square to the Sun Lord of his Ascendent in the Tenth and Venus oppressed by Mars and Jupiter by Saturn were but cold Encouragements for such an Adventure notwithstanding the Sun was in the Tenth which I know he did depend on Now the first Query that I make upon these Directions of the Midheaven and Sun to the Body of Mars which he says gave those Mischiefs and perhaps they might do it is why should we believe or how could he by his own Rules that these Directions would terminate in Liberty and not in Death For First in Charles Gustavus's case he tells us â—e dyed on the Mid-heaven to the Body of Saturn and his Nativity no more violent than this is there was only one Aphetick Point afflicted by a single Direction and yet that kill'd Here is two and yet this could not do it notwithstanding Mars was with the Pleiades Secondly in the Earl of Strafford there he makes the Midheaven to the Body of Saturn likewise kill and this by Beheading but here the Sun and Midheaven to the Body of Mars go off and give only loss of Liberty and Honour Thirdly Why the Midheaven to the Opposition of Mars should kill the Earl of Essex pag. 45. and the Body not kill this Prince Indeed it is strange to me that he or any man else should think this Doctrine is possible to be received by any man that will not betray his Reason And the same Cant passeth still Fourthly Why should we believe this could give him Troubles and Confinement when the Midheaven to the Body of Mars married the Princess Royal of England page 20 Why should not Mars in this King's Geniture and on this Direction give Honour and Fame because Lord of the Tenth as well as give Marriage in that Lady's because Lord of the Seventh Fifthly Why should we believe the Midheaven to the Body of Mars should give this Prince any Mischiefs at all when we find that Sir T. Mayern had it and gave him nothing at all Now what shall we say to these Contradictions And who is able to reconcile them For my part I cannot nor do I think the Author of them able to do it These are but a few of this kind I could give you many more and perhaps I may so before I conclude Now upon the whole we may conclude That the Midheaven to the Body of Mars by common Practice gives a King Confinement in his chiefest City gives a Princess Marriage gives an Earl Death by being beheaded gives a Bishop Imprisonment and gives a Doctor of Physick nothing at all Well but these things were written and done while this Prince lived and he doth not tell us one Word what he thinks did â—ill him for he lived above 10 years after these Misfortunes and dyed February the 9th 1670. being then almost 61 years of age I doubt this will prove an ugly knotty odd sort of a business to find out a cause for his Death that may agree with these Directions and Figure corrected and confirmed by them and prove satisfactory to the intelligent Reader and to tell you the Truth it makes me Shrug for I am not over-fond of the work whatever you think on it but it must be done and therefore let us to it You know it is their method when a man is dead and they are to sâ—ek a Cause for Death any of the Five Hilegicals serve and an indifferent Direction will do for the most part and I will pursue their own Doctrine in their own way for I know what they can do and say in such cases as these are And to this end we must certainly allow this Scheme without alteration or else all the fine things said by our Author on those Directions of the Midheaven are out of Doors and of no effect I will begin with the Sun The Sun we find on the Midheaven and therefore is to be directed by the Right Ascention and by that motion I find the Sun is got into 9 degrees of Gemini by Direction at the time of his Death to his own Sextile a year and two months past to the Bull 's Eye 3 year past and to the Trine of Saturn wanting eight months What a plaguy thing this is to be so near and neither of them hit exactly had the Aldebaran but hit we would have depended on that and the Sextile of the Sun The Midheaven is got into 8 degrees of Gemini and just past the Sextile of the Sun shall we dâ—pend on that No I doubt we shall not make that pass We 'll go on The Ascendent is by the Oblique Ascention got into 15 degrees of Virgo and there we find the Lioâ—'s Tail shall we depend on that No no they will not believe it and besides that Star riseth with the beginning of Virgo The Pole of the Moon is about 53 and under that Pole she is by Direction got into 21 degrees odd minutes of Aquary just past the Square of Venus Lady of the Fourth Sure that will do or else the Devil is in 'em what believe nothing No no it is too far past a year and a half else it would have done bravely Why then we are undone if the Part of Fortune doth not help us out The Pole of the Part of Fortune as they say is about 25 degrees it s O. A. under that Pole is 24 degrees 22 minutes O. A. of the Opposition of the Moon sine Lat. 84 degrees 32 minutes Ark of Direction 60 degrees 10 minutes which by Nâ—ibod gives almost 61 years Sure this will do without dispute Ay ay this is as clear as the Sun and therefore now let us agree and settle the point The Sun to his own Sextile began his Disease the Part of Fortune to the Opposition of
be altered to an Hour and three Quarters later but I shall reject both because I will keep to the Rule lib. 3. cap. 13. Quadripart For by that Rule the Part of Fortune is to be allowed Hileg without dispute and in a Figure of my setting it is on the Cusp of the Eleventh but in their Scheme it is in the Ninth House They direct the Part of Fortune in Zodiaco I direct it in Mundo only and in this Case the Part of Fortune comes to the Square of Saturn the Ark 37 degrees 30 minutes or near it and this followed by the Square of Mars within 10 degrees and no Relief from the Beneficks And this I do from a Figure of 3 degrees of Sagitary ascending and near 26 degrees of Virgo on the Midheaven and the Part of Fortune will be within half a degree of the Eleventh House toward the Tenth And this I take to be the most rational of the two Corrections I mentioned and I am sure more likely to be true than Morinus's is The next we meet with is the Nativity of Albert Duke of Fridland Walstein the Emperor's General that fought against Gustavus Adolphus when he was slain This man was murdered by the Command of his Master Ferdinand the Second Emperor Jussu Imperatoris trucidatus says Morine on the 25th of February 1634. being then Fifty Years and Five Months old and for this Morinus says he had the Midheaven directed to the Square of Mars Peregrine and in his Detriment in the Eighth House and yet both the Sun and Mâ—â—n in Aphetical Places the one in the Seventh and the other on the Cusp of the Eleventh From whence you may observe That Morinus takes no notice of the Hilâ—g but makes his Rule positive above all as appears by these Three Examples That the Midheaven to the Square of either of the Infortunes in the Eighth certainly kills either a King or a General that happens to have such a Position The Figure follows set to his Time but my Division of the Heavens and the Planets Places from the Rudolphine as Morine says Whatever Morinus may think of the matter I do positively affirm That the Sun in this Figure is certainly and without all doubt Giver of Life and therefore the Cause of Death must be sought from his directional Motion and not from the Tenth House the Moon the Ascendent nor the Part of Fortune And to make his Reader the more a Convert to his Rule and Method and to confirm the Truth of his Scheme he tells us This Native was elected supreme General or Generalissimo of the Emperor's Army in the Year 1631. And for this Preferment he says the Sun was at that time directed to the Midheaven a thing rather fit to be laughed at than believed Because there is no such Direction and whosoever doth imagine that the Sun or Moon can be directed to the Cusps of the Houses otherwise than Convers I am certain he doth not understand the nature of Directional motion Now to shew you how luckily a false Rule happened to suit to Moriâ—us's invention in a Figure that seems very probable to be true and so confirmed him and his Proselites in their misguided Opinions concerning the Anareta being wholly ignorant not only of the true Method in Direction but also of those undeniable Rules laid down for our Direction and Guide in that part of this Science I will make it appear that he did dye by Directions to the Giver of Life and this by his own Figure altering it but one minute in Time that is 15 minutes in the O. A. of the Ascendent and not only prove his Death but also give you Directions for his being chosen General far more likely than that of Morinus and the Oblique Ascention of the Ascendent that I work by is 344 degrees 7 minutes and the Pole of the Sun about 45 the distance of the Sun from the Seventh House is 16 degrees 12 minutes the distance of Mars from the Seventh House is 28 degrees 16 minutes Hence you have the Sun to the Mundane Parallel of Mars D. D. Ark 46 degr 55 min. which gives in Time 50 Years and 5 Months and followed by the Sun to the Square of Saturn in the Zodiack thus M. C. ad âš¹ ♃ 43 32 47 1 1630 M. C. ad â–³ ☿ 43 48 47 4 1631 Made General M. C. ad â–³ ☉ 46 19 49 10 1633 ☉ ad par ♂ d. d. 46 55 50 5 1634 Murdered ☉ ad â–¡ ♄ Zodi 52 29 56 00  ☉ ad â–¡ ♃ Zodi 56 31 60 00  Now what need we fly to impracticable Shams when Truth is so near at hand And what need is there to imagine a single Direction that is both Improbable and impossible to give what he pretends when we have no less than three that are beyond all doubt agreeing with his Death its time and Ptolomy's Rule which is this Et cum Jupiter aspicit Mâ—râ—m afflictum erunt neces insigniores ex judiciis aut ira Ducum aut Regum Quadri Lib. 4. Cap. 10 I know the next Question you ask me is How Jupiter beholds Mars afflicted to make this Rule good Why truly you must take Pains and search it â—uâ— by Labour for it is plain enough And besides I am now detecting of Errors not writing a Theory but you may depend on it the Rule really takes place in this Nativity as to his Death which was Murder And give me leave to add one word to excuse the Emperor about his Murder which perhaps may stick with some Readers This Native after he had beat the Swedes and kill'd their King grew so horridly insolent he was above all Law and Government neither the Emperor nor the Princes of the Empire knew how to deal with him They tell us He would send for any Man who he desired or take them by Violence in the Streets and bring them to his House and command his Servants to hang them immediately in his Orchard And when he had served many so he gloried in it so much that he askt his Friends that came to see him To go into his Garden and see what Fruit his Trees bore And for this and such like Crimes he being too big for the Law the Emperor commanded him to be kill'd which was in his Chamber the day before mentioned And though I have shewed you how these Directions better agree than that of Morine's yet I do not warrant it to be his true Nativity but do say it seems very probable The next is the Nativity of Francis de Bonne Duke and Marshal of France who lived to 83 Years of Age and dyed Sepâ—emb 28. 1626. on the Direction of the Moon to her own Square in the Ecliptick The Figure followeth This Learned Gentleman certainly never gave himself time to consider or else he never read Ptolomy with any Care or Credit for this is one of the idlest Reasons that ever was given First he tells us That which is
Saturn ought to have killed her because he is Lord of the Eighth as he stiles him and in Scorpio a violent Sign and the Sun's Opposition comes within 6 degrees after his Square which would certainly have proved mortal if the Directions to the Ascendent could have kill'd her And besides Mars in direct Opposition to the Ascendent would have ended the dispute of Life in the first Year of her Age or else have put it in very great danger If you please to give your self the trouble to examine his Book you will find he kills Cardinal Blanchâ—tius on the Ascendent to the Opposition of the Sun and there giver of Life as in this Qâ—â—en's Case And in Cardinal Zacchia Januen the Ascendent to the Square of the Sun kills So in Gonzague Duke of Mantua the Ascendent to the Body of the Sun killed him as dead as a Herring The like you may see in many more as Cardinal Placentius Cardi Vidonius c. and do you think that the Sun hath not as much Power to kill here as in those Cases for which reason I doubt the Truth of this Nativity and must be better satisfied in the point before I believe it do you as you please When you come to consider the thing â—airly and to compare the Directions in one Nativity with those in another you will either conclude Astrology to be a ridiculâ—us idle Study or else that the Pretenders to it do not understâ—nd what they would have the world believe they do for it is certain the Ascendent to the Square of Saturn or Opposition of the Sun ought to have the same effect in one Nativity as they have in another or else Rules of Exception laid down that we may know when they are to be relied on and when not which to this day was yet never done but they go on like a Drift of Carriers Horses in the same Track and so long as they all agree to be ignorant they are very well satisfied and one defends another in it but if any one steps out of the common Road presently he is cried down for an Innovator and an impertinent Fellow because he demands Reasons for their Practice and desires them to make their Art all of a piece and that their Rules may agree and also have the same effect in one Nativity as in another but you know what the Policy of Demetrius was and also on what bottom it was â—ounded I confess it is a hard matter to determine whether this Nativity is near truth or not because the estimate time is not given to us But I am sure this of Argol's is not true and that for the preceding Reasons And now considering she had a Catarrh I shall take that for the original Cause of her other Disorders and Death and therefore endeavour to assign proper causes for both and in the first place I determine the Sun to be the giver of Life without dispute and was directed to the Zodiacal Parallel of the Mâ—on at 24 years of Age the Ark of Direction 21 degrees and 29 minutes which gives in time 23 years and 10 months He was also directed to the Mundane Parallel of Mars d. d. Ark 22 degrees 7 minutes gives in time 24 years and about 5 months and the Oblique Ascention of the Ascendent in the Figure that I use is 325 degrees 7 minutes and these Directions seem rationally like to be the cause both of the Catarrh Palpitation and Death of this Qâ—een and though I cannot say these Directions will give these Diseasâ—s exactly in another Nativity yet I affirm they shall give an adequate Effect and Death also let the Figures be proportional in their positions and yet I dare not affirm this to be the true Nativity fâ—r all this because it may be later as well as earlier which I have made it in this my Essay Argoll says That Charles Gonzaga the first Duke of Mâ—ntâ—a was born May the 6th hor. 12. min. 32. P. M. 1580. sub Pol. 48. 10 degrees of Aquary ascending and he tells us He dyed on the Ascendent to the Body of the Sun Which perhaps some people may believe and depend on But if you look into other Nativities that he hath given us you will find he doth not keep to his own Rule as for example In that of Ascanius Columna where the same Direction did not prove mortal and for ought we know gave nothing at all for he takes no notice of it or of its effects on his Health and he lived many years beyond it Nor in Farnesius Duke of Parma's Case nor in Cardinal Farnesius nor in Cardinal Bentivoglio's nor in the Nativity of Edward Duke of Parma nor in Cardinal Lenius Romanus with divers others and yet he kills Cardinal Zacchia Januen on the Ascendent to the Square of the Sun a very likely thing when the Body would not do in all these Therefore pray tell me Is not this a confused Doctrine how shall a man know by their Rules when it will and when it will not do it that we may know how and when to rely on it Now if I were to manage this Prince's Nativity I must rely on the Directions to the Moon for his Death because the Moon is in the Ascendent and solely giver of Life and without any straining of the Directions comes to her own Square in Zodiaco at the same time and by altering the time he gives a little later she comes up to the Mundane Parallel of the Sun at the same time also which will undoubtedly kill not only in this but in any other case where such Positions and Directions happen But perhaps some little busy Fellow or other that hath his Head cramm'd with Heliocentrick Maggots may ask me First Why did not the Moon to the Square of Saturn kill him To that I answer I do not believe he was so much as sick upon that Direction but I am sure he could not be in danger of his Life because at the same time the Moon was directed to the Zodiacal Parallel of Jupiter and the Mundane Sextile of Venus which certainly saves against any single bad Direction be it never so maletick Secondly Why the Moon to the Body of the Sun did not kill This I confess is a very bad one and must put his Life in Danger but I should hardly have judged it mortal for Three Reasons 1. The Moon had then 5 degrees of Latitude 2. She was out of the Ecliptick and in the same Parallel of Declination with Venus 3. By her Latitude she was within less than 12 degrees of Jupiter's Opposition For which Authority see Ptolem. lib. 3. cap. 14. The Planets Places are as followeth ♄ 17 29 â™’ 0 51 S. ♃ 11 39 â™ 0 47 N. ♂ 21 31 ♓ 1 42 S. ♀ 0 58 ♋ 1 56 N. ☿ 17 53 ♊ 2 3 N. ☽ 6 31 ♓ 1 26 N. ☉ 25 58 ♉    ☊ 20  ♒    He tells us That Edward Duke
Position to give the Ark of Direction to the Body of Mars 58 degrees 13 minutes which turned into time gives 59 years and 6 months and soon after he dyed For it is impossible if the Sun is Hileg that he should outlive the Sun to the Body of Mars And for his coming to the Crown of England he had the Sun to the Zodiacal Parallel of Venus Lady of the Tenth her Latitude by Stadius from whom he took the Planets places being almost one degree South which gives her Zodiacal Parallel Ark 35 degrees 44 minutes and that in time gives 36 years and some months I do believe to make the Ascendent to the Body of Jupiter give his coming to the English Throne this Nativity was corrected which was the reason they let the Sun pass the Body of Mars the Sun's Pole being too small to meet it in that point they have made him But why Mr. Gadbury hath so strenuously maintained That this Native did not dye by Poison I cannot tell telling his Reader That no such thing was to be read in the Heavens at his Birth and therefore not to be allowed at his Death when there is nothing more plain and visible to be read both at his Birth and Death For he dyed on the Sun to the Body of Mars Square of Venus and Body of Saturn or to take it in his own words to the Conjunction of Saturn and Square of Venus Is not Venus with the Dragon's Tail among the Pleiadâ—s and the Author of the Doctrine of Nativities tells us The Moon is made poisonous by bâ—ing with the Dragon's Tail page 148. parag 14. and why not Venus be made poisonous too by that Rule But Ptolemy tells us in plain Words Sed cum Venus est simul significat Veneficia c. Lib. 4. Cap. de genere Mortis Here you see Venus is joyned with the Maleficks and makes good the Rule to a hair And to â—nforce his Opinion for Doctâ—ine he argues with us very odly saying Jupiter is Lord of the Eighâ—â— and so Lord of Death And when he is so the Native dyes of a Plurisy an Apoplexy an Angina Convulsions of the Hâ—ad and Stomach c. but by Poison it is absolutely impossible Before he said The Cause of Death was from the Sun Hileg to the Body of Saturn if Saturn gave Death most certainly he gave the Disease also If a man be killed with a Swâ—rd that very Sword and not another that gave the Wound gave the Death also If Thomas Blood should kill a man in the County of Cornwall and they should take up Tom. Chance in the County of Nâ—rfolk prosecute him and hang him for that Murder though he knew nothing of the matter it would be most barbarous and cruel Why just so they deal by Jupiter for Saturn murdered this man and poor Jove is like to be hang'd for it Is this Philosophick Astrology Out upon it Charles I. King of England born November 19th at 10 at Night as he says 1600. He makes him 25 degrees of Leo ascending but not one Direction suitable to the Accidents mentioned except the Midheaven to the Trine of the Moon for his Coronation But to talk of the Ascendent to the Square of Mars for his Death is such a rough Doctrine not only unpleasant to the Ear but improbable to reason for if you have any faith in Ptolemy's Doctrine the Ascendent is not giver of Life but the Part of Fortune see Quâ—dri Lib. 3. Cap. 13. Besides how many doth he allow passed the Ascendent to the Square of Mars and never killed them As Qâ— Elizabeth the Earl of Essâ—x pag. 45. the Duchess of Sfoâ—â—â—â— Pope Gregory XV. Bishop Hall Mr. John Beale Dr. Geoffery le Neve and many others who had the Luminaries not in Aphetical Plaâ—cs as this Prince likewise had them nor is Mâ—rs any more made Malefick by position in this then in any of those Nay Mars is here in Conjunction with Venus and therefore the mâ—re unlikely to kill And in a word I do positively affirm That the Asâ—â—ndent to the Square of Mars was not the cause of this Prince's Death And the reason for this seems plain to me for we must walk by a Rule and if they will allow this to be a positive effect of the Ascendent to the Square of Mars I would desire some Gentleman to make a Rule of Exception to it and shew us why those Natives abovementioned did escape with Life on this Direction And till that is made clear and plain I must believe this to be a very doubtful Nativity as well as his Father's I have told you the Part of Fortune is Hileg in this Nativity and if I were to correct it I should direct the Part of Fortune to the Square of the Moon to the Zodiacal Parallel of Saturn and to the Mundane Parallel of Mars and this by making but a small Alteration for the Part of Fortune is but 10 degrees distant from the Midheaven and the time would be a little later I do not desire any man should be confined to my Notion or Opinion in this matter but then I desire they would let their Directions in their own way do the same thing at one time that they do at another and not bubble us with sham Stories and Tricks If they do but nearly hit the Mark it is no matter what Bow they shoot in The Duke of Glocester is said by our Author and I suppose believed by many to dye on the Sun directed to the Opposition of Saturn which cannot be because the Sun is on the Cusp of the Eighth and not Hileg if his Figure is true and the Division of the Heavens likewise but the Mâ—on because of her Latitude is there certainly Apheta Why did not the Sun to the Opposition of Saturn kill Henry VIII Frederick III. Emperor of Germany Duchess of Sfertia Mr. Sâ—epkins Mr. Jâ—hn Mallet Mr. John Booker Mr. John Gadbury Examine these Nativities where it came up in some young others in old age and yet in none it kill'd with divers others I could have mentioned Therefore we may reckon this also among the doubtâ—ul Nativities The Lady Mary eldest Daughter to Charles I. was born November the 4th at 17 minutes past 5 in the morning 1631 as saith our Author page 20. and that it nearly agrees with the Bishop's Diary And tells us also He was imposâ—â— on by a Pretender to print a false one for this Lady 's true Birth before but now he says he is certain it is true And yet 15 years after this he printed another forher true time of Birth and which of these three we may rely on I know not In the first he made 19 degrees of Scorpio ascending in the second 27 degrees of Libra and in the third in his Obsâ—qui Rationab 2 degrees of Scorpio Now if this last is the truest which indeed it ought to be then the Directions that he gives in his Collection for her
1585. He makes him 27 of Scorpio ascending the Sun 26 degrees in Virgo and the Moon almost 1 in Leo. Morinus says He was born September 9th at half an Hour past 9 Manè he makes him 30 degrees of Libra ascending the Sun in 16 degrees of Virgo and the Moon in 20 degrees of Pisces The plain truth is Mr. Gadbury makes an Error of 10 days which was done I believe by taking it the 9th Old Stile and it should have been the 9th New Stile By this you see there is no great need to say any thing to this Nativity the man being born 10 days before the time here inscribed Cardinal Mazarine was born says our Author July the 14th 1602. under the Pole 42. and he dyed in March 1660. on the Ascendent directed to the Opposition of Mars and yet both the Sun and the Part of Fortune in Aphetical Places and it seems as reasonable to me to believe that the Sun to the Body of Mars could as well kill as the Ascendent to his Opposition and if he brings 20 Proofs of his Figure by Directions and Accidents that seem probable yet this last of Death destroys them all in my Judgment For if we look into the Birth of Henry VI. the Ascendent to the Opposition of Mars did not kill there nor in Pope Clement VIII it did not kill nor in Mr. Richard Morgan's nor in Dr. Tymms nor in Mr. John Gadbury's it did not kill and therefore why here So I will pass it by as believing it to be as true as Cardinal Richelieu's Bishop Laud is the next in order and his Nativity I have already published in my Opus Reformatum to which I do refer you being unwilling to write one thing twice especially when it takes up so much Time and Paper Bishop Hâ—ll is said by our Author to be born July the 1st of a Thursday at 5 in the morning under the Pole 53. And this he says He hath from his own hand being set down by himself in the Diary of his Life He was committed to the Tower at the age of 67 years and this on the Midheaven directed to the Dragon's Tail as our Author hath it And he dyed at the age of 81 on the Sun to the Square of the Moon says my Author See the Scheme You see I have not altered the Time he gives us one minute nor any thing else only I have calculated the Longitude and Latitude of Mars and Venus for the more exactness of the Operation but before we come to the Correction let us a little consider the Scheme with the Two Directions he gives for his Imprisonment and Death He tells us He was imprisoned on the Midheaven to the Dragon's Tail if so I hope it will be found That it gives some such effect in other Nativities or else I cannot believe it and to that end see the Duke of Richmond's where it gave nothing at all I believe then see Gustavus Adolphus who had the Lord of his Ascendent in Square to Mars in the Twelfth House and yet the Midheaven to the Dragon's Tail did not imprison him nor Frederick the Emperor nor Mr. Gataker nor Judge Reeves nor Dr. Tymms with abundance more where it passed by and gave no such thing nor indeed nothing at all and why should we make it so great a Direction here To be plain with you it was not that which gave it but the Sun to the Square of Saturn and Venus and you may be certain the Dragon's Tail had no hand in it And as to his Death I wonder any man of Sense should thus endeavour to put a Falshood upon the world when it is neither by Rule nor Reason That the Sun in the Twelfth House directed to the Square of the Moon should kill When he knows that the Sun to the Square of the Moon in Charles I's Nativity did not kill nor in Henry IV. of France nor in the Nativity of Prince Maurice pag. 55 where the Sun is in the Twelfth as here nor in that of Duke Hamilton nor in the Duke of Albemarle nor in his Reverend Prelate Bishop Laud nor in Mr. Childry and abundance more too tedious to mention And in some of these the Sun is Giver of Life too Now if it could not or would not kill these why should any man believe it kill'd this Native I have you know all-a-long this Treatise told you That there is nothing kills but to the Hileg and in this Nativity it is no easy thing to find that out and if I go contrary to custom I must be excused I assure you I will not go contrary to Rule but keep to the Text. In this Nativity Venus is Giver of Life in the Eleventh House her Pole is 34 degrees her Oblique Ascention is 50 degrees 53 minutes This taken from the Oblique Ascention of the Square of Mars gives the Ark of Direction of Venus Hileg to the Square of Mars sine Lat. 76 degrees 26 minutes this Ark turned into time gives 81 years and 5 months and this followed by Venus to the Parallel of the Sun Motu Rapto Ark 80 degrees 39 minutes And these are the Directions that I say killed him and not the Sun to the Square of the Moon or else the Ascendent must be Apheta and the Time later Perhaps there may be some nimble-witted Fellow or other that may cry out against this method and think I have overshot my self in the point of taking Venus for Giver of Life To such I say That the Sun cannot be Hileg nor the Moon nor the Part of Fortune because the Nativity is diurnal and Venus qualified to exercise that â—ower And for my Vindication in the matter pray read Ptolemy Lib. 3. Cap. 13. where he tells us In a Diurnal Nativity if the Sun and Moon are not qualified for Hâ—leg Sumito Planetas qui poâ—iorem habent rationem Dominii Collatos ad pâ—situm Solis precedentem Câ—njunctionem Horoscopum and when you have read this and understand it you will be of my Opinion I am certain The next is Bishop Morton's Nativity which I shall take but little notice of because my Author confesseth he had it only to the Day and the time of the Day he hath found out by his great Pains and Skill and that is the reason I do not believe it for I know it cannot be done to any certainty unless by accident Bishop Usher comes also under the sâ—me Predicament for our Author confesseth likewise That he had this given him but to the Day only and by his mighty pains he found out the Hour and Minute of his Birth And is not this a likely business when we cannot depend on his Correction of one that is given within an â—our or two at the most You may depend on his Correction if you please but I will not nor will I take any Pains on the Scheme The Nâ—tivity of Dr. Hammond is also at peradventure for he tells us