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

the disadvantage to his Honour that can be Disappointment in his Expectation Loss in his Affairs and all Things that depend either upon his Courage Conduct or Council go on at this Time but ill and untoward but if we mind the two Malevolents they are both in Square to his Radical Moon and in Parallel to his pars Fortunae this gives illness of Body so far as to be crazy and out of order perhaps really Sick it gives loss by Enemies and that to some consideration it also gives Disturbance to the Brain and Mind with Disorder of that Nature and whatever is signified now will be with Violence because of the Sun on the place of the last Conjunction of Opposition to Jupiter and the Sun on his Radical Mars his place This if I make a right Judgment signifies Crosses and want of Success And now expect to hear of some brisk Ingagement About the end of September the two Malevolents come to another Opposition by the Retrograde Motion of Mars and this at the time of the great Lunar Eclipse in the Sign Aries in the seventh degree thereof This Eclipse falls exactly on the place of his Radical pars Fortunae which gives loss of Health and Estate the Opposition gives all the trouble that Loss Discontent and want of Success can give Jupiter is here in Opposition to his Radical Mars as if some thar were formerly his Friends signified by Jupiter did now turn Tail and prove his Enemies But this Opposition seems also directly to point at the French Tyrant for it falls in exact Square to his Moon and Venus this gives Disappointment and Loss in his publick and forreign Affairs treachery in his Councils and perhaps a return of his old fulsom Disease in Ano and that the rather because Mars is in the fourth House of his Radix and Saturn of late Stationary on the place of the Sun by direction and this considered with his Revolution The Eclipse also will have some Influence on his Country and People as well as England in a word this Month of September and also October seem to be times of great Action and also of great Destruction among Men and Things neither will August be free therefrom In October we have an Opposition of the Sun and Mars and a Conjunction of the Sun and Saturn from the aforesaid Signs and Places but that which makes it remarkable is that it falls just upon the Suns return to his own place in that Gentlemans Nativity we mentioned before that is it falls at the beginning of his next Years Revolution which is like to give a very pleasant Year to one in his Condition to say the Truth a worse Revolution cannot be for all sorts of Mischief except Life because the one falls just before the Revolutional Point and the other after it and both so near that the Sun is afflicted by each of them to a great degree neither is the Moon and Radical part of Fortune free at the same time from the Affliction of the Malevolents which considered together do not only promise a ba● end of this Year but a very evil beginning and continuance of the next and who ever they are that expect his Return build their Hopes and Wishes on very bad Grounds and Foundations for if we consider his directions that he is now under together with his Revolutions and Transits he is so far from returning that they will still heap up more Plagues Crosses and Vexations on his perishing Fortune than they have yet done or to speak more plainly they will still increase and multiply the Misfortunes he is now under And therefore let all honest Men be incouraged to use their endeavours both by Counsel and Arms to defend their Laws Lives and Liberties against the Tyranny of France Rome and those Confederated with them to destroy all that stand in their way for the Heavens favour their Undertaking with Success and have given an Opportunity to them to make themselves a free and a happy People and therefore if they are not so it is their own faults for God is not bound to save them against their will. The season is approaching let every Man set his Hand to the Plough and the Work will be easy and we are in more Danger from an unworthy Generation in the midst of us that endeavour our Ruin than of the Abdicated King who you have little or no reason to fear and therefore expect him no more But I find there are some discontented Spirits abroad that desire to have their Popish King again and others that encourage them to expect his Return and that by Force of Arms. First then consider what People these are that wish it for when he was made King and swore to the People to maintain their Laws Liberties and Religion Did he not break thro all and invade every Mans Propriety therein concern'd and do ye believe he is grown more Just now did he not raise and impose upon you a Cut-Throat Army who threatned daily to Ruine Destroy and Dragoon ye according to the French Method and do ye think he is grown more Merciful now Did he not bring in Sholes of Priests prefer all those persons that would turn Papists incourage Popish Chappels all the Nation over and did his endeavour to give you all to understand that he was taking the best and most speedy way to bring in Popery and when that was settled to destroy the Protestants for Popery and that can by no means dwell together witness France and do you think he is now grown less a Bigot to his Religion and more free from the Government of his Irish and his Priests than he was before Did not the Papists over the whole Nation threaten you what they would do how they would use you who they would Hang and Jaile c. when their King had setled Popery and given them the power which you saw was very near doing and do ye believe that he or they either are grown better-natured people now than they were before or that they will use you more kindly No No never cheat your selves to believe Papists will be any more kind to you now then they have been to the Protestants formerly in Piedmont at Rochel in France at Paris in Ireland and many other places where they murdered them by thousands and hundreds of thousands and of late under that Tyrannical Monster in France where the Jailes Gibbets and Galleys were their Doom and the merciful Censures they received from the Papists their Protectors and Defenders and this for no other Reason but because they would not be Roman Catholicks and change their Religion And assure your selves if ever you suffer the Abdicated King to return again he will use Rehoboam's Expression that he did indeed chastise you before with Whips but now he will do it with Scorpions he only perswaded you then but now he will Compel you Before he sent out among you his Apostatical whining Regulators but now

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

Aries as you may read in Cardan Seg. 5. Aphor. 45. where he tells us that it signifies the Multitude i. e. that Captain Tom should do the Nation Justice upon Popish Offenders was it so or not John Lying is an inherent Faculty and thou canst not leave it But in his fifth there he hath shewed himself to a hair for first he falsly imagines a Cause to build his malicious and bloody Prediction upon without Cause and what was this for why it was to support and incourage his treasonable Party and Popish Crew in their further Attempts to destroy the Protestants and Protestant Religion And pray observe how confidently the Fellow tells his Party that in case of Invasion for he and they too knew there was no danger without that they should certainly hear of the Prince and the rest of the Peers and Gentlemen being beaten taken and brought to make Speeches at Towerhill and Tyburn this was not spoke by Chance or in Discourse but with premeditated Malice against his Majesty and the Protestants and with his earnest Hopes desires and wishes to see it accomplished for in all Times and under all Governments he is certainly a Villain to the height and always of the same Religion that the chief of the Government are of And do you but count how many Changes there have been in the English Government in point of Worship especially since the Year 1645 or 6 and just so often hath honest John changed his Perswasion in Religion and once more that was when he turned Ranter and should the Great Turk come he would take up his old Topick i.e. That God always sends a King of that Religion which he expects the People should be of Now the Question is whether John Gadbury the Parson of Putney and Harry Hills ever intend to dye Martyrs These are three special Fellows But now John suppose his Majesty should turn the Tables and as you have doom'd him to make a Speech at Towerhill he should send you to make a Speech at Tyburn or what is according to your late Mode let you walk from Aldgate to Tyburn having a Man go behind you to brush the Dust and the Flies off from your Back on your way and this I am sure you deserve if not for that yet for your now preaching up Sedition to amuse his Majesties Subjects and carry on the Popish Cause for there are divers Ladies that I have spoke with that say they have heard you tell it confidently that the Abdicated King would be here by Midsummer and you advised the Papists to use their Interest accordingly nay I have heard the same from some Papists also and I can bring them to your Face but they are People of more Honour than to turn Evidences you know who you have told it to tho perhaps not how many Ah John thou art not only an Ill Perfidious Traiterous Sycophantizing Scorpionist but a notorious Liar also thy very Nativity bespeaks thee to be all this and from your own Rules too But prithee John why Towerhill and Tyburn you see your cursed Crew are not so dealt with tho you deserve it far more but indeed Whipping-posts Jailes and Gibbets were the common Favours you Papists did use to bestow on the Protestants at that time and we know it will be the same again if ever they get the Power and for that reason John I am for your having a taste of it now to try the Experiment In the last Paragraph he draws a Parallel between the Invasion in 1588 and 1688 and tells you he doubts not but to see the last prove as the first did Now John are you not ashamed how can you look any Gentleman in the Face without blushing after all this Trick Cheat and Lying But prithee John consider that the Invasion of 1588 was to bring in Popery and this of 1688 was to kick it out in both which you see the Judgment of an angry God against their Idolatry and Lying which you blasphemously call Religion Again John prithee how did you look when you call'd James your King a merciful pious Prince I confess Cabinet Jones gave him that Character when he wrote to us at Amsterdam but no body believed him because we knew him better Honest John thou hast sufficiently shewed to the World that thy whole Life hath been a continued course of Villany and Knavery And this little Paper hadst thou never been guilty would have made thee suspicious but now it is a Confirmation of all the rest and helps to make thee a compleat And this leads me to consider thy Almanack this Year in which thou hast been extravagantly idle and impudent which I refer to every ones Judgment in the reading what follows IN Page 7. speaking of the Spring Quarter he says it speaks better things to Great Britain than the English Libelling Renegado's in Holland dream of Query whether he means the Abdicated Lords and Bishop now at Amsterdam or not for I know no Renegado's else in Holland there are divers besides in France and Ireland In January in his Rime doggerel over the Month he begs the place to be the Prince of Wales his Vassal Thus you see there can never be a good place vacant but one Knave or another is always ready to beg it Well let him take it and pray take care that Honest John may be entered down in the Book of Honour for the Prince of Wales his Slave There is a pair of them like Master like Man. In this Month he hath taken a great deal of care to put down King Char. the Martyr but if you observe November he hath quite forgot Gunpowder-Treason and yet a very good Protestant why really he did tell me long since that there never was any such thing and that it was only a Trick of King James the First this gave me the first suspicion of his being a Papist In the Month of April he tells us that Dr. Oates was to stand in the Pillory at Tyburn on the 24th day and so to do every Year on that day as long as he lives Query who saw it and whether Jack was not mistaken in the Point as he used to be risum teneatis But in May he makes a long Harangue about his unjust Trial and tells us that on those days there mentioned he was to be punished and afterward to remain in Prison during his Life But Honest John hath lived to see himself prov'd a Liar and the unjust Judges to see their unjust Sentence and Judgment called in Question by their Superiors Was there ever such a base and barbarous Sentence given before no nor would now by any but Dispensing Judges nor none but a Traiterous Scorpionist would so triumph over a poor Gentleman's Sufferings In August and September John hath impudently repeated his former Folly and tells us that Dr. Oates is to stand in the Pillory again on those several days and so to do as long as he lives What way could