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A57689	Astrologia restaurata, or, Astrologie restored being an introduction to the general and chief part of the language of the stars : in four books ... / by VVilliam Ramesey, Gent. ...	Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6.; Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6. Introduction to the iudgement of the stars.; Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6. Introduction to elections.; Ramesey, William, 1627-1675 or 6. Astrologia munda.	1653 (1653)	Wing R201; ESTC R20735	479,753	423

Astrologia Restaurata OR Astrologie Restored BEING AN INTRODVCTION TO THE General and Chief part of the Language of the STARS In Four BOOKS THE FIRST Proving the Legality of ASTROLOGIE both by Scripture Reason and the testimony of the Ancients and learned in former Ages wherein is cleared to every Rational and Impartial man the Authors Lux Veritatis in Answer to Doctor Homes to remain unshaken notwithstanding the Doctors unowned Reply THE SECOND By a plain Method teaching the Names and Characters of the Planets and Signs as also the Reasons thereof and of their Dignities Terms Faces Houses Exaltations and Triplicities with the Reasons why the Signs are reckoned from Aries and in number just twelve and ●●●ither more nor less with the number of the Sphears their Order and Motions being a most necessary Introduction to the whole ART and very usefull to all wel willers thereunto for inabling them to give Reasons for any part thereof c. THE THIRD Fully comprehending Instructions and Rules for electing any manner of Work never before made publique in our Mother Tongue the which both for the Administration of Physick Letting of Blood Husbandry and other necessary Works is both usefull and profitable THE FOURTH By a most easie Introduction teacheth by Revolutions of the Years of the World Eclipses great Conjunctions Comets and Blazing-stars how to Judge by the ordinary course and order of Nature of the general Accidents of Countreys Kingdoms Provinces and Cities Alterations of Kingdoms and Empires Laws and Customs Cause of Plenty Dearth Wars Peace Health Sickness Alteration of the Ayr and to be short of all things appertaining to the life of man in a Natural Way wherein is the infinite Wisdom of GOD seen manifestly in the Government of the World by the Influence and constant Harmony of the Celestial Planets and Stars the Innocency Legality and Purity of the Art demonstrated and proved by demonstration of the inevitable events of the Heavens so long as GOD upholdeth the Order and Course of Nature unperverted and the Students thereof consequently proved rather Divines then Conjurers or Practisers of what is unlawfull By VVILLIAM RAMESEY Gent. Student in Astrologie Physick and the most Heavenly and Sublime Sciences Astra regunt homines sed regit astra Deus Published by Authority LONDON Printed for Robert White 1653. SERENISSIMO ILLVSTRISSIMOQVE PRINCIPI AC DOMINO DOMINO HONORATISSIMO IACOBO STVARTO DVCI DE RICHMOND ET LENOX COMITI DE MARCH DOMINO IN AVBVGNY DARNLY TARBOLTON ET METHVEN BARONI DE LEIGHTON BROMSWOLD ET S. ANDREWS c. ET PERISCELIDIS INSIGNIS MILITI DOMINO SUO CLEMENTISSIMO Salutem Felicitatem Perpetuam HANC SUAM ASTROLOGIAM RESTAVRATAM SUBMISSE CONSECRAT Wilhelmus Rameseus TO THE Illustrious and High-born PRINCE IAMES STVART Duke of Richmond and Lenox Earl of March Lord Aubugny Darnly Tarbolton and Methven Baron of Leighton Bromswold and St. Andrews and Knight of the most Noble Order of the GARTER May it please your Highness IF Nobility of Birth Antiquity of House Magnanimity of Spirit Multiplicity of Vertues and the most excellent Endowments that a Mortal Man can attain unto may justly as their due challenge the patronage of these my Labours there will be none found to anticipate your Highness and though my misfortune is such that I never had the Honour in the least to kiss your Highness hand or to appear in your presence but remain as yet a Stranger to your Highness yet by reason the Work is of that sublime Worth and Excellency I mean the Science of Astrology as appeareth by the first Book of this Volumn it being the chief of the Liberal Sciences together with Astronomy Physicks and Natural Philosophy which are all but part of one intire Science and that wherewith none is able to compare have I humbly presumed to cast it at the feet of your illustrious Self whose incomparable worth and indowments are unparalleld so that if your Highnesse's Munificence doth favourably accept of this small Token of my wel-wishes to true Nobility ●●d in a particular manner to your Highness I must necessarily be constrained to acknowledge my self arrived to the highest pitch of Honour that for the present I am capable to expect The subject of this my unworthy Work for so I may call it in reference to your Highnesses unparalleld excellency to whom it is presented is that part of Natural Philosophy vulgarly termed ASTROLOGY which teacheth by the Natural Motions Configurations Aspects and Inclinations of the Coelestial Stars and Planets to Iudge of the Natural Accidents Mutations and Alterations of Laws Customs Kingdoms States and Empires and the general casualties of the whole World in the Natural way of its Government by the Coelestial and Superiour Bodies which next under GOD are the efficient Causes of all corruption generation production and nutrition in this Elementary World the knowledge whereof is to know NATURE the great Hand-maid of the Almighty and the temper and quality of all things and although through the mercenary practises of some by setting of Nativities and answering of Horary Questions thus abusing the Art the validity of this Science hath been brought into question reproach and contempt yet I question not but your Highnesses innate magnanimity is such that it will not condescend to give any censure on what hath not first been summoned to the Bar or Tribunal of your Highnesses piercing Judgement for because a thing is calumniated and questioned is no proof of its illegality neither doth the abuse take away the use thereof for were this admitted even the best of Sciences and chief of Studies Divinity it self could not be exempt from prohibition and condemnation wherefore since the first BOOK of this Volumn tendeth wholly to the Vindication thereof from the aspersions of the Antagonists and the abuses of the seeming Friends thereunto I shall not further inlarge on this point since it is well known unto the Learned that among the Ancients and graver sort of people in all Ages this Science being unpolluted and unsophisticated hath been still had in most high esteem nay it is of that profundity and excellency that it was first taught to our first Father ADAM by GOD himself as testifyeth Iosephus Lib. 1. Cap. 2. of h●● Antiquities of the Iews who taught it to his Posterity for he further recordeth that Seth was so excellent therein that foreseeing the Flood and the destruction of the World thereby ingraved this Art for the benefit of after-Ages in two Pillars the one of stone and the other of brick and that he saw himself that of stone to remain in Syria in his own time and in the 3. chap. of his aforesaid book he further witnesseth and affirmeth that man lived so long before the Flood to learn Arts and Sciences especially naming Astrology and Geometry and in his 8. chap. of that same 1. Book of the Antiquities he doth yet further testifie that Abraham having learned Astrology in Chaldea being the place of

subject and scope of the second Treatise The Second comprehending the Names Number and Characters of the Signs and Planets Celestial together with the Reasons why they were so named and charactered and why there are but just twelve Signs and neither more nor less and why the Planets are assigned Rule both by House Exaltation Triplicity Term and Face therein and the Reasons why the Signs are reckoned from Aries with the number of the Sphears their Order and Motions whereby is plainly delivered a most easie and short Introduction to the whole Art of Astrology and the great and Universal Book of the Creatures made manifestly legible to the meanest and ordinariest capacity as also sufficient grounds whereby to answer all Gainsayers and Carpers thereat and to vindicate it in every respect Of the third The Third Treateth of the Rules of the Ancients touching the Election of a time proper for the accomplishment of any manner of Work necessary in this life but more especially for the Administration of Physick letting of Blood Husbandry and the like to the which it is both effectual and lawfull though in every particular in other matters not altogether so certain except depending on the general Accidents of the World as Revolutions Eclipses Comets Great Conjunctions Blazing-Stars and the particular Nativities of men Yet I have thought fit to deliver the Instructions of the Learned in former Ages in those matters also for that they may in sundry things by the weighing and considering the Natures and Temperatures of the Celestial Signs and Planets be of much use to the Wel-willers and Students in this most Heavenly and Lawfull Science of ASTROLOGY Of the fourth The Fourth is a compendious Tract of the whole general part of the Art wherein is at large manifested the Order and Course of the Government of the World by the Natural Operations and Harmonical Motions and Aspects of the Heavens Celestial Signs Stars and Planets in Revolutions of the Years of the World Eclipses Great Conjunctions Comets and Blazing Stars whereby is portended the general Accidents of Countreys Kingdoms Provinces and Cities the Alterations of Kingdoms and Empires Laws and Customs cause of Scarcity Plenty Wars Peace Health Sickness Alteration of the Ayr and to be short of all things appertaining in a Natural way to the life of Man whereby is manifest the infinite Wisdom of the Great Creator and the Innocency Legality and Purity of the Art demonstrated and proved by demonstration of the inevitable Events so long as God by his Providential Care upholdeth the Order and Course of Nature inviolate and unchanged Also the Students thereof consequently proved rather Divines then Conjurers or Practitioners of what is unlawfull for thereby may a man easily judge of any Revolution Eclipse c. or any part of them to the end of the World by being thereby instructed of the Nature and Signification of every Planet in every House and Sign of the Heavens and Aspects one amongst another and of their effects when Lords of the year and well or ill located c. In which Book if thou beest well instructed and perfected thou hast the whole body of Astrology The Body of Astrology in its Purity for neither is the Judgement of Horary Questions Ordinary Elections Charactery-Astrology Nativities or any other to be esteemed in comparison thereof but as trifles uncertainties fallacies illegalities and abuses of the purity of the Art The Reason why so many Books are Printed against Astrology For truly may I say the truth such like Practises of men unacquainted with the depth of this most heavenly Science by their frequent failings have been the main and only cause of so many Books against Astrology which is in it self so pure and undefiled that the most scrutinous Wit alive cannot have one Word for the Condemnation thereof for amongst the Learned the abuse never takes away the use of a thing for then there would be nothing under the Heavens Lawfull for we see even the Purest and most Lawfull Arts Sciences and things most abused and most apt to be counterfeited As for instance is there any thing in the World more Lawfull then Divinity in its purity and is there any thing more hard to finde or more commonly abused by false Tenets Schisms Sects and Heresies And yet if upon these grounds or out of these considerations a man should positively conclude no verity in Religion or truth in Divinity you would say that man were in a most gross Errour and very Impious Then I say let no man that is not willing to forfeit both his Reason Discretion and Understanding be so weak as without an assurance of the Nature and Quality of this most Lawfull Art which I here undertake to Vindicate and deliver to the World conclude ought against it either by Tradition or the common Voice of the World both which being known to the Judicious to be very false and to hold nothing of Credit in them The Authors first inducement to vindicate Astrologie For as it was meerly a Natural inclination within me to the Truth and the propagation thereof so far as in me lies that first drew my Pen to Paper so is it the same which maketh me now this once more appear and content my self to incur all the Currish Snarls Barkings and Bawlings of the envious and ingratefull and the same it is also that imbolbeneth me not to fear nor be danted at them it is no new thing with me to know that Dogs will bark at Strangers and such as are not of their kinde Gentlemen will shew themselves what they are and love each other but what shall I expect of Gallantry from Coblers Hay-makers Taylors and Serving-men The first occasion of his writeing The first occasion of my Writing in the Vindication of this Science was the appearance of a railing Pamphlet against it without any fear or wit to whom I returned a Reply in the year 1650. it is a short Tract of two Sheets what and who the Author thereof was you may see in the latter part of my Lux Veritatis Printed 1651. for I hold him not worthy the inserting in these my Labours The second occasion The second time of my Writing was occasioned through the weak Arguments flashes and suppositions of Doctor Homes who being a Scholler should me thinks have had more understanding then to condemn this worthy Art under the notion of Witchcraft Sorcery and such like illegalities or discretion then to rail down one of the chief of the Liberal Sciences meerly for the abuses thereof The third occasion The third was that I might manifest the innocency of this Science and the legality verity excellency and validity thereof if not abused and therefore who so shall warily peruse that Discourse of mine intituled Vox Stellarum or The Voice of the STARS Printed in the year 1652. shall be satisfied that God doth work by Causes and that he hath ordained the Stars and Celestial Planets to be immediate Causes next

any annual Revolution whether he be Lord of the Year or no. Mars in the first HAving done with the significations of Iupiter it follows now we come to Mars and his significations who if he be in the first House in any Revolution and strong whether he be Lord of the year or no shews that the People of that Country shall gain and be advantaged by wars or slaughters and shall overcome their Enemies during that Revolution but if he be weak they shall disagree and fall out one among another and shall beat draw blood and wound one another for which cause much evil and damage shall happen unto them Mars in the second If Mars be in the second House at the time of any Revolution or Ingress of the Sun into Aries and strong he denotes many thefts rapines and robberies and cozening and cheating of one another those also that are intrusted with money or goods of any one shall be false and deceitful and the People generally shall be driven to want and be perplexed with taxations and tributes Mars in the third But if he be in the third men shall not associate themselves with their neighbours and kindred but instead of being friends hate and envy one another Mars in the fourth Also if he be in the fourth he sends his vigorous heat and malice to all the other Planets so that if he be in a fiëry sign he dryes up and scorches the earth and causeth great mischief by fire also mortalities if the sign be humane he causeth many slaughters and effusion of blood quarrels and war and that chiefly in or towards the latter end of the year and in those places generally subject to the sin wherein she is Mars in the fifth And if he happen in the fifth hard and tedious labour is threatned to those with Child little or no merry meetings and feastings but if any he causeth dissentions and discords amongst them Mars in the sixth Again If he be in the sixth in a hot and dry sign he causeth hot and dry diseases if the sign be moyst the diseases will be hot and moyst if aiëry they will be feavers corruption of blood impostumes ventosies c. if it be an earthy sign they will be consumptions and melancholy diseases with some mixtures of choler and if the sign be bestial the beasts subject thereunto shall suffer c. Mars in the seventh Moreover if he be in the seventh afflicted and weak he denotes then great dissentions and enmities and that men shall be perplexed with theft much blood-shed contentions and wars and these shall chiefly be incident to the People of that Climate for which the Radix of your Figure is made viz. evil accidents wars and discords also fraud and deceit in Merchandizing trouble and sadness Mars in the eighth And if he be in the eighth there shall be fearful and terrible sudden deaths according to the nature of the sign in which he is Mars in the ninth If he be in the ninth travelling shall be dangerous also much robbing and plundering therein if the Journey be by Land if by Sea Shipwrack is much to be feared Mars in the tenth Again If he be in the tenth the King and Rulers shall be froward and cross with their People exercising cruelty and tyrannie without any piety or fear of God and punishing and taxing them without any mercy or pitty Mars in the eleventh If in the eleventh men shall not love one another nor delight in each others society neither will they be moved with any compassion or pitty Mars in the twelfth And if in the twelfth the People shall be much terrified and troubled by their Enemies from whence shall proceed slaughter and effusion of blood CHAP. IX Shewing the Significations of the Sun in the Twelve Houses of Heaven in any Annual Revolution whether he be Lord of the Year or no. REhearsing the Planets according to their order and places in the Heavens after Mars follows the Sun The Sun in the first who if he be in the Ascendent fortunate essentially dignified and in reception with the Lord of the Ascendent and beheld amically by him the year shall generally be happy and successful for every one as well the King as the Beggar but if he be therein infortunate it shall be clean contrary and especially noble and great men shall suffer in their persons dishonour disgrace and be perhaps cast out of their dignities and places The Sun in the second The Sun in the second the People shall waste and expend their wealth also their Rulers shall covet after the fingring and disposing thereof insomuch that they shall live sneakingly and poor The Sun in the third The Sun in the third shews the People shall delight in goodness and in the Law shall love and associate themselves with their neighbours friends kindred and associates for the which they shall be praised The Sun in the fourth If he be in the fourth Gardens and Vegetables shall be spoyled and suffer detriment especially if he be in signs of that nature great men and high shall be made low and degraded and if it be a watry sign the earth shall be dry and the water dried up I believe the Ancients meant fiëry The Sun in the fifth Again If the Sun be in the fifth he denotes detriment and grief to such Creatures as are with young so that hardly do any escape without some manifest hurt or other The Sun in the sixth Also if he be in the sixth many griefs and infirmities shall happen and chiefly in the eyes and such living Creatures shall dye as are signified by the sign wherein he is located the King also or chief Rulers shall be sad that year much loss also and damage shall be by servants and such things as are signified by the sixth House also the ignoble and baser sort of People shall envy and raise themselves up against their Superiours The Sun in the seventh Moreover if he be in the seventh he denoteth discords between the People and their Rulers and betwixt the King and the Nobles and that the King shall keep at a distance with the People or keep himself retire from them The Sun in the eighth In the eighth he denotes the death of Kings and great men also the deposing of Kings and unthroning of Nobles and Grandees and a lessening or diminishing of their power especially if he be beheld by the Lord of the eighth The Sun in the ninth But if he be in the ninth he shews the inclinations of the People are generally to good and that they shall be fortunate and successful in long Journies and Voyages and shall love and delight in both the Law of God and Man The Sun in the tenth Also if the Sun be in the tenth it denotes the glory renown and honour of the King or chief Rulers also the

Moon be also Oriental but if they be all Occidental he is old but if one shall be Oriental and the other Occidental he is neither young nor very old but of a middle age I shall here now conclude this Chapter with this note that all quarrels and blood-sheds that happen in the World are generally occasioned by Mars because when he enters any angle especially the fourth he signifies there shall be many quarrels and wars and great slaughters and effusion of blood and that men shall delight to kill one another CHAP. VII Of Fertility and Sterility How to judge of plenty in any year REason and Experience teacheth us that commonly after war comes a scarcity and after peace plenty and therefore these being their successors as I may say or events I have thought good in this Chapter to speak thereof Wherefore in this matter have regard to the Ascendents of the Conjunction and prevention of the Luminaries to the Revolution and their places and if the place of the Conjunction or prevention apply to the place of Jupiter and Jupiter have dominion in that place or if he assist the Lord of the Ascendent and the Lord of the fourth house at that time free from misfortune and the application of the Ascendent of that law or the change of Triplicities applying to the place of Jupiter or Venus by Conjunction or Aspect there shall be plenty at that year of such things as the earth doth produce especially if the Lord of the second house assist or apply unto the Lord of the Ascendent by a good and friendly Aspect and this shall be the more assuredly confirmed if Part of Fortune have power and dignity there in that place because those signifie plenty upon plenty Of scarcity or dearth But if thou wouldst know when the year is likely to be scarce and unfruitful see if Saturn be ruler or disposer of the place of the Conjunction or Opposition by Essential dignity or Aspect or whether he be Lord of the Ascendent or Almuten thereof or afflict it by any malevolent Aspect or be in any Angle and the Lord of the fourth afflicted of the Infortunes especially of Saturn for if so scarcity is threatned and may assuredly be expected especially if he be in Opposition of Mercury or in any of the Angles of the figures at the time of the Conjunction or prevention or be in Square or Opposition of the Lord of the second Lord of the Ascendent Part of Fortune or its Dispositor scarciry may also be expected when Saturn afflicteth the Moon or the Moon apply unto him by either Conjunction or Aspect having last separated from the Conjunction or Opposition of the Sun In like manner judge penury and want if either of the Malevolents afflict the year thus especially if they be in Square or Opposition of Mercury but you must note that the evil threatned by Saturn is worse then that promised by Mars as the good promised by Jupiter is much better then that signified by Venus and judge the quality of the good or evil promised or threatned by any of these from their proper nature and the nature of the sign wherein they are as if Saturn be in an aiëry or watery sign he denotes floods inundations and many storms tempests and destruction by high windes if in a fiëry sign drought c. Also note that if Mars in that Revolution in which the Lord of that Nation Kingdom Law or Common-wealth is exalted be then in any of his own Houses he shall signifie much rain and if he be in any of the Houses of Saturn little or no rain is to be expected and in other Houses a mean is promised CHAP. VIII Teaching how to know the price of any thing in any Year A Tabarim amongst other of the Antients hath been herein most large what is most expedient to be known I shall here set down and as neer as I can omit that which may be superfluous In this manner of judgement you are to have regard to the ingress of the Sun into Aries from whence you are to require Judgement as also of the Position of the Heavens at every Conjunction and Opposition of the Luminaries every moneth and from the Conjunction preceding every Ingress as well quarterly and half-yearly as yearly for all things happening in this World in a natural way are occasioned by the Stars and may be known by the Position of the Heavens Stars and Planets at the time of the Conjunction and Opposition of the Luminaries if rightly understood so that by the Conjunction the Generation and beginning of things are judged by the Opposition the destruction and decay thereof for the Moon being neerest of all the Planets to the Globe of the Earth and the swiftest doth immediately convey unto it and men thereon the vertue and signification of all the other Planets and therefore we see by reason of this her great power and influence all things as well Vegetatives and Minerals as Animals increase and decrease in vigour strength and growth in some sense according to her motion and that the corruption and generation of all things are appropriate unto her and the Sun and therefore by their Conjunction and Opposition these things may perfectly be known unto us if we be but searchers and contemplators of Nature and its Causes Now if thou wouldst know what shall happen generally touching the price of any thing in any year have regard unto the Position of the Heavens at the Suns Ingress into Aries if there be but one figure to be erected but if two look to their Positions at his Ingress into Aries and Libra if four or for every quarter at his Ingress into Aries Cancer Librae and Capricorn and if you would more particularly make monethly observations thereon have regard unto the Conjunction of the Luminaries every moneth and remember that the Ascendent thereof or the sign ascending at that instant for which you desire to erect the figure of the Heavens its Lord and the Planet or Planets therein located are significators of the condition and state of Man and the Ayr and you may join also in signification with them the Dispositor of the Lord of the Ascendent if the Planets or Planet therein located be peregrine and afflicted judge mischief and detriment in these according to his nature signification and strength and so judge the contrary if he be then strong and essentially dignified If there be any Planet in an Angle who hath dignity and power in the Ascendent especially Exaltation he shall be the Significator of the price of things or any Planet in an Angle Essentially dignified and strong and if the Lord of the Ascendent be remote from this House and the Planet in an Angle Peregrine yet he shall be Significator as long as he is in that Angle But when the Lord of the Ascendent is in any of the Angles or in the eleventh or fifth Houses he shall more manifestly shew his